What's considered more pimp? A regular foil, or the card in Japanese?
I would personally rather have Japanese, but I can see why some people would choose foil.
What about Black Knight? What's the preference around here on art? Alpha Beta, 5th Edition, or M10? I personally like the M10 art the most. I've never been a big fan of the original art for him. Even when I ran him in Sui Black back in the day, I chose to run the 5th Edition art over the original.
With my cube, my "land pack" is in the same sleeves as the cube and consists of one of each (english) basic land ever printed, except the guru lands. It's even got the euro lands, lands from portal sets, unglued/hinged lands, and AN mountain
My cubers always try to snap up the lands with connecting art, lol
With my cube, my "land pack" is in the same sleeves as the cube and consists of one of each (english) basic land ever printed, except the guru lands. It's even got the euro lands, lands from portal sets, unglued/hinged lands, and AN mountain
My cubers always try to snap up the lands with connecting art, lol
I did something similar to this with my C/U cube. I didn't get every single basic, but I went through all of the pre-8th edition sets and chose the lands I liked most. The only exceptions were Unhinged and Zendikar.
Visions River Boa:
English
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French
Spanish
or Japanese?
I'm leaning towards spanish or japanese. on the one hand, japanese would go well with the torment cards i picked up as an exchange student long ago, on the other hand, i can speak and therefore actually reed the spanish one. The Spanish and Japanese ones are both the peculiar darker versions, so even prior to my affinity for those languages, they look best too.
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My River Boa is a Jiboia, whatever language that is. I thought it was Spanish, but it might be Portuguese or French.
We once opened a box of Visions in that language at a local shop and the print rus were off. So the pack came with 1 Common, 3 Rares, and 11 Uncommons. So we had foreign versions of Nekrataal, Sex Monkeys, and River Boa for days. Since then we've just always referred to River Boa as Jiboia, so it was nice to finally get one for the cube. It felt right.
Deffinitly get a spanish one. It's Boa de rio. And that is awesome.
@Calibretto. Best box ever. Too bad Visions only had wo money cards (Natural order and Vampiric tutor). But still getting 3x the normal number of those would be awesome.
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Deffinitly get a spanish one. It's Boa de rio. And that is awesome.
@Calibretto. Best box ever. Too bad Visions only had wo money cards (Natural order and Vampiric tutor). But still getting 3x the normal number of those would be awesome.
No doubt. That wasn't too long after I started playing, though, so I didn't really know what to be looking for. I just knew that I liked aggressive green decks and River Boa and Orangutan fit those decks nicely. This was also where I decided that foreign cards were pimp.
I bought multiple river boas of a variety of languages back when I added it because I was unsure what language i wanted, so i own all the ones in question, except for the portuguese one
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Foreign cards aren't pimp for me, just annoying. I want to keep my cube friendly for newer players and not everyone reads spanish/french/italian/etc. Same with textless promo's.
I know how annoying it can be. I remember playing a Lord of the Rings TCG draft about 2-3 years after I quit the game. The boosters were all in German and aside from the staples I couldn't really remember what all of the cards did. Turns out my German wasn't as good as I hoped it would be =/
That's fair enough, and if you draft with a lot of new (to the game) players or if your cube group isn't always the same people, then I don't blame you at all. It can be very annoying to always be explaining what a card does. It's also very frustrating to have to ask during a draft (especially since, if you pass the pack without the card in it, the person next to you knows, for sure, what you took).
For us, though, it's always the same people drafting and we all know what the cards do. I'll admit that we do occasionally have to look up the oracle text on a card that we're not 100% on, but for the most part no one is asking what anything does during a draft.
Foreign cards aren't pimp for me, just annoying. I want to keep my cube friendly for newer players and not everyone reads spanish/french/italian/etc. Same with textless promo's.
I know how annoying it can be. I remember playing a Lord of the Rings TCG draft about 2-3 years after I quit the game. The boosters were all in German and aside from the staples I couldn't really remember what all of the cards did. Turns out my German wasn't as good as I hoped it would be =/
Agreed, my main cube is (more or less) all English. I do love foreign cards so for my combo cube I'm allowing non-English. This is of course worse because a lot of the cards are obscure.
I can't afford BB versions of some cards so I had to go foreign to get stuff like Mind Twist, Winter Orb, Mana Vault, Nev's Disk etc.
Anyway, is it worth spending to upgrade to a Beta Hypnotic Specter or is the MPR version pimp enough?
For a miser like me, $42 seems steep for an upgrade, so i'd lean towards a foreign BB. that being said, beta hyppie looks just damn sexy.
MPR is pimp, but if you entertain the same old border compulsion that i do, i'd go for foreign bb.
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I can't afford BB versions of some cards so I had to go foreign to get stuff like Mind Twist, Winter Orb, Mana Vault, Nev's Disk etc.
Anyway, is it worth spending to upgrade to a Beta Hypnotic Specter or is the MPR version pimp enough?
Beta >>> MPR for Specter. However as the Beta version is kinda expensive I wouldn't prioritize it. In a perfect world I'd have all beta dual lands. As it stands I can't pimp everything to the level I'd like. As that is the case you just have to pick your battles.
Foreign cards aren't pimp for me, just annoying. I want to keep my cube friendly for newer players and not everyone reads spanish/french/italian/etc. Same with textless promo's.
I know how annoying it can be. I remember playing a Lord of the Rings TCG draft about 2-3 years after I quit the game. The boosters were all in German and aside from the staples I couldn't really remember what all of the cards did. Turns out my German wasn't as good as I hoped it would be =/
I tend to agree with this. When I first built my cube (only a few months ago, to be fair), I had a strict policy against foreign or textless cards for precisely this reason. I've relaxed it a little since then but compromise by putting a proxy slip with the card's full English text in the sleeve behind each textless/foreign card. If a player prefers, he can move the proxy slip to the front so he can reference the text more easily. My cube has enough cards like this that seeing a player refer to the slip during a draft doesn't instantly give away what he's looking at but not enough that it's a frequent occurrence.
Just got to say, you've definitely earned distinction as an MTGS hero
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Because he's the hero MTGS deserves, and the one it needs right now. So we'll global him. Because he can take it. Because he's not just our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. An expired rascal.
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ExpiredRascals you sir are a god-like hero.
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ER is a masterful god who cannot be beaten in any endeavour.
Nice!
Added to my shopping list, with a French 8th Rod of Ruin.
While you're at it, Spanish Magic 2011 Disentomb is possibly the best reanimation spell ever. It returns the target card to play instead of to your hand ("al juego" vs. "a tu mano").
Just got to say, you've definitely earned distinction as an MTGS hero
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Because he's the hero MTGS deserves, and the one it needs right now. So we'll global him. Because he can take it. Because he's not just our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. An expired rascal.
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ExpiredRascals you sir are a god-like hero.
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ER is a masterful god who cannot be beaten in any endeavour.
One more mistranslation I know of (wow this has gotten off topic):
If anyone's concerned about counterspells being too powerful, Portugese Stoic Rebuttal might be the answer. At 1UU, costs 1 less if you control three artifacts and does nothing else. Apparently, the translators missed the whole "counter target spell" part of the card's text.
More topically, which edition of Loxodon Warhammer do you prefer? I'm not a fan of the Core Set and Duel of the Planeswalker printings (as they cluttered with huge amounts of reminder text for lifelink, trample and equip.) I'm torn between Planechase and Knigths vs. Dragons. Thoughts?
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I would personally rather have Japanese, but I can see why some people would choose foil.
What about Black Knight? What's the preference around here on art? Alpha Beta, 5th Edition, or M10? I personally like the M10 art the most. I've never been a big fan of the original art for him. Even when I ran him in Sui Black back in the day, I chose to run the 5th Edition art over the original.
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My cubers always try to snap up the lands with connecting art, lol
I did something similar to this with my C/U cube. I didn't get every single basic, but I went through all of the pre-8th edition sets and chose the lands I liked most. The only exceptions were Unhinged and Zendikar.
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English
Chinese
French
Spanish
or Japanese?
I'm leaning towards spanish or japanese. on the one hand, japanese would go well with the torment cards i picked up as an exchange student long ago, on the other hand, i can speak and therefore actually reed the spanish one. The Spanish and Japanese ones are both the peculiar darker versions, so even prior to my affinity for those languages, they look best too.
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We once opened a box of Visions in that language at a local shop and the print rus were off. So the pack came with 1 Common, 3 Rares, and 11 Uncommons. So we had foreign versions of Nekrataal, Sex Monkeys, and River Boa for days. Since then we've just always referred to River Boa as Jiboia, so it was nice to finally get one for the cube. It felt right.
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Yeah, it's Portugese.
I like the Portugese one a lot too.
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@Calibretto. Best box ever. Too bad Visions only had wo money cards (Natural order and Vampiric tutor). But still getting 3x the normal number of those would be awesome.
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No doubt. That wasn't too long after I started playing, though, so I didn't really know what to be looking for. I just knew that I liked aggressive green decks and River Boa and Orangutan fit those decks nicely. This was also where I decided that foreign cards were pimp.
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That's fair enough, and if you draft with a lot of new (to the game) players or if your cube group isn't always the same people, then I don't blame you at all. It can be very annoying to always be explaining what a card does. It's also very frustrating to have to ask during a draft (especially since, if you pass the pack without the card in it, the person next to you knows, for sure, what you took).
For us, though, it's always the same people drafting and we all know what the cards do. I'll admit that we do occasionally have to look up the oracle text on a card that we're not 100% on, but for the most part no one is asking what anything does during a draft.
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Agreed, my main cube is (more or less) all English. I do love foreign cards so for my combo cube I'm allowing non-English. This is of course worse because a lot of the cards are obscure.
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Anyway, is it worth spending to upgrade to a Beta Hypnotic Specter or is the MPR version pimp enough?
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For a miser like me, $42 seems steep for an upgrade, so i'd lean towards a foreign BB. that being said, beta hyppie looks just damn sexy.
MPR is pimp, but if you entertain the same old border compulsion that i do, i'd go for foreign bb.
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Beta >>> MPR for Specter. However as the Beta version is kinda expensive I wouldn't prioritize it. In a perfect world I'd have all beta dual lands. As it stands I can't pimp everything to the level I'd like. As that is the case you just have to pick your battles.
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I need one of those... Not to mention a german Rath's Edge.
God... A meloku that makes 2/2s and a land that taps for 2 with no drawback... I can't wait.
Actually, I've been waiting to find both for awhile. you would think california at the very least would have ready access to spanish cards...
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Do you wan't these cards just because the misprint is interesting, or do you actually play by card text rather than oracle text?
Rath's Edge isn't even cubeable with oracle text.
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W Stonehewer Equipment W
WU Millfolk UW
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WU Multi-Kicker (FFA) UW
BW Near-Death Experience (FFA) WB
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I can't believe that made it through. Clear evidence that the translation team was on auto-pilot
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If anyone's concerned about counterspells being too powerful, Portugese Stoic Rebuttal might be the answer. At 1UU, costs 1 less if you control three artifacts and does nothing else. Apparently, the translators missed the whole "counter target spell" part of the card's text.
More topically, which edition of Loxodon Warhammer do you prefer? I'm not a fan of the Core Set and Duel of the Planeswalker printings (as they cluttered with huge amounts of reminder text for lifelink, trample and equip.) I'm torn between Planechase and Knigths vs. Dragons. Thoughts?