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Sometimes these things take time due to various reasons (customs, post offices, a slight delay in sending the gifts). Last year, for instance, I got my gift in March and Marcus got his in June (!). I will check with your Secret Santas to be sure everything is OK.
@6jerfz
No reason to say "sucks for you guys" - people are already sad and maybe a bit anxious they did not get their stuff yet, no need to aggravate that. And DEFINITELY no reason to assume the gifts got "lost" or the Santas are "lazy" - that's totally uncalled for, and I am not a fan of false accusations. People are human. I know who the Secret Santas are and I have no reason to suspect of any fowl play. Please avoid these type of statements in the future.
I agree wholeheartedly with mrbrightside. it was Christmas, and I can imagine the Christmas postal service might have been a bit messy. not much else we can do but wait. worst comes to worst its one for the postal service.
I didn't say "sucks for you guys! ha-ha!!!" I said "that sucks for you guys..." as in "I'm sorry to hear that you haven't received yet", except I said it as though I'm a human being, which maybe you don't quite understand. And if you understand people so well ("People are human."), then you can also understand that people can be greedy and/or lazy.
At the time of my post it was January 20th, exactly 26 days after Christmas. There isn't a single post in the world that is STILL backed up from the holidays and there is not a single member on this site who can't go to their mailbox ONCE in the month they've have to send their gifts out to put an envelope in it. So I'm going to stick to my guns and say "SUCKS FOR YOU GUYS" and "maybe your packages got lost (IE DIDN'T GET SENT AND MIGHT NOT)" and "maybe your secret Santa is LAZY (because they've had over a MONTH to send an envelope which literally takes 10 seconds to fill, address, and stamp)".
I've been burned on trades before and I know how much it sucks and I know how rampant ripping is in the online Magic community--what I posted were completely valid and possible explanations for what happened. It wasn't my intent to worry the people who are still waiting, and I'm sure they were already thinking what I said. It sucks getting ripped and pardon me if I'm pissed off for the people who sent gifts and never got one in return. The people who didn't send should be ashamed of having not sent yet.
The second I got my recipient, I got the cards together and sent. Same day, probably within hours of getting their list. It wasn't hard, I didn't make up an excuse about the "post office at Christmas time"--that's LAME. And I don't have any less things going on for me around the holidays than anyone else, so its not like it was easier for me to get everything done.
Oh! And I'm totally a fan of false accusations. Who isn't? What a stupid statement.
Got Santas gift today. Foil Deal Broker, a Siege Rhino and a foil mountain. Happy it finally got here. This makes all my conspiracy cards foil except for Lore Seeker.
Guess what came in today. Foil Aetherling (beautiful, beautiful card), foil Hellrider, foil Burst Lightning, and a foil Gerbirge! Thanks mein Weihnachtsmann! Looking forward to cubing with it all
Yes, everyone got their gift (I have confirmation from everyone either in this thread or by PM). I hope you all had fun - thank you all for participating!
Total side note but I like how people are discussing running this over itself.
Well, it has to be said that Kolaghan is clearly better than Kolaghan. Considering what BR decks usually want and how stiff the competition in this guild is, there is no way that I would run Kolaghan over Kolaghan! Kolaghan might make it in as the sixth guild card or so. Kolaghan on the other hand ranks several places below that.
It was so funny to me when they described this as a downgrade to the original Zurgo during the Pax East panel. I was thinking if this is a downgrade, they should really "downgrade" all legendary creatures. Haha.
My deck designing is quite concise at this point:
1. Come up with deck idea
2. Realize this idea is somehow fundamentally similar to another deck I have or that is commonly played in my group
3. Decide I don't want to disassemble one of my existing decks
4. Give up and do nothing
I don't see the point of this new shroud mechanic. It's strictly worse than Hexproof. Threshold is pretty bad too, Delirium is a much better mechanic and probably easier to activate.
Otherwise this card is a pretty neat guy. Dodges removal and grows into a Primal Huntbeast. 3/5
Sometimes these things take time due to various reasons (customs, post offices, a slight delay in sending the gifts). Last year, for instance, I got my gift in March and Marcus got his in June (!). I will check with your Secret Santas to be sure everything is OK.
@6jerfz
No reason to say "sucks for you guys" - people are already sad and maybe a bit anxious they did not get their stuff yet, no need to aggravate that. And DEFINITELY no reason to assume the gifts got "lost" or the Santas are "lazy" - that's totally uncalled for, and I am not a fan of false accusations. People are human. I know who the Secret Santas are and I have no reason to suspect of any fowl play. Please avoid these type of statements in the future.
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At the time of my post it was January 20th, exactly 26 days after Christmas. There isn't a single post in the world that is STILL backed up from the holidays and there is not a single member on this site who can't go to their mailbox ONCE in the month they've have to send their gifts out to put an envelope in it. So I'm going to stick to my guns and say "SUCKS FOR YOU GUYS" and "maybe your packages got lost (IE DIDN'T GET SENT AND MIGHT NOT)" and "maybe your secret Santa is LAZY (because they've had over a MONTH to send an envelope which literally takes 10 seconds to fill, address, and stamp)".
I've been burned on trades before and I know how much it sucks and I know how rampant ripping is in the online Magic community--what I posted were completely valid and possible explanations for what happened. It wasn't my intent to worry the people who are still waiting, and I'm sure they were already thinking what I said. It sucks getting ripped and pardon me if I'm pissed off for the people who sent gifts and never got one in return. The people who didn't send should be ashamed of having not sent yet.
The second I got my recipient, I got the cards together and sent. Same day, probably within hours of getting their list. It wasn't hard, I didn't make up an excuse about the "post office at Christmas time"--that's LAME. And I don't have any less things going on for me around the holidays than anyone else, so its not like it was easier for me to get everything done.
Oh! And I'm totally a fan of false accusations. Who isn't? What a stupid statement.
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