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Oct 2, 2015
knto posted a message on The Magic Street Journal: Wizards Always Hurts The Ones They LoveWhile I agree with most of the article, specifically the part about speculation, I think you were a bit off the mark on pucatrade. Obviously it is a business that is intended to make money, but from what I have seen they do so by providing a service. The value of pucapoints is held relatively constant despite new users joining. The reason they offer rewards for inviting is 2 fold: 1 it brings in new players which not only means more people to potentially spend money but also a larger trading pool for all of the users, and 2 It allows for the introduction of more points into the system which is vital to keep it from failing as a micro economy (if there aren't enough points no one can afford cards and so no trading happens. This is a direct result of the price controlling but it is preferable in my mind than opening the market up to speculation). The point that "Pucatrade claims that pucapoints 'are not a virtual currency'" but that it is in fact one is much more accurate. I suspect it mas more to do with the legal implication of a currency than actively deceiving the user base. I regularly trade online and pucatrade has worked out fine for me. If you are looking for rare cards then you're going to have trouble finding them just like a regular trade system, but pucapoints make it a little easier since you don't have to have cards off their wants list. I have used the service to get rid of cards I wasn't using and to get cards that I wanted or needed plenty of times and am satisfied with the service but it is slower than a store and it takes forever to get someone to send you older cards. You can argue that it is run poorly and you could even argue that the service actually hurts the users instead of heloing them but comparing it to bit coin or saying it is a ponzi scheme is just wrong. The only people I know who are even dissatisfied with the service are people who had ridiculous expectation or who felt that trading moderators handled situations badly.Posted in: Articles - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Not true. Unknown Shores hasn't been seeing play.
Mox amber is jank, It sees zero serious play. Occasionally it posts results, but pros don't show up to tournaments with mox amber decks. Only a few people were down on mox opal. I pretty sure I remember people losing their minds over it being busted. And noone thought chrome mox was bad. Mox diamond was almost the same card and was generally recognized as being good.
As another user pointed out, fast mana is what is good, 3 turns for 1 mana is not above curve in modern and this isn't going to be legal in standard. Best case scenario you have multiple in your opening hand and end up with 5-6 mana on turn 4, but lotus bloom already does this as a single card. You don't need 6+ mana for multiple turns to win and if you are using this to get to anything less than 5 mana on turn 4, you are just playing a bad land.
Lotus is the only card in modern that can put you up 3 mana by turn 4 in a single card. There are dozens of cards that can put you up 1 mana by turn 4.
I agree mostly, in fact that's what I thought at first, but I think the card deserves a little more credit. A lot of modern decks rely on creatures to win and this has a huge impact on combat. Otherwise there are still a few decks that would play a flag bearer for 1 mana. In rare cases you can do a mom impression with two of these out. It's definitely not mom though. Mom would have been pretty busted. I predict this will see fringe play.
Not if they are on the reserve list. It may hurt the secondary market, but wizards is' hardly reliant on that anymore. Obviously it's stealing intellectual property and undermining the property power structure is bad. I personally only proxy standard cards and encourage everyone I meet to do the same, because I actively hate magic the gathering, but no one will play better games as long as magic is still a thing.
It could turn out I'm wrong and it dodges enough removal that it can safely survive until your next turn, but I'm skeptical.