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The Extinguisher posted a message on Lack of human diversity in Return to Ravnica and modern magicYou're right. Poor white heterosexual male. Its so unfortunate he is forced to cover himself up in public. Awful that he is raped and told it is his fault. Criminal he cannot marry who he loves. Vile that he must fight through racism to even consider a position of power. When will there ever be a white heterosexual male president people.Posted in: Magic General -
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GodOfAtheism posted a message on Every set is terrible!Alpha set was missing cards and had the corners squarePosted in: Magic General
Beta made us think that maybe Richard wasn't all there.
Unlimited, it ruined the game, and took our favourite toys
Revised was worse, they thought we wouldn't see their ploys!
Oh every set is terrible, every set is cursed!
Each new release, it must be said, is the very worst!
Oh every set is terrible, they're all a bunch of crap!
We all know each one is just another money trap!
Arabian Nights had cards with drawbacks rife
Antiquities made me sick of artefacts for life!
Legends really wasn't, not a one of them did scare
The Dark? Oh, if only it had actually stayed there.
Oh every set is terrible, every set is cursed!
Each new release, it must be said, is the very worst!
Oh every set is terrible, they're all a bunch of crap!
We all know each one is just another money trap!
Fallen Empires, a story we'd have better off not known
Homelands was a travesty, near every card had blown!
Ice Age themes so very bad, the lands covered with snow
Alliances only saving grace was Force of Will in tow!
Oh every set is terrible, every set is cursed!
Each new release, it must be said, is the very worst!
Oh every set is terrible, they're all a bunch of crap!
We all know each one is just another money trap!
Mirage block had that crappy flanking and phasing
Tempest's shadow was causing a hazing
Urza's Block was faster than light had ever been
Mercadia then turned around and was slower than sin!
Oh every set is terrible, every set is cursed!
Each new release, it must be said, is the very worst!
Oh every set is terrible, they're all a bunch of crap!
We all know each one is just another money trap!
Don't even get me started now on Core Set Hell
After the 7th one, they took our Counterspell!
After 8th this new card frame, to appeal to all the noobs
If they want to alter the art so much, draw us all some boobs!
Oh every set is terrible, every set is cursed!
Each new release, it must be said, is the very worst!
Oh every set is terrible, they're all a bunch of crap!
We all know each one is just another money trap!
Invasion block had too many gold cards, true
But then Odyssey had come and given us too few!
Onslaught had swarmed with creatures, what is this, Pokemon?
Mirrodin block was Urza reborn until that crap Fifth Dawn!
Oh every set is terrible, every set is cursed!
Each new release, it must be said, is the very worst!
Oh every set is terrible, they're all a bunch of crap!
We all know each one is just another money trap!
Kamigawa was so awful with Arcane Spirit Jitte
Ravnica's a boring plane, it's just a big old city!
Time Spiral as we all know was just a bunch of rehash
Lorwyn was a creature fest, another tribal bash!
Oh every set is terrible, every set is cursed!
Each new release, it must be said, is the very worst!
Oh every set is terrible, they're all a bunch of crap!
We all know each one is just another money trap!
Shards brought back Nicol Bolas yet one more time again
Zendikar had broken Eldrazi, the ultimate in sin!
Mirrodin, restored again, or destroyed because we're bored?
Then Innistrad must be bad, just one big zombie horde!
Oh every set is terrible, every set is cursed!
Each new release, it must be said, is the very worst!
Oh every set is terrible, they're all a bunch of crap!
We all know each one is just another money trap!
Of course there's always Un-sets, which are just plain silly
Gimmicks like the Coldsnap, a supposed brand new filly
Duels Decks are just sickening, they make me lose all hope
This Return to Ravnica? Looks like R&D dropped the soap!
Oh every set is terrible, every set is cursed!
Each new release, it must be said, is the very worst!
Oh every set is terrible, they're all a bunch of crap!
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sH0opdAwoOp posted a message on LD: What "getting to play the game" really means...My criteria for what "getting to play the game" means is pretty simple. It goes something like this:Posted in: Magic General
1) Did you sit your butt in a chair with a deck of cards and the intent to play Magic?
2) Did you draw your opening 7 and decide who goes first?
3) ?????
4) You're "getting to play the game". Good on you.
Seriously. I don't care if every single land you ever play gets blown up. I don't care if you get your hand discarded into oblivion and are in topdeck mode until you die. Those are all aspects of the game of Magic. So even if they're happening to you, and you aren't particularly enjoying it, you're playing the game of Magic.
Sidenote: it just so happens Pox is my favorite deck ever. Resource denial ftw -
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Sweeney posted a message on Why doesn't WOTC print MM in mass?Posted in: New Card DiscussionQuote from SephiranNo they wouldn't LOL. Especially to that last part. It is people like SCG who LOVE the reserved list. Instead of duals for like 20$, they get to charge 160$ for duals? That sounds pretty sweet to them, considering they buy them for anywhere around 40-80$ depending on what one, and condition.
I highly doubt starcitygames would endorse MAgic nearly as much as they do without a reserved list. By now they would lose so much money from peoples collections that they had bought. Especially if a set like MM was produced en masse.
I think people are just too butthurt about the price of staples. If you want to play, you have to pay, or trade or do whatever to acquire your cards. Just like everyone else. Why, now do people expect handouts to play in competitive Magic? The what? 250,000 players before you didn't get one, why should you?
All I have to say is that if MM was produced en masse it would be EXTORTIONATELY expensive, due to the repercussions they will have. (You have to remember a lot of these staples came out before Mythic Rarity, which is why a lot of them cost so much money. If Bob was reprinted or Goyf was reprinted as a rare their price would PLUMMET. They would be worth about as much as a Snapcaster Mage or Deathrite Shaman, which I am sure if that happens people would stop endorsing Magic. And like I said, normal players like me would probably sell their cards and stop playing. Because people who work hard for their money (again not collectors) dislike being pissed on, after INVESTING into a game.
Ben Bleiweiss is on record multiple times pointing out their dislike of the reserve list.
"From my vantage point removing the Reserved List would only help Magic become an even stronger game and would get more people involved in playing Magic at every level – competitively casually and all points in-between. It would make for more interesting ancillary products and it would allow some old favorites to come back into circulation for tournament play (would Morphling or Masticore be unfair in the current Standard? I think not – but players would love to get a chance to find out!)."
http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/misc/18849_Insider_Trading_The_Cost_of_Cards_On_Foils_and_One_Last_Reserved_List_Thought_Part_3_of_3.html
There's plenty of other instances of this if you read his articles.
StarCityGames- and any other operation that isn't some rinky dink binder jockey- is big enough that they don't care that they're selling duals at 20 or 160. They care about volume and margins. They buy just about everything at the same margins. Rather than paying $40-80 for something they'll move at $80-160, they'd be just as happy paying $4-8 for something that'd sell for $8-16... and at those price points you'd move an incredibly higher volume.
StarCityGames-and lots of other stores- have made clear multiple times their distaste for the reserve list and have empathized with the players that realize that it does put a constraint and upper-bound on the size of Legacy.
"en masse" is a worthless statement, because it's not looking at numbers at all. Do you realize that Chronicles increased the number of copies of Nicol Bolas by a factor of almost 20? There were only about 10,000 after Legends was released, then about 20,000 after Italian legends. Estimates state that after Chronicles there were about 400,000.
Even though the Mirrodin-Shards sets didn't do sales numbers anywhere near what Zendikar-Gatecrash did, but do you realize the truly staggering amount of product you'd have to produce and sell to get anywhere near that sort of increase of cards and resultant destruction of prices? -
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Megadeus posted a message on Helping a new player.I remember playing a guy who was playing a GB Scavenge deck a few months back and beating him with some UR Mill Deck I was given to play in the tourney with (I walked in and just asked my friend to give me a deck he was testing), and then a few weeks later I played against him with something else and his deck was much improved and he ROFL stomped me... Also I remember when one of our locals started playing he started with a werewolf deck which I absolutely wrecked. Last weekend he Top 4'd a SCG IQ with his now foiled out werewolf deck...Posted in: Magic General -
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Himashi posted a message on Helping a new player.I played a kid a week back that had a simic deck, he was really proud of it saying how he beat his friends with it and stuff, it was simple, with cloudfin raptors, drakewing krasis etc etc.. I blew his deck out but after gave him a playset of simic manipulators and the kid almost **** his pants in the store he was so excited.Posted in: Magic General
I felt good about myself. -
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Fizzeler posted a message on Helping a new player.Yes, then the player shows up weeks later and smashes your face and you feel great because you helped him get therePosted in: Magic General
I remember buying an event deck recently and playing with a newer player I showed him how to play it and said "I only needed these cards, here take the rest" it felt good -
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CardboardCrack posted a message on Helping a new player.Awesome story! As veteran players we take for granted the stockpile of cards we build up that newer players don't have.Posted in: Magic General
I've given away 500 count boxes of cards that I wasn't playing with, but a new player could really make good use of it.
And in the end it just strengthens the game so that will have more people to play with in the future. -
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Pork posted a message on Helping a new player.Today at my local game store we had our weekly standard tournament. My first game I played a totally new player running a U/W deck that had no direction. He told me it was his first time playing so I helped it out throughout the game and I won 2-0. After the game we talked for a little bit and he said he needed to start a trade binder so he could trade for cards he needed.Posted in: Magic General
This got me thinking and I pulled out my rare binder and started giving him my "Jank" rares. The cards I gave him ranged from Cosi's Trickster to Boros Charm. I prolly gave him around 50 rares which prolly valued around 75-100 dollars.
Someone saw me do this and started chipping in as well, then it was a chain reaction. Everyone throwing Jank rares at him. He prolly left with around 400-500 rares. It was insane.
Has this ever happened to everyone else? I'm pretty sure we all walked out with a smile on our faces. -
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JMDTome posted a message on Worst PTQ experience ever. Little Shop of Magic, Las VegasI've had good experiences with events run by Cascade Games in the Pacific NW(Portland/Seattle).Posted in: Magic General - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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The card pool is a lot different. It's the best cards of all time, give or take some bans. The answers are more powerful and fluid and there are a lot less decks that stumble for the first two turns.
BG shell is going "DRS/thoughtseize", "goyf/bob/lilli (if the DRS lived), etc.
That's as much disruption as fae and a 4/5 swinging into those tokens or a card draw engine going online.
Geist of saint win is a better tempo deck than fae. It's got a much more immediate and hard to deal with threats and packs plenty of burn.
(gr) Tron maindecks pyro and drops hard to deal with bombs one after another once it's online. Fae has issues with that settup.
Affinity has the ability to out-tempo fae (just like it did the last time the two went head to head) and fae has worse access to hate than the other top decks. Expect the hand quality and who goes first to be what matters.
The combo decks need a predator. Decks that make combo have a hard time decreases their dominance. I'm all for less people wanting combo bans.
Plus... the fact that people ran MD hate in the past isn't an argument against MD answers existing now. Running MD hate is a meta call and makes you worse against other decks. I can run 2x MD whipflare because I'm expecting a lot of BW tokens/soul sisters/boggle/whatever and the like, but when I'm playing against pod and I want to remove a blocker the fact that my removal costs twice as much as dismember it hurts.
Abrupt decay, on the other hand, is MD because it's one of the key BG shell removal spells. It mocks counters and kills anything with a cmc 3. There's no opportunity cost in running it. Folks are already running illness in the ranks, folks are already running Maelstrom Pulse as a 2-of.
We're already playing in a format that deals with openings as backbreaking as fae's ever would, and the manabase plus presence of burn is going to be painful for fae.
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That being said: you don't fail to untap your stuff. Your stuff untaps during the untap step unless something prevents this. What players forget to do is change the representation they're using for the game state. It's like tapping a vigilant creature when attacking.
At higher competitive levels there's warnings and the like. At medium levels there's a certain amount of amusement and loss of respect. At casual/when teaching folks to play? There's teaching someone to play magic.
So, at more competitive events they already have something in place and at lower competitive levels you should stop being a dick.
can I say that?
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Standard costs that much to get into. If people don't want to play competitively they don't have to buy in and if they want to pay more but less all at once they can, but Evergreen formats always have a higher buying. Non-rotating formats just do that. You pay up front, and many of us would rather pay up front and then pay less in upkeep, knowing we'll have spend 2k over 4 years instead of the $600+ a year standard requires to keep up.
Look up the price of thoughtseize. The creatures we've got are also played in Eternal formats. The spells, aside from Thoughtseize and a few others, aren't. As such you're competing with a larger player base for access to those creatures.
We only have bans and not restrictions because there is a) exactly one format which restricts cards instead of banning them and b) having one Jitte, Mystic, Skullclamp or Jace would just, if anything, make things worse. Jitte just doesn't belong in creature-based metas which don't have to worry about the creature-free match. Skullclamp just doesn't belong in formats where creatures are normal.
We have different definitions of competitive and different definitions of innovative. We see a difference in that I see "staples" whereas you see "cards which the existence of stifles the card pool". As far as things go, you're going to have staples in the format. Path and Bolt both invalidate other one-mana removals in a similar manner. It's an evergreen format and as such, in my eyes, it's to be expected.
As far as the bolded part... it's an evergreen format. Needing to drop $500 for a playset of a card that will continue to be good and usable for the future is fine. Expecting to pay less than the cost of keeping up with standard for a few years is normal. There are cheaper (that is to say nongreen decks), there is trading, there is saving up.
Amen on the eggs front, and as far as pricing goes: it's an evergreen format. It's fair that the cost to play modern for two years rivals the cost of playing standard for two years.
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Exactly.
The eternals are emergent formats, Standard is a calculated format and Modern is quickly turning into a bonsai of a format rather than a crafted one. That's the problem.
Mind you: things like eggs? not so much a thing with a true control deck. Ditto for the ultra-large mana... and the control decks still wouldn't be able to counter everything, etc. Heck, as things go they don't get a real hard counter on 2. You think aggro decks that hope to coinflip Eggs for a g1 win will give those decks a lot of time?
You can keep pruning the format towards what you "want" and killing what sticks up, but that's unhealthy.
Reprinting certain tools (Innocent Blood) and allowing certian other traditional role-players would allow the format to need less direct steering and would give us hope that more steering wouldn't continue to happen.
So, sure, maybe AV and BB scare Wizards. Faeries didn't have a run on Old Extended and those decks were better without BB than with it (although, granted, mostly due to Laboratory Shenanigans). You need a deck like Fae to keep the "charge up mah lazer" decks honest.
And, sure, I'd support any ban that has to happen. If eggs does turn out to be a deck that's hits on t3 consistantly enough and/or turns out to be impossible to interact with by t4, then go for reshape or something.
But... remember: you kill bonsai's by pushing them too hard. And we're already stuck with a bonsai... that Wizards told us was an Evergreen format they could actually support. I don't like saying "but I like that branch", and I don't like having to worry that Modern, which's entire point to me is not being standard/being the magic I remember, will be scrubbed out deck by deck.
I mean, we've got a format where you *can* run eggs. Where else can you run that? It's not like you'd be able to run BB or the like in Legacy. This can be Superextended not be in any danger of being legacy.