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  • posted a message on [[Official]] Miscut, Misprint, Foreign, Foil &Other Oddities Price Thread.
    I have an unlimited mana vault with a 1/4 inch crimp at the top. I know they got popular thanks to old school magic. Does the old school magic crowd place a premium on crimps, too? Does anyone have an idea what it would go for?
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  • posted a message on The Modern Price Discussion Thread
    It looks like foil Conduit of Ruin spiked. Was that a buyout or is there a real deck for it somewhere?
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  • posted a message on [[Official]] Modern Huge Gainers
    Was there a buyout on foil Dispel recently?
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  • posted a message on Alternate method to get discounted prices for first class parcel tracking besides Paypal?
    I've cancelled a stamps.com account after the trial period ended, and it wasn't too bad. They didn't let me cancel through the web. I had to call in to cancel, but that didn't take longer than five minutes.

    Have you looked into good old USPS.com?
    Posted in: Market Street Café
  • posted a message on Humorous or Awkward Moments From When M:tG is Translated into Other Languages
    Apparantly the Germans bring ALL THE HUMOR to translations. Stephen Valkyser was on the Exosus translation team. He turned Mind Maggots into Lyskavermaden. That is his last name rearranged with maden, which means maggots. He ended up using that as his team name at a pro tour.
    Posted in: Magic General
  • posted a message on [[Official]] Miscut, Misprint, Foreign, Foil &Other Oddities Price Thread.
    Quote from mecha1166 »
    urbanlegend - What does "the bad CC" mean?

    Animate Wall costs W. The Korean version was printed with casting cost 3W.
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  • posted a message on [[Official]] Miscut, Misprint, Foreign, Foil &Other Oddities Price Thread.
    Does anyone know what the Korean Animate Wall with the bad CC goes for?

    Link to a picture here:
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  • posted a message on [[Official]] Miscut, Misprint, Foreign, Foil &Other Oddities Price Thread.
    I don't think chippy's signature is worth a premium although the person to ask is Markers.

    Chinese doesn't hold a premium for nonfoil typically. In foil fetching a premium isn't that big of a surprise to me though.


    Chinese foil eternal format playables will generally have a premium. Chinese foils for casual cards will generally not have a premium. You could expect to get a premium over English foil for a fetch land or dark confidant or something like that, but it would be harder to get a premium on a solemn simulacrum or a rite of replication.
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  • posted a message on Son signed contract; employer owns all his ideas
    I've never heard of a contract assigning ownership of developed products in perpetuity like this. The only ones I've ever heard of were while the employee was active employed.

    While actively employed by the company, it depends on the wording of the contract whether the company can enforce ownership of anything developed. If the contract is worded correctly, they probably can. The company is paying the employees for software development, so there is a quid pro quo.

    If your son terminates his employment with this company, he will no longer receive any pay. Since there is no longer any quid pro quo, enforcing the contract will be very difficult. If your son has started working for a new company, it will be a legal fight between the two companies, and the old company will not likely win.
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  • posted a message on [Official] Altered Art Thread (56k Beware)
    Quote from stevejeffs
    Hi guys, so im completely new to mtgs so sorry if anything goes in the wrong place but i figured this is the best place for it


    Basically im pretty new to mtg in general but found out you can alter cards and they're still legal, my understanding on the full concept isnt 100% clear so i have a couple of questions

    1, would this artwork be valid



    and 2, this was obviously done in photoshop and iv noticed alot of people paint/draw directly onto the cards, is placing a thin sticker like paper with this print on it over the card legal? if not how would i be able to go about placing this onto the card without making the card no longer legit.

    really hoping im able to personalize my cards with photoshop, would make my day! Smile


    Last I checked, the art needs to be recognizable for a card to be legal. It looks like you have a zoomed-in mirror image with some fire coming out the front. I think that is recognizable enough to be legal. I guess it also depends on how good of a sell job you can do to convince a judge that the are is recognizable.

    Adding a sticker to the front brings in another question - will the card be noticably thicker or stiffer? If so, then you're in not legal land.

    If you're doing this for an EDH deck, then you just need to say "shotgun legal!" whenever you play it.
    Posted in: Artwork
  • posted a message on Workout help
    I was in the same boat as you about a year ago. I decided to stop being the fat guy and did something about it. I cut one thing which was obviously bad from my diet every week or so. Along with that, I started doing a combination of walking and jogging. I would jog until I was gassed, then walk, then jog until gassed, then walk, etc. I later found out that is basically what couch to 5K is.

    I also bought a weight bench and some weights of craigslist. Between the exercise and dietary improvements, I'm down 50 pounds over the past year. I've gone from being unable to jog a 1/4 mile downhill to doing 10K three times a week. I'm hoping to do a half marathon over the summer.

    The crux of all this is that you can reach your goals without turning your life over all at once. You don't need to be one of the spokesmen for one of those fad diets who lost 70 pounds in 2 months. It isn't a race. Taking an extra six months to lose the weight but making changes which you can keep up with for the rest of your life is the way to go.
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  • posted a message on Realistic Dream Car/Truck
    My daily driver is a mazda3. I am really happy with it - it handles better than anything in its class, and I am getting 42 mpg highway. If I had a daily driver to aspire to, it would be the lexus c200h. I was looking into it before I bought the mazda. It looks good, and the advertised mileage is good, but the price was too much.

    I have a chrysler crossfire as my fun car, and I love her. She is all sorts of fun. I don't see any situations where I would give her up. My reasonably priced fun car to aspire to is a DeTomaso Pantera. For a 70s exotic, they are easy to live with. The engine is bulletproof, parts exist if it goes bad, and it is a Ford engine, so there is knowledge on how to fix things out there. They don't cost more than a house, and their design looks modern even today.
    Posted in: Talk and Entertainment
  • posted a message on 6 booster boxes package - Is it worth buying?
    Rtr has great long term potential. It has lots of modern and legacy hits. It has great casual cards. It was even fun to draft. There is a lot of it out there, but it will go down in history as one of the deepest sets ever.

    I think Gatecrash 5 years from now will just be shocks and some casual cards. Shocks are good, but I don't know if they can support the whole set.

    Theros seems to have a very low ceiling. It has limited casual appeal, just one legacy hit, and it is the first set from a normal 3 set block.

    Is it worth 500 for the 6? If you can flip the Gatecrash and Theros now and sit on the Rtr, then if think it is.
    Posted in: Market Street Café
  • posted a message on What should I do about this?
    I don't know if you're legally obligated to do anything. Morally, I think you should send a quick note to the company and let them know the item came. If you still want it, offer to pay again. If you no longer want it, offer to ship it back on their dime.
    Posted in: Real-Life Advice
  • posted a message on Duals - condition and pricing
    Does anyone else have opinions on condition? Also, what would you pay for these?
    Posted in: Market Street Café
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