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May 28, 2019Mystic_X posted a message on The End of an EraPerhaps to encourage migration to the new domain, any user who had an account here should be given a "Legendary", "Legacy", or "Vintage" user account upon signing up for added prestige depending on how many years they were active or posts they had.Posted in: Articles
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Perhaps they printed this angel version for budget Kaalia pillow-fort decks
...or perhaps the overly-sensitive woke crowd who got offended by earthbind thought the original art was also too misogynist
She's probably expressing her disappointment with other cards in the set.
What's the deal with yargle? He just got a reprint.
Talk about a wasted slot on a dies-to-bolt card nobody plays.
Who even makes these reprint suggestions when sets are designed?
Wotc should fire that person, hire me for half their salary, and I can suggest cards which will actually sell packs!
Agreed.
Azusa is the best one revealed so far, but nothing says lazy and unoriginal like side-facing profile portraits with solid-colored backgrounds.
I wouldn't even want most of these if they sell for half the price of their bordered counterparts.
Evacuation is also a strange choice when they could've printed cyclonic rift instead, a card players actually want and use.Edit: Evidently, I spoke too soon. Fortunately, Cyclonic Rift got spoiled and made the cut as well.
Not that I need more copies anyway, but it's never a bad time to get more foils
It is after all their product to sell and business to run.
Personally, I have no issue with Wotc continuing to print serialized cards for those who want to feel like they opened something "special", or who want to pay a premium to have a more unique copy of whatever card, which ironically they likely won't even be playing with for fear of damaging it. However, I wish they would do away with all the other promos like the datestamps and planeswalker symbols. Some alternate art variations, textless cards, alternate borders, borderless copies, and especially retro borders or newer cards are nice and welcome additions to any collection, while etched foils and grayscale cards are tolerable, but why do we need planeswalker symbols or release dates in the artwork on cards?...for the nostalgia of looking at a card and seeing that it came from a promo back or seeing the exact date that set was released? Any stamps on cards which unnecessarily obstruct the artwork only make that version less desirable and therefore inferior in my opinion, but I suppose I'm a traditionalist who started playing way before foils were even a thing. The only exception is artist signatures, something which I like collecting on as many cards as possible even if it obstructs the art or text, damages the card, and often devalues it as a result. Perhaps eventually more people will realize that less is more, because if every card becomes uniquely stamped as "x of y", then nothing is really exciting or impressive in its uniqueness anymore.
I must say that in all the years I've played, I've never done this once, and I've probably cracked open thousands of packs.
Why do or should anyone feel the need validate their pulls in this way?
You know what you opened or didn't. Isn't that what really, and all that matters?
Why would anyone live a lie just to deceive others in this particular fashion, unless of course they were highly insecure and/or mentally ill?
It's not as if opening a good mythic, foil, or million dollar serialized gilded showcase card requires any skill.
For what possible benefit is there to obfuscate reality and pretend you pulled cards which you were gifted or bought as singles?...To prove that you're inherently "luckier" than the next consumer?
Talk about a waste of
filmphone battery, bytes, bandwidth, and a sad, pathetic, attempt to try and impress others in the absence of skills and friends with whom you can share the truth who will actually believe you because they know you're a person of character, honor, and dignity with a reputation to maintain who doesn't make up petty pointless lies.Admittedly, I've taken some photos of well-prepared food I'm proud to have cooked and plated nicely over the years, something which actually requires skill, talent, and practice, but I do that purely for myself, not to share online or impress dates as part of some post-modern home chef portfolio project. I suppose perhaps I'm too old to fully appreciate or understand the Instagram/Youtube/Tiktok generation, but posting photos and videos of daily minutia, including activities which require no skill, have nothing to teach, and don't even offer a comedic element for the audience of random followers online to gawk at for "likes" or even monetary purposes is simply beneath me. If anything, I'd sooner post videos of myself doing porn (with the consent of other participants obviously), as such videos are exciting personal conquests which actually require skill and endurance, albeit perhaps not always worthy of pride depending on individual perspective and personality archetype. Each to their own I suppose, but life is too short to watch videos of MTG porn (people opening booster packs) just to have some sort of bizarre vicarious pack-cracking experience. People should only care about the packs they open, not what other people open as those packs do nothing for you.
Anyway, to all the conspiracy theorists: believe what you will, but understand that in your quest to find excitement in the mundane, you will all too often see conspiracies where none truly exist.
Ask yourselves:
Is it so hard to believe that some random forklift operator happened to buy two boxes, one of which contained the one ring?
Is that so beyond the realm of plausibility that we need to start coming up with conspiracy theories to speculate on what may have otherwise happened?
Some stores do crack open a lot of product before prerelease, but they sell many more boxes than they open and that's a fact.
Lastly, know that if you're seeking true knowledge, study epistemology, and identify as an "eternal skeptic", then it's not only logical, but critically important to doubt everything, including your own doubts. I rest my case.
If LGSs didn't crack open boxes prior to the prerelease date, how could they possibly know what inventory they'll have for singles preorders?
Personally, I miss the good ol' days before internet spoilers, the hype that goes with them, and presales because I can't help but feel they ruined the magic (pardon the pun) of the discovery process and what the secondary market would value cards at when they were first discovered upon release back in the 90's (and we had to rely on Scrye and The Duelist magazines). However, since spoilers and preorder sales will never go away at this point, I often feel I have to jump on that wagon to compete with other hungry consumers because not doing so would put me at an inherent disadvantage against others who do as secondary market prices take shape and fluctuate in the first weeks, however fickle they may be.
Also, as a customer of a different location, it makes me very happy to know that F2F Games helped facilitate this unique discovery as they are the best MTG retailer I've ever had the pleasure of doing business with. Congratulations to all who were indirectly involved, and especially to the lucky player who found the ring!
Huh? I don't understand your conspiracy theory.
If a store owner or employee opened it, why would they need someone else to act as a "finder"?
Are you under the impression store owners can't open merchandise they've already paid for and own, or that store employees aren't allowed to buy packs which are for sale to anyone who wants to purchase them for personal use?
Also, why would the owner of the card have to reveal where they bought the booster pack with said card?
It's not as if the retail store would be entitled to a percentage of the winnings the same way retailers who sell a winning 6/49 or Lotto Max ticket are. As such, they're entitled to remain anonymous should they choose to.
I know that in Ontario (and some other provinces), employees of casinos and the provincial lottery corporations such as the OLG and Lotto Quebec aren't allowed to gamble in their province, but that conflict of interest rule doesn't even apply here because booster packs of cards aren't technically lottery tickets, even if they can potential yield similar profits. Furthermore, while lottery tickets can't be purchased with credit cards, packs of Magic cards can be and are all the time. Gambling winnings are also tax-free in Canada, so at most they would only have to pay a capital gains tax once the card is sold, and even then the seller and buyer can circumvent that tax by "gift exchanging" each other the card and check without producing a record of sale. They could even do it in another country where Revenue Canada doesn't have jurisdiction since only domestic income is taxable in Canada unlike the USA where residents have to report and pay income tax on all international income (unless they're a Canadian citizen who already filed and paid income tax to Revenue Canada tax due to a tax treaty to avoid double taxation).
More info: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/one-ring-card-found-1.6895945
Lots of funny, jealous, and ignorant comments below the article
Regardless, I should remind you and point out that there have already been some unique 1 of 1 promo cards printed over the years (ie: Proposal, 1996 World Champion, Shichifukujin Dragon, etc). The only difference is those were never found in packs nor did ever attract enough attention to gain million dollar bounties.
If only contract from below wasn't banned *sigh*
Other hand-rummaging cards that like this include: dangerous wager, fateful showdown, grafted skullcap, heightened awareness, knollspine dragon, moonveil regent, ox of agonas, phyrexian dragon engine, path of the pyromancer, psychic vortex, subira, tulzidi caravanner, the flame of keld, thought gorger, tolarian winds, vindictive flamestoker
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Just to elaborate on what peteroupc responded, vines of vastwood does nothing to stop a creature from being destroyed by whirlwind or sunblast angel. Essentially, it only prevents a creature from being targeted, and even Protection from the color of such spells or abilities couldn't save it. As such, it would need a Regeneration effect, Indestructible, or the ability to Phase out in response while such a spell or ability is on the stack (whereas the game treats the object as if it doesn't exist temporarily). Similarly, you could also "flicker" the creature (make it change zones, usually to exile, and then return it to the battlefield after the destruction effect resolves). Note that sometimes even regeneration is insufficient to safeguard against mass-destruction effects (which are commonly referred to by players as "sweepers") as some specify that creatures can't be regenerated (ie: wrath of god, damnation).