They're never going to print a full cycle of Grovelands. They're far too good. Can you imagine if an Esper Control deck got to play four U/W and four U/B Grovelands?
There's a reason that the only one Wizards actually printed is the one that was in the most aggressive allied color pair at the time.
It happens all the time. I've gone into shops, bought two consecutive packs off the rack to put on one Standard deck, and had to return them because they were unplayably different in length. More than once, and it's not a new problem, because it happened to me at least as far back as 2011.
I'm really not sure what Mizzix's Mastery accomplishes that Past in Flames doesn't. I guess if you somehow have four Time Walk effects stacked in your graveyard, but I don't see this enabling any combos that are more consistent than Storm.
That site doesn't actually answer a lot of the aforementioned questions.
1) It doesn't say, but art sleeves usually come in 80. I'd guess it'll be 80 Delver sleeves, with an outside chance of 100. You'll almost certainly get enough for your deck, although you probably shouldn't count on using them right away. I don't know how CFB does it, but different tournament organizers hand out the 'free goodies' in different ways. Some have a line you can pick them up from at your leisure, some give them out at the player meeting. If it's the latter, you won't get them until just a few minutes before round 1 starts, and I wouldn't count on having enough time to sleeve your deck at that point.
2) The last GP I went to a few weeks ago ended day 1 a little after 10 pm. Obviously, this number varies based on many factors (GP Madison both started later and was Sealed instead of Legacy), but I'd ballpark it for somewhere in that range.
3) You have to pay extra to get the side event playmat (or play certain side events), but there's no extra charge for the Delver mat, sleeves, or deckbox. (The 'VIP' registration does include a second pack of Delver sleeves and deckbox, though.)
4) I don't think so. This might be location-specific, though.
5) Yes, there is a release form. You can go here, print a copy, get it signed beforehand, and just bring the signed waiver to the GP.
6) Good luck and have fun!
I know this doesn't help, but does anyone know how many tix prizes are (ex: are booster packs like 10 tix? Or 1 tix? )Obviously this would make a huge difference on what the prizing is for the side events. How many are playmats? If anyone has had experience with past gp tix structures, that would be helpful.
Prize Walls vary by vendor. Looking at the prize structures here, it looks like packs will be 10 tix, and other prizes will scale accordingly to that (ie, if they're valuing packs at $3, a $15 playmat would be 50 tix). I could be wrong, but that looks 99% likely.
Nah, it's all fine. I'm probably going to end up getting them eventually, one way or another, just amused that I'm getting them for double what I put them on my wantlist for. It's my own fault - I had enough time to take them down if I wanted. (Plus, the rest of the cards I'm getting didn't go up in price.)
Well, that explains why I just got a City in a Bottle and King Suleiman coming to me off PucaTrade. I guess this was a bad week to try to convert my excess PucaPoints into Arabian Nights and Antiquities cards.
The only rare I remember from the two starter decks I started with was Mahamoti Djinn from 4th Edition.
I remember the first card I saw before I cracked the shrink wrap, though--Ornithopter. Funny how that formed a bigger impression on my 11-year-old mind than anything else in the pack did.
If I'm reading you right, this is before accounting for expeditions? If so, that adds at least $20 in box value and puts the EV at something like double the wholesale price at least. That is certainly not sustainable.
Somebody analyzed 600 matches on MTGO and came away with a 53% match win rate for the player who wins the roll. That's not a *huge* sample size, though, so I'm not 100% sure it's statistically significant.
It is. Typically the maximum sample size that trails the SEDM will be ~31 to obtain a significance. 600 should be good enough.
But it's only 3% above the mean.
Out of curiosity, I just went and plugged the numbers in a binomial calculator online. At n=600, the standard deviation is 12.247, so the player on the play winning 18 games over baseline (3% of 600) is only 1.5 standard deviations above the mean - enough to reject a one-tailed hypothesis at 10% but not 5%.
Somebody analyzed 600 matches on MTGO and came away with a 53% match win rate for the player who wins the roll. That's not a *huge* sample size, though, so I'm not 100% sure it's statistically significant.
I assume it's mechanical, since I don't remember the sets I redeemed years ago being in any sort of logical order that someone stuffing the boxes manually would use.
In addition to these 5 colors, you have Multi-Colored cards (which have gold frames, rather than one of the 5 colors) and Colorless cards (which have silver frames, rather than one of the 5 colors). Finally, you have “Land” cards, which are a Type of MTG card (discussed below) with a specific card frame not seen on the other card types.
This reads a little odd to me, since lands are usually colorless as well. I might say something like this:
"In addition to the 5 colors, there are Multi-Colored cards with gold frames that require two or more colors, Artifact cards with silver frames that are none of the 5 colors, and Land cards with a light-brown frame which, while not having any color themselves, generate the resources required to play your other cards. (Some expansions have additional cards, such as colored artifacts or colorless spells, that use additional frames, but the types listed above are present in every Magic set.)"
Most big box stores are stocked by their vendor once a week - if you know what day they usually stock, there's no point in checking before then. Don't wait too long, though, since I'm sure you won't be the only person looking.
In my area, it seems stocking day is usually Monday, so I'll probably swing by one or two after work next Monday to see if they have any. If not, no big deal - I'm mostly interested in the box itself.
Also, a warning that many vendors have been pricing stuff at about 5% over MSRP at big box stores after last year's price increase, so don't be too surprised if they're not exactly at MSRP.
> Mageta had a few tournament appearances and has gone on to be a Commander staple.
"Commander staple" is a...generous description, at best, for the 32nd-most-popular mono-white commander that's in fewer Commander decks than Alexi's Cloak.
There's a reason that the only one Wizards actually printed is the one that was in the most aggressive allied color pair at the time.
1) It doesn't say, but art sleeves usually come in 80. I'd guess it'll be 80 Delver sleeves, with an outside chance of 100. You'll almost certainly get enough for your deck, although you probably shouldn't count on using them right away. I don't know how CFB does it, but different tournament organizers hand out the 'free goodies' in different ways. Some have a line you can pick them up from at your leisure, some give them out at the player meeting. If it's the latter, you won't get them until just a few minutes before round 1 starts, and I wouldn't count on having enough time to sleeve your deck at that point.
2) The last GP I went to a few weeks ago ended day 1 a little after 10 pm. Obviously, this number varies based on many factors (GP Madison both started later and was Sealed instead of Legacy), but I'd ballpark it for somewhere in that range.
3) You have to pay extra to get the side event playmat (or play certain side events), but there's no extra charge for the Delver mat, sleeves, or deckbox. (The 'VIP' registration does include a second pack of Delver sleeves and deckbox, though.)
4) I don't think so. This might be location-specific, though.
5) Yes, there is a release form. You can go here, print a copy, get it signed beforehand, and just bring the signed waiver to the GP.
6) Good luck and have fun!
Prize Walls vary by vendor. Looking at the prize structures here, it looks like packs will be 10 tix, and other prizes will scale accordingly to that (ie, if they're valuing packs at $3, a $15 playmat would be 50 tix). I could be wrong, but that looks 99% likely.
I remember the first card I saw before I cracked the shrink wrap, though--Ornithopter. Funny how that formed a bigger impression on my 11-year-old mind than anything else in the pack did.
Nope, that's after expeditions.
But it's only 3% above the mean.
Out of curiosity, I just went and plugged the numbers in a binomial calculator online. At n=600, the standard deviation is 12.247, so the player on the play winning 18 games over baseline (3% of 600) is only 1.5 standard deviations above the mean - enough to reject a one-tailed hypothesis at 10% but not 5%.
http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/play-or-draw/
Somebody analyzed 600 matches on MTGO and came away with a 53% match win rate for the player who wins the roll. That's not a *huge* sample size, though, so I'm not 100% sure it's statistically significant.
This reads a little odd to me, since lands are usually colorless as well. I might say something like this:
"In addition to the 5 colors, there are Multi-Colored cards with gold frames that require two or more colors, Artifact cards with silver frames that are none of the 5 colors, and Land cards with a light-brown frame which, while not having any color themselves, generate the resources required to play your other cards. (Some expansions have additional cards, such as colored artifacts or colorless spells, that use additional frames, but the types listed above are present in every Magic set.)"
In my area, it seems stocking day is usually Monday, so I'll probably swing by one or two after work next Monday to see if they have any. If not, no big deal - I'm mostly interested in the box itself.
Also, a warning that many vendors have been pricing stuff at about 5% over MSRP at big box stores after last year's price increase, so don't be too surprised if they're not exactly at MSRP.