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No.422011
>>422009
Technically, we've been out of Ravnica for two sets, since WAR wasn't a Ravnica set :^)
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No.422012
>>422011
No, it was just an entire set shitting on Bolas by giving him a dumb plan, making each part of it fall apart on him or turn traitor on him, even Liliana lived through being a traitor, only a couple of planeswalkers died instead of the massacre teased during the candle trailer, and they imprisoned Bolas in his own realm and robbed him of almost everything.
Whoever came up with that plan for Bolas in the writing crew was a retard.
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No.422020
>>421962
Nice. It'll be a sad day in standard when they rotate out unless we get an equivalent to replace them.
>>421963
>scry lands
It is pretty disappointing as they are a definite step down from check lands. The scry is nice, but it can't beat getting to the required minimum mana asap. Hopefully, some solid lands get reprinted to replace shocks.
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No.422021
>>422020
Shock into check is definitely great, you can hit three colors on turn 2 no problem. It will be a shame to see them go. I missed the scry lands the first go around ... did they have much of an impact in standard then?
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No.422023
Seriously isn't there a non-pozzed alternative to Scryfall?
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No.422025
>>422023
What's the theme today, globalhomo and stronk women?
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No.422032
>>422025
Of course, because it's STD Awareness/Pederasty Sensibility month.
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No.422050
Todays updates:
>Let's kill the value on middle priced Modern cards (pic related), while reprinting cards nobody wants and not reprinting staples people actually need, like fetches
>We want the furry audience OwO
>Combo card looking for an enabler
>More land matters shit maybe the fall set will be return to return to return to Zendikar and we'll get fetches again
Also, why do some cards says "put on the bottom of your library in a random order" versus an order of your choice? What calls for one or the other?
>>422032
>Hurr Ashiok is transgender because he doesn't use masculine pronouns!!
It's because he transcended reality to the point of not needing it
Fuck I hate globalhomo
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No.422054
>>422050
The rares are interesting, but like you said med-tier cards that didn't really need a reprint.
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No.422061
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No.422064
>>422021
>I missed the scry lands the first go around ... did they have much of an impact in standard then?
People initially thought they were gimmicky and weak, but quickly realized how powerful card selection stapled to a land was. The combination of mana fixing and card selection without occupying a card slot like Lay of the Land enabled a lot of nonblue decks to compete with blue in terms of filtering away bad draws. Abzan Control was famously the best control deck in THS-KTK Standard, since it got to play all the best cards (Siege Rhino, Abzan Charm, Elspeth, etc.) while still having enough incidental card selection to avoid the conventional problems of a nonblue "midrange" deck. Even in RTR-THS Standard, you had monoU and monoB devotion decks playing off-colour scry lands because they could afford to incorporate them into their curves.
As the format had more cards added, people began realizing that the scry 1 became more valuable as games went longer, so you'd have people intentionally working through mediocre mana in the early turns to have more useful scrying later. There was a really good article where UB control player dissected all the potential lines he was considering on T2/T3 given the cards he wanted to cast (Bile Blight, Dissolve, which are BB and 1UU respectively), and how he was trying to see if he could afford to play his scryland later and dig for something better once he knew more about his opponent's deck. It was a really good read, but it appears to have been memory holed from major search engines, which is frustrating.
Despite all I've said, we don't have access to all 10 so I doubt they'll be as format-defining as they were in 2013-2014.
t. started playing in Theros
>>422023
Sadly, no. It engulfed Magiccards.info and doesn't provide legacy support, so that beautiful, simple HTML interface is gone forever. Your image reminded me how much I fucking hate Scryfall, however, so I did some skimming and this is what I've found.
MTGpics:
>simple HTML interface
>has a bunch of high-resolution card art, which appears to be updated regularly and quickly
>powerful advanced search engine
<interface is too simple for its own good, and elements just sit on the page
<advanced search is all GUI-based and very clicky, as opposed to Scryfall's text parser
<viewing individual card images opens them in black semitransparent pane above the page, but the only way to close the image is to click on the close button in a corner of the screen
<<opening the preview image in a new tab gives you a 40x40 image
<no forums or anything to provide archived information like decks and tournament reports
Another thing I just noticed is that in pic 1, the tooltip requires a click to bring up and never goes away unless you navigate to a different page. Really amateurish HTML code.
MTGVault:
>visually pleasing but simple interface using soft brown and green; very easy on the eyes compared to Scryfall's deep purple + blinding white
>includes deck building functionality complete with opening hands, shuffling simulation, mana information, etc.
>has forums, but the most recent Legacy post is from 2018 and only Standard appears to have anything resembling discussion
>has advanced search panel that is much less clicky than MTGpics
<forums are populated by the average mouth breathing MTG player who wants some feedback on his casual fungus flavourful deck :)
<search feature has no text parsing so you can only search by one type at a time, among other restrictions
<deckbuilding functionality is worse than deckstats.net, and doesn't seem to provide organization like TappedOut (see http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/pauper-edh-primer/ for an idea of how useful this can be)
Overall this seems like the most solid alternative, although I hope I'm wrong and the search engine is better than it appears to be.
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No.422067
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No.422069
>>422061
Well, it's a triggered ability, so you can Repudiate it in standard, but it's still gimmicky.
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No.422078
>>422064
Thank you for that analysis. That will be useful to me later.
But here's the thing. They can't just print one half of an existing cycle. They will do the other allied colors soon, too. Whether it will be in standard at the same time (it should be) or come out next year is just a matter of time
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No.422082
>What if we reprinted Skullclamp, but as an 8cc 8/8 Demon that also costs life?
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No.422083
>>422078
>They can't just print one half of an existing cycle
They do it frequently. The M15 painlands and KTK fetchlands and BFZ battlelands were all half-complete cycles. Amonkhet had its cycling duals, and SOI block had its handlands. Every single one of these was an unfinished five-card cycle.
We'll definitely see an allied-coloured cycle of lands, but I heavily doubt it'll be the scrylands.
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No.422090
>>422064
><forums are populated by the average mouth breathing MTG player who wants some feedback on his casual fungus flavourful deck :)
Combining this guy with Rod of Ruin and Tims was actually a thing at one point. It's even one of the opponents in the Microprose game.
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No.422091
>>422090
Next you'll tell me that spells used to be cast in batches and that cards like Icy Manipulator were used to shut down poly artifacts. Preposterous!
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No.422101
>>422064
>Sadly, no. It engulfed Magiccards.info and doesn't provide legacy support, so that beautiful, simple HTML interface is gone forever.
Never us3ed Magiccards.info, and I really like Scryfall's UI and how it works and all.
Just such a fucking shame that they all have to smear their degenerate globohomo agenda into our faces.
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No.422103
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No.422106
How many Voice of Resurgence art are they going to print before they're actually going to reprint the bloody card?
Of course their retarded choice of Jeskai elemental tribal ruined any chance of it getting a reprint in this set.
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No.422128
>>422103
Yeah I know but it works for now. What I'm waiting to see is if the new EDH forums are ok.
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No.422131
Hello fellow white people
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No.422136
>>422061
Amuletbros, how about replacing a forest or a bounceland for this? I usually never touch the bouncelands, but if you're gonna add this maybe you have to, since like them, it doesn't work well if you're playing it first, or early. Maybe the London mulligan rule, which'll soon be permanently implemented for Modern, will change how many of these potentially awkward lands you want to play.
I'm not sure about the field. How bad it is at taking advantage of multiple land-drops is a severe drawback. Azusa is much less happy with it than with bouncies. And you often only have critical lands in play that you can't afford to sacrifice. It'd be better with some main-deck recursion of lands from the graveyard.
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No.422145
>>422131
Shalom, my fellow white friend!
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No.422150
>Nephew is like 6, starting to get into Pokemon cards
>Look through my old cards to see what my E3 Pikachu is worth
>Remember that MTG Goldfish has a pokemon mirror, just pop onto it to get a quick price for myself
>Oh right they still have those goofy arti—LiteralGrill
>Oh god, find their Twitter
>Oh god
Polite sage for only tangentially being related to Magic. But holy fuck is every TCG community run by these proto-tranny freaks now?
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No.422152
BORING PLANESWALKERS, GETCHER BORING PLANESWALKERS RIGHT HEAH
EX-TRAY EX-TRAY READ ALL ABOUT IT
>>422106
>Jeskai elemental tribal
It's RUG (or Temur), not Jeskai.
>>422136
I've seen people discussing it as 1-of or a 2-of to tutor for with Tolaria West. It's very strong, but it doesn't help Amulet do anything it doesn't already do (ramp into a Titan on T2/T3), and it's effectively a death sentence without several support cards.
>>422150
>speedruns
>furry
>tranny
>pokemon GO
>buying a poopdick baseball bat so he can mod it into a 2:1 scale replica of an Arcanine's dick
It's like he looked at a checklist of every cancerous character trait and chose all of the above.
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No.422154
>>422050
>Also, why do some cards says "put on the bottom of your library in a random order" versus an order of your choice? What calls for one or the other?
Some cards are templated in such a way that if you "break" their intended function, they allow you to stack your deck. Pic 1 works this way if the controller of the targeted creature has no other creatures in his library. Compare to pic 2, which specifies a random order because the devs don't want you to be able to stack your deck if you fill it with only CMC 4+ cards.
>ashiok
What's really interesting is that the Planeswalker's Guide to Theros (remember those?) specifies he was a man before being brainfucked by nightmares, and refers to him as such. It was only after WotC became terminally pozzed that they rebranded him as a "brave nonbinary figure" and a positive role model or something. Ironic, considering he literally scares people to death, but given they unwittingly printed a literal designated shitting streets card, I'm sure it's lost on them.
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No.422157
>>422154
Sure, this is the card I think of most when stacking decks. But even in standard, I've seen cards mention "any order" vs "random order" and I can't see why they choose one over the other.
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No.422168
>>422152
>White: Furry
>Blue: Asian
>Black: Evil White (who is DEAD)
>Red: Strong Women
>Green: Strong Women of Color
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No.422172
>>422157
For those, it is mostly flavour. Blue is orderly and smart, whereas green doesn't care. It's a silly difference, but it's pretty harmless.
>>422168
It's so brave, isn't it?
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No.422178
Conductor we have a problem.
>>422050
Doubt we'll see fetches until next year at the earliest, MH1 was the only chance until they said fuck you to modern reprints. Maybe overseer will get hit?
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No.422179
>>422150
And then a friend of mine asked me recently "Dude why did people vote for extreme-right I just don't understand".
>>422152
>It's RUG (or Temur), not Jeskai.
Whoops, my fault.
I'm still mad though.
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No.422180
>>422050
>living weapon without living weapon
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No.422182
>>422178
Is that a good way to invest? Sit on a stack of dollar rares with an unproven but unique niche, waiting for the value to go up? Or is it better to grab midrange cards that like $10, $20, and guaranteed to move to the EDH crowd?
My area's pretty small, I'd be happy to stockpile the cheap rares but I don't want to hit up every online store
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No.422188
>>422154
>designated shitting streets
Which card? I stopped playing or following MtG after Zendikar 2.
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No.422192
>>422168
Cats are the white people of furries. I don’t know much mtg lore, but from what I do know Ajani seems pretty white to me.
I like fur shit so I’m kind of biased.
>>422188
It’s a kaladesh card, was an op artifact set. I guess kaladesh was vaguely India, some of the people looked poo I guess. Although it’s supposed to be a plane filled with genius inventors, not street shitters.
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No.422193
Hyakkimaru is clearly black or black/red
>undergoes quest to destroy demons purely to reclaim his property
>that his actions will bring ruin on Daigo's province and its people is of no concern to him
>doesn't care about others aside from his loli sidekick and the deceased slut-chan
Is Daigo white?
>willing to sacrifice his kid and soul to ensure prosperity of his land
>it's all about the domain to him
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No.422197
>>422188
The one I posted, Hazardous Conditions. It depicts a not!Indian man walking on stilts across a street full of "hazardous chemicals" (read: human shit) because he'll fucking get -2/-2 and die if he doesn't.
>>422192
I recall reading in a Savour the Flavour article once that the different types of mana were meant to act as generic blueprints for the various different planes, which is why humans are everywhere, why cats are usually white-aligned, why zombies tend to be 2/2, etc. It made more sense before WotC hired what see to be DeviantArt artists to man their fiction, because there have been more and more race/colour mismatches recently, and they've been pushing their fucking donut steel Azra abortions for two sets now.
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No.422200
>>422197
>>422188
LETHAL POWER BY 20/20
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No.422201
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No.422205
>>422182
I make most of my shekels buying underpriced lands off ebay, I then use some of the profits to speculate on really cheap shit like this.
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No.422211
>>422201
You know, if only the art wasn't as bad I'd pass it.
That and the card is awful, another legendary Planeswalker commanderbait.
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No.422215
>>422050
What's with the colored artifact/equipment?
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No.422223
>>422215
They've technically been a thing since Dissension, but Alara was when they were originally invented about 10 years ago anon
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No.422225
>>422082
terrible because it auto losses to nekusar
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No.422234
>>422152
>pw deck Chandra has better art than uncounterable Chandra
I really wish their arts were switched, but +1 shock is pretty nice. Too bad it wasn’t bolt instead.
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No.422236
>>422225
I wish they had reprinted Nekusar instead of Kess in mh1. He’d be a lot more fun to build with and prison Nekusar could be pretty interesting.
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No.425782
Wow! 5 months since we were here. A lot has changed for me during that time. In particular, with winter around the corner, I can't attend FNMs any more, and the release of a new format, Pioneer. Seems pretty cool.
In the last 5 months, I've been dabbling in trying to buy and sell cards for profit. While I don't really look at /r/mtgfinance (on the grounds of it being Reddit; if I absolutely need to, I might skim it), I do follow Rudy / AlphaInvestments on YT. I've tried speculating on a few cards, such as Field of the Dead (8x$10 foil), Alpine Moon (24x$1-$2 each), and a few others; right now, those have more than doubled in value, I just need to unload them to a buyer. I've taken advantage of FB buy/sell/trade groups to avoid EBay fees, and I've even registered as a small business via Canada Post to save on shipping fees... I just need to make the effort.
Mostly, I've been buying up local collections and buylisting the bulk to other stores, while holding onto the non bulk cards for myself (eg Karn, shocks, etc). Because shipping presents a huge amount of overhead, my plan was to either sell them as sets (eg $40 cards, as tracked shipment for $10) or trade them up locally (which is difficult because we're a small town) into higher value cards (eg bulk standard -> shocks -> $30-$40 singles), which I would then sell.
This seems kinda blogposty, but that's how I've been approaching the game right now. Oh, and I've been trying to "invest" in sealed boxes as per Rudy. Right now I have a Throne of Eldraine, Guilds of Ravnica, and Oath of the Gatewatch box, plus 2 Core 2020 fat packs. I plan to get one box per set as they come out, and as money allows, 1-3 boxes per year of older stuff that has proven itself.
I feel that the economy is in a bubble though, and I found the Reserve List prices tanking to be an interesting indicator of what might happen to the rest of the game for like, 5-7 years
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No.426014
>last post 2 months ago
is this site officially dunzo?
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