blindrocket
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Yeah really.
I want to cast Eldritch Evolution onto Kitchen Finks and grab Verdurous Gearhulk.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT9| Kaladesh - Cruisin' Down the Street in my 6/4
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Yeah really.
I want to cast Eldritch Evolution onto Kitchen Finks and grab Verdurous Gearhulk.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Everything happens in the city center and there room is expensive af for one.
RevenantKioku
PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS oh god i am drowning in them
Does anything go on in this thread other than bashing MODO? (Also, if this MDN gives a macOS version? Hooray! If not, more Cockatrice? Yay?)
Anyway, I just got back into Magic big.
Over the summer I built:
- Legacy UR Delver (slowly trading/buying into Grixis Delver.)
- Modern Grixis Delver
- Standard Sultai Emerge
Now with Kaladesh, I'm looking at UB Zombies and UR Saheeli/Chandra shenanigans because I cannot get a Sultai Emerge build where the mana doesn't make me go bonkers.
Anyway, I brushed through the OP so if I missed it, pardon me but I'm looking for people to do competitive play testing with. Discord channels, etc.
I'm in Japan so timezones suck, but randoms on Cockatrice have been driving me bonkers. (Also, if anyone plays in the Osaka area, let me know! I'm in Nara, and my options are limited, but still trying to get play groups going.)
As someone who started with Ice Age and played Mono-Blue throughout Combo Winter (Morphling and Magpie, hey!) I cannot believe the state blue is at. "Here you go, have a shittier Mana Leak!" And the crowd goes wild.
Anyway, I just got back into Magic big.
Over the summer I built:
- Legacy UR Delver (slowly trading/buying into Grixis Delver.)
- Modern Grixis Delver
- Standard Sultai Emerge
Now with Kaladesh, I'm looking at UB Zombies and UR Saheeli/Chandra shenanigans because I cannot get a Sultai Emerge build where the mana doesn't make me go bonkers.
Anyway, I brushed through the OP so if I missed it, pardon me but I'm looking for people to do competitive play testing with. Discord channels, etc.
I'm in Japan so timezones suck, but randoms on Cockatrice have been driving me bonkers. (Also, if anyone plays in the Osaka area, let me know! I'm in Nara, and my options are limited, but still trying to get play groups going.)
As someone who started with Ice Age and played Mono-Blue throughout Combo Winter (Morphling and Magpie, hey!) I cannot believe the state blue is at. "Here you go, have a shittier Mana Leak!" And the crowd goes wild.
charlequin
Banned
This is mostly a structural problem though. Like, I guess theoretically there's a world where WotC could be one actor contributing to that changing, but as is they can't really grow much there without a major change in how they do business.
I mean, the Hasbro statement says that MDN is intended to be a "a seamless digital experience that meets all the players needs" and that they'll keep developing MTGO "in the meantime." I don't know how much clearer you think they can be.
It's not that the goal is gonna be deleting collections; it's that the goal is going to be launching a brand new platform that isn't weighed down by the (again, extraordinarily bad) economic model of the current MTGO, and as such might not really be able to support a direct one-to-one conversion of cards.
This isn't true in any real sense. Hearthstone's success takes dollars away from a similar pool of potential customers, it converts brand ambassadors for WotC to repping Blizzard, it leaves less room for getting promotional attention by broadcasting play, and even just generally hurts their reputation by virtue of being a smaller product than a super-recent upstart.
Event-space game stores are a dumbass idea cooked up to deal with a car society where everyone lives pointlessly far away from everything. In Europe game stores actually sell games and then they go play at the pub.
SigmasonicX
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Nah, it's just that today, they announced this travesty, which led to the theory that they're intentionally trying to drive people away from Magic Online, which then led to this discussion about the Magic Digital Next project that should come out in a few years.
A lot of guys here play on Cockatrice, but I'm not sure if the time zones will work out.
I think the general weakening of counters has gone a long way in making it so that blue isn't the strongest color ever but still competitive, at least in the context of recent sets.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I opened a pack of Conspiracy 2. Dat foil Recruiter.
The loot chests sound shitty but it depends how often you just get fun money instead of bulk rares.
Also holy fuck Rishadan Port is 250 fucking tickets on MTGO.
The loot chests sound shitty but it depends how often you just get fun money instead of bulk rares.
Also holy fuck Rishadan Port is 250 fucking tickets on MTGO.
I'm more wondering about how well the brick-and-mortar stores are doing, not whether the sales for new sets are up.
That's true, but that is where a proper digital client (not just aimed at the US) would help tremendously. Of course that is easy to say, given that they are in a very complicated situation and there is no easy way out, if there is even one. Ashodin brought up Twitch rankings earlier: If you do that right now, Magic is much, much lower on the totem pole.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Totally anecdotal but I went to the Kaladesh prerelease at a store a friend of mine opened earlier this spring and he says business is booming, and this is in a medium sized midwestern city. As in "we planned to go into the black in 18 months and with our sales we're going to be making money after 9"
Yes, so annoying. Recently all I've been excited about are creatures and planeswalkers. I miss huge developmental mistakes like Treasure Cruise and Dig Through Time. Please make more non-creature non-PW mistakes WotC.
Yeah really.
I want to cast Eldritch Evolution onto Kitchen Finks and grab Verdurous Gearhulk.
Oh, a +1+1 knocks off the -1/-1 and "resets" the finks, right? Thats freaking awesome.
That's really interesting. I should probably ask the guys in my city, maybe I'd get an answer.
Little Old Man
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I don't know about bundles, but for 9 packs the average was just below 1 mythic per fat pack right?
I almost bought a bundle for the hell of it, before remembering that each pack only has one card that's likely to be worth anything, and most of those I would open would be in the low dollar range at best.
Joe Molotov
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I want to play that R/B Lupine Prototype deck on Week 1, but Rofflecopters too expensive.
phazedplasma
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cant decide if I should go to a store thats closer to draft tonight that does play for picks or a store 30 min away that does keep what you draft...
Keep what you draft. Always.
This so much , rare redraft is such a dumb idea. I dont see how newer players are ok with it.
That's because Expeditions have been falling. These things are clearly not as valuable as peopke thought they were at first.
I find myself wondering why
SigmasonicX
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TheBlackMarvel
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I imagine it's pressure. When I went to that Eldritch Moon draft it was suggested. Fortunately, my friend and I weren't having any of it.
And then she opened Tamiyo and Gisela and I opened Liliana.
Isn't the foiling quality terrible? Kind of weird to have ultra premium stuff that's lower quality.
Yeah really.
I want to cast Eldritch Evolution onto Kitchen Finks and grab Verdurous Gearhulk.
Thragtusk is SO much stronger in modern. So is Reveillark and Cataclysmic Gearhulk.
To be fair, the two I have were immediately put into hard plastics. Do they have a reputation for falling apart of being damaged easily or something? I mean, some people would argue foils are terrible no matter what.
Are anyone else's Kaladesh cards really yellow? It's most noticeable on the white cards, but any Kaladesh card I compare to a same-color SOI card is noticeably yellower. I've only seen prerelease cards so far, so I don't know if this was an issue with the first batch, or a side effect of the new card stock.
Edit: also seems to be consistent across all rarities, so it doesn't seem to be a matter of just one print sheet getting messed up.
Edit: also seems to be consistent across all rarities, so it doesn't seem to be a matter of just one print sheet getting messed up.
I absolutely hate foils, they curl and curl the non-foil cards in the pile it's disgusting. I let some of the cards I opened from EMA boosters all together in a box, foils included, and now they are all curled. Mostly worthless stuff but still, so annoying. I hate foils!
1. I would be interested in taking foils off your hands.
2. I get the slim fit plastics and double sleeve them. It helps a LOT.
I double sleeved my very few valuable ones but now I keep the junk ones very much away from any other cards. They're like a disease.
Why don't you get a binder?
Foils are fine if you keep them in a binder, sleeve or top-loader, as far as curling goes. If you're going to keep them in a box, just put some silica packets in there and it keeps them from curling just fine. That's what I do.
That said, I don't likely foils anyway.
ChazAshley
CharAznable's second cousin
Just pulled this beauty. Hold or Sell??
I think it's been "OK" for quite some time. It has some rough edges but it mostly works.
Yeah, it's fine. I play it a lot as a nice way to get a Magic fix in when I can't get to a store or find friends.
Cool, where could I find some decklists? and this game has diferences on the ruleset compared to the paper?
I got linked to this place from the Duels Reddit and it looks fairly active: http://forum.nogoblinsallowed.com/viewforum.php?f=61
Only problem for starting out would be that you'd need a lot of effort or money to unlock rares across the six sets available.
The rules are generally the same, but it might handle a few edge cases incorrectly. The deckbuilding is different because you can only use 1 of each mythic, 2 of a rare, 3 of each uncommon and 4 of commons.
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