Topic: MTG (Read 153461 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #700 on:** September 17, 2010, 07:29:49 PM »

Quote from: TA on September 17, 2010, 01:12:42 PM

Or just say it out loud.

Precisely

The best part is that in the art, the little troll is picking up the head of a Myr.

He is literally getting (a) head.

Büge · « **Reply #701 on:** September 17, 2010, 07:32:50 PM »

I think the joke died on the table.

Quote from: Mongrel on September 17, 2010, 07:29:49 PM

Quote from: TA on September 17, 2010, 01:12:42 PM
Or just say it out loud.

Precisely

I was saying it out loud all afternoon. All I got was weird looks from people.

TA · « **Reply #702 on:** September 17, 2010, 09:40:22 PM »

Then you're saying it wrong. Some issue of your canuckistani accent, I reckon - all that hockey's got your teeth messed up.

Büge · « **Reply #703 on:** September 18, 2010, 11:42:28 AM »

Help me build a Selenia EDH deck!

Okay, so I dismantled my Akroma EDH deck, and now I've the beginnings of a B/W all-angel EDH Deck starring Selenia, Dark Angel. Not the beefiest general, but she does have that nifty bounce ability. Here's what I have creature-wise.

Angels which could go in the deck:
Adarkar Valkyrie
Reya Dawnbringer
Luminous Angel
Fallen Angel
Silver Seraph
Deathless Angel
Angelic Protector
Radiant, Archangel
Avenging Angel
Twilight Shepherd
Pristine Angel
Blinding Angel
Serra Angel
Angel of Salvation
Seraph
Desolation Angel
Angel of Despair
Akroma, Angel of Wrath

Angels I don't have but would work well:
Baneslayer Angel
Exalted Angel
Karmic Guide

Suggestions?

Mongrel · « **Reply #704 on:** September 21, 2010, 06:04:56 AM »

McDohl · « **Reply #705 on:** September 21, 2010, 11:51:55 AM »

Mongrel · « **Reply #706 on:** September 21, 2010, 03:52:56 PM »

Well. That was quick.

McDohl · « **Reply #707 on:** September 21, 2010, 04:43:02 PM »

Büge · « **Reply #708 on:** September 21, 2010, 04:53:57 PM »

McDohl · « **Reply #709 on:** September 22, 2010, 03:27:32 AM »

I threw together a crappy U/W artifact deck mainly to use the Tezzeret I got from the Tezzy v. Elspeth box I picked up.

I only own one Master Transmuter, but she's crazy good in this deck. Paying 1 to trade this Ornithopter for a Triskelion, then next turn, ping the dude for 3, bounce the Triskelion back to my head and put it back down with 3 fresh counters? Sure. Oh, hey! Voltaic Key! DO IT AGAIN, MUAHAHA.

Also: Leyline of Sanctity in play on first turn. Ornithopter. Turn 2, Jinxed Idol. Sac Ornithopter to Jinxed Idol.

THIS GAME ENDS IN TEN TURNS.

Mongrel · « **Reply #710 on:** September 22, 2010, 05:41:08 AM »

Full Scars of Mirrodin spoiler is up.

Sadly, almost all the cards I want are mythics, and there are few enough of those.

Büge · « **Reply #711 on:** September 22, 2010, 06:56:47 AM »

Quote from: Mongrel on September 22, 2010, 05:41:08 AM

Full Scars of Mirrodin spoiler is up.

Sadly, almost all the cards everyone needs are mythics, and there are few enough of those.

Every format is Type 1 now.

Mongrel · « **Reply #712 on:** September 22, 2010, 08:11:57 AM »

Well, I'm not really a competitive player. It's just that the ones that INTEREST me or seem fun, happen to be the comp ones this time around.

Also, your comment about Type 1 is amusing considering a discussion I was having on another board about the psychological impacts of Mythics and rising prices.

Büge · « **Reply #713 on:** September 22, 2010, 08:25:05 AM »

Do share!

Mongrel · « **Reply #714 on:** September 22, 2010, 09:16:17 AM »

Quote from: Büge on September 22, 2010, 08:25:05 AM

Do share!

Start here, read on.

Büge · « **Reply #715 on:** September 22, 2010, 10:24:33 AM »

I'm with you on the difficulty of trading. My friend Jim has two Baneslayers in his trade binder. As soon as a potential trader sees them, they don't want anything else.

Reading the thread and seeing the $50 preorder cards on Starcitygames.com is making me think of the crash in the comics speculator's market. I'm not saying that that is where we're headed, since the print runs of X-Men #1 far outstripped demand, whereas a playset of Koth of the Hammer is going to be out of reach of casual players because of enforced rarity. I fear the gulf between mythics and non-mythics is only going to get worse, though, and people may just either quit the game altogether or just use it as a way to make money through trades.

I'm worried that the player-base will dwindle, but the trader-base won't.

Mongrel · « **Reply #716 on:** September 22, 2010, 11:57:22 AM »

That last one would be good, because that would mean prices would go down!

Also: The next three pages or so in that thread had some additional points and discussion. Not sure if you read those or just my first post, but there's more if you're still curious.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #717 on:** September 23, 2010, 07:05:23 AM »

I, personally, get a sense that the game is getting more expensive to get into. Like the cards you need to be competitive are the ones that are very hard to come by, which forces you to turn to the secondary market, and that way lies madness.

Not that I've played it in years. So I don't know.

Büge · « **Reply #718 on:** September 23, 2010, 07:41:51 AM »

No, you have it exactly right. Competitive cards used to have an average ceiling price of twenty dollars. Maybe thirty. Nowadays, they start at twenty dollars and go up from there. Heck, finding a Jace, the Mind Sculptor is like getting a golden ticket.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #719 on:** September 23, 2010, 08:21:45 AM »

Thing is, the cards that bring odd untested mechanics, the group that the game breakers will be part of, are usually rare or mythic rare. Mostly rare (mythic seems reserved to huge mana finishers) though the planeswalkers are big system monkeywrenches.

AND OH HEY GUESS WHICH RARITY MINDSLAVER WAS REPRINTED AS

Then there's Lux Cannon, which introduces the novel concept of the jank mythic. it does have symmetry, 4 mana plus 4 turns to destroy one permanent.

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