We currently have Intro Decks which are really cheap and come with 2x Boosters so they don't feel useless right off the bat.
We have boosters themselves; booster boxes as well
Then we have Event decks, duel decks, clash packs and fatpacks.
There might be a few randoms here and there (FTV, modern event deck etc) but the others are the most purchased I believe.
If you were to create a new type of deck what would it be?
Even if it were a modern/EDH etc deck.
Personally I'd want an "advanced event deck' that features 3-4x of cards instead of the current nonsense we get. Also want to see rare lands in them, but ofc only 1x of them, not expecting WoTC to include a playset of fetches in a purchasable product...
Also add some high value cards from older sets and add them.
Example, add Thoughtseize as a side board/main deck card in the KtK Event Deck - this one card alone would make the value skyrocket and even out Thoughtseize prices a bit (eh probably not tbh).
So essentially asking for 2-4x of good but not over expensive cards (think 2x Master of the Feast, but 4x Herald of Torment). 1 Value Card (Thoughtseize or Hero's Downfall) and 1 value land (pain land or fetchland).
Cost: Can't really say since I'm not native to USA, but it seems an event deck is $20-$25 there? So maybe make this one $35-45?
Duel Decks, with cards people want to play. I thought the Clash Packs this year were a great value for the money, so more along those lines. $30 for a deck with decent playable rares and alt-art foins of cards like Temple of Mystery and Prophet of Kruphix. If the sky were the limit, I'd do paper Vintage Masters in a heartbeat, as an unlmimited-print-run, with "special" and mythic rarities revoked.
What I would love to see is factory sets: 1-each of every card in the set, at a reasonable price, but sold only through LGS. I'd also have them create premium versions, all foil, sealed and numbered and limited print. Something for payers, something for speculators, all sold through LGS.
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Cards are game pieces, and should be treated as such, easily replaceable.
Cards are not money, investments, or a retirement fund, and should never have been treated as such.
Wizards made a mistake caving to speculators once, and we still pay for that mistake 2 decades later.
"Entitled:" the entire ad hominem fallacy condensed into a single word. It doesn't strengthen your argument to attack motivations, it just makes you look like you don't understand the argument.
I'd cut the event deck, and replace it with the "better and cheaper" event deck
It would be a lot like the current event decks, but all the garbage and unnecessary chase cards would be replaced by more solid commons and uncommons, with a few relevant(but cheap) rares thrown in.
It'd be nice to have a competitive(ish) deck you could buy pre-built for every format. Like a Legacy Burn Event Deck, Or even a different modern event deck like a delver deck with maybe 1 fetchland and no snapcasters? Just something to give people a framework to work with.
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It'd be nice to have a competitive(ish) deck you could buy pre-built for every format. Like a Legacy Burn Event Deck
MTGO actually offers two Legacy precons: Exiler (which is a watered-down Death and Taxes) and Boltslinger (which is a watered-down Burn). Extending that to paper printings, even bound by the reserve list, would be pretty good for keeping the prices of a bunch of cards in check. Imagine a watered-down Elves (lacking Gaea's Cradle but having fetches, Glimpses, etc) or, like, Affinity (get some more Mox Opals out there), or even something like a watered-down Sneak Show or BUG-Delver-with-shocklands or something. It'd make the format far more accessible.
Plus you can't say that a Sneak Show precon wouldn't be a huge hit with the casual Timmy crowd. "Look, I can put Emrakul into play for either 2U or 3RR!"
More Modern event decks. BW Tokens wouldn't have been my first choice, nor was a big fan of the list they put together, but the general idea is one that has my full support.
Perhaps an ongoing release in each color or two color combo, spreading out the value, e.g. B/U Fairies ( Cryptic Command, Vendillion Clique, Bitterblossom ), B/G Rock, etc. Obviously not playsets of the mythics and high-end rares, but with at least 3-4 solid cards. Maybe make up for the prices in terms of amounts ( e.g. a playset of Goblin Guides in the Burn one but maybe only a couple Cryptic Commands in another U/x deck ).
I'm sure some players would object but then again these are also my preferences, and I'm always on the side of more reprints on principle. I've probably spent thousands on cards but if all of them lost their value tomorrow I'd still be happy if it meant more people playing Magic. I play for fun, not as a retirement investment.
I like this idea. I was thinking about it more, and it'd be nice to (at least in modern, don't know if it'd work in legacy but MAYBE!) of having the competitive(ish) pre-cons for each archetype. So like: Tempo, Control, Midrange, Combo, Aggro. So you'd have a nice start in the deck type of your choice that isn't too expensive.
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I like this idea. I was thinking about it more, and it'd be nice to (at least in modern, don't know if it'd work in legacy but MAYBE!) of having the competitive(ish) pre-cons for each archetype. So like: Tempo, Control, Midrange, Combo, Aggro. So you'd have a nice start in the deck type of your choice that isn't too expensive.
Control might be near impossible, since a successful control deck needs to be prepared for the meta-game...
EDIT: uups, I missed that you specifically mentioned the non-rotating formats, that might be more viable, but it is easier said than done.
I'd cut the event deck, and replace it with the "better and cheaper" event deck
It would be a lot like the current event decks, but all the garbage and unnecessary chase cards would be replaced by more solid commons and uncommons, with a few relevant(but cheap) rares thrown in.
I would do something like this, but include a couple overpriced rares, and then I'd have it sold in large numbers at big-box stores so the prices can't get jacked up too horrifically. Probably can't go much higher than $30 for a pre-con at a big-box store, but your deck with say 1x dark confidant, 1x marsh flats, and 1x godless shrine isn't too much to ask. It's almost literally impossible to print too many shocks or fetches because every single player that's interested in any constructed format that's not standard wants a playset of fetches and shocks. As for Bob, yeah it'd bring his price down, but he'd probably still fetch a price tag at least as high as the $30 the deck is sold for, and old ravnica copies would still sell for $50+ if they kept the terrible MM artwork on new copies.
Basically, I feel this is something for everyone. New players get a playable deck for cheap with a few staples that is upgradable in a straightforward way. Veteran players get more copies of staples so prices are kept in check. Wizards sells these decks like pancakes and makes a ton of money.
It's almost literally impossible to print too many shocks or fetches because every single player that's interested in any constructed format that's not standard wants a playset of fetches and shocks.
1) A draftable, non-tournament legal version of Vintage Masters or just Beta in real life.
2) Miniature versions of cards. Oversized cards have always seemed silly, but they keep making them. Does anyone actually like or use those? Go the other way. Make a micro-set that could fit in those vending machine capsules. I'd spend a lot of quarters on those, especially if they made iconic cards. Who wouldn't love tiny Power 9?
BTW, the Modern Event deck was a failure, unfortunately.
I'd cut the event deck, and replace it with the "better and cheaper" event deck
It would be a lot like the current event decks, but all the garbage and unnecessary chase cards would be replaced by more solid commons and uncommons, with a few relevant(but cheap) rares thrown in.
I would do something like this, but include a couple overpriced rares, and then I'd have it sold in large numbers at big-box stores so the prices can't get jacked up too horrifically. Probably can't go much higher than $30 for a pre-con at a big-box store, but your deck with say 1x dark confidant, 1x marsh flats, and 1x godless shrine isn't too much to ask. It's almost literally impossible to print too many shocks or fetches because every single player that's interested in any constructed format that's not standard wants a playset of fetches and shocks. As for Bob, yeah it'd bring his price down, but he'd probably still fetch a price tag at least as high as the $30 the deck is sold for, and old ravnica copies would still sell for $50+ if they kept the terrible MM artwork on new copies.
Basically, I feel this is something for everyone. New players get a playable deck for cheap with a few staples that is upgradable in a straightforward way. Veteran players get more copies of staples so prices are kept in check. Wizards sells these decks like pancakes and makes a ton of money.
Dark confidant alone is 85 right now. You can't just jam like 4-5x the value into a deck. Marsh and godless would make sense as a way to get people into modern without upping the value to crazy levels like confidant though.
I'd make a deck that's on the very lower fringes of competitve, and that has some randomization of contents as a way to get some good cards reprinted.
For instance, you could make a Naya Zoo deck that always has 4 Nactyls, 4 Bolts, 3 Paths, and the other core commons/uncommons of the deck as 3-4 ofs. Then, it has perhaps 8 flex slots that are randomized - one slot might have a 20% chance to be a Tarmogoyf and an 80% chance to instead be a Scavenging Ooze, another slot 20% to be Voice of Resurgence, otherwise it's Fleecemane Lion, another slot is 20% to be Arid Mesa and is otherwise a Sacred Foundary, and so on.
Collate it in such a way that every copy does have something highly sought after, just not always the same card. Price point of USD 40.
Anything significantly better than this will end up being either a second Modern Masters (where stores either infuriate their playerbase by pricejacking it, or lose profits to other stores that do) or a second Chronicles.
Anything significantly better than this will end up being either a second Modern Masters (where stores either infuriate their playerbase by pricejacking it, or lose profits to other stores that do) or a second Chronicles.
There's a LOT of room between MM (vastly underprinted) and Chronicles (overprinted well past market saturation.) Wizards could do a lot to make reprints more available without turning everything in the set into a 50-cent rare, and presenting the choices as binary (underprint or massively overprint) ignorres that huge band between the choices.
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Cards are game pieces, and should be treated as such, easily replaceable.
Cards are not money, investments, or a retirement fund, and should never have been treated as such.
Wizards made a mistake caving to speculators once, and we still pay for that mistake 2 decades later.
"Entitled:" the entire ad hominem fallacy condensed into a single word. It doesn't strengthen your argument to attack motivations, it just makes you look like you don't understand the argument.
I would make a competitive event deck. Obviously it wouldnt be the best version of the deck but i would give say $80 to a pro and ask him to build a certain kind of deck. For example If i wanted to make the event deck control i would give andrew cuneo $80 to build the best control deck he could with that budget, Wescoe if i wanted a white aggro deck or kibler if i wanted a midrange deck.
Basically it would be a tuned budget list that a new player could pick up and have a real chance of winning or placing well in an fnm
Since I am consistently opening rares that "aren't for me" in boosters (btw I'd be happy to trade someone's rare I got by mistake for the rare intended for me)I would like to see three subsets of boosters in every block:
MtG Booster: Timmy: All the fatties a Timmy could ever want, no downsides or apparent downsides to any spell, huge game shifting or ending spells regardless of the cost. No counters, barely any removal. The land card in each booster is replaced by a common, vanilla creature with minimal base power/toughness of 6.
MtG Booster: Johnny: You want to win with whacky spells that seem to cripple you more than help you? You refuse to play with creatures unless they are so inefficient, so wordy, so deliciously unorthodox? You want lands that produce mana only as an afterthought? Then these boosters will satisfy your Johnny hunger.
MtG Booster: Spike: A 4/4 with cmc 5? Unplayable. An evasive 7/7 with a relevant EtB effect for cmc 7? Will never see play. Efficient sorcery speed removal? Jank. A pushed 3/2 beater with no protection? Dies too easily to removal. We are talking only tournament caliber cardboard in these packs. Every card has the potential to find a slot in a tier 1 deck, depending on the meta of course.
Assuming an equal print run on par with current standards a $3.99 price would be fine. However, it wouldn't be long before the Spike packs were selling for 3-4X the MSRP, the Timmy packs would drop to 10 for 10$, and the Johnny packs couldn't be given away.
Remember, this is an excersise only and not a comment on the real world viability of the aformentioned product.
I want a seasonal, bi-yearly, or yearly single edh product, not part of a cycle of 5. That way wizards can produce a 5-color, colorless, or really offbeat deck without the logistical considerations of a huge commander 2014-esq release.
I would cut the event deck entirely, and replace it with a line of card-for-card recreations of top 8 decks from all Pro Tours held within the last two years. The price would be $100 for the Standard decks and $300 for the Modern decks. Sort of like the world championship decks except they would be fully tournament legal with black borders and standard backs. Each card would have the signature of the winning player on it so players can easily tell if a card is from this product or opened from the pack. No foils.
I always wanted there to be a premium booster pack. Just like a booster pack, but guaranteed to include 1 mythic rare, 4 rares, 10 uncommons and a foil uncommon, rare or mythic. They'd cost more of course ($25?). If I'm buying some cards on impulse, I'd rather buy one of these as opposed to 4 or 5 boosters, and then wind up pitching most or all of the commons.
A gold-bordered, alternate-backed (non-tournament-legal) fully powered Cube box set for 150$. Complete with sleeves, an actual cube-shaped box, a guidebook to drafting different archetypes and descriptions of different draft formats from the standard 8-man, and maybe even supplemental randomized booster packs for customizing the card pool. It could be a standalone product that game stores keep a copy of for introducing new people to the game, and for casual EDH play groups who don't care about "proxies" it would be a godsend (a full set of gold border duals, fetches, shocks, and powerful cards like Snapcaster, Jace, Stoneforge, Force, Wasteland, etc., all for the price of a single Bayou, without impacting the supply of sanctioned copies of these cards).
It honestly shocks me that they haven't done this yet.
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It honestly shocks me that they haven't done this yet.
I think that wizard's calculus is to avoid boardgame-afying the magic card experience. While I suppose if they ever released a physical cube, they could produce periodic update/upgrade packs, I bet a lot of customers would probably just buy the cube, be 'finished' collecting, and never patronize the franchise again (there have been plenty of points in my magic gaming where I would have loved to do this!).
The thing is, though, the format that Wizards is most interested in selling is Limited, because it is the most reliant on selling product. Introducing Cube as an officially supported paper format would probably develop the interest in drafting as a game mechanic among the casual crowd, and give access to a much wider range of people who generally don't spend money on Magic to develop their drafting skill and encourage them to explore the limited formats that wizards have been putting so much effort into building. I think it's an ideal way for Wizards to enable drafting as the default way to play Magic socially, and that's a net win for Wizards.
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I've actually been doing my own project to help teach beginning players (like my son), and I think it would work well for "event decks". I've been going through every shard/wedge and making a budget Modern midrange/control deck for each. Each deck can be upgraded if some money is put into it, but none of them break the bank, either, so reprints of cards in them wouldn't damage the secondary market much. They'are also relatively competitive for a beginner's deck. Here are three of them:
I would just print the Death and Taxes precon they have online. It's jammed packed with sweet stuff and would give people a good start into Legacy.
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"Have you ever gotten tired of ALL the spells and ALL the cards being drawn in Legacy? Are you 7 years old and have trouble counting to large numbers like three? Billy Mays here with Death and Taxes, so no one can count past one ever again."
I would just print the Death and Taxes precon they have online. It's jammed packed with sweet stuff and would give people a good start into Legacy.
Do you have a link to the pre con? I would really like to get into legacy death and taxes. I know it's quite different from the modern version and I do own quite a few of the staples from the lists I've seen.
We have boosters themselves; booster boxes as well
Then we have Event decks, duel decks, clash packs and fatpacks.
There might be a few randoms here and there (FTV, modern event deck etc) but the others are the most purchased I believe.
If you were to create a new type of deck what would it be?
Even if it were a modern/EDH etc deck.
Personally I'd want an "advanced event deck' that features 3-4x of cards instead of the current nonsense we get. Also want to see rare lands in them, but ofc only 1x of them, not expecting WoTC to include a playset of fetches in a purchasable product...
Also add some high value cards from older sets and add them.
Example, add Thoughtseize as a side board/main deck card in the KtK Event Deck - this one card alone would make the value skyrocket and even out Thoughtseize prices a bit (eh probably not tbh).
So essentially asking for 2-4x of good but not over expensive cards (think 2x Master of the Feast, but 4x Herald of Torment). 1 Value Card (Thoughtseize or Hero's Downfall) and 1 value land (pain land or fetchland).
Cost: Can't really say since I'm not native to USA, but it seems an event deck is $20-$25 there? So maybe make this one $35-45?
What I would love to see is factory sets: 1-each of every card in the set, at a reasonable price, but sold only through LGS. I'd also have them create premium versions, all foil, sealed and numbered and limited print. Something for payers, something for speculators, all sold through LGS.
Cards are not money, investments, or a retirement fund, and should never have been treated as such.
Wizards made a mistake caving to speculators once, and we still pay for that mistake 2 decades later.
"Entitled:" the entire ad hominem fallacy condensed into a single word. It doesn't strengthen your argument to attack motivations, it just makes you look like you don't understand the argument.
It would be a lot like the current event decks, but all the garbage and unnecessary chase cards would be replaced by more solid commons and uncommons, with a few relevant(but cheap) rares thrown in.
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MTGO actually offers two Legacy precons: Exiler (which is a watered-down Death and Taxes) and Boltslinger (which is a watered-down Burn). Extending that to paper printings, even bound by the reserve list, would be pretty good for keeping the prices of a bunch of cards in check. Imagine a watered-down Elves (lacking Gaea's Cradle but having fetches, Glimpses, etc) or, like, Affinity (get some more Mox Opals out there), or even something like a watered-down Sneak Show or BUG-Delver-with-shocklands or something. It'd make the format far more accessible.
Plus you can't say that a Sneak Show precon wouldn't be a huge hit with the casual Timmy crowd. "Look, I can put Emrakul into play for either 2U or 3RR!"
Perhaps an ongoing release in each color or two color combo, spreading out the value, e.g. B/U Fairies ( Cryptic Command, Vendillion Clique, Bitterblossom ), B/G Rock, etc. Obviously not playsets of the mythics and high-end rares, but with at least 3-4 solid cards. Maybe make up for the prices in terms of amounts ( e.g. a playset of Goblin Guides in the Burn one but maybe only a couple Cryptic Commands in another U/x deck ).
I'm sure some players would object but then again these are also my preferences, and I'm always on the side of more reprints on principle. I've probably spent thousands on cards but if all of them lost their value tomorrow I'd still be happy if it meant more people playing Magic. I play for fun, not as a retirement investment.
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Control might be near impossible, since a successful control deck needs to be prepared for the meta-game...
EDIT: uups, I missed that you specifically mentioned the non-rotating formats, that might be more viable, but it is easier said than done.
I would do something like this, but include a couple overpriced rares, and then I'd have it sold in large numbers at big-box stores so the prices can't get jacked up too horrifically. Probably can't go much higher than $30 for a pre-con at a big-box store, but your deck with say 1x dark confidant, 1x marsh flats, and 1x godless shrine isn't too much to ask. It's almost literally impossible to print too many shocks or fetches because every single player that's interested in any constructed format that's not standard wants a playset of fetches and shocks. As for Bob, yeah it'd bring his price down, but he'd probably still fetch a price tag at least as high as the $30 the deck is sold for, and old ravnica copies would still sell for $50+ if they kept the terrible MM artwork on new copies.
Basically, I feel this is something for everyone. New players get a playable deck for cheap with a few staples that is upgradable in a straightforward way. Veteran players get more copies of staples so prices are kept in check. Wizards sells these decks like pancakes and makes a ton of money.
1) A draftable, non-tournament legal version of Vintage Masters or just Beta in real life.
2) Miniature versions of cards. Oversized cards have always seemed silly, but they keep making them. Does anyone actually like or use those? Go the other way. Make a micro-set that could fit in those vending machine capsules. I'd spend a lot of quarters on those, especially if they made iconic cards. Who wouldn't love tiny Power 9?
BTW, the Modern Event deck was a failure, unfortunately.
Dark confidant alone is 85 right now. You can't just jam like 4-5x the value into a deck. Marsh and godless would make sense as a way to get people into modern without upping the value to crazy levels like confidant though.
For instance, you could make a Naya Zoo deck that always has 4 Nactyls, 4 Bolts, 3 Paths, and the other core commons/uncommons of the deck as 3-4 ofs. Then, it has perhaps 8 flex slots that are randomized - one slot might have a 20% chance to be a Tarmogoyf and an 80% chance to instead be a Scavenging Ooze, another slot 20% to be Voice of Resurgence, otherwise it's Fleecemane Lion, another slot is 20% to be Arid Mesa and is otherwise a Sacred Foundary, and so on.
Collate it in such a way that every copy does have something highly sought after, just not always the same card. Price point of USD 40.
Anything significantly better than this will end up being either a second Modern Masters (where stores either infuriate their playerbase by pricejacking it, or lose profits to other stores that do) or a second Chronicles.
There's a LOT of room between MM (vastly underprinted) and Chronicles (overprinted well past market saturation.) Wizards could do a lot to make reprints more available without turning everything in the set into a 50-cent rare, and presenting the choices as binary (underprint or massively overprint) ignorres that huge band between the choices.
Cards are not money, investments, or a retirement fund, and should never have been treated as such.
Wizards made a mistake caving to speculators once, and we still pay for that mistake 2 decades later.
"Entitled:" the entire ad hominem fallacy condensed into a single word. It doesn't strengthen your argument to attack motivations, it just makes you look like you don't understand the argument.
Basically it would be a tuned budget list that a new player could pick up and have a real chance of winning or placing well in an fnm
MtG Booster: Timmy: All the fatties a Timmy could ever want, no downsides or apparent downsides to any spell, huge game shifting or ending spells regardless of the cost. No counters, barely any removal. The land card in each booster is replaced by a common, vanilla creature with minimal base power/toughness of 6.
MtG Booster: Johnny: You want to win with whacky spells that seem to cripple you more than help you? You refuse to play with creatures unless they are so inefficient, so wordy, so deliciously unorthodox? You want lands that produce mana only as an afterthought? Then these boosters will satisfy your Johnny hunger.
MtG Booster: Spike: A 4/4 with cmc 5? Unplayable. An evasive 7/7 with a relevant EtB effect for cmc 7? Will never see play. Efficient sorcery speed removal? Jank. A pushed 3/2 beater with no protection? Dies too easily to removal. We are talking only tournament caliber cardboard in these packs. Every card has the potential to find a slot in a tier 1 deck, depending on the meta of course.
Assuming an equal print run on par with current standards a $3.99 price would be fine. However, it wouldn't be long before the Spike packs were selling for 3-4X the MSRP, the Timmy packs would drop to 10 for 10$, and the Johnny packs couldn't be given away.
Remember, this is an excersise only and not a comment on the real world viability of the aformentioned product.
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It honestly shocks me that they haven't done this yet.
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I think that wizard's calculus is to avoid boardgame-afying the magic card experience. While I suppose if they ever released a physical cube, they could produce periodic update/upgrade packs, I bet a lot of customers would probably just buy the cube, be 'finished' collecting, and never patronize the franchise again (there have been plenty of points in my magic gaming where I would have loved to do this!).
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Do you have a link to the pre con? I would really like to get into legacy death and taxes. I know it's quite different from the modern version and I do own quite a few of the staples from the lists I've seen.