As far as legends are concerned, the existence of Commander can probably be said to create categorically different price behavior -- certainly for those that have been printed since the rise in popularity of EDH/Commander, in the last... five years or so? Commander is a format where a playset means 1 copy, not 4, which would certainly encourage different buying/selling behavior. The fact that EDH doesn't work the same way formats with GPs and Pro Tours do should create different price trajectories somehow.
There's a lot of theoretical work still to be done here, but this paper could be the start of something brilliant. Please don't sacrifice rigor; some of us really appreciate it.
(There's no need to put accents on "debacle", though; the word has been Anglicized without them.)
Beast within is not that good. In limited it's more like pongify without damage stacking or elephant ambush than vindicate. Vindicate isn't even that good, maelstrom pulse was way worse than terminate because in limited everyone has a ton of creatures and a ton of lands, so the utility power of vindicate is hugely diminished.
There are entire decks without a single good target for beast within, and unless you hit a bomb it's very bad value (like a reverse skinrender). Ambushing 2/2s is cute, but you can't afford the loss of land early and 2/2s get less relevant as the game goes on.
The card's unimpressive and you're overrating it, you're not going to find anyone good who thinks it's better than top-notch removal.
are you under the impression vindicate and maelstrom pulse can't hit creatures? of course they're worse than terminate (color aside) because they're more expensive but I wouldn't say way worse.
Sigiled Paladin, you are either a troll or extremely bad at limited deckbuilding. Just recently you posted a deck that was mono green in this format for no reason. In this thread you suggest playing Blistergrub and not playing Carnifex Demon.
You can talk about curve considerations all you want, but if you think you're actually good at this you should know that you aren't. People should be allowed to tell you this.
Semantics does it somewhat rudely, I won't argue with that.
Arbalest is epic fail in this environment. this is not a slow, clunky, bad curve, infinite tempo enviornment where all you want is any kind of card advantage or board control. its fast, synergistic, interactive, and tricky.
for all the chrome steeds everyone was playing in october (lol), this turned out to be exactly wrong once MBS came out and people stopped having so many plague stingers and mana myr.
I've never really been better than mediocre in my 5 or so years of frequent drafting (or more recently watching draft videos) so I'm not sure, but has the average common become much less complicated or is it just me?
I would say to sort the playables out and make sure each pack had some, but there aren't any.
Just make packs with 2 cards from each color and 5 other random cards. If you made literally exactly the same number of cards in each color it would get too boring.
Whether to include Apocalypse Chime is probably the biggest question, and I guess it's up to your opinion of how serious it should be.
There's a lot of theoretical work still to be done here, but this paper could be the start of something brilliant. Please don't sacrifice rigor; some of us really appreciate it.
(There's no need to put accents on "debacle", though; the word has been Anglicized without them.)
underrated post
it'll probably provide some form of ...wait for it... card advantage
are you under the impression vindicate and maelstrom pulse can't hit creatures? of course they're worse than terminate (color aside) because they're more expensive but I wouldn't say way worse.
You can talk about curve considerations all you want, but if you think you're actually good at this you should know that you aren't. People should be allowed to tell you this.
Semantics does it somewhat rudely, I won't argue with that.
I miss Mike Egna.
for all the chrome steeds everyone was playing in october (lol), this turned out to be exactly wrong once MBS came out and people stopped having so many plague stingers and mana myr.
Just make packs with 2 cards from each color and 5 other random cards. If you made literally exactly the same number of cards in each color it would get too boring.
Whether to include Apocalypse Chime is probably the biggest question, and I guess it's up to your opinion of how serious it should be.