I'd be happy with a copy of Sol Ring and Sensei's Divining Top for my Dakkon Blackblade deck. (Oh my God a top costs forty bucks now. I used to have two and sold them from a few dollars.) I'm way poorer and/or less willing to invest in cards than the rest of y'all. I sold everything valuable a while back. (In retrospect, as noted above, I should have waited.)
But if price literally weren't an issue, I'd fill my decks with beautiful old cards and entirely eschew the new card face. I adore Alpha, Beta, Arabian Knights, Antiquities, and Legends. My aforementioned Dakkon deck would have Demonic Tutor and Mana Drain. I'd play monored with Gauntlet of Might, Wheel of Fortune, Fork, and Zodiac Dragon.
Ain't never going to happen, though. The only plausible way would be if future desktop printing setups can produce perfect copies. (I don't care about the status, I just love the old cards. I still regret not investing twenty bucks in Alpha when I had the chance.)
Oh my God a top costs forty bucks now. I used to have two and sold them from a few dollars.
I think we're looking at different Tops. You can get a Top for ~$10 shipped right now.
If I had unlimited money (to spend on EDH decks. I'm ignoring the Philonous train of thought here), I'd probably also put quite a bit more thought into my basic lands.
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I think we're looking at different Tops. You can get a Top for ~$10 shipped right now.
I was looking at what popped via the link, which turns out to be the From the Vault version. $10-15 is still a bit beyond me. And Force of Will really is $60-70 now. I also sold two of those for a few bucks. I wish I had held onto my cards. I think I sold everything at exactly the wrong historical moment.
Dual lands, SD Top, to name just a few off the top of my head. Three months ago I would have said Sol Ring, but thanks to WotC putting it in the Commander decks, that need has been fulfilled!
I vote for letting Xlich run WotC and reprint all the cool cards we need so us poorer players, and the newer players, can have equal access to all the cool cards they need!
On a sidenote: After the storm has come and pass and the price of basic lands shot 20 fold due to my insane spending, I'll spend a ludicrously high number to get a legit Alpha Volcanic Island. That's right, I bought everything I've ever wanted, now I'll buy something that never existed. The ultimate pimp.
Your ambitions leaves much to be desired. If I have unlimited funds, I will buy up Hasbro, send my lackeys into WoTC design and development and subvert them to my deepest darkest desires. To give you an idea how awesome that sounds, imagine any EDH custom card creation (ccc) to be created at my whim -- blample, flample, you name it, I can make it.
While I am at it, I will buy the entire EDH Rules Committee and have them unban Kokusho, the Evening Star... and just to spite naysayers, I will have Design print a functionally identical Kokusho, just for the lulz. Speaking of which, Commander will hereby be known as Elder Dragon Highlander or "EDH" for short. What if EMI sues, you ask? I will just buy em' up. Infinite funds, you see....
But hey, why am I stopping at the EDH Rules Committee when I could buy Mark Gottlieb, Rules Manager and the DCI, while I am at it? Mind you, if I do that, prepare to welcome back mana burn and damage on the stack. I will make EDH a sanctioned format for the occasional FNMs though probably not for Pro Tours and GPs as that would just make it overly competitive. For good measure, I will buy up several countries and oblige their legislature to pass a law making EDH a compulsory school curriculum. This way, players will have no excuse for not knowing the basic rules of the games, etc.
I could go on all day but I feel that I should stop before I describe my masterplans of hiring my own private armies to terminate unfun playgroups.
Hell, with unlimited funding, I'd just go to GenCon next year and buy every card the vendor's own. It's said that half the world's power is at GenCon every year. I'd probably also use my unlimited resources to find the guy who bought the 1996 World Championship card, and offer him an ungodly amount of money for it. I'd probably also buy the Shichifukujin Dragon, and as many of the Richard Garfield-made cards for when he proposed to his wife and when their two children were born (Splendid Genesis, Proposal, and Fraternal Exaltation). I'd also buy the entire Edgar (Summer Magic) set. I'm not into the whole MTG world domination aspect as I've seen, lol.
I'd completely foil out my azami deck.
Get poxy to alter every card that can't be foiled.
Get an awesome character on every snow covered island (link, samus, master chief, vash) Mana Drain Mana Vault
Then I'd go and build 100% pimped versions of the decks I play on cockatrice:
Azusa
Xhiao-Dun
Akroma Angel of Fury
Captain Sisay
Still, that's over $1,300 in four cards, so it will be a while before I "finish" the deck.
mxmlmn on cockatrice
But if price literally weren't an issue, I'd fill my decks with beautiful old cards and entirely eschew the new card face. I adore Alpha, Beta, Arabian Knights, Antiquities, and Legends. My aforementioned Dakkon deck would have Demonic Tutor and Mana Drain. I'd play monored with Gauntlet of Might, Wheel of Fortune, Fork, and Zodiac Dragon.
Ain't never going to happen, though. The only plausible way would be if future desktop printing setups can produce perfect copies. (I don't care about the status, I just love the old cards. I still regret not investing twenty bucks in Alpha when I had the chance.)
I think we're looking at different Tops. You can get a Top for ~$10 shipped right now.
If I had unlimited money (to spend on EDH decks. I'm ignoring the Philonous train of thought here), I'd probably also put quite a bit more thought into my basic lands.
I was looking at what popped via the link, which turns out to be the From the Vault version. $10-15 is still a bit beyond me. And Force of Will really is $60-70 now. I also sold two of those for a few bucks. I wish I had held onto my cards. I think I sold everything at exactly the wrong historical moment.
I vote for letting Xlich run WotC and reprint all the cool cards we need so us poorer players, and the newer players, can have equal access to all the cool cards they need!
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While I am at it, I will buy the entire EDH Rules Committee and have them unban Kokusho, the Evening Star... and just to spite naysayers, I will have Design print a functionally identical Kokusho, just for the lulz. Speaking of which, Commander will hereby be known as Elder Dragon Highlander or "EDH" for short. What if EMI sues, you ask? I will just buy em' up. Infinite funds, you see....
But hey, why am I stopping at the EDH Rules Committee when I could buy Mark Gottlieb, Rules Manager and the DCI, while I am at it? Mind you, if I do that, prepare to welcome back mana burn and damage on the stack. I will make EDH a sanctioned format for the occasional FNMs though probably not for Pro Tours and GPs as that would just make it overly competitive. For good measure, I will buy up several countries and oblige their legislature to pass a law making EDH a compulsory school curriculum. This way, players will have no excuse for not knowing the basic rules of the games, etc.
I could go on all day but I feel that I should stop before I describe my masterplans of hiring my own private armies to terminate unfun playgroups.
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Get poxy to alter every card that can't be foiled.
Get an awesome character on every snow covered island (link, samus, master chief, vash)
Mana Drain
Mana Vault
Then I'd go and build 100% pimped versions of the decks I play on cockatrice:
Azusa
Xhiao-Dun
Akroma Angel of Fury
Captain Sisay
:symu::symr: Melek WheelStorm
:symw::symg: Trostani Enchantress (updated 6/5)
:symg::symr::symu: Unexpected Results.dec
Thada Adel Stax WIP
EDH: U Arcum Dagsson (primer!) U