I have a foiled out mono red goblin deck commanded by purphoros god of the forge and I love this deck not only because it smashes face but because I opened the foil purphoros from a single pack along with a erebos god of death. My deck is sweet and it wins around turn five each time.
I have a foiled out mono red goblin deck commanded by purphoros god of the forge and I love this deck not only because it smashes face but because I opened the foil purphoros from a single pack along with a erebos god of death. My deck is sweet and it wins around turn five each time.
I guess I should post it in here too. I don't have pics, but I have it accurately maintained on tappedout.net. My pride and joy Dragonstorm Kaalia. No, it's not fully foiled or expo'd or invented, or invocated, because quite frankly I'm not that rich (I've just been working it since 2011), but presently the deck does sit at $6.5k.
No pics in this post, but I'm after pimp opinions and this seems better than starting a thread for the question. I'm foiling out a Bant enchantress list (currently Estrid, the Masked, but I may jump to Tuvasa the Sunlit depending on mood/desired grindiness). I'm sticking to just the on-color fetches in the list due to personal preference and usually go for original printings where possible when foiling. The fact that I'll end up with mismatched borders doing that (ZEN Misty, ONS Heath/Strand) has me wondering if the judge promo printings of Heath and Strand are a better choice - still the original art, but matching borders across the fetches.
Acknowledging that pimping out a deck is largely down to personal tastes, anyone have any thoughts?
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No pics in this post, but I'm after pimp opinions and this seems better than starting a thread for the question. I'm foiling out a Bant enchantress list (currently Estrid, the Masked, but I may jump to Tuvasa the Sunlit depending on mood/desired grindiness). I'm sticking to just the on-color fetches in the list due to personal preference and usually go for original printings where possible when foiling. The fact that I'll end up with mismatched borders doing that (ZEN Misty, ONS Heath/Strand) has me wondering if the judge promo printings of Heath and Strand are a better choice - still the original art, but matching borders across the fetches.
Acknowledging that pimping out a deck is largely down to personal tastes, anyone have any thoughts?
I would go for the Expeditions myself, but as for your choices, I would definitely go with the Judge printings in your case. There is something nice about having things match (I do this with my basics too) and I could see where having an ONS printing of one land and a ZEN printing of another would be aesthetically displeasing.
On the other hand, then you have the borders the same, but there is still a difference in the text box. I still think I would prefer that difference over the border difference though.
I would go for the Expeditions myself, but as for your choices, I would definitely go with the Judge printings in your case. There is something nice about having things match (I do this with my basics too) and I could see where having an ONS printing of one land and a ZEN printing of another would be aesthetically displeasing.
On the other hand, then you have the borders the same, but there is still a difference in the text box. I still think I would prefer that difference over the border difference though.
I know I'm staying away from expeditions and KTK versions, because neither of those do much for me. I've got mixed ONS and ZEN fetches in my Jaya list already, so maybe I'll take a better side by side look at those. That's also a little bit of an argument for ONS, to try and keep the cycle internally consistent. Then again, I'm running new frame basics in the enchantress list and those might be a better fit with the judge foils. The list is never going to be fully pimped out thanks to the duals anyways. Beta Trops and Tundras are too rich for my blood - I'll see about FBB German if I'm feeling too wealthy, but those are probably a long shot as well. Thanks for the response!
@3drinks, I like it. Low to the ground aggro seems like a strong incentive to try out duel commander.
I'll post updated pictures of my Jaya list and the early pimping of the enchantress list sometime in the next week or so (once a couple of enchantress pieces come in) to help 3drinks bring some pimp back to the pimp thread.
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@3drinks, I like it. Low to the ground aggro seems like a strong incentive to try out duel commander.
I'll post updated pictures of my Jaya list and the early pimping of the enchantress list sometime in the next week or so (once a couple of enchantress pieces come in) to help 3drinks bring some pimp back to the pimp thread.
You should! While my Kari Zev is clocked @ $778 (thanks, Warrior's Oath replacing Final Fortune), you could easily buy into the deck for under $200. Probably under $80 if you don't care about cavern/fetchx4/port/wasteland. That's a great deal for a tier 1 deck I think.
I'm so probably not gonna foil out another deck, the rest of my bling is Kaalia/Alesha and it's far, far too rich for me. He says, after having bought a moat/grim/ravages/recruiter.
A place to show off my bling where people will actually appreciate it? Yes please!
Here is my pimped out Super Friends deck, been building this since 2012, been pimping since 2013 ha ha. I recently broke my foils only rule, because I wanted to get it up over 10k USD. Turns out putting in 10 revised duals will help.
You should! While my Kari Zev is clocked @ $778 (thanks, Warrior's Oath replacing Final Fortune), you could easily buy into the deck for under $200. Probably under $80 if you don't care about cavern/fetchx4/port/wasteland. That's a great deal for a tier 1 deck I think.
I'm so probably not gonna foil out another deck, the rest of my bling is Kaalia/Alesha and it's far, far too rich for me. He says, after having bought a moat/grim/ravages/recruiter.
Realistically, I'm probably some local interest away from giving the format a shot. I'm not big on the online options and I don't know of anyone playing it around here.
@whiffy penguin, masterpieces aren't really my thing and that is a great looking deck regardless. I've got a soft spot for anyone playing Humility. Are the duals altered, FBB, black bordered inner sleeves, or something else entirely? It's tough to make out fine details in your pictures.
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You should! While my Kari Zev is clocked @ $778 (thanks, Warrior's Oath replacing Final Fortune), you could easily buy into the deck for under $200. Probably under $80 if you don't care about cavern/fetchx4/port/wasteland. That's a great deal for a tier 1 deck I think.
I'm so probably not gonna foil out another deck, the rest of my bling is Kaalia/Alesha and it's far, far too rich for me. He says, after having bought a moat/grim/ravages/recruiter.
Realistically, I'm probably some local interest away from giving the format a shot. I'm not big on the online options and I don't know of anyone playing it around here.
@whiffy penguin, masterpieces aren't really my thing and that is a great looking deck regardless. I've got a soft spot for anyone playing Humility. Are the duals altered, FBB, black bordered inner sleeves, or something else entirely? It's tough to make out fine details in your pictures.
Weebo, they are black bordered perfect fits. Forign black border duals would have been affordable instead of revised, but I dislike forign language cards, and I cant afford beta duals.
Also iknow its hard to tell from the pictures but there are 13 non foils in my deck. 10 duals, Humility, Jokulhaups, and Monu blue Teferi.
Realistically, I'm probably some local interest away from giving the format a shot. I'm not big on the online options and I don't know of anyone playing it around here.
Me too, if it's not Magic Online, then I'm not really into it. And DC isn't on Magic Online so...
I've got one place in my area that still regularly fires DC and it plays tonight actually. But I work too and I'd be leaving and driving way across town to make it in under an hour without being late to work. So I'm just slightly out of luck (if I worked an hour later I could do it though). It really is a great, balanced 1v1 format though, so if you can get it going, I heartily recommend it.
I don't usually go for foils at all, unless I think the card looks better as a foil, which is rare, but happens sometimes. I'll post pictures of my decks at some point, but only select cards are foil. I always go for the specific art or versions I am looking for though to make them all on theme.
I don't usually go for foils at all, unless I think the card looks better as a foil, which is rare, but happens sometimes. I'll post pictures of my decks at some point, but only select cards are foil. I always go for the specific art or versions I am looking for though to make them all on theme.
I don't usually go for foils at all, unless I think the card looks better as a foil, which is rare, but happens sometimes. I'll post pictures of my decks at some point, but only select cards are foil. I always go for the specific art or versions I am looking for though to make them all on theme.
I totally get you. In my Nekusar deck i usually go for special versions, odd languages so its annoying that nobody can read my cards, alters etc.
Also foils here and there.
But in kozilek i try and go for English foil and earliest verison if able, like Alpha or so, not anymore tho.
I just want a foil Fiery Confluence. That's not so much to ask for, is it? -_-
You could peel of the foil of an old card and put it on the confluence. Count it as an alter
Yeeaahhhhh, that's gonna be a hard no. Not only do I have no idea how to even fathom how to do that, but I'm also not going to risk damaging a $30 card.
No pics in this post, but I'm after pimp opinions and this seems better than starting a thread for the question. I'm foiling out a Bant enchantress list (currently Estrid, the Masked, but I may jump to Tuvasa the Sunlit depending on mood/desired grindiness). I'm sticking to just the on-color fetches in the list due to personal preference and usually go for original printings where possible when foiling. The fact that I'll end up with mismatched borders doing that (ZEN Misty, ONS Heath/Strand) has me wondering if the judge promo printings of Heath and Strand are a better choice - still the original art, but matching borders across the fetches.
Acknowledging that pimping out a deck is largely down to personal tastes, anyone have any thoughts?
Originally printings, always. Especially when some of them are old frame. Old frame is so much better than any other frame that it far, far outweighs any other considerations, like the frames across fetches matching, or being foil, or anything.
My girlfriend just finished the alter she'd been working on. The design took ages but I love how it turned out - his gifts are all represented in the art, his name/type and stats have been converted into a faux bible verse at the bottom, and his mana cost has been turned into orbs up at the top.
It was done using a laser cutter to create stencils for each color, then airbrushed onto the card, and then a marker was used for the lines.
Anyway, I'm thrilled with it. She's considering doing alters for money, although the ebay alter scene these days looks like a cesspool of porn alters and printed-off garbage =/
She's considering doing alters for money, although the ebay alter scene these days looks like a cesspool of porn alters and printed-off garbage =/
I know this is a bit off topic, but man is this stuff cringey. I have seen some foil tokens that are basically naked women and a lot of alters of basic lands are the same way.
On topic: I have 2 or 3 decks posted in this thread. I finally got all of my decks foiled out (except a couple newer ones that are missing a couple Expedition Lands). And, now that this thread has a bit more traffic lately, I might post some of my other decks soon.
I know this is a bit off topic, but man is this stuff cringey. I have seen some foil tokens that are basically naked women and a lot of alters of basic lands are the same way.
I'm genuinely baffled why anyone would buy that stuff. If you try to play it at an LGS, you will get DQed. If you play it with your friends, they'll think (rightfully) that you're a weird pervert. If you're alone, you may as well just go on the internet and look at the real deal. So what's the utility here?
It's seriously a huge percentage of the ebay alter marketplace, though. Some of them in the multi-hundred-dollar range. I can't even.
She's considering doing alters for money, although the ebay alter scene these days looks like a cesspool of porn alters and printed-off garbage =/
I know this is a bit off topic, but man is this stuff cringey. I have seen some foil tokens that are basically naked women and a lot of alters of basic lands are the same way.
On topic: I have 2 or 3 decks posted in this thread. I finally got all of my decks foiled out (except a couple newer ones that are missing a couple Expedition Lands). And, now that this thread has a bit more traffic lately, I might post some of my other decks soon.
First, I'll miss Dirk's Arjen Lucassen avatar Very nice alter though. Phelddagriph 4:4 says "Here, have one of my babies."
As for making money with alters, I have no idea what the situation is like in America (assuming you live there) but I have a few friends who make/sell alters and they mostly do so through dedicated Facebook groups.
As for the cringy alters... one of the worst things I've ever seen in that regard was a player in a side event at Grand Prix Utrecht 2014 who got kicked out of a side event because he refused to replace his sleeves, which save for a strategically placed ribbon featured an anime girl in full frontal nudity. The worst part was that he looked, talked and smelled like exactly the kind of player who would play with sleeves like that. During the day I caught him complaining to anyone who he thought would listen about censorship and people being too sensitive.
One of my cringier friends has a commander deck in anime girl sleeves. They aren't THAT pornographic, but they're definitely very cringe. I tried to talk him out of them, unsuccessfully. Luckily he doesn't really play much EDH, mostly competitive REL stuff where he's not dumb enough to use them.
Yeah I liked the Arjen avatar too. My girlfriend was thrilled when she noticed I was using her alter for an avatar, though. The alter has got a pretty disappointing number of upvotes on the mtgaltered subreddit, so I think she's feeling a little insecure about it. Maybe they're just too used to Eric Klug and his flawless lines. Popular thing right now seems to be franken-cards where people are cutting up cards to cobble into a single card. Which...eh, not my cup of tea.
Post pictures of it.
Legacy: UBRG Czech Pile, WWW Death & Taxes, many other things
Modern: UBR Grixis, RWG Burn, UR UR Storm, BBB 8 Rack, whatever other control deck I can force
Multiplayer EDH: RR Norin the Wary, UU Barrin, Master Wizard, UB Wrexial, the Risen Deep, GR Borborygmos, Enraged
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/kaalia-of-the-vast-dragonstorm-outta-nowhere/
Steel Sabotage'ng Orbs of Mellowness since 2011.
Acknowledging that pimping out a deck is largely down to personal tastes, anyone have any thoughts?
http://imgur.com/a/XHP7hpu
Steel Sabotage'ng Orbs of Mellowness since 2011.
On the other hand, then you have the borders the same, but there is still a difference in the text box. I still think I would prefer that difference over the border difference though.
@3drinks, I like it. Low to the ground aggro seems like a strong incentive to try out duel commander.
I'll post updated pictures of my Jaya list and the early pimping of the enchantress list sometime in the next week or so (once a couple of enchantress pieces come in) to help 3drinks bring some pimp back to the pimp thread.
You should! While my Kari Zev is clocked @ $778 (thanks, Warrior's Oath replacing Final Fortune), you could easily buy into the deck for under $200. Probably under $80 if you don't care about cavern/fetchx4/port/wasteland. That's a great deal for a tier 1 deck I think.
I'm so probably not gonna foil out another deck, the rest of my bling is Kaalia/Alesha and it's far, far too rich for me. He says, after having bought a moat/grim/ravages/recruiter.
Steel Sabotage'ng Orbs of Mellowness since 2011.
Here is my pimped out Super Friends deck, been building this since 2012, been pimping since 2013 ha ha. I recently broke my foils only rule, because I wanted to get it up over 10k USD. Turns out putting in 10 revised duals will help.
Here is my tapped out listing.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/urza-head-pimp-and-his-bottom-*****es/
Here is a link to a video I put on the book of faces.
https://www.facebook.com/george.efelis/videos/1949461961739698/?t=1
I've added some pitures of my baby too!
The pictures and video are not 100% accurate, the tapped out listing is. The difference is -1 Thran Temporal gateway, +1 Invocation Pact of Negation.
@whiffy penguin, masterpieces aren't really my thing and that is a great looking deck regardless. I've got a soft spot for anyone playing Humility. Are the duals altered, FBB, black bordered inner sleeves, or something else entirely? It's tough to make out fine details in your pictures.
Weebo, they are black bordered perfect fits. Forign black border duals would have been affordable instead of revised, but I dislike forign language cards, and I cant afford beta duals.
Also iknow its hard to tell from the pictures but there are 13 non foils in my deck. 10 duals, Humility, Jokulhaups, and Monu blue Teferi.
Me too, if it's not Magic Online, then I'm not really into it. And DC isn't on Magic Online so...
I've got one place in my area that still regularly fires DC and it plays tonight actually. But I work too and I'd be leaving and driving way across town to make it in under an hour without being late to work. So I'm just slightly out of luck (if I worked an hour later I could do it though). It really is a great, balanced 1v1 format though, so if you can get it going, I heartily recommend it.
Steel Sabotage'ng Orbs of Mellowness since 2011.
Maybe i should make an update of it?
Lost a few things from the deck tho, but i've switched it up.
Who needs Colours?
My most played EDH deck:
X Kozilek, the Great Distortion
UBR Nekusar, the Mindrazer
|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||
I totally get you. In my Nekusar deck i usually go for special versions, odd languages so its annoying that nobody can read my cards, alters etc.
Also foils here and there.
But in kozilek i try and go for English foil and earliest verison if able, like Alpha or so, not anymore tho.
Who needs Colours?
My most played EDH deck:
X Kozilek, the Great Distortion
UBR Nekusar, the Mindrazer
Steel Sabotage'ng Orbs of Mellowness since 2011.
You could peel of the foil of an old card and put it on the confluence. Count it as an alter
Who needs Colours?
My most played EDH deck:
X Kozilek, the Great Distortion
UBR Nekusar, the Mindrazer
Yeeaahhhhh, that's gonna be a hard no. Not only do I have no idea how to even fathom how to do that, but I'm also not going to risk damaging a $30 card.
Steel Sabotage'ng Orbs of Mellowness since 2011.
Originally printings, always. Especially when some of them are old frame. Old frame is so much better than any other frame that it far, far outweighs any other considerations, like the frames across fetches matching, or being foil, or anything.
Legacy: UBRG Czech Pile, WWW Death & Taxes, many other things
Modern: UBR Grixis, RWG Burn, UR UR Storm, BBB 8 Rack, whatever other control deck I can force
Multiplayer EDH: RR Norin the Wary, UU Barrin, Master Wizard, UB Wrexial, the Risen Deep, GR Borborygmos, Enraged
It was done using a laser cutter to create stencils for each color, then airbrushed onto the card, and then a marker was used for the lines.
Anyway, I'm thrilled with it. She's considering doing alters for money, although the ebay alter scene these days looks like a cesspool of porn alters and printed-off garbage =/
EDH Primers
Phelddagrif - Zirilan
EDH
Thrasios+Bruse - Pang - Sasaya - Wydwen - Feather - Rona - Toshiro - Sylvia+Khorvath - Geth - QMarchesa - Firesong - Athreos - Arixmethes - Isperia - Etali - Silas+Sidar - Saskia - Virtus+Gorm - Kynaios - Naban - Aryel - Mizzix - Kazuul - Tymna+Kraum - Sidar+Tymna - Ayli - Gwendlyn - Phelddagrif 4 - Liliana - Kaervek - Phelddagrif 3 - Mairsil - Scarab - Child - Phenax - Shirei - Thada - Depala - Circu - Kytheon - GrenzoHR - Phelddagrif - Reyhan+Kraum - Toshiro - Varolz - Nin - Ojutai - Tasigur - Zedruu - Uril - Edric - Wort - Zurgo - Nahiri - Grenzo - Kozilek - Yisan - Ink-Treader - Yisan - Brago - Sidisi - Toshiro - Alexi - Sygg - Brimaz - Sek'Kuar - Marchesa - Vish Kal - Iroas - Phelddagrif - Ephara - Derevi - Glissa - Wanderer - Saffi - Melek - Xiahou Dun - Lazav - Lin Sivvi - Zirilan - Glissa
PDH - Drake - Graverobber - Izzet GM - Tallowisp - Symbiote Brawl - Feather - Ugin - Jace - Scarab - Angrath - Vraska - Kumena Oathbreaker - Wrenn&6
On topic: I have 2 or 3 decks posted in this thread. I finally got all of my decks foiled out (except a couple newer ones that are missing a couple Expedition Lands). And, now that this thread has a bit more traffic lately, I might post some of my other decks soon.
It's seriously a huge percentage of the ebay alter marketplace, though. Some of them in the multi-hundred-dollar range. I can't even.
EDH Primers
Phelddagrif - Zirilan
EDH
Thrasios+Bruse - Pang - Sasaya - Wydwen - Feather - Rona - Toshiro - Sylvia+Khorvath - Geth - QMarchesa - Firesong - Athreos - Arixmethes - Isperia - Etali - Silas+Sidar - Saskia - Virtus+Gorm - Kynaios - Naban - Aryel - Mizzix - Kazuul - Tymna+Kraum - Sidar+Tymna - Ayli - Gwendlyn - Phelddagrif 4 - Liliana - Kaervek - Phelddagrif 3 - Mairsil - Scarab - Child - Phenax - Shirei - Thada - Depala - Circu - Kytheon - GrenzoHR - Phelddagrif - Reyhan+Kraum - Toshiro - Varolz - Nin - Ojutai - Tasigur - Zedruu - Uril - Edric - Wort - Zurgo - Nahiri - Grenzo - Kozilek - Yisan - Ink-Treader - Yisan - Brago - Sidisi - Toshiro - Alexi - Sygg - Brimaz - Sek'Kuar - Marchesa - Vish Kal - Iroas - Phelddagrif - Ephara - Derevi - Glissa - Wanderer - Saffi - Melek - Xiahou Dun - Lazav - Lin Sivvi - Zirilan - Glissa
PDH - Drake - Graverobber - Izzet GM - Tallowisp - Symbiote Brawl - Feather - Ugin - Jace - Scarab - Angrath - Vraska - Kumena Oathbreaker - Wrenn&6
As for making money with alters, I have no idea what the situation is like in America (assuming you live there) but I have a few friends who make/sell alters and they mostly do so through dedicated Facebook groups.
As for the cringy alters... one of the worst things I've ever seen in that regard was a player in a side event at Grand Prix Utrecht 2014 who got kicked out of a side event because he refused to replace his sleeves, which save for a strategically placed ribbon featured an anime girl in full frontal nudity. The worst part was that he looked, talked and smelled like exactly the kind of player who would play with sleeves like that. During the day I caught him complaining to anyone who he thought would listen about censorship and people being too sensitive.
Yeah I liked the Arjen avatar too. My girlfriend was thrilled when she noticed I was using her alter for an avatar, though. The alter has got a pretty disappointing number of upvotes on the mtgaltered subreddit, so I think she's feeling a little insecure about it. Maybe they're just too used to Eric Klug and his flawless lines. Popular thing right now seems to be franken-cards where people are cutting up cards to cobble into a single card. Which...eh, not my cup of tea.
EDH Primers
Phelddagrif - Zirilan
EDH
Thrasios+Bruse - Pang - Sasaya - Wydwen - Feather - Rona - Toshiro - Sylvia+Khorvath - Geth - QMarchesa - Firesong - Athreos - Arixmethes - Isperia - Etali - Silas+Sidar - Saskia - Virtus+Gorm - Kynaios - Naban - Aryel - Mizzix - Kazuul - Tymna+Kraum - Sidar+Tymna - Ayli - Gwendlyn - Phelddagrif 4 - Liliana - Kaervek - Phelddagrif 3 - Mairsil - Scarab - Child - Phenax - Shirei - Thada - Depala - Circu - Kytheon - GrenzoHR - Phelddagrif - Reyhan+Kraum - Toshiro - Varolz - Nin - Ojutai - Tasigur - Zedruu - Uril - Edric - Wort - Zurgo - Nahiri - Grenzo - Kozilek - Yisan - Ink-Treader - Yisan - Brago - Sidisi - Toshiro - Alexi - Sygg - Brimaz - Sek'Kuar - Marchesa - Vish Kal - Iroas - Phelddagrif - Ephara - Derevi - Glissa - Wanderer - Saffi - Melek - Xiahou Dun - Lazav - Lin Sivvi - Zirilan - Glissa
PDH - Drake - Graverobber - Izzet GM - Tallowisp - Symbiote Brawl - Feather - Ugin - Jace - Scarab - Angrath - Vraska - Kumena Oathbreaker - Wrenn&6