Ugh that completely blows. I kind of hate that I am always so paranoid about my cards and you want to trust the people you play with regularly but hearing about ***** like this always puts me on edge. I get asked all the time if I am heading out between rounds or when going to the bathroom because I put all my ***** back in my bag and wear my bag. It isn't that I don't trust them but if the opportunity to steal my ***** comes up less often, maybe it won't happen.
Yeah, I actually tend to behave similarly. I've invested too much into Magic to just leave thousands of dollars in merchandise just lying around the store, especially when it isn't anyone's responsibility but my own to look after it. That's kind of why I'm surprised something like this even happened to me at all. It only takes one moment to slip up.
Yea, I kind of stopped cubing because it lead me to question if I trusted 7 other people to the point where I assumed none of them were going to steal my *****. Its fine with some people but its one of those things I didn't feel comfortable just letting anyone join in on the cube because of the cost of the cards.
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Today was a good day. After a couple of weeks in the countryside without access to Magic or the internet, I got back to my old home city today and decided spontaneously to buy a couple of packs at a Müller store in the city center (a large retail store, comparable to Walmart). I bought two packs from M19 and two packs from Hour of Devastation, while thinking about how buying booster packs is a bit like buying lottery tickets. Opened a Crucible of Worlds and an Invocation Through the Breach.
And as if this wasn't enough, one of my best friends who works as a gaming journalist interviewed Richard Garfield today and got me a signed, personalised copy of Richard Garfield, Ph.D.. A good day indeed.
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Found out tonight that my masterpiece Mana Crypt is missing. Most likely it was stolen. I've never really been taken advantage of like this before, so I feel pretty disparaged about the whole thing. Gunna call around tomorrow to see if anyone has tried to sell one recently.
Yikes. That really sucks man. I hope you find out something about where it might be off to.
This is why I am strongly considering investing in high quality proxies of some of my biggest cards in my cube.
My friend had a nice cube that we used to play at the LGS. The group was either our friend group that we all trusted well enough to let sit at the table, or people that we knew that everyone could vouch for as a good person that wouldn't steal his stuff. Well, said friend got married, and the wife insisted he get the cube appraised so they could insure it. Once she found out how much it was worth, she decreed that it's never leaving the house again, which is completely fair. Also helps that it's currently in tatters and hasn't been updated in a number of years.
On the one hand, at least there's someone on the inside fighting in the unban corner... At least I think so.
On the other hand, please don't ever unban Nightmare. I don't want to think about dealing with Meren and Muldrotha decks playing it.
That aside, the copy I bought alongside Braids, Cabal Minion right after they unbanned Protean Hulk seems to be maturing nicely. It's probably close to doubled since then, and it's not moved any closer to unban status.
Apparently, the guy who took it took it by accident because he also owns a Mana Crypt like mine and thought it was his. Anyway, he found out yesterday that his deck had two Mana Crypts by mistake, and the card ended up changing hands three times before finally winding up back in my possession.
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In all truthfulness Hermes, RN shouldn't be unbanned. It would be very centralizing and take over games. I want it unbanned because I'm a degenerate. Library, otoh, I genuinely feel can come off the list.
In all truthfulness Hermes, RN shouldn't be unbanned. It would be very centralizing and take over games. I want it unbanned because I'm a degenerate. Library, otoh, I genuinely feel can come off the list.
I kind of feel this way too, but I also wonder if the effect of unbanning Library alone (as in, the ensuing meteor shower caused by the unban announcement) would actually do more harm than good. The Library card itself is certainly fairly benign.
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In all truthfulness Hermes, RN shouldn't be unbanned. It would be very centralizing and take over games. I want it unbanned because I'm a degenerate. Library, otoh, I genuinely feel can come off the list.
I just enjoy teasing you about it, iI just want Worldfire unbanned as another way to win with Barren Glory and oring lol
In all truthfulness Hermes, RN shouldn't be unbanned. It would be very centralizing and take over games. I want it unbanned because I'm a degenerate. Library, otoh, I genuinely feel can come off the list.
Your cube is the reason I will never been on the unban train for RN.
I had the dumbest Prime Time deck I could get, and Bobthefunny's random elemental RN deck still crushed me.
I kind of feel this way too, but I also wonder if the effect of unbanning Library alone (as in, the ensuing meteor shower caused by the unban announcement) would actually do more harm than good. The Library card itself is certainly fairly benign.
The biggest strike against Library is the price. It's banned but already $1500. Timetwister, Tabernacle, and Workshop are all legal and over $2000. Twister is like $2500 and ubiquitous. The only argument is that there are similar effect for cheaper and less efficiently. (Spoiler alert, the same can be said about Library.) But the fact that Library would most likely overtake Timetwister as the most expensive EDH card is something to give pause when the everyone would want to jam it in decks because they don't realize just how often it functions as a non basic Waste. But whatever. I'm just glad that I got my copy when I could and will survive just being able to play it in cube alongside other fair cards the RC lost to at some point in their life, like Recurring Nightmare, Balance, and Prophet of Kruphix.
The biggest strike against Library is the price. It's banned but already $1500. Timetwister, Tabernacle, and Workshop are all legal and over $2000. Twister is like $2500 and ubiquitous. The only argument is that there are similar effect for cheaper and less efficiently. (Spoiler alert, the same can be said about Library.) But the fact that Library would most likely overtake Timetwister as the most expensive EDH card is something to give pause when the everyone would want to jam it in decks because they don't realize just how often it functions as a non basic Waste. But whatever. I'm just glad that I got my copy when I could and will survive just being able to play it in cube alongside other fair cards the RC lost to at some point in their life, like Recurring Nightmare, Balance, and Prophet of Kruphix.
I think it would probably be fairly good in draw go and other control shells but I can also think of a lot of my own decks where I don't feel like I normally have 7 cards in hand. It probably is playable in more decks than several of those other expensive cards and its price tag would probably become insane if it were unbanned.
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I'm always a little surprised he even bothers posting here even with the greatly improved moderation over his first few visits. The entire RC gets dragged through the mud pretty hard on social media/forums and it's pretty clear a lot of the people doing the trash talking have no idea how the RC actually works.
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I'm always a little surprised he even bothers posting here even with the greatly improved moderation over his first few visits. The entire RC gets dragged through the mud pretty hard on social media/forums and it's pretty clear a lot of the people doing the trash talking have no idea how the RC actually works.
I thought I worked very hard to make this a place that would be somewhere they could interact with the community and not get totally ***** on. Hopefully his absence isn't a commentary on the site and more prioritizing his time due to health issues.
I thought I worked very hard to make this a place that would be somewhere they could interact with the community and not get totally ***** on. Hopefully his absence isn't a commentary on the site and more prioritizing his time due to health issues.
You did a good job on it. It's less site specific and more that there's a decent sized population of people online who start from a very adversarial position without making much of an effort (if any) to understand how the RC actually works. That has to be tiring even if site leadership and a majority of users are making an effort.
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I'm sure he's choosing to use what energy he has due to his health issues to focus on the main commander site and his other commitments that I'm sure are a bit more pressing than lurking around here.
Hey guys, I'm looking for a list someone posted a few months back. It was a Queen Marchessa deck iirc, and it was centered around giving opponents creatures (things like Hunted Horror). Anyone know what I might be talking about?
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Got to play Zo-Zu the Punisher for the firs time last night, and it was a blast. The first game I played was in the free pods for our Commander FNM, and it was great. I reigned it in initially, because while they play for points to figure out who gets the promo, I couldn't care any less, and I didn't want to sabotage their game. For a large portion of the game, all I had out was Zo-Zu with Lightning Greaves and Tectonic Instability. Then I just sat there and let the table kill itself. One guy was using his Fertilid to make another player search for a basic land, which I thought was hysterical.
Afterword, I played a couple games with my friends who have more tuned decks, and as expected I was definitely not favored to win the game. They usually try and make the most of their turns, and here I was just playing a pressure card and passing. That said, I did force interaction at least, since Sulfuric Vortex and Leyline of Punishment are problems for the Atraxa, Praetors' Voice on the table. The games also ended a lot quicker than they normally would have, with the first one ending in 7 turns thanks to T2 Ankh of Mishra into T3 Zo-Zu.
I absolutely foresee myself keeping this deck together for a while, since it was just so much fun to play.
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And as if this wasn't enough, one of my best friends who works as a gaming journalist interviewed Richard Garfield today and got me a signed, personalised copy of Richard Garfield, Ph.D.. A good day indeed.
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Yikes. That really sucks man. I hope you find out something about where it might be off to.
My friend had a nice cube that we used to play at the LGS. The group was either our friend group that we all trusted well enough to let sit at the table, or people that we knew that everyone could vouch for as a good person that wouldn't steal his stuff. Well, said friend got married, and the wife insisted he get the cube appraised so they could insure it. Once she found out how much it was worth, she decreed that it's never leaving the house again, which is completely fair. Also helps that it's currently in tatters and hasn't been updated in a number of years.
On the one hand, at least there's someone on the inside fighting in the unban corner... At least I think so.
On the other hand, please don't ever unban Nightmare. I don't want to think about dealing with Meren and Muldrotha decks playing it.
That aside, the copy I bought alongside Braids, Cabal Minion right after they unbanned Protean Hulk seems to be maturing nicely. It's probably close to doubled since then, and it's not moved any closer to unban status.
Apparently, the guy who took it took it by accident because he also owns a Mana Crypt like mine and thought it was his. Anyway, he found out yesterday that his deck had two Mana Crypts by mistake, and the card ended up changing hands three times before finally winding up back in my possession.
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In all truthfulness Hermes, RN shouldn't be unbanned. It would be very centralizing and take over games. I want it unbanned because I'm a degenerate. Library, otoh, I genuinely feel can come off the list.
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I just enjoy teasing you about it, iI just want Worldfire unbanned as another way to win with Barren Glory and oring lol
I had the dumbest Prime Time deck I could get, and Bobthefunny's random elemental RN deck still crushed me.
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The biggest strike against Library is the price. It's banned but already $1500. Timetwister, Tabernacle, and Workshop are all legal and over $2000. Twister is like $2500 and ubiquitous. The only argument is that there are similar effect for cheaper and less efficiently. (Spoiler alert, the same can be said about Library.) But the fact that Library would most likely overtake Timetwister as the most expensive EDH card is something to give pause when the everyone would want to jam it in decks because they don't realize just how often it functions as a non basic Waste. But whatever. I'm just glad that I got my copy when I could and will survive just being able to play it in cube alongside other fair cards the RC lost to at some point in their life, like Recurring Nightmare, Balance, and Prophet of Kruphix.
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I think it would probably be fairly good in draw go and other control shells but I can also think of a lot of my own decks where I don't feel like I normally have 7 cards in hand. It probably is playable in more decks than several of those other expensive cards and its price tag would probably become insane if it were unbanned.
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Huh. I noticed that he hasn't posted, but didn't actually check his activity.
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I thought I worked very hard to make this a place that would be somewhere they could interact with the community and not get totally ***** on. Hopefully his absence isn't a commentary on the site and more prioritizing his time due to health issues.
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Up early today for next year's comic-con registration. Good times in computer waiting rooms.
Afterword, I played a couple games with my friends who have more tuned decks, and as expected I was definitely not favored to win the game. They usually try and make the most of their turns, and here I was just playing a pressure card and passing. That said, I did force interaction at least, since Sulfuric Vortex and Leyline of Punishment are problems for the Atraxa, Praetors' Voice on the table. The games also ended a lot quicker than they normally would have, with the first one ending in 7 turns thanks to T2 Ankh of Mishra into T3 Zo-Zu.
I absolutely foresee myself keeping this deck together for a while, since it was just so much fun to play.