I don't expect that it should be "easy" to find. I do however expect to be able to find it. Not even a single image on Google. At this point, not speaking from a monetary standpoint, I'd be happier if my cube had a foil Korean Llanowar Elves than if I had a Beta Lotus.
I live in South Korea, so I can ask around for you, if you'd like. My LGS in Suwon doesn't carry any singles (it's a board game cafe that also does Magic), but Seoul's about an hour away from me, and there's a shop I go to there that has binders full of Korean foils. I'll probably be up there in the next week or two, and if they have one I'm sure we could work something out.
Maybe I'm looking at the price wrong, but I see PPU (price per unit?) as 25? That sounds about right to me. Where are you getting the $130 price tag? Or am I missing some conversion from 25 to American dollars?
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Total side note but I like how people are discussing running this over itself.
Well, it has to be said that Kolaghan is clearly better than Kolaghan. Considering what BR decks usually want and how stiff the competition in this guild is, there is no way that I would run Kolaghan over Kolaghan! Kolaghan might make it in as the sixth guild card or so. Kolaghan on the other hand ranks several places below that.
It was so funny to me when they described this as a downgrade to the original Zurgo during the Pax East panel. I was thinking if this is a downgrade, they should really "downgrade" all legendary creatures. Haha.
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1. Come up with deck idea
2. Realize this idea is somehow fundamentally similar to another deck I have or that is commonly played in my group
3. Decide I don't want to disassemble one of my existing decks
4. Give up and do nothing
I don't see the point of this new shroud mechanic. It's strictly worse than Hexproof. Threshold is pretty bad too, Delirium is a much better mechanic and probably easier to activate.
Otherwise this card is a pretty neat guy. Dodges removal and grows into a Primal Huntbeast. 3/5
I like it a lot, actually, and have been running it for close to the entire time I've had my Cube (close to 10 years, now!). I think it only gets better as the number of equipment and planeswalkers increase, because it gives you a way to keep one and deal with the other (prevents you from keeping your own, but oh well). I was VERY thankful to get an English foil, as my other 'pimp' copy was Korean...and people CONSTANTLY asked what it did!
Finally getting around to foiling out the cube after starting during last years GP Vegas. Currently waiting for 40 cards to be delivered to be finished. I prefer to have my cards in English as it is a pauper cube and we sometimes have new players draft with us so them being able to read what the cards do is important. To bad my phones camera is *****.
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I had the luxury of playing a fully beta powered cube with beta duals and everything else was judge foil of foreign foil or altered. The Japanese ONS Fetches... the whole shebang. The amount of money sunk into that cube was disgusting, but so incredible to draft. Coolest MTG experience of my life.
I had the luxury of playing a fully beta powered cube with beta duals and everything else was judge foil of foreign foil or altered. The Japanese ONS Fetches... the whole shebang. The amount of money sunk into that cube was disgusting, but so incredible to draft. Coolest MTG experience of my life.
Sounds awesome. That kind of experience is what got me into cubing in the first place. In 2009 I had the pleasure of drafting a 720 card cube that was fully pimped, with all foil snow-covered lands. I was like "I gotta get me one of those!"
However, 5 years on, most of the expensive pimp stuff in my cube is lost on the players who play it. They are typically more impressed by a foil Voice of Resurgence than a Beta Demonic Tutor. Just one reason why I've been thinking about de-pimping my cube. I've already started selling a bunch of the altered and foil cards that I have replacements for.
I had the luxury of playing a fully beta powered cube with beta duals and everything else was judge foil of foreign foil or altered. The Japanese ONS Fetches... the whole shebang. The amount of money sunk into that cube was disgusting, but so incredible to draft. Coolest MTG experience of my life.
Sounds awesome. That kind of experience is what got me into cubing in the first place. In 2009 I had the pleasure of drafting a 720 card cube that was fully pimped, with all foil snow-covered lands. I was like "I gotta get me one of those!"
However, 5 years on, most of the expensive pimp stuff in my cube is lost on the players who play it. They are typically more impressed by a foil Voice of Resurgence than a Beta Demonic Tutor. Just one reason why I've been thinking about de-pimping my cube. I've already started selling a bunch of the altered and foil cards that I have replacements for.
That is heartbreaking.
This cube used a Judge Promo Demonic Tutor, but he stated he swaps them out from time to time, as with other cards where he likes multiple versions. Some of the newer mythic foils are not really super impressive unless they are crazy like his Japanese foil JTMS. I don't recall any newer mythic rares that were actually in English now that I think about it. If the card could be pimped, he pimped it to the max in as many ways as possible. I am glad to have had the chance to play it and even more glad that I knew what all of the cards did that were not in English.
I had the luxury of playing a fully beta powered cube with beta duals and everything else was judge foil of foreign foil or altered. The Japanese ONS Fetches... the whole shebang. The amount of money sunk into that cube was disgusting, but so incredible to draft. Coolest MTG experience of my life.
Sounds awesome. That kind of experience is what got me into cubing in the first place. In 2009 I had the pleasure of drafting a 720 card cube that was fully pimped, with all foil snow-covered lands. I was like "I gotta get me one of those!"
However, 5 years on, most of the expensive pimp stuff in my cube is lost on the players who play it. They are typically more impressed by a foil Voice of Resurgence than a Beta Demonic Tutor. Just one reason why I've been thinking about de-pimping my cube. I've already started selling a bunch of the altered and foil cards that I have replacements for.
That is heartbreaking.
This cube used a Judge Promo Demonic Tutor, but he stated he swaps them out from time to time, as with other cards where he likes multiple versions. Some of the newer mythic foils are not really super impressive unless they are crazy like his Japanese foil JTMS. I don't recall any newer mythic rares that were actually in English now that I think about it. If the card could be pimped, he pimped it to the max in as many ways as possible. I am glad to have had the chance to play it and even more glad that I knew what all of the cards did that were not in English.
That is very heartbreaking. My friend has a cube that we play, and it's powered in the sense that he proxied power. Still counts. Haha. But anyway, we play with all of the older cards like Demonic Tutor, Wheel, Power, Library, Mana Drain, etc. and even being the youngest player in our usual cube group I know and respect the cards I play. I'm primarily an EDH player, so I know how broken the older cards are. I respect when I see people with beta lands, power, pimp foils, the like.
Heartbreaking? Really? If the only reason you set out to put $25,000 into your Cube was to impress people who play Magic you set yourself up for failure. Shouldn't it really be about how you view the whole experience as the ringleader? I know my Cube isn't pimp at all, but it's about the gathering of friends that my Cube helps facilitate. It's not about how awesome the thing is, it's about how awesome the games are. I don't know, but it seems like you can impress people only so much and when you hit that threshold it's just spinning wheels for your ego or something.
Heartbreaking? Really? If the only reason you set out to put $25,000 into your Cube was to impress people who play Magic you set yourself up for failure. Shouldn't it really be about how you view the whole experience as the ringleader? I know my Cube isn't pimp at all, but it's about the gathering of friends that my Cube helps facilitate. It's not about how awesome the thing is, it's about how awesome the games are. I don't know, but it seems like you can impress people only so much and when you hit that threshold it's just spinning wheels for your ego or something.
Yes you are absolutely right. I realised that pimping stroked my own ego, but no one else I knew really cared. Not to mention it's expensive and risky (if you cube in public).
I haven't bought any foils in over a year now (recovering addict). I still alter cards for my cube now and again though. Do you do alters for your cube Galspanic?
What? Sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder or something. Playing with incredibly rare cards is an experience and for someone like me who has been playing for a long time and use to be a vintage and legacy player, it is incredibly fun to play with cards that not only otherwise seem untouchable, but in a cube setting none the less. I love playing cube, and I really don't care if I am playing with proxies or spendy and rare cards, at the end of the day I played cube because the games are like nothing else. But having those games take place with super pimp cards is ******* awesome. I also don't believe he pimped his cube out to impress people, he isn't just letting random people play it and I knew about the cube prior to playing with them. He collects MTG rarities, why dog on him for doing it in a way that also lets him enjoy his cards with other people? Why dog on me for liking to have cool experienced outside of just games?
Nope, no chip. I just don't get the idea of pimping large quantities of cards... a special general or your favorite card or two, okay, but a whole deck or Cube? I painted an EDH deck of mine because it functioned as a business portfolio.
I've been playing since 1994-1995 and don't really find that a Beta Demonic Tutor plays much different than Revised copy. No matter how much I try I cannot see them as being different from one another except one is more expensive - a totally irrelevant aspect of the game. I do like all my cards to be consistent so I black bordered all my revised cards and I did alter my duals because it makes them harder to steal.
Definitely not dogging on you... just don't get why playing with expensive cards is a cool experience unless they do something a card I own doesn't do.
It's not about how awesome the thing is, it's about how awesome the games are.
I've found it's often about both, and they concepts don't have to be mutually exclusive. The games are just as good as they'd be if the whole cube was de-pimped, except for the players that do enjoy and appreciate using those cards, it makes it even more so.
Players often have opportunities to play with regular versions of the cards. Part of the cube experience comes from being able to use cards you typically don't get to play. If that can't be from the card itself, it can be from making the version of the card unique, by using classic versions, foiled/signed versions or altered versions that make your draft experience memorable. I know that the majority of players that sit down and draft my cube enjoy both facets of the experience, from the design/gameplay perspective to the pimp/unique experience perspective. You don't have to care about it if you don't want to, but you'd be the very first I've ever cubed with that didn't get at least some enjoyment out of the aesthetics of the game.
I'm a collector of sorts and I like shiny things. I ended up spending my hard-earned money on pimping instead of getting a PS3 on launch (and I've never missed a console launch) and everyone around me, including other cube owners, thought I've gone bananas. Yes it definitely costs more - in order to mitigate some I preorder the cards which I think are auto-includes and I proxy the ones that are in testing then pimp it after if it's a keeper. I have no intention of selling my cube so it's really all for fun and I do it just for myself and for my players. I know people are having more fun when I hear the comments around the table. ZOMG THIS PACK IS INSANE AND EVERYTHING IS SHINY!! HEY THAT KLUG GUY PAINTED THIS ONE!! As wtwlf said, it adds to the experience. Oh, and those cube owners that thought I've gone nuts for foiling? They all have fully pimped cubes now ^_^.
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Sounds awesome. That kind of experience is what got me into cubing in the first place. In 2009 I had the pleasure of drafting a 720 card cube that was fully pimped, with all foil snow-covered lands. I was like "I gotta get me one of those!"
However, 5 years on, most of the expensive pimp stuff in my cube is lost on the players who play it. They are typically more impressed by a foil Voice of Resurgence than a Beta Demonic Tutor. Just one reason why I've been thinking about de-pimping my cube. I've already started selling a bunch of the altered and foil cards that I have replacements for.
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That is heartbreaking.
This cube used a Judge Promo Demonic Tutor, but he stated he swaps them out from time to time, as with other cards where he likes multiple versions. Some of the newer mythic foils are not really super impressive unless they are crazy like his Japanese foil JTMS. I don't recall any newer mythic rares that were actually in English now that I think about it. If the card could be pimped, he pimped it to the max in as many ways as possible. I am glad to have had the chance to play it and even more glad that I knew what all of the cards did that were not in English.
That is very heartbreaking. My friend has a cube that we play, and it's powered in the sense that he proxied power. Still counts. Haha. But anyway, we play with all of the older cards like Demonic Tutor, Wheel, Power, Library, Mana Drain, etc. and even being the youngest player in our usual cube group I know and respect the cards I play. I'm primarily an EDH player, so I know how broken the older cards are. I respect when I see people with beta lands, power, pimp foils, the like.
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Yes you are absolutely right. I realised that pimping stroked my own ego, but no one else I knew really cared. Not to mention it's expensive and risky (if you cube in public).
I haven't bought any foils in over a year now (recovering addict). I still alter cards for my cube now and again though. Do you do alters for your cube Galspanic?
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I've been playing since 1994-1995 and don't really find that a Beta Demonic Tutor plays much different than Revised copy. No matter how much I try I cannot see them as being different from one another except one is more expensive - a totally irrelevant aspect of the game. I do like all my cards to be consistent so I black bordered all my revised cards and I did alter my duals because it makes them harder to steal.
Definitely not dogging on you... just don't get why playing with expensive cards is a cool experience unless they do something a card I own doesn't do.
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I've found it's often about both, and they concepts don't have to be mutually exclusive. The games are just as good as they'd be if the whole cube was de-pimped, except for the players that do enjoy and appreciate using those cards, it makes it even more so.
Players often have opportunities to play with regular versions of the cards. Part of the cube experience comes from being able to use cards you typically don't get to play. If that can't be from the card itself, it can be from making the version of the card unique, by using classic versions, foiled/signed versions or altered versions that make your draft experience memorable. I know that the majority of players that sit down and draft my cube enjoy both facets of the experience, from the design/gameplay perspective to the pimp/unique experience perspective. You don't have to care about it if you don't want to, but you'd be the very first I've ever cubed with that didn't get at least some enjoyment out of the aesthetics of the game.
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