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Oct 2, 2015
knto posted a message on The Magic Street Journal: Wizards Always Hurts The Ones They LoveWhile I agree with most of the article, specifically the part about speculation, I think you were a bit off the mark on pucatrade. Obviously it is a business that is intended to make money, but from what I have seen they do so by providing a service. The value of pucapoints is held relatively constant despite new users joining. The reason they offer rewards for inviting is 2 fold: 1 it brings in new players which not only means more people to potentially spend money but also a larger trading pool for all of the users, and 2 It allows for the introduction of more points into the system which is vital to keep it from failing as a micro economy (if there aren't enough points no one can afford cards and so no trading happens. This is a direct result of the price controlling but it is preferable in my mind than opening the market up to speculation). The point that "Pucatrade claims that pucapoints 'are not a virtual currency'" but that it is in fact one is much more accurate. I suspect it mas more to do with the legal implication of a currency than actively deceiving the user base. I regularly trade online and pucatrade has worked out fine for me. If you are looking for rare cards then you're going to have trouble finding them just like a regular trade system, but pucapoints make it a little easier since you don't have to have cards off their wants list. I have used the service to get rid of cards I wasn't using and to get cards that I wanted or needed plenty of times and am satisfied with the service but it is slower than a store and it takes forever to get someone to send you older cards. You can argue that it is run poorly and you could even argue that the service actually hurts the users instead of heloing them but comparing it to bit coin or saying it is a ponzi scheme is just wrong. The only people I know who are even dissatisfied with the service are people who had ridiculous expectation or who felt that trading moderators handled situations badly.Posted in: Articles - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
? I think maybe you misread the first ability. It is a 2 for 1 if x>=2.
Does Treacherous Blessing count?
I'm much more concerned about it countering on cast triggers and abilities in general than countering storm cards.
I played bridge too in a few sb's but if you didn't hit all your land drops it could be really bad. Most decks couldn't even support the card and it was only good in that matchup and only when you could actually gain the life. Most decks had better options. In fact when rdw was the defining deck of the format the rest of the tiers were basically what decks had the best answers and battle at the bridge wasn't one of them.
of the cards you mentioned only Cry of the Carnarium is reasonable. Epic Downfall won't hit the early threats rdw throws at you and the other two are gaveyard hate so essentially a muligan just to defeat half a card. Glass Casket is a good option, but it can be counter sb'd, leaving Banishing Light and Scorching Dragonfire as the only reasonable spot removal. Cry of the Carnarium and Banishing light are the only ones that would see regular play outside of answering this card. It's going warp deck building in the same way rekindling phoenix did.
They do this with all the exile target spell effects. I don't think they were able to get the wording to work where it wasn't confusing. Imagine if it said exile target spell until X leaves the battlefield. Is the spell recast? How does it get back on the stack? Do permanents go to the battlefield? What about instants and sorceries? Is this like when you exile a manifested instant/sorcery? Basically it would require a lot of specific rulings for a corner case that generally won't come up at low level play.