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Feb 3, 2014frodooftheshire posted a message on Launch Giveaway!My favourite magic card has to be Black Lotus. This card is the symbol of magic the gathering. It embodies the sheer power that one card can have. It's value and prestige is unmatched by any other card. It is the card that I strive to one day own a play-set of and to hang on my wall.Posted in: Announcements
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I really doubt that Tarmogoyf will even come close to dropping below $150 for more than a day. I agree with the original post a while back that the price is just perceived value. Starcity will not lower there prices and no one else will lower there prices because pretty uch everyone else bases their prices of scg. I expect prices of all cards in MM15 to remain high and I think the set in general is a waste. Wizards has passed up another opportunity to make the format easier to enter and play. Without a conspiracy like setfor modern its staples will remian high.
I think that older formats, whilst harder to master, are actually easier for new players to get into and enjoy than standard. This is because there are already proven archetypes and the new players need not worry about the millions of combinations of cards as the most effective combinations in most cases have already been found and can be found quite easily on forums such as this. I do think that new players after the initial entrance phase ARE interested in underground seas more than storm crows. You also forget about the most important kitchen table format that would love to have reasonable access to old staples and that is commander. I know lots of people who would love to create a 5 color commander deck but if you want to have a fine tuned 5c list you need all the duals. I agree that Wizards currently is given no haste to take action in reprinting, in high enough quantity, cards for modern, but they have reprinted legacy staples like stifle and misdirection in conspiracy and I hope that trend continues. I think Wizards does realize that not everyone was around 20 years ago and that newer players should at least have a fair sht at getting some older staples. I think it will be a long time coming, but eventually staples will be reprinted and in good quantity.
There are always more being "destroyed" every year more and more dual lands will become unplayable and at some point there just won't be enough left to service any sizeable market. Using your numbers there would be enough playsets of each dual lands for 75,000 players. Let's say 500,000 people play legacy worldwide that's about 15% of players that there are enough play-sets for. That will continue to decline as more are destroyed and lost each year.
Here's a few that I have made over the past 2-3 years:
Ezuri, renegade leader - the first :')
Sharuum, the hegemon - retired - I don't play combo anymore due to it not getting accepted well in my current meta
Oloro, ageless ascetic - replacement for the above
Sisters of stone death
Krenko, mob boss
gisella
xiahou dun, the one-eyed
chainer, dementia master
xenagos, god of revels - my most consistent
barrin, master wizard
azami, lady of scrolls - retired
grand arbiter, augustin - retired
thraximundar
animar, soul of elements - my favorite
maelstrom wanderer
rubinia soulsinger
the mimeoplasm
vela, the night clad
grimgrin
rith, the awakener
crosis, the purger
horde of notions
narset, enlightened master
karador, ghost chieftan
proshh, skyraider of kher
karn, silver golem
arcum, daggson
nkusar, the mindrazer
melek, izzet paragon
omnath, locus of mana
kamahl, fist of krosa
seton, krosan protector
I think I should probably hold the KTK fetches and shocks for a while, but I'm worried about some of the stuff I need going up in value. Thoughts?
We have a lot of cards that are strong against affinity. Main deck spell pierce(to stop cranial plating) and vapor snag are great and spreading seas stops any sort of nexus action. If they don't have a flier to pump and we manage to land a master of waves well good luck to them trying to get through. Post board things only get better with hurkyl's recall chalice on two is game over for affinity. There are other hate cards that I'm probably not including here this is just off of the top of my head but it isn't an 80-20 match-up in their favour that's for sure. I rarely go 0-2 against affinity I usually go 2-1 or 2-0. The only deck that I'm worried about is abzan as it is one of the top decks atm and is probably one of our worst matchups.
aven mindcensor
spellskite
cryptic command
aether vial
ensnaring bridge
remand
tarmogoyf
noble hierarch
scapeshift
goryo's vengeance
through the breach
splinter twin
grove of the burnwillows
karn liberated
all the filter lands
horizon canopy
vendilion clique
and many more but those are the ones that come right to my mind as I'm writing this. I think that these are some of the cards that either pose a barrier to really play whatever deck you want OR their current price does not reflect their power level in the format.
Good to know, I come from playing manaless dredge and there are some interactions that I'm trying to get used to in this deck. I was looking at your list above and was wondering if you thought about a MD intuition? and if 3 spell pierce has worked well or if they should be more cantrips or even something like daze? Also I was wondering what your SB plan is for some of the main decks that you see. Since you used to play storm what is a good strategy for this deck to take against a storm deck? Thanks!