The advice about buy singles or boxes depends on your collection and goals.
If your collection is small and you want many cards to fill out playables to build many decks, the cheapest way to go is buy a box.
If you buy that many single commons and uncommons it will be more expensive even if you figure in the bad cards in a box.
If your collection is rather large, and you probably want to build one deck, and have many of the commons and uncommons you need then I would buy singles.
recap: buying singles only is not always the cheapest option.
They are Rare.
They are Allied Colors.
They are not "basic land types"
They do not have metalcraft
They are not Artifact Lands.
They do not give poison counters.
Could you please post what the lands are that were previewed?
mothership is blocked at work.
Ok so me and my brother who just turned 11. We play magic on a daily basis and we started playing around 1 year ago. So now we both have a decent collection built up, etc. So our brother turned 9 the other day, he knows how to play magic and all, but he wants to go to FNM and come with me and my brother to play. Sadly in the 6 weeks i've been bringing him to the tournaments, and the $50 + investment on his part to make a deck he still can't win, I offer to make him decks for cheaper than $50 + and he doesn't want me too.... The sad thing is he doesn't get much money - well more than me because he's spoiled. But he can't even place top 3 in a tournament, and can't even contend with the decks here. So I ask him " Do you want to wait a couple years till your smarter to play this game?" he reply's back " no" Stupid because my dad'll keep driving him as long as he thinks he wants to go. So, do you think the kid should wait a year or 2, or to keep wasting his money on this game and spend his money on something a 9 year old would find more enjoyable, like movies?
Well MTGS, let me know what you think about the situation.
Iaintgotnothin.
Is your brother enjoying playing whether he wins or looses?
if he is having fun then it really does not matter
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So I ask him " Do you want to wait a couple years till your smarter to play this game?" he reply's back " no" Stupid because my dad'll keep driving him as long as he thinks he wants to go.
Asking him if he wants to wait in this manner slightly insults him and he will keep going to prove big brother wrong. You should decide to either phrase it a different way, that won't sting or work harder at helping your little brother.
I would not expect him to win much, but he may be going to be with the big brothers he looks up to, so while you are there watch over him, and help him enjoy the experience, and you may find all three of you are having more fun.
to sum up my advice help out and watch over your brothers, and work together in a positive manner to become better players.
Hello Magic players...
Look at your deck, now back to mine.
Now back to your deck, now back to mine.
Sadly it isn't mine, but if you stopped using bad cards in your deck and started using Jace, the Mind Sculptors in your deck it would play like it's mine.
Look down, back up! Where are you?
You're at Worlds with the deck your deck could play like!
What's in your hand, back at me!
I have it!
It's a playset of foil Jace, the Mind Sculptors!
Look again!
The Jaces are now diamonds!
Anything's possible when you play Jace, the Mind Sculptor and not bad cards.
I'm on a Tarmogoyf!
*whistles*
As the poster above mentioned, sheer brilliance and greatness in the paragraph above.
so which is the correct calculation? a card is worth it's weight in gold if it costs ~$70 ?
I tend to agree with the original poster and many others.
History since everyone else puts here;
started in mirage, quit, restarted in odyssey, quit as of m11.
I am not a spike only
I like to collect playsets, collect flavor cards, and play casual and competitively.
After becoming a fairly good competitive player you do play different, even casual.
I am burned out on the high cost of collecting, and creating good decks. I am also tired of the tournaments and i do not have the time to play anymore.
i am not selling my very large collection, I think that is where the author of the thread made a mistake. save your cards a while and see if you will return to the game, if after several years you still have no desire then sell.
I do still like to read the forums here and discuss magic, I am just tired of playing and collecting. I am not bitter and do not wish the game to fail.
what if wizards sold boxes of 1 of every card for x amount of dollars. if you could afford it and wanted 4 of every set you buy 4 of these.
these boxes would have 1 of every card in a given expansion (m11 only for example)
if they are priced correctly both players and wotc win.
Would this lower the price of mythics and singles in general?
the wizards site is so horrible, I don't read the articles anymore, and wait for somone to post the good information here so I don't have to visit such a bad site.
I would not buy it if it is distributed in random 15 card booster packs. I think this kind of product only succeeds when sold as a complete set in a box.
who wants to buy a bunch of random distributed proxys?
if you think the total set is too much sell the total set as 4 or some other number or partial set boxes, you then could buy a partial or full set of proxys.
back in the day Hyppie and Serra angel were the two iconic creatures. they must have liked the look of the art for frozen shade better than Serra angel squaring off agianst hypnotic specters
i like this playmat, and I would use it if I was good enough to win one.
Bought 4 tarmogoyfs fir $5 each
Bought 4 Vampire Nocturnus foils for $7 each
I've had several other rather good buys/card evaluations, but latest Lotus Cobra mistake shows I also have my bad evaluations as well.
Bought 3 Lotus Cobras for an average of $27.50 (2-$25, 1 for $32.50 -- foolish, I knew it would drop to somewhere around $18 but I got nervous, and just impulse shopped.)
Valakut, the molten pinnacle, obsidian fireheart and elemental appeal are very underated cards.
I worked very hard to pick up a playset of these, I think they will be a nice part of a red deck.
I am now trying to decide if the deck needs white to be competitive or just go monored.
I agree that lotus cobra seems overrated, I chased and traded for them and averaged $27.50 a piece for my cobras, and now I checked to day and they seemed to have crashed in price.:frown:
not only that, I thought i had a deck for them, but every time I seem to remove them, or I want to get away from landfall totally. oh well.
If your collection is small and you want many cards to fill out playables to build many decks, the cheapest way to go is buy a box.
If you buy that many single commons and uncommons it will be more expensive even if you figure in the bad cards in a box.
If your collection is rather large, and you probably want to build one deck, and have many of the commons and uncommons you need then I would buy singles.
recap: buying singles only is not always the cheapest option.
Thanks!
This was the funniest line so far.
Could you please post what the lands are that were previewed?
mothership is blocked at work.
Thanks!
Is your brother enjoying playing whether he wins or looses?
if he is having fun then it really does not matter
Asking him if he wants to wait in this manner slightly insults him and he will keep going to prove big brother wrong. You should decide to either phrase it a different way, that won't sting or work harder at helping your little brother.
I would not expect him to win much, but he may be going to be with the big brothers he looks up to, so while you are there watch over him, and help him enjoy the experience, and you may find all three of you are having more fun.
to sum up my advice help out and watch over your brothers, and work together in a positive manner to become better players.
As the poster above mentioned, sheer brilliance and greatness in the paragraph above.
so which is the correct calculation? a card is worth it's weight in gold if it costs ~$70 ?
History since everyone else puts here;
started in mirage, quit, restarted in odyssey, quit as of m11.
I am not a spike only
I like to collect playsets, collect flavor cards, and play casual and competitively.
After becoming a fairly good competitive player you do play different, even casual.
I am burned out on the high cost of collecting, and creating good decks. I am also tired of the tournaments and i do not have the time to play anymore.
i am not selling my very large collection, I think that is where the author of the thread made a mistake. save your cards a while and see if you will return to the game, if after several years you still have no desire then sell.
I do still like to read the forums here and discuss magic, I am just tired of playing and collecting. I am not bitter and do not wish the game to fail.
have a great day!!!!!
these boxes would have 1 of every card in a given expansion (m11 only for example)
if they are priced correctly both players and wotc win.
Would this lower the price of mythics and singles in general?
I choose the route of collect playsets of both, if you do not have that option definitely get the original dual lands.
They are worth it, as others stated above.
I like the origianl Duals in both casual, and tournament play.
sorry wizards.
Sorry, didn't see this until today, I would have gone with more Zen for some of the powerful cards that those packs have
Anyway, let us know what you choose, and what you opened, it could be interesting.
Are there prizes at the end of the league or just for fun?
who wants to buy a bunch of random distributed proxys?
if you think the total set is too much sell the total set as 4 or some other number or partial set boxes, you then could buy a partial or full set of proxys.
back in the day Hyppie and Serra angel were the two iconic creatures. they must have liked the look of the art for frozen shade better than Serra angel squaring off agianst hypnotic specters
i like this playmat, and I would use it if I was good enough to win one.
Have a good day.
Bought 4 Vampire Nocturnus foils for $7 each
I've had several other rather good buys/card evaluations, but latest Lotus Cobra mistake shows I also have my bad evaluations as well.
Bought 3 Lotus Cobras for an average of $27.50 (2-$25, 1 for $32.50 -- foolish, I knew it would drop to somewhere around $18 but I got nervous, and just impulse shopped.)
Valakut, the molten pinnacle, obsidian fireheart and elemental appeal are very underated cards.
I worked very hard to pick up a playset of these, I think they will be a nice part of a red deck.
I am now trying to decide if the deck needs white to be competitive or just go monored.
I agree that lotus cobra seems overrated, I chased and traded for them and averaged $27.50 a piece for my cobras, and now I checked to day and they seemed to have crashed in price.:frown:
not only that, I thought i had a deck for them, but every time I seem to remove them, or I want to get away from landfall totally. oh well.
I think there might be a use for sphinx of jwar isle as well