The one's here (Arizona) are $25 per flight. Some stores are running $40 for two deals also. I've been to almost every prerelease since they moved them from regional to LGS and they've always been $25 in Phoenix.
Yes, at the end of the declare attackers step you get priority and can use hateflayer's ability. Your opponent then has no creatures to declare as blockers and your hateflayer deals damage to your opponent during the combat damage step.
You get to choose. Both triggers trigger when the creature dies and you control both of them so you choose the order they go on the stack. If you put diabolic servitude's ability on the stack first, then the udying/persist creature will return to the battlefield and diabolic servitude will return to your hand.
I just want to say that this picture is wrong. The "fold" is not the top two cards. The fold in the sleeve is of the bottom card. If you look at the edges of the bottom "2" cards you can see that they actually line up nearly perfectly. the "far too large for one card" part is right because that's two cards but there's only 1 card underneath them. The edge of the middle card is pressing into the back of the bottom card's sleeve which is slightly puffed up. this causes a crease running perpendicular to the bottom edge of the bottom card.
Not WotC shrink rapped and the perforations around the stand-up part are broken. I'd return it and get a new box from them, you ordered a factory sealed booster box and that is definitely not factory sealed.
you could even go sacred mesa, mana echoes for serious pegasi production. Throw in a gemstone array or something like it and you've got infinite pegasi.
I think "thinning" worked pretty well in this particular instance. To be fair, I might have gotten the same draws without thinning.
Anecdotal evidence is largely irrelevant when your talking about such a small change to something with an already high variance. The reason running fetches only for deck thinning is bad is that you are significantly more like to lose from spending extra life than you are from drawing <1 extra land over the course of the game.
Also, fetches are run in solidarity not because it thins your deck but because it is a shuffle effect for brainstorm. Yeah the thinning kind of helps but it is largely irrelevant.
Here's some real quick napkin math on thinning with fetches: assume:
24 land/60 card deck
your opening hand is 3 land 4 spells
you're on the draw
when you draw a card you draw a portion of a land and a portion of a spell such that the ratio of lands:spells does not change.
Fetch on T1
T1: 39.6% chance of drawing a land. Fetch.
T2: 38.4% chance of drawing a land.
Fetch on T1 and T2
T1: 39.6% chance of drawing a land. Fetch.
T2: 38.4% chance of drawing a land. Fetch
T3: 37.2% chance of drawing a land.
In the first case you're paying 1 life to decrease your chance of drawing a land by only 1.2%. In the second case you end up with a 2.4% increase for 2 life but that still doesn't sound that great to me.
E- I double checked my math and I was slightly off (read about .5%).
Doesn't mean you can't get some done like that. They were never made into cards, just made into giant ones and given away as vintage champs(?) prizes. Some of them, like the sapphire, could be taken in very different directions.
Flipping an opponents card and continuing on like nothing happened can result in a game loss. It's essentially cheating.
Accidentally flipping a card over while shuffing your opponent's deck is game play error - looking at extra cards which is a warning not a game loss. Plus at an FNM it wouldn't even be a warning.
If someone is using it to cheat though, it's a DQ from the tournament regardless of REL.
congrats
I don't think anyone's ever sad when people post a ton of spoilers in this thread! Beautiful stuff. I particularly love the bloodghasts.
That numot alter is great! It's not too fancy but it adds a lot to the card. Also, love the winter orb.
I just want to say that this picture is wrong. The "fold" is not the top two cards. The fold in the sleeve is of the bottom card. If you look at the edges of the bottom "2" cards you can see that they actually line up nearly perfectly. the "far too large for one card" part is right because that's two cards but there's only 1 card underneath them. The edge of the middle card is pressing into the back of the bottom card's sleeve which is slightly puffed up. this causes a crease running perpendicular to the bottom edge of the bottom card.
Anecdotal evidence is largely irrelevant when your talking about such a small change to something with an already high variance. The reason running fetches only for deck thinning is bad is that you are significantly more like to lose from spending extra life than you are from drawing <1 extra land over the course of the game.
Also, fetches are run in solidarity not because it thins your deck but because it is a shuffle effect for brainstorm. Yeah the thinning kind of helps but it is largely irrelevant.
Here's some real quick napkin math on thinning with fetches:
assume:
- 24 land/60 card deck
- your opening hand is 3 land 4 spells
- you're on the draw
- when you draw a card you draw a portion of a land and a portion of a spell such that the ratio of lands:spells does not change.
Fetch on T1- T1: 39.6% chance of drawing a land. Fetch.
- T2: 38.4% chance of drawing a land.
Fetch on T1 and T2In the first case you're paying 1 life to decrease your chance of drawing a land by only 1.2%. In the second case you end up with a 2.4% increase for 2 life but that still doesn't sound that great to me.
E- I double checked my math and I was slightly off (read about .5%).
Accidentally flipping a card over while shuffing your opponent's deck is game play error - looking at extra cards which is a warning not a game loss. Plus at an FNM it wouldn't even be a warning.
If someone is using it to cheat though, it's a DQ from the tournament regardless of REL.