MTG Salvation

He takes mail-in's. You can check out his website for where to send your cards, or if you'd prefer to have him sign your cards in person, I'm sure you could e-mail him about his upcoming schedule: http://www.vandalhigh.com/about-me/

A lot of artists have websites these days, and most will take mail-in's if you provide postage (I like to give them a donation as a thank you). It can't hurt to search for their site/e-mail and ask.

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Soul Sisters approves.

I'd rather just play Honor of the Pure

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Show me one successful D&T list with 4 Hymns and 4 Thoughtseizes main and i'll show you four successful lists (Ad Nauseum Tendrils, High Tide, Esper Control, Junk Zoo) with 4 Thoughtseizes and no Hymns main. Hymn > Thoughtseize, I'll grant you. But BB is too untenable and they often only have one card you care about.

I'm not sure which is more implausible: finding Hymn in D&T, a mono-white deck, or finding Thoughtseize in High Tide, a mono-blue deck.

The poll needs stronger options, such as "I abhor...", "I hate...", "I WILL NEVER PLAY MAGIC AGAIN", "DIE MARO DIE"

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Wah, wah im a control player and i dont like aggro.
Or im an aggro player and i dont like control.

Let this thread have 2 or 3 pages of arugeing and let it die off.

We get one every few days anyways.

Right? There should be a sticky. If there is one I'm unaware of, it should be in this sub-forum. Not that anyone would use it. People love making special snowflake posts.

There should be a sticky somewhere for topics like this. Call it "The Official 'Magic was Better Back in my Day' Thread" or "Get off My Lawn, Netdeckers" or something.

Doubt it's anything insane. Maybe there's a new cycle of bad dual lands. Making all 10 playmats land seems so meh after they've done it for RTR and Gatecrash though. I want dragons and explosions on my playmats, dammit!

Can't wait for the "OMG 5 10 PLAYMATS + ANNIVERSARY= ORIGINAL SNOW DUALS" speculation post.

Moat is maybe a bad example because of the lofty value, but if you substitute in FoW, Wasteland, or Jace TMS, he'd be right. I can count on one hand the amount of times I've been able to trade Standard to Legacy on equal price values. I can't recall how many people have inquired about my Legacy staples and were willing to trade more value in Standard cards.

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And with the Atheist stuff - I had always been under the impression that right wing America believed that if you were Atheist you were immoral, because morals are a religious thing and if you don't subscribe to religion you can't have morals.

No, that's really only a small percentage of right wing Americans. Probably around the same percentage of far left Americans that believe if you're religious you must be uneducated, because science can disprove parts of the Bible, and if you don't believe in science, you're practically worthless.

For the record, I say this as a pagan Libertarian, so I have no lot with either party. WAR casting meaningless votes

Quote from Slayer Alex

seems to me like its just better to win the tournament with no intentions of going. Forget about etiquette. lol

Etiquette is key. As CorpT said, if you want to play competitively, having a playtest group is important. You would not be welcome playing with me if I offered to let you have all the prizes we would win minus the byes and you said, "No thanks. I don't want to go to the GP, but I'm going to play out anyway." You'd be surprised how much you can gain by helping other people out and scooping (more prizes! potentially a playtest partner/group!).

EDIT: I don't get why anybody would want to play out in this scenario. Does no one understand strategic decision making? The options are:

GP guy wins: gets byes + big prize
Timmy loses: gets small prize

Timmy wins: wastes byes, opens Worldspine Wurm in big prize pool, freaks out
GP guy loses: gets small prize, smashes Timmy's bike.

Split
GP guy: gets byes
Timmy: gets all the prizes

*assuming GP Guy's only goal is GP byes, and Timmy wants to get some sweet cards for his Dumb Green Creatures deck*

Split is by far the best result for both players. There's no logical reason to play out. "Winning" is not a logical reason. If you're at the event, you're either there because you want to win and earn byes at the GP, and would benefit from splitting, or you're there to have fun/win/win prizes, in which case, you still benefit from the split. Unless of course, you would rather be listed as the event winner and let the byes go to waste than earn more prizes. In that case, you're an illogical person, so my point still stands.

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That's partly my problem. I'd rather see an 4-3 player with enchantress, mouldy cheerios or aluren than the third deathblade match of the day featuring the same SCG grinder, just because they're known and 7-0. If they're placed that high, they're gonna get played in the T8 anyway.

I don't mind seeing players like Brad Nelson & Reid Duke in the feed, but when I see the same guy on screen in 5 out of 9 streamed rounds, it gets very dull. Mix it up a bit in the early rounds and show the good decks in rounds 8-9 & the top 8.

Yo dawg! I heard you like BBD! So here's some BBD in your BBD matchup vs BBD! BBD! Want more BBD? Here's some more BBD action! And again! Are we having fun yet?!

A miracle deck because everytime he's about to lose it'll end up being "THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP ALLOWS ME TO-"

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He would play Miracles. If I know anything from watching Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon when I was a kid, it's that people that watch that stuff are extremely dumb. You could have the main character tap into the heart of the cards, rip infinite miracles to just barely win every match on the show, and people would still be like, "ZOMG ENTREAT FTFW AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HOW DOES HE DO IT?!?!?!11!"

..Well this.

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if your playing white there will always be a path to exile in your deck

So is this an 'I don't play legacy, but why would anyone ever play a deck that doesn't have JTMS in it?' thread?

These promos are almost certainly the ugliest things that Wizards has ever made.

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So are you going to be overjoyed every time you open a Ryusei and be like "[expletive] yeah, it's so flavorful!"? Because based on his inclusion, I'm not sure if I'll open a single pack of Modern Masters...

But if Ryusei was printed as a rare, you'd see it 2-8 TIMES as much than it as a mythic.

Let's create an alternate universe where Blood Moon was a mythic, and Ryusei was a rare. In this universe, you would see Blood Moon about half to an eighth as much as you do now. On the other hand, you would see Ryusei two to eight times as much as you do now. Comparatively, you would see Ryusei four to sixty-four times as much as you would see a Blood Moon. In the first universe, it would be the other way around.

Tell me, which universe would you prefer to be in?

The reason you're frustrated is because you see opening a mythic as a "prize". Therefore, when you open a "mythic" Ryusei, you feel cheated. However, from a purely logical perspective, there are no "prizes". Wizards is doing you a FAVOR by printing "bad" cards like Ryusei at mythic, ensuring you don't see them as often - can you not see this?

I say we give black its rituals back first.

Too many Colossal Whales at my FNM already =s

All I want is for wizards to care about Legacy.

Definitely took a wrong turn somewhere...