These are kind of mediocre pictures while I play around with ways to take them that actually catches the foiling, but here's my Estrid, the Masked. I know I have a foil Ghostly Prison kicking around, but I'm not sure where it is and it's the FNM promo anyways, so I'll probably pick up a CHK foil at some point.
Deck is large, so it's all in spoilers:
There are 8 non-RL cards I'm still holding out on foil printings for. I'm not planning on changing Energy Flux, Sylvan Library, or Wild Growth - the old printings are pimp enough as is. I'd eventually like to get German FBB duals, but that's still almost a pipe dream unless I have a fabulously wealthy uncle I don't know about.
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On topic: I have 2 or 3 decks posted in this thread. I finally got all of my decks foiled out (except a couple newer ones that are missing a couple Expedition Lands). And, now that this thread has a bit more traffic lately, I might post some of my other decks soon.
Same, except I've only posted one deck in here previously. New printings mean that Jaya is now as foiled out as it's going to get. It's at 99/100 foil and it's not like Gauntlet of Might is a slouch of a card when it comes to pimp. I'm still missing a handful of cards for a couple other pimp projects. Mostly manabase for Estrid, ignoring all of the cards that don't have foil printings and not knowing what I want to do with Energy Flux (5ED is my favorite printing of that, but I'd like to spruce it up a little somehow). Radiant is still missing a couple cards where I'm debating editions or just haven't picked them up yet. They're both still pretty pimped out as progress pics.
Condo work and moving have eaten up most of my time over the last month or so and I just haven't gotten around to taking pictures of any of it. Sometime after I finish moving this weekend I should be able to post them, furthering the not so secret goal of keeping some activity in this thread.
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You should! While my Kari Zev is clocked @ $778 (thanks, Warrior's Oath replacing Final Fortune), you could easily buy into the deck for under $200. Probably under $80 if you don't care about cavern/fetchx4/port/wasteland. That's a great deal for a tier 1 deck I think.
I'm so probably not gonna foil out another deck, the rest of my bling is Kaalia/Alesha and it's far, far too rich for me. He says, after having bought a moat/grim/ravages/recruiter.
Realistically, I'm probably some local interest away from giving the format a shot. I'm not big on the online options and I don't know of anyone playing it around here.
@whiffy penguin, masterpieces aren't really my thing and that is a great looking deck regardless. I've got a soft spot for anyone playing Humility. Are the duals altered, FBB, black bordered inner sleeves, or something else entirely? It's tough to make out fine details in your pictures.
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I would go for the Expeditions myself, but as for your choices, I would definitely go with the Judge printings in your case. There is something nice about having things match (I do this with my basics too) and I could see where having an ONS printing of one land and a ZEN printing of another would be aesthetically displeasing.
On the other hand, then you have the borders the same, but there is still a difference in the text box. I still think I would prefer that difference over the border difference though.
I know I'm staying away from expeditions and KTK versions, because neither of those do much for me. I've got mixed ONS and ZEN fetches in my Jaya list already, so maybe I'll take a better side by side look at those. That's also a little bit of an argument for ONS, to try and keep the cycle internally consistent. Then again, I'm running new frame basics in the enchantress list and those might be a better fit with the judge foils. The list is never going to be fully pimped out thanks to the duals anyways. Beta Trops and Tundras are too rich for my blood - I'll see about FBB German if I'm feeling too wealthy, but those are probably a long shot as well. Thanks for the response!
@3drinks, I like it. Low to the ground aggro seems like a strong incentive to try out duel commander.
I'll post updated pictures of my Jaya list and the early pimping of the enchantress list sometime in the next week or so (once a couple of enchantress pieces come in) to help 3drinks bring some pimp back to the pimp thread.
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No pics in this post, but I'm after pimp opinions and this seems better than starting a thread for the question. I'm foiling out a Bant enchantress list (currently Estrid, the Masked, but I may jump to Tuvasa the Sunlit depending on mood/desired grindiness). I'm sticking to just the on-color fetches in the list due to personal preference and usually go for original printings where possible when foiling. The fact that I'll end up with mismatched borders doing that (ZEN Misty, ONS Heath/Strand) has me wondering if the judge promo printings of Heath and Strand are a better choice - still the original art, but matching borders across the fetches.
Acknowledging that pimping out a deck is largely down to personal tastes, anyone have any thoughts?
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That's fair. It's unusual to see any number of fetches besides 3 or 7 in a three color deck (aside from budget concerns, which are obviously not at play here) so I was curious.
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I think for me, and I have a feeling a lot of other people here would agree, there isn't really a way to objectively rate some theoretical "prettiest" deck. A lot of pimping a deck comes from picking out your personal favorite printings/styles/etc. So I'd say pick a favorite deck and figure out what kind of cards are the prettiest to you.
I agree. What you think looks good is probably not the same as what I think looks good. There might be some overlap but varying tastes are going to make it impossible to get any kind of objective answer on that question.
If you're just after opinion, I would look at something in Naya colors. Light tends to look good in foil. White has a lot of that and red has fire and lightning, both of which make for some striking foils. I would go Naya just to be able to run Greater Good, which is my favorite foil card. The downside to that plan is that you can't run Time Stop, which is a close second and an awesome foil (no reminder text on 9th and 10th foils).
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Cool deck, but why would you double sleeve some cards and not all?
Having everything double sleeved makes the deck enormous, so I stick with very high value stuff (I should revisit some of the stuff I've had for a while on that, like the Blood Moon). I'm unable to cut to any of them and really don't see the need to cheat anyways. If it were a tournament deck, it would be all or none.
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Finished foiling out my Jaya list, to the extent I want to. I like the Ice Age Snow-Covered Mountain art more than the Coldsnap one, but everything other than the basics that currently can be foil is foil. Some of the images are very large, but that's what spoiler tags are for.
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Deck is large, so it's all in spoilers:
Same, except I've only posted one deck in here previously. New printings mean that Jaya is now as foiled out as it's going to get. It's at 99/100 foil and it's not like Gauntlet of Might is a slouch of a card when it comes to pimp. I'm still missing a handful of cards for a couple other pimp projects. Mostly manabase for Estrid, ignoring all of the cards that don't have foil printings and not knowing what I want to do with Energy Flux (5ED is my favorite printing of that, but I'd like to spruce it up a little somehow). Radiant is still missing a couple cards where I'm debating editions or just haven't picked them up yet. They're both still pretty pimped out as progress pics.
Condo work and moving have eaten up most of my time over the last month or so and I just haven't gotten around to taking pictures of any of it. Sometime after I finish moving this weekend I should be able to post them, furthering the not so secret goal of keeping some activity in this thread.
@whiffy penguin, masterpieces aren't really my thing and that is a great looking deck regardless. I've got a soft spot for anyone playing Humility. Are the duals altered, FBB, black bordered inner sleeves, or something else entirely? It's tough to make out fine details in your pictures.
@3drinks, I like it. Low to the ground aggro seems like a strong incentive to try out duel commander.
I'll post updated pictures of my Jaya list and the early pimping of the enchantress list sometime in the next week or so (once a couple of enchantress pieces come in) to help 3drinks bring some pimp back to the pimp thread.
Acknowledging that pimping out a deck is largely down to personal tastes, anyone have any thoughts?
Any reason for not including Polluted Delta or Flooded Strand?
If you're just after opinion, I would look at something in Naya colors. Light tends to look good in foil. White has a lot of that and red has fire and lightning, both of which make for some striking foils. I would go Naya just to be able to run Greater Good, which is my favorite foil card. The downside to that plan is that you can't run Time Stop, which is a close second and an awesome foil (no reminder text on 9th and 10th foils).
I'd go pack foil, personally.
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I can't. Just a long string of broken images there.