Quote from Phil
Yet, for some reason, if you play a competitive deck with a strong strategy and tight card pool out side of a competitive environment, you're a try hard griefer ruining the game.
And I don't want to hear the "but we just want to have fun" argument.
Whats 2+2?
And I don't want to hear that it's 4!
Quote from asw122
From the sounds of it, you're a spike. You take your enjoyment from winning. There's nothing wrong with that, its where you find the fun.
I think this hit the nail on the head. My circle is purely casual. Some of us have lean, mean, efficient decks with consistent turn-3 wins. It's considered polite to warn everyone before playing one because the rest of us will be playing things like Group Hug or Thallid tribal.
If I'm at a tournament, you can bet that I'll be playing my best with the meanest deck I can manage and my goal will be to beat everyone else without mercy.
Around the kitchen table however, winning isn't important to me. Not all of my decks even have a well-defined win-condition. It's nice to win and everyone is still vying to win but that's not the point. It's incidental. I want a fun and interesting experience. In a week I won't remember who won but I'll remember the crazy decks and interesting board states and who back-stabbed who. That's how I have fun. I like to see a game develop over a long time like a fine wine until someone wrecks everyone. One of my buddies has fun by griefing people. Another has fun by trying to go infinite. Neither of them care whether they win. That's not how they have fun.
Sometimes a spike comes to our circle. And that's okay, I can accommodate all types; several of our players are former tournament players themselves. They typically win most of the games very quickly. That's alright too. Like I said, I also have more competitive decks that I can switch to. But if they can't also lighten up and also play more casually they won't be invited back, simply because it's not as fun for the rest of us. I'm willing to play some competitive games for them but they also have to be willing to play some casual. Not everyone gets it and that's alright, somewhere there is a different play group that will suit them. Different people have fun in different ways and that's a good thing.
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You'd think WotC would want to capitilize on this demand for older cards. There are legacy/vintage cards that aren't on the reserved list, right? Then again, they haven't done that... so I suppose they don't think they can control their own printing abilities well enough to prevent price crashes? Perhaps any price drop is a net negative for them. Keeping some cards consistently expensive has the effect of maintaining the idea that cards can be inherently valuable, incentivizing people to pay higher prices for them.
This particular case seems to simply be the result of carelessness. WotC's official stance has always been against counterfeits and this LGS discovered how far they could push it before being shut down.
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Whoa, surreal. I made those! (the Reckless Waif & Delver of Secrets)
I think I might make the rest of the playable DFCs, actually. I wanted to remove the flavor text to de-clutter these anyway. Let me know if you have any requests!
EDIT:
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$59.97 WB Call the Spirits
$67.12 BG Plunder the Graves
$62.64 GU Seize Control
$68.78 UR Swell the Host
$70.58 RW Wade into Battle
EDIT: Obviously, if you consider any of the cards worthless, the deck values to you will be much lower. For those players who can use ALL or even MOST of the cards however, these intro decks continue to be a very good deal.
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http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/casual-related-formats/paper-pauper-and-peasant/177219-casual-paper-pauper-peasant-forum-rules#c16
It looks like I made an earlier post when researching pauper that includes other rarity shifts (as of June 2013) here:
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/the-rumor-mill/new-card-discussion/491548-rarity-shifting-cards#c15
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Guess I got lucky on that one? My opponent got mana screwed and didn't cast a single spell. I killed 'em with Scute Mobs.
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While lifting the format's restrictions would bring more variety, I was under the impression that a major appeal of the format was the limited card pool and tiny deck size - it offers more consistency and less variety. I suppose everyone prefers their own levels of these, and the current rules fit some better than others.
Personally, singleton Magic is so much more satisfying than x4 Magic that I'm happy any singleton format is getting attention.