I recently did a collection sale to MTGO Traders and had a great experience. I did a combo of taking store credit and a check. I'd also like to state that my experience with their B&M operation who I have credit with now has been excellent.
It seems that speculators (or someone in the know) is betting heavily that bitterblossom is finally coming off the modern reserved list. It has spiked nearly 100% in the last two weeks on MTGO and in paper. The card has been quiet through announcements recently but Bitterblossom did experience a similar spike just prior to the January 27th 2013 announcement (the one that banned BBElf) on MTGO but paper prices remained stable. There's much more movement this time, so will see if that is indicative of a change or just a massive increase in speculation.
As someone who has played Rhys quite a bit and have a very competitive version I hope I can chime in. Though it hurts to not see Elesh Norn and Craterhoof for win cons I understand your going low power. Mentor of the Meek is very good in Rhys be sure to fit this in. A flat out awesome card with token generation is Champion of Lambholt, can win games very quickly. Every GW token deck should have a Glare of Subdual in there as well. Mirror Entity can be another wincon, and you forgot one the most awesome token generators in Hero of Bladehold.
I noticed your deck is lacking GY interaction, I'd at least put an Ooze in there, way more versatile then Intrepid Hero (which generates no tokens).
Even if there was an automated auction system there would be bots that would somehow automate the auction which is even more dangerous. Could you imagine how bad speculation/hoarding would be on that level?
So lets pretend everyone could sell in the same venue and I could simply type in a cards name (somewhat akin to searching ebay BIN) and find the lowest to highest prices in the client and do an automated purchase (instead of using some third party website to track down the cheapest bot, hope their online, and then prey they have the card for said price... which is a rare occurrence). Now I'm a casual MODO user but I find the entire system to be a highly inefficient marketplace. Of course WOTC has bigger problems right now then investing their resources into improving the market place, they need the game to work, but lets be realistic the system is need of a drastic upgrade.
Yep very little mark up on these unless its a 10. A PSA 8 sells for a little more then a solid NM listed USea on Ebay but you factor in grading costs and shipping and its practically a wash.
I don't know about the stores around you but at the other message boards I visit I only see posts about Walmarts and Targets filled with the NAYA and JUND decks but no Grixis.
I second this, on my few visits to Walmart and Target I have seen lots of Jund, Naya, and Bant. Espers a bit sparser and not a single Grixis to be seen...
I would highly encourage dueling the precons a bit before scavenging them out for parts. I haven't gotten a chance to play with them all but pitting these against each other is a lot of fun.
For the fellow MTGO edh guys here is this deck a bit of a pain to play online? I was thinking of building it but since you can't really short cut on MODO it looks like you could have some very long turns building up your infinite combos.
As someone who has ran his fair share of blue generals Venser is relatively innocuous in comparison to the more popular inclusions. Arcanis, Teferi and Azami (all in your deck) look more threatening to most people.
Some thoughts I have is perhaps adding another wincon like Karn Liberated. If I'm playing Venser I'm sure as heck gonna run Deadeye Navigator too.
I don't get how this Shahars deck did so well. It loses to aggro. There's no life gain or sweepers. There's also very little card draw or cyclers in the deck. It feels so slow and it can't really do much when it floods out. I'm glad i didn't spend 17 tickets on cascade bluffs.
I saw the top 16 results and didn't see any mention of Shahar where did he place? Even if his deck does suffer from the aforementioned drawbacks he is a platinum level pro. I'll fire it up on modo this week (minus the cascade bluffs) out of curiousity.
Maverick
Omni-Tell/Sneak & Show
ANT
Shardless BUG
Death and Taxes
Belcher
Esperblade
Jund
Elves
Merfolk
Dredge
goblins
RUG (canadian thresh)
Reanimator
Affinity
Is a pretty sweet list for "FTV: A Taste of Legacy" that should hit the most common/viable archetypes. List is 15 long to fit FTV flavor and to get down to 8 - try to eliminate overlapping similarities or use a rotation of ~
Ya as long as you own 20 FOW's/Wastelands and a commensurate amount of blue duals. If he's actually building the decks it would probably be helpful to have different archtypes that don't overlap with so many of the same key cards. Decks like affinity, elves, dredge, painter are great because they have little overlap. If your doing proxies then it doesn't matter I suppose.
i think the amount of butt hurt in this thread is astonishing. the UW list is just another way to approach the meta. there are straight up UW lists that are 4-0ing and 3-1ing dailies. there is no "right way" to build this deck. this was always a UWx deck. the x can be nothing (though deathrite shaman made it very profitable to be r). if shaman had 1 toughness, you can bet the deck would have stayed straight up UW (and piracy charm would have seen more play.)
and there's a reason why geist WUR decks aren't getting 4-0 and 3-1. its because its not that good right now. everywhere you look, its GBx decks, pod, affinity and tron.
when did players start getting this idea that there is only one right way to play a deck?
No one said there was only one right way to build a deck. I think the only claim being made is that a deck must post some consistent results in a competitive setting before we make any claims to its greatness/success against the current meta.
Play some dailies instead of the practice room. The practice room has lower quality opponents compared to dailies. Better yet record a premier event with your deck.
Rickster is correct that the level of play is decidedly higher in events then the practice room. For a claim to be made that the deck is a better performer then another proven archtype in the MODO metagame it needs to be ran through the gauntlet and post consistent results. I wish you luck, and if you play in dailies anyways (I assume you might) be interesting to see some videos.
Idk, i never tested it, but i think to be good against 2 of some best decks in modern (jund and uwr), worth 4 of my sideboard. I guess. Also, as a plus, 4 toughness is tough in a lightning bolt format.
The minus is, we already good against mirror even without it.
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commenting the recent list : Playing 4 tec edges also means you "skip" 4 land drops. Is that good enough against jund? Or my evaluation is wrong?
Just questioning, not denying.
How is smiter better then Purge with snapcaster for the Jund planeswalkers? I'm not seeing it
I noticed your deck is lacking GY interaction, I'd at least put an Ooze in there, way more versatile then Intrepid Hero (which generates no tokens).
So lets pretend everyone could sell in the same venue and I could simply type in a cards name (somewhat akin to searching ebay BIN) and find the lowest to highest prices in the client and do an automated purchase (instead of using some third party website to track down the cheapest bot, hope their online, and then prey they have the card for said price... which is a rare occurrence). Now I'm a casual MODO user but I find the entire system to be a highly inefficient marketplace. Of course WOTC has bigger problems right now then investing their resources into improving the market place, they need the game to work, but lets be realistic the system is need of a drastic upgrade.
I second this, on my few visits to Walmart and Target I have seen lots of Jund, Naya, and Bant. Espers a bit sparser and not a single Grixis to be seen...
Some thoughts I have is perhaps adding another wincon like Karn Liberated. If I'm playing Venser I'm sure as heck gonna run Deadeye Navigator too.
I saw the top 16 results and didn't see any mention of Shahar where did he place? Even if his deck does suffer from the aforementioned drawbacks he is a platinum level pro. I'll fire it up on modo this week (minus the cascade bluffs) out of curiousity.
Apparently virtual goods don't have real value to Qatol. NM that The US market for virtual goods is estimated to be over $3.5 billion annually.
Ya as long as you own 20 FOW's/Wastelands and a commensurate amount of blue duals. If he's actually building the decks it would probably be helpful to have different archtypes that don't overlap with so many of the same key cards. Decks like affinity, elves, dredge, painter are great because they have little overlap. If your doing proxies then it doesn't matter I suppose.
No one said there was only one right way to build a deck. I think the only claim being made is that a deck must post some consistent results in a competitive setting before we make any claims to its greatness/success against the current meta.
Rickster is correct that the level of play is decidedly higher in events then the practice room. For a claim to be made that the deck is a better performer then another proven archtype in the MODO metagame it needs to be ran through the gauntlet and post consistent results. I wish you luck, and if you play in dailies anyways (I assume you might) be interesting to see some videos.
How is smiter better then Purge with snapcaster for the Jund planeswalkers? I'm not seeing it