Guess this is your first competitive level event, so same general advice as you would get for all of them.
1. Show up with time to spare, 20-30 minutes if you can.
2. Judges are there to help, don't be afraid to ask them any questions you may have.
3. Your opponent may be a fantastic person, but if you are confused about a card interaction or how to proceed in a situation, ask a judge.
4. Buy new sleeves, preferably ones that you can't see through so as to avoid marked cards issues.
5. Have a friend check over your decklist after you fill it out, do the same for them.
6. When all else fails, ask a judge, they are your best resource at the event.
I have been playing this deck for a while and I need to make some cuts. But i'm not sure what to take out. I would also like to find room for a Stonehewer Giant.
Not entirely true. While you are allowed to concede at any point, spells once resolved that grant public information allow you opponent to see that information as well. If for instance you grisly salvage and hit nothing to help you out, you can't simply concede before revealing the cards. Same goes with spoils, unless you have gone through your entire deck without revealing the named card, you must continue to do so as there is no way to fail to find. So, all those cards are now public knowledge, you may concede but that does not allow you to simply hide those cards away.
Correct, but, the ciphered spell is a single action, when it "checks" for cipher no one is gaining priority. You are simply choosing whether or not to cast the attached spell. By the time anyone is able to do anything the spell is already on the stack as a copy of the ciphered spell.
Anyone else feel like this is being over analyzed? Think of cipher as more an ability that triggers once combat damage has been done to a player. The attacking player has priority to put the ability on the stack, and once on the stack it is simply a copy of the ciphered card and does not care about the creature that triggered it. So, removing the creature has no interaction with the cipher spell that has already been cast.
I have recently switch from Dragon Shields (because I got 2 bad boxes in a row, the sleeves were all cut to different lengths) to KMC mattes, they are fantastic sleeves. The shop I go to does 80 for 9 or 10 bucks, so a little more expensive than dragon shields on Ultra Pros but far superior quality.
RTW is just another step in a race to the bottom. Once the unions drop below 51% enrollment in the workforce a company can dissolve it, causing those workers to then lose their protections. Its not a good thing.
This does not outright kill the unions but does begin to pull the rug out from under them. If you work in a "union" shop and are hired on after RTW goes into effect, you can choose to not pay dues. However, the union is still legally required to defend you in work place matters, you are getting all the benefits of being a union member without any of the costs.
Unions made the current workplace what it is. If you look back in our history at the awful working conditions of early factories, long hours with no breaks, terrible wage, little to no safety, and then look where we are today. Most if not all of this would never have happened if the workers had not taken some sort of stand.
If you own a business and buying safety equipment is more expensive in the long run than paying for someones finger getting chopped off in a workman's comp settlement, what are you going to do?
RTW is a horrible thing, people have forgotten what the unions have done for all of us, just look at the places that we send our work to overseas (which we are one of the only major countries that allow this crap to be done and brought back to our shores without a tariff, free-trade is BS, but that's a whole other issue), sweats shops, terrible pay, essentially wage slaves.
Staticaster (with or without peddler) was a serious aggro trump card this weekend (TCG 50k), every RWU midrange deck had 3 or there about in the board.
Saw it doing some serious work at the TCG 50k this weekend. Think the real hero of the weekend was Rhox Faithmender though, by the end of the weekend dealers were sold out and when they did get them they disappeared at the low low price of 9 bucks lol.
1. Show up with time to spare, 20-30 minutes if you can.
2. Judges are there to help, don't be afraid to ask them any questions you may have.
3. Your opponent may be a fantastic person, but if you are confused about a card interaction or how to proceed in a situation, ask a judge.
4. Buy new sleeves, preferably ones that you can't see through so as to avoid marked cards issues.
5. Have a friend check over your decklist after you fill it out, do the same for them.
6. When all else fails, ask a judge, they are your best resource at the event.
Good Luck
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/rafiq-edh-03-07-13-1/#
Unions made the current workplace what it is. If you look back in our history at the awful working conditions of early factories, long hours with no breaks, terrible wage, little to no safety, and then look where we are today. Most if not all of this would never have happened if the workers had not taken some sort of stand.
If you own a business and buying safety equipment is more expensive in the long run than paying for someones finger getting chopped off in a workman's comp settlement, what are you going to do?
RTW is a horrible thing, people have forgotten what the unions have done for all of us, just look at the places that we send our work to overseas (which we are one of the only major countries that allow this crap to be done and brought back to our shores without a tariff, free-trade is BS, but that's a whole other issue), sweats shops, terrible pay, essentially wage slaves.