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Sep 24, 2014Lynnis posted a message on Squandered Resources: Super Budget Super Series 8Very excited to see another a article spooky, your budget articles were what brought me back to Magic after a long hiatus. These decks are also a great jumping off point for me to get new players interested in the game and also in Legacy. I already cannot wait for the next installment.Posted in: Articles
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potomacdist.com and order in bulk is what I did. It will save you a lot in the long run.
Question for others in the thread:
Does anyone use Dragon Shield Mattes and if so, have you noticed a difference in the shuffle-ability of the early runs compared to more recent ones?
It seems to be that the first couple boxes I bought (1 blue, 1 black) shuffle beautifully with little resistance, and they double sleeve well. More recent batches, purchased at GP DC and a couple weeks before are noticeably tighter and don't double sleeve as well, and they also are much more difficult to shuffle.
I was just curious as to whether anyone else has noticed anything like this. The most recent couple boxes are really putting me off of them and I am strongly considering going back to Hyper Mattes exclusively.
This is how you do it ladies and gentlemen
SCG just out up the DC site this weekend. I had been waiting on info as well and they finally put it up. Check the SCG site for that one. Charlotte probably won't go up until after DC is over as SCG is running it too and they probably want to keep the focus on one at a time. I am planning to be at both, I didn't know you were from the east coast...lol
I think the art being unpopular on many of the reprints certainly plays into it. I have heard the comparisons myself and I think it is the MPR foil that is the only one favored aside from the original. I think this reprint may make a larger dent than past reprints though being in a booster product.
This is more or less my experience as well, I have a set of Turquoise Dragon Shields on one of my Commander decks and now that they are old enough to have picked up some dirt, they are a pain to shuffle and stick together and generally feel grimy, and I always keep my hands as clean as possible when handling my decks. KMC Supers that I have owned suffer from the same problems, and I have moved away from them as well. I have yet to have a Matte sleeve, either KMC or Dragon Shield, gather a bunch of grime and as mentioned, they shuffle incredibly well.
It is a bit subjective I guess because I find pretty much any sleeve that isn't an original Dragon Shield fairly easy to split, and even those seem to get easier to split as they get some play wear to them. I have split exactly one KMC Hyper Matte, and it was the same situation as you mentioned, I was more to blame for how I was shuffling that the sleeve itself was for failing. I wouldn't worry any about them, they are still high quality sleeves and miles and miles ahead of the durability of something like a basic Ultra Pro sleeve.
This is exactly why I want to finish up Modern Merfolk too, because I already have the cards to port it to Legacy as I do with Infect. That is definitely a nice perk, especially since I may be doing some liquidation soon.
You strike me as more of a control player. What made you choose infect? Purely curious