i just scour the common boxes of every store i go to and hound everyone until they don't forget and bring me their copies. a lot of the time i'll also throw in a playset of them when i buy cards online.
i absolutely love the both of these. i will probably pick both of them up at some point, but the angel just barely wins out as the one that i will use the most.
i hate foils. i've been playing for a long time so i have a great many of them. i trade one for the first time since they debuted the other day. a foil malakir bloodwitch. its the first foil i have ever traded because frankly, no one ever wants them.
they're worth double the nonfoil versions but who is buying them i can't get rid of them.
they also curl, damage easily, and shine making reading them in a sleeve difficult.
the only thing i use them for is a general in edh. thats it. other than that i can't stand foils and would gladly be rid of all of them for their nonfoil counterparts.
he also probably wouldn't have loyalty counters as he has no loyalty to anything but himself and really doesn't need to be loyal to anything but himself.
How are they so expensive? Over here in Europe, you can get one for 5€. Getting the whole cycle is a bit expensive, but they're always useful. Seriously think about it, they go into every future EDH deck you will build.
Are gold-bordered cards legal in EDH? Because there are Onslaught fetchlands from World Championship decks. They're cheap too.
totally unrelated but you gotta convert the euros to dollars in this case, 5 euros being about 7 dollars which is average price for shocklands.
anyway, if you're on a really tight budget theres always the homelands cycle of lands! castle sengir they're so god awful though.
it would screw up limited, thats been said though.
the other thing i take issue with is, if the price remained the same, why would i pay for less product? i may not use all those commons, but i still have them. if price per pack went down it would screw up the value of the rares too as they'd be much easier to get.
Yeah right. Compared to old school? Did you forget about the existence of ancestral recal or damn black lotus. Yeah, the brokeness from the new stuff is so much more broken than old school broken:rolleyes:
the majority of old school players these days missed out on those. those are too old. a lot of people seem to be under the impression that old school automatically means a time where everyone had boxes full of the power 9 and used them in every deck. if there ever was really a time like that, it was incredibly short lived.
Slower and more methodical pace? You mean like when I drop a mox diamond on the table, play Mana Vault, play Lotus Petal, play Tolarian Academy, play Windfall, 4 mana floating, draw 4 cards, play two more Lotus Petals, cast Time Spiral, Draw 7, play out moxen and mana vaults, tap Tolarian Academy, play Mind Over Matter, untap Tolarian Academy, cast Stroke of Genius on myself..................................
and Stroke you for 60?
And that was an Extended deck in 1998! Notice, not a single Power 9 in sight!
except that we're talking about old school casual players... thats not exactly a casual deck.
why are we complaining so much when its not even confirmed yet?
regardless part of me wishes that they would release more standard legal cards for fnm, but a bigger part of me likes that they're older cards because i can't just open a pack and get them sometimes. i don't have a problem if it turns out to be true at all.
I just dont see them naming the title of the book after a geographical portion of Zendikar. Its like having the Alara book called "Mountains of Vicious Jund" dosent pull the reader in, But perhaps your right.
wouldn't be that far fetched, it is a set oriented around land after all...
though akoum is most likely an eldrazi in this instance
i quit with the release of mirrodin to the release of conflux. when i started playing again all i did was buy a few packs of conflux and then look online for singles that were worth using and still in standard.
though come to find out i didn't really miss too much in that giant gap... the fetchlands, the shocklands, goyf... and thats about it. i haven't really picked up much from the sets i missed at all.
the targets here always have tons of stuff and i too noticed that they're selling more and more magic products, as well as more ultra pro products. the walmarts never have anything in stock though they have fancy displays set up.
they're worth double the nonfoil versions but who is buying them i can't get rid of them.
they also curl, damage easily, and shine making reading them in a sleeve difficult.
the only thing i use them for is a general in edh. thats it. other than that i can't stand foils and would gladly be rid of all of them for their nonfoil counterparts.
this. a billion times this.
he also probably wouldn't have loyalty counters as he has no loyalty to anything but himself and really doesn't need to be loyal to anything but himself.
totally unrelated but you gotta convert the euros to dollars in this case, 5 euros being about 7 dollars which is average price for shocklands.
anyway, if you're on a really tight budget theres always the homelands cycle of lands! castle sengir they're so god awful though.
the other thing i take issue with is, if the price remained the same, why would i pay for less product? i may not use all those commons, but i still have them. if price per pack went down it would screw up the value of the rares too as they'd be much easier to get.
i've been hearing this one so much in my casual play group. it makes me face palm so hard there's a bruise now.
i also trade garbage for them and walk away laughing, but i'm mean like that.
the majority of old school players these days missed out on those. those are too old. a lot of people seem to be under the impression that old school automatically means a time where everyone had boxes full of the power 9 and used them in every deck. if there ever was really a time like that, it was incredibly short lived.
except that we're talking about old school casual players... thats not exactly a casual deck.
regardless part of me wishes that they would release more standard legal cards for fnm, but a bigger part of me likes that they're older cards because i can't just open a pack and get them sometimes. i don't have a problem if it turns out to be true at all.
i actually really like it for its nostalgia aspect and would gladly use it.
wouldn't be that far fetched, it is a set oriented around land after all...
though akoum is most likely an eldrazi in this instance
though come to find out i didn't really miss too much in that giant gap... the fetchlands, the shocklands, goyf... and thats about it. i haven't really picked up much from the sets i missed at all.