Corrections:
11 Mogg – Mishra's Workshop / Ensnaring Bridge / Scalding Tongs
19 Parsley – Mishra's Workshop / Ensnaring Bridge / Scalding Tongs
vs.
02 Reyemile – Dryad Arbor / Force of Will / Misdirection
03 TANE – Dryad Arbor / Force of Will / Slippery Bogle
05 Naphtali – Dryad Arbor / Force of Will / Slippery Bogle
17 Quasimodem – Snapback / Force of Will / Chancellor of the Forge
2-2 -> 1-4: Tongs trigger on my upkeep, so Arbor can race on the play.
11 Mogg – Mishra's Workshop / Ensnaring Bridge / Scalding Tongs
19 Parsley – Mishra's Workshop / Ensnaring Bridge / Scalding Tongs
vs.
16 Antonia – Black Lotus / Black Lotus / Vraska the Unseen
6-0 -> 0-6: Vraska destroys Tongs, then Bridge.
11 Mogg – Mishra's Workshop / Ensnaring Bridge / Scalding Tongs
vs.
19 Parsley – Mishra's Workshop / Ensnaring Bridge / Scalding Tongs
2-2 -> 3-3: Someone will win.
01 Feyd_Ruin – The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale / Sheltered Valley / Mishra's Factory
vs.
21 NonexistentFlower – Mishra's Factory / Mox Jet / Nezumi Shortfang
0-6 -> 2-2: Shortfang can't both activate and survive (Tabernacle), so Factories have a stand-off.
02 Reyemile – Dryad Arbor / Force of Will / Misdirection
vs.
03 TANE – Dryad Arbor / Force of Will / Slippery Bogle
3-3 -> 2-2: It's a stand-off.
06 WhammWhamme – Palinchron / Force of Will / Saprazzan Cove
vs.
18 AtheistGod – Mishra's Workshop / Trinisphere / Steel Golem
3-3 -> 1-4: AG plays a first-turn Golem, which gets countered.
06 WhammWhamme – Palinchron / Force of Will / Saprazzan Cove
vs.
21 NonexistentFlower – Mishra's Factory / Mox Jet / Nezumi Shortfang
6-0 -> 2-2: Shortfang must be countered.
07 tomsloger – Black Lotus / Black Lotus / Frost Titan
20 fnord – Black Lotus / Black Lotus / Frost Titan
vs.
16 Antonia – Black Lotus / Black Lotus / Vraska the Unseen
0-6 -> 1-4: Frost Titan's semi-shroud protects it from Vraska's second ability. Titan can't outrace Vraska's ultimate, but on the play, Titan can attack and trade with Vraska.
08 bateleur – Black Lotus / Magus of the Moon / Glowrider
vs.
16 Antonia – Black Lotus / Black Lotus / Vraska the Unseen
1-4 -> 3-3: Glowrider stops Loti.
10 faradan – Leyline of Anticipation / Black Lotus / Glowrider
vs.
21 NonexistentFlower – Mishra's Factory / Mox Jet / Nezumi Shortfang
6-0 -> 0-6: NF casts Mox off Factory. Shortfang is a creature and is unaffected by Glowrider.
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Catmurderer posted a message on 4CB - Modern Banville DUE AUGUST 17 @11:59pmHello all, I actually have some free time. I'll run 4CB for a bit.Posted in: Forum Magic
Information:
Decks:
Rules:
Normal XCB rules.
-No restrictions. T1/t0 kills/discard/counterspells/land destruction is ok.
No special land rule.
Format is Modern up to M13. ALL MODERN CARDS, ie the cards found here http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/resources.aspx?x=judge/resources/sfrmodern, are not banned.
Special Rules:
Due:
Every round, every card used will put on the banlist.
Basic lands will not be put on the banlist.
August 17th @ 11:59pm.
Banlist:
-none-
Example deck:
Plains
Student of Warfare
Ghost Quarter
Path to Exile
List of Legal Modern Cards:
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?format=[%22Modern%22]
My non-cheat: 738599
01 Catmurderer - "T0 or Nothing" - Worked about as well as I thought it would. Completely forgot about Chancellor...
Leyline of Anticipation/Simian Spirit Guide/Burning Inquiry/Chancellor of the Forge
02 WhammWhamme - Moon Bloom - Speed was an issue here, but Magus was a beast. Seeing him leave so soon should be interesting.
Thoughtseize/Swamp/Magus of the Moon/Lotus Bloom
03 Draco9 -"Darkfire" - Recursion won a ton of matches for you.
Grove of the Burnwillows/Blackcleave Cliffs/Blackmail/Punishing Fire
04 AtheistGod - Counter Tiger - Very strong deck with a great strategy. MM + Blackmail was very powerful. Only change could possible to have Chancellor instead of MM.
Gemstone Mine/Blackmail/Mental Misstep/Scythe Tiger
05 Mogg - Maniac Attack - The first submission was crazy strong. This one lacked speed... which is scary seeing how powerful Laboratory Maniac was in this format.
Laboratory Maniac / Lotus Bloom / Thoughtseize / Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
06 Feyd_Ruin - Mecha-Meta Call - Interesting call, but I think you needed more interactions to do well in this round. Pithing Needle will be missed.
Darksteel Citadel / Pithing Needle / Inkmoth Nexus / Porcelain Legionnaire
07 Lithel - Whitemoth - Very strong deck which was held back by Shining Shoal.
Chancellor of the Annex/Shining Shoal/Saltcrusted Steppe/Inkmoth Nexus
Results:
Calculations thanks to Mogg:
X| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1| X 6 6 0 6 6 0 | 24
2| 0 X 0 0 1 6 6 | 13
3| 0 6 X 0 6 6 6 | 24
4| 6 6 6 X 6 6 1 | 31
5| 0 4 0 0 X 6 6 | 16
6| 0 0 0 0 0 X 2 | 2
7| 6 0 0 4 0 2 X | 12
Rankings: (Using golf score. Lower the better. #1 gets 1 point, #2 gets 2, #3 gets 3, #4 gets 4 and #5 gets 5, #6 gets 5... Any new comers get 5 added to their score for rounds missed. Ties will divy up points between the people who tied and take out the next level of points to compensate.)
Rankings:
AtheistGod 1
Catmurderer 2 / Draco9 2
Mogg 4
WhammWhamme 5 / Feyd_Ruin 5 / Lithel 5 -
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BenBleiweiss posted a message on [[Official]] Legacy Huge GainersPosted in: Market Street Café ArchiveQuote from MagwaldBen Bleiweiss is a Market Street regular, maybe he can weigh in on this new decision by his company.
I think people are reading way too much into this. For the most part, our sell prices stayed the same on almost every card on our "hot" buys list, it was only the buy prices we changed. For instance, Force of Will has been $60 on our website for a while now. Notable exceptions right now are Rishadan Port, Candelabra of Tawnos, and Wasteland.
We travel to a lot of shows (our Open series, GPs, PTs, PTQs, REgionals, etc), and this list was based on cards that we just are having trouble buying. Let's take Wasteland for example.
In January, we were advertising a $15 buy price and $25 sell price on Wasteland. Couldn't keep them in stock.
Around GP Atlanta, we raised the buy price to $20 and the sell price to $30. Still couldn't keep them in stock.
In mid-February, we raised the buy price to $25 and the sell price to $35. STILL weren't getting even close to enough Wastelands to meet demand.
So on a straight supply/demand curve, I have a card that we can't get in stock at $25. My options are:
1) Continue not to stock the card, at the $25 buy price,
or
2) Raise our buy price to $30, and hope that we finally can get a sufficient supply of Wastelands.
Other cards (such as Goblin Lackey/Aether Vial/Sensei's Divining Top) were at $15 sell / $8 buy for a while, and were bumped mostly to $15 sell / $10 buy (though a couple were bumped a couple of dollars on the sell price as well). Again - if we aren't getting these cards in the quantities we need to keep up with demand at $8, the logical thing is to raise our buy price to $10, to try to get a sufficient supply.
With the exception of Bloodstained Mire (which I included because it felt weird to exclude one of the five old Fetchlands), all of these cards are ones that we have just not been able to stock well for a few months now.
Anyone can check our website on all of these cards and see that we're just out of stock on the majority of the cards on this Hot List. You can draw two conclusions:
1) We are out of stock on these cards, and so we raised our buy prices on these cards, so we can stock them, and sell them, or
2) We are hoarding these cards to try to manipulate the entire Legacy Magic economy
Let's look at the arguments for each:
Scenario #1: We run 30 SCG LEgacy Opens a year (which have been getting 150-300 players each so far this year). We also have two SCG Invitationals that use LEgacy as a format, and we are attending GP: Providence (Which is Legacy). We also service a worldwide Legacy audience through our online shop. We have a huge demand on these cards, and are pricing our buy prices accordingly,
or
Scenario #2: We like paying tens of thousands of dollars for cards and then not selling them to the player base, listed in Scenario #1.
Considering how vocal I've been (and SCG has been as a company) about abolishing the Reserve List so that a lot of these Legacy Staples can be reprinted (and make Legacy more affordable), I'd like to think that I get the benefit of the doubt here - ie, that we're trying to keep up with demand, and not that we're doing some widespread market manipulation for the sake of driving up prices.
Point blank - if Legacy gets so expensive that people are priced out of being able to get into the format at all, I don't think there's any other company in the world that stands to lose more than StarCityGames.com!
- Ben Bleiweiss
- Director of Sales, StarCityGames.com - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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