It may be a silly reason to call the poster fake, but it definitely puts a black mark on Tara's story of a "shipping accident", in my opinion. The initial story was fairly vague as to what type of store it was, so it may be a new one, who knows. But as a reference, there's 7 comic shops in my area, 3 dedicated gaming shops, and 2-3 card shops that I've personally been to, and not one of those has that much white space on a wall visible to customers. Maybe my city is the exception to the rule, or maybe there's just many stores in my city I haven't been to that have white space all over like that.
It's nitpicky, sure, but others are already questioning the story, if not the poster.
At my local store there is plenty white space. Its a big shop though. A larger than average gaming store.
Cards like Demonic Tutor and such won't work like this, but if anyone's ever played against CS they know that sacing a fetchland and finding nothing is an all to common occurance.
This makes Gifts Ungiven a lot better as well, and since I really like the card anyway, I'm happy.
Why does it make it better? They only time I've even seen it matter was when someone was mindslavered and it made the cards worse. (get 2 cards with gifts and ditch them both)
After placing first and second at a 176-person PTQ is this a deck that should be looked at as a higher teir deck? The meta there was dominated by goblins so that might have helped it.
Here is a deck that I just tossed together. (note: no playtesting has been put into this. )
Creatures
4 Sire of the Storm
4 Thief of Hope
3 Kokusho, the Evening Star
2 Kiku, Night's Flower
Oh, and you are very muchly overreacting.
https://webapp.wizards.com/DCIRanking/results.asp?game=MG&format=CO&geo=10&page=1
Interesting rating system change. I prefer the old system though.
(if this shouldn't be here or is already common knowledge, I apolagize)
Sword of Fire and Ice triggers on combat damage to a player.
Jitte is far better because of this.
Creatures
4 Sire of the Storm
4 Thief of Hope
3 Kokusho, the Evening Star
2 Kiku, Night's Flower
Spells
4 Long-Forgotten Gohei
4 Waking Nightmare
4 Swallowing Plague
4 Consuming Vortex
4 Hinder
3 Distress
2 Eye of Nowhere
Lands
11 Island
9 Swamp
1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
Sideboard
1 Kiku, Night's Flower
4 Hisoka's Defiance
2 Night of Souls' Betrayal
4 Cranial Extraction
4 Rend Flesh