I worked in printing for years, long enough enough to be a Journeyman. It's not unusual for scraps of paper to get left on top of a stack of print sheets. Most large shops identify stacks of printed sheets in various manners. Not terribly uncommon to stick like a post-it note on top of a stack you want the forklift driver to bring over to your machine. Then someone fails to remember to pull the post-it note off. Then when the flat sheets get loaded into the die cutter you don't just shove in a pallete of post-press sheets. The presses leave them in a utter mess, registration is everywhere and cutting properly could be a total pain depending on the machine. In any case typically a stack of paper is stacked and re-stacked typically 2 or 3 times between being a blank stack and being finished cut product. At any of those points a post-it note could fold in between sheets.
Or they use post-it notes to identify the next stack to get loaded into the card sort hopper and forgot to pull the note there. In any case it's rare but happens. I had a customer call and complain once because we left a slip sheet in their newsletter. Made sense though, it was a church and we had been using a stack of bad chippendales posters (really big scratch across one of the guys butt cheeks. I got to make the new guy sort through 3,000 sheets of naked dudes pulling them out.) so I got why they complained.
This post went from boring to hilarious in the span of about three lines at the end there.
didn't USPC print a bunch of 52 card poker decks get produced with the MtG deckmaster back? I recall playing rummy with one owned by a friend. They gave them out as promotions to try to build groundswell for their company printing it.
Someone made such a thing - I've got a pack in my collection, but I don't know who printed it. I remember getting it as an early form of player rewards, along with a foil counterspell and incinerate, and maybe (?) a pack of Italian Legends?
Considering you can only play one land a turn, I don't see Yawgmoth's Will making Ob Nixilis that amazing. It's not like it lets you play additional lands. It also doesn't let you cast spells for free, so you'd need 5 mana just to recast 2 one mana spells. As far as standard, I could see it rotting in the jank rare bin, since we don't have a stack of rituals.
I don't know, I think a B/G landfall/ramp deck could be pretty stupid. Lotus Cobra, Ob Nixilis, Fetchlands, Ramp Spells, etc. could generate a tonne of mana off of a Will.
Or as a late game topdeck in B/U control, or really in B/anything? How about a B/R fast aggro deck: Yawgwill gets you all your lightning bolts and goblin guides and whatever else back.
You don't need rituals to make Yawg Will stupid good.
You seem hellbent on proving how right you are while ignoring your audience's own opinions and views. You have crossed from passionate, reasoned (if flawed) argument to a bull-headed, close-minded, arrogant tantrum.
Have you not seen Menendian in action before? This is a fairly regular occurence for him. I honestly don't know where he finds the time.
I also started around the same time and played it on and off until Champions of Kamigawa was released.
I hate PWs. I hate the concept. I think the implementation is shoddy. I have no intention of ever playing them. I will pack hate for them and all permanents.
You should do this because it's a good deckbuilding practice, not because you hate the concept of planeswalkers.
Forget the colour pie (I despise that limiting thought pattern as well), Magic would be very very diverse if we could all build hybrid decks. Having said that, ... Limiting the game makes no sense to me.
I think it's the exact opposite. Magic would become very homogenized if there were too many hybrids, meaning that everyone would just play the best cards, leading inevitably to one best deck (modulo certain minor modifications).
Limitations breed creativity and ingenuity in deck design. You need balance, you need pros and cons. The game would be a lot less interesting if it were all colourless.
EDIT: ... and of course everyone has already talked about this, in much greater detail to boot. Let me just summarize and say that while you will get rid of Rock-Paper-Scissors, you will replace it with Rock.
Why do you care who buys your cards as long as you sell them? One guy buying 20 is the same as 5 locals buying a playset each - same profit for you. You also run the risk of *no one* buying the cards that you refuse to sell to the "speculator."
The rest of you can quit acting like you didn't get trounced in your first tournament.
I think that they're warning him precisely because they got trounced in their first tournaments. They want to let him know what to expect, and to make good decisions based on sound expectations.
Draft things with flying, or Drake Umbra itself (U/W/G Umbras + Aura Gnarlid is a very strong archetype). The white Invoker (name escapes me: 2/1 flying, also has 8: tap all creatures target player controls) is a game winner.
This post went from boring to hilarious in the span of about three lines at the end there.
Someone made such a thing - I've got a pack in my collection, but I don't know who printed it. I remember getting it as an early form of player rewards, along with a foil counterspell and incinerate, and maybe (?) a pack of Italian Legends?
Indeed.
Also, how do *I* bolster a collection? Buy singles.
Really, if you want to bolster your collection, I can mail you all the junk rares that I pulled from the various boxes I mistakenly bought.
I don't know, I think a B/G landfall/ramp deck could be pretty stupid. Lotus Cobra, Ob Nixilis, Fetchlands, Ramp Spells, etc. could generate a tonne of mana off of a Will.
Or as a late game topdeck in B/U control, or really in B/anything? How about a B/R fast aggro deck: Yawgwill gets you all your lightning bolts and goblin guides and whatever else back.
You don't need rituals to make Yawg Will stupid good.
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Have you not seen Menendian in action before? This is a fairly regular occurence for him. I honestly don't know where he finds the time.
You should do this because it's a good deckbuilding practice, not because you hate the concept of planeswalkers.
I think it's the exact opposite. Magic would become very homogenized if there were too many hybrids, meaning that everyone would just play the best cards, leading inevitably to one best deck (modulo certain minor modifications).
Limitations breed creativity and ingenuity in deck design. You need balance, you need pros and cons. The game would be a lot less interesting if it were all colourless.
EDIT: ... and of course everyone has already talked about this, in much greater detail to boot. Let me just summarize and say that while you will get rid of Rock-Paper-Scissors, you will replace it with Rock.
Why do you care who buys your cards as long as you sell them? One guy buying 20 is the same as 5 locals buying a playset each - same profit for you. You also run the risk of *no one* buying the cards that you refuse to sell to the "speculator."
I think that they're warning him precisely because they got trounced in their first tournaments. They want to let him know what to expect, and to make good decisions based on sound expectations.
U/W levelers (Time of Heroes, Venerated Teacher, any leveler creatures) is also a very strong archetype.
I've never seen Eldrazi ramp do well, even though it is the most obvious strategy. Evasion is far more critical, as there is so little removal.
Gideon Jura
Foil Eldrazi Temple
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
Guul Draz Assassin
Kazandu Tuskcaller
Conquering Masticore
Angelheart Vial
Foil Oust
Foil Forest
Tuktuk the Explorer
can't remember the last one...
Eternal Witness and Isochron Scepter are also up there ($5 - $10)