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Go.dec posted a message on Imperial AnimarYou need Curio to loop Ulamog, yes, but the important part is to learn to turn your board and hand into a loop of effects that allow you to get to a point where you can go infinite or just lock up the game on the spot.Posted in: 1 vs 1 Commander -
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Harbinger posted a message on Had my binder stolen, caught the kid; now what?Posted in: Magic GeneralQuote from Talus Kairon
What the child did is absolutely not right, but he is also a child. Children make bad decisions because they don't have a sense of right or wrong, and if they do, it is not yet fully developed.
I can't let this go. Children at the age of 14 do know right from wrong.
Sources:
http://phys.org/news192693376.html
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/child-myths/200911/learning-right-wrong-how-does-morality-develop
http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/SocialSciences/ppecorino/INTRO_TEXT/Chapter%208%20Ethics/Learning-Right-From-Wrong.htm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103849/Research-shows-toddlers-understand-right-wrong-just-19-months.html
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/research-shows-toddlers-understand-right-from-wrong-at-just-19-months.html
http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/earlychildhood/article_view.aspx?ArticleID=118
Quote from Talus Kairon
You engaged the child's guardians and they have done the best they can to make the situation right.
How can you know this? For all we know the stepfather decided that if I give my kid a slap on the wrist metaphorically this person will leave my family alone, after all its just cardboard it can't have any marketable value.
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You said you were "financially [...] not under the impression that the family has any issues", yet you also mentioned that this is the boy's stepfather, and that he is receiving a total of $50 for Christmas.
A lot of families give their children a monetary sum of money alongside their christmas gifts. According to the OP the step-father did not mention that this was the only present the child was getting.
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Go ahead, ruin this family's life by taking them to court, because you can't be trusted to not to bring your $1000 binder to an LGS and leave it laying around.
How is this ruining the family's life? A thousand dollars is a large sum of money, in a lot of cases after taxes this is an average person's wages for a month. This is likely something that the family of the thief can easily fork over and should ensure that they discipline their child so this sort of behavior doesn't happen again.
Yes he shouldn't have left it laying around but it shouldn't have been stolen either. One act of carelessness doesn't excuse an illegal act. -
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TheEndIsNear posted a message on Need a Deck or Deck Ideas? Come here! Take 2Make sure to feel very comfortable rejecting requests. People get lazy and as time goes on youll start getting incredibly lazy request from people who dont care tomake their own research.Posted in: Casual & Multiplayer Formats
If you see anything like "Make me an X deck" where X is something with a primer or really straigth forward and you dont choose to ignore it, itll bog you down. -
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CopySix posted a message on [Promo] 2012 Holiday Promo Card: Naughty//NiceJust got the 2012 Holiday Promo CardPosted in: The Rumor Mill
It's Naughty / Nice
Naughty, 1BB
Sorcery
Search another target player's library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle that player's library.
Nice, 1WW
Sorcery
Search your library for a card and put it in another target player's hand. Then shuffle your library. -
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Dresden posted a message on The benefits of collectors, or why we make your game better(Since there's a big long thread bashing collectors, most of which belongs in the 'reserved list discussion' thread, I feel like making a separate thread showing some pro's of the collectors that nobody ever wants to admit in public)Posted in: Magic General
Call me a collector - it isn't how I started but I guess it's what it is today. You probably think I started by cracking beta P9 and holding them for decades but this is not the case for many of us. I started playing mtg back in the day when duals were $5 and I could hardly afford a single $25 shivan dragon (I traded about 3 duals for my single one - revised, btw), not to mention the $100 lotuses which everybody thought was ridiculous for a piece of cardboard and no, there wasn't an internet forum to complain on I quit within a few years, not having the money to build a single competitive deck. Not ONE and this is including the new brand-new Type 1.5 format at the time, of which tier decks were probably $100. I was not one of those lucky ones who kept/traded for/was gifted sets of beta, p9, etc. so basically not much of value.
In 2010 I made the fateful mistake of opening a storage box with my old mtg cards and it was thus I found myself joining MTGS to trade cards and get back into the game. (For everybody keeping track, the prices of cards were such that I used hard-earned money to buy them, let us be clear for the record that I have no entitlement issues - I earned everything I worked for and damned if I can't spend it how I wish :P) I bought and traded for some cards and gradually as I accumulated more and more staples, I happened to pick up a set of revised, pretty much my first mtg set and the cornerstone of my mtg experiences. And I started picking up other sets - homelands, fallen empires, etc. and before long I was a full-blown collector. I've bought, sold and traded a tremendous amount of cards in my quest to improve my collection and throughout the process, numerous people have thanked me or have been eager to trade with me, in stark contrast to the hate often expressed towards collectors on the forums.
Why? I, like most collectors, pay money for the absolute junk cards that nobody wants, the type of cards people would gladly trade off and at better-than-dealer prices (because let's face it - pretty much nobody, not in edh, probably not in cube, maaaybe in pauper? is going to pay you even a darn penny for your Seasinger. Or whatever.) You know (or are one of!) those guys who want more money to buy packs, cards or eBay? I have bought hundreds of thousands of cards, numerous collections, partial/full sets etc. to help finance people's conversion of cardboard to cash. And no, I'm not a dealer - many of us aren't; so-called mtg 'dealers' don't make hardly enough. Let's break it down for real - I've helped pay for broken cars, engagement rings, bachelor parties, wedding parties, divorces and of course college This is just me, imagine what all the other collectors have done. And yes, I collect staples too. 40 force of wills? Not going to lie, I had a good amount, and no, I'm not the YouTube guy. Now down to about four. Why? That leads me to my next point:
Trade-wise, there's probably, conservatively estimating, a 10:1 ratio of "have junk, want staples" threads on the trade forums. Guess who exactly will trade VINTAGE/LEGACY staples like force of will, duals, etc. for utter unplayables, including jank in REPRINTABLE formats like MODERN? The stuff you groan at when you open packs and wish fervently it was something else. That's right, collectors. Your fellow players may balk at this but we generally can work something out. Getting into the specifics, I've traded cards from p3k, bazaars, useas, etc. for jank, partial sets, etc. and many of them in trades in which the vast majority of cards were lower than $2 each.
Disclosure time: I've held and hold a large number of a particular card on occasion, sure, probably had a lot of FoW's, etc. Feel free of trying to accuse me of 'cornering the market', 'driving up the price of cards', etc and remember that you guys who don't have FoW's (or goyfs, or whatever) curse the high price, sure but on the other hand the guys who had it were happy selling it to me around those prices and the guys I trade numerous copies of these cards to for my collection wants are similarly satisfied, so I see it as collectors making your gaming experience better.
I firmly believe in every person's right to have a goal of collecting playsets of most sets in existence A guy can dream, right? Feel free to disagree but that's how I see it. After all, some of us really just hate having to buy missing cards for decks.
Incidentally, I am in full support of wot'c stance on reprints - please reprint all modern-legal cards ad nauseam so that more people can afford them, people can play modern and the community, as a whole, can suffer less whining. Loss in value? Sure, you betcha. It's part-and-parcel of the modern format, so deal with it as you can and remember that collectors are still willing to buy/trade for your price-declining, reprintable cards even if your fellow players aren't.
Last but not least, a few words of advice from a collector: If you can't afford it, either change your mind, save or work harder. Such is your inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness and the sooner you realize how the world works, the sooner you'll achieve your goals. On the other hand, feel free to just vent your frustrations on the internet while not improving your education, work experience or bank account - it's admittedly therapeutic, even if nothing changes -
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TheLatvian posted a message on Stuff you don't "get".Posted in: Talk and EntertainmentQuote from jonboyjon
And with the Atheist stuff - I had always been under the impression that right wing America believed that if you were Atheist you were immoral, because morals are a religious thing and if you don't subscribe to religion you can't have morals.
No, that's really only a small percentage of right wing Americans. Probably around the same percentage of far left Americans that believe if you're religious you must be uneducated, because science can disprove parts of the Bible, and if you don't believe in science, you're practically worthless.
For the record, I say this as a pagan Libertarian, so I have no lot with either party. WAR casting meaningless votes -
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Koopa posted a message on Battlestar GalacticaJust watched the series this month. Fantastic! I loved every bit, even when it got a little slow. Anybody who hasn't seen it needs to get on Netflix and watch it!Posted in: Entertainment Archive -
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LandBoySteve posted a message on The problem with collectorsFirst of all, let me start off by saying that I am in favor of the reserved list being burned at the stake.Posted in: Magic General
Having said that, here is the problem with reprinting expensive cards to the point where their values drop like a stone.
There are quite a few players in this game who actually play the game but also have gone out of their way to shell out hard earned money to build competitive decks. I am one of them. I have spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars on cards over the years.
If WotC starts a policy of printing cards that initially are big dollar cards, such as Bonfire of the Damned, and then a short time later reprints them to the point that they lose most of their value, players, not collectors, but players like myself are going to say, "Screw this. I'll just wait until they reprint the damned thing and get it for half the price" or whatever.
When this happens, it does two things.
1. It decreases sales because players are not shelling out money for big cards right away because they know the prices will go down. This causes dealers to buy less product from WotC.
2. It erodes consumer confidence in the game itself. If players see that, if they just wait, they can get any card on the cheap, they're going to be hesitant to get cards right away, if at all.
You have to understand how this game, unfortunately, is constructed.
The best cards, the ones that win you matches, are almost ALWAYS the expensive rares. Sure, there are always some exceptions. Look at last standard's Delver. Most of the really good cards were commons.
But you still had...
Snapcaster Mage
Geist of Saint Traft
Restoration Angel
And others.
And Snapcaster has become an eternal format staple.
Now, imagine they reprint the crap out of him and all the players who spent $25 to $30 a pop (and this isn't even that expensive in comparison to other cards) can now get him for $10 to $15 or less. And they see this is a consistent trend in the game.
Do you really think players, other than the hard core "don't give a crap what I have to spend I just want to win" gamers, are going to shell out money on cardboard that they know will one day be worth a fraction of what it is today?
I don't really know the answer to that because it hasn't happened. But does WotC really take that chance of alienating the player base? I'm talking players now, not collectors who are planning for their retirement, which is ridiculous.
Cards that become eternal format staples (and you never know which ones they'll be) shouldn't be devalued so much that a player can simply wait until the reprint and buy at a fraction of the cost. I believe, and yes, this is just my opinion, that this will hurt consumer confidence in the game.
Those who just play standard and don't care about the cost of cards after they rotate? It probably won't affect them. But what about the ones who trade their old cards for new cards so that they can play the next standard season?
If those old cards have no value anymore, they won't be able to trade for the cards they need. That could be a deterrent to continuing to play standard and simply giving up the game altogether.
Again, this is just speculation and nobody really knows, just like nobody really knows if doing away with the reserve list will be good or bad for the game.
But the question is, does WotC take the risk given that sales are higher than ever before and tournament and FNM attendance is also at an all time high?
If I'm WotC, I do exactly as I'm doing now and don't change a thing. And that means not reprinting big money cards so that they go down from $100 a pop to $20 a pop.
I believe that WILL kill the game.
And if I'm a company who is accountable to another company (Hasbro) that is a chance I do not take.
You're free to disagree. But my gut tells me that WotC is on my side. -
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AsianInvasion posted a message on At 5:00am this morning, I was watching a movie.This is what happened at its conclusion.Posted in: Personal Writing
Unexpectedly and at the same time, two strangers parted the veil on opposite sides of a hidden clearing. Each had returned to the location after a long period away in order to retrieve an item of critical importance, so the presence of the other was viewed as suspicious, if not threatening. The woman attempted to defuse the situation by making small talk; assuming that the other person's surgically reconstructed face meant that he was in the process of becoming a biological woman, she asked, "So, when are you transitioning?" He looked at her with a pained expression. "Trust me, if I wanted to be a woman, I wouldn't have done this to myself. I was branded as a traitor. I didn't feel a thing." He raised his hand to his face and removed the skin from over his mouth, revealing a mess of stitches where his lips should have been. How he could speak at all was never made clear.
At this point, a juggernaut of a man lifted me from my seat and spun me around, and I knew that it was my turn to receive the same fate. I looked into his heartless eyes and saw no soul there. A quick glance at the table behind him revealed a grisly collection of torture devices, and the words "You won't feel a thing." reverberated in my mind. I somehow wrenched myself from his iron grip and bolted toward the door. I ran up what felt like an infinite spiral staircase in matter of seconds before bursting out into the sunless world above. Though the exit was fenced by barbed wire, I knew that I had to escape at all costs. I leaped through the barrier, hoping to wake from the nightmare.
I did.
And that is why I am still awake.
(Related: http://i.imgur.com/FfmZs.jpg) -
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Dr. Jeebus posted a message on [[COMM]] Commanders ArsenalPosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from Phuncz
The only true way to have good LGS'es being offered good deals is by doing stuff like the Helvault, but not in the crappy way it was executed. I'm referring to the Judge Gifts and useless oversized cards. If every store got the same promo prize thingy and every attendee got a nice promo card (hello full-art rares) and perhaps a 7-card booster (5 commons, 1 uncommon, 1 rare, NO mythic), THIS would be thé way to give the LGS'es something to stand out, not a sealed product that ends up on eBay after 10 minutes.
This would be COMPLETELY useless. Giving every store the same free stuff to give out doesn't make any store stand out, nor does it do anything to make the stores money. Yes, the latter is important. The latter is why FTV exists. It is not why this product exists, though, as it's clear that this product is being marketed at a very small segment of their audience. And while you may all complain, I can assure you that everyone that they have targeted with this product is thrilled. I've gone over this in great detail, but if you do not already know with 100% certainty that you are buying this, you are not part of that target demographic. If your answer is "I'd buy it if" or "I want it but" then you are not part of that target demographic. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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Plus a G/W and a mono black one whose names I can't recall. For making creatures, there's also Kher Keep and sooort of Dark Depths. Oh, and Khalni Garden.
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My first deck EVER was built around this guy!
I am PSYCHED
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My field included two Outrider en-kor and a Stuffy Doll with a Pariah on it.
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....you're kidding, right? Do you realize I was making a joke? Obviously Ajani's mane isn't the source of his power.
You make yourself look a lot stupider when you call someone an idiot falsely.
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This is in direct contrast to Ajani's mane, from which all of his manly power is derived.