I don't understand why you would pass on this collection. The time period is one of the more profitable ones in terms of cards the person could have (tempest/saga had a lot of valuable stuff). As long as the price is right, this seems like a good sign to me
There is a common joke that about half of the lands in the game could be euphemisms for lady-bits. I'd post a few of the good ones, but it's more fun if you just read the list with a dirty mind: http://magiccards.info/query?q=c%3Al&v=olist&s=cname
Affinity was dominant, but it wasn't unbeatable. It warped the format around itself: the slide deck won because the end game of blinking a Viridian Shaman every turn isn't something affinity could deal with. Also, if you look at decklists from that era, EVERY green deck jammed Oxidize, because that card was insane against affinity and, for the most part, only affinity. Overall though, Caw-Blade is the worst domination of standard we've seen in a long time, because the deck attacked from so many angles that it was really impossible to play anything else. No matter what you did, the deck had a more effective way to do it than any other deck. Stoneforge into Batterskull crushed aggro, Jace crushed control. SoFaF crushed everything else.
Hey guys, so I picked up a copy of Enchantress' Presence in a trade yesterday, but it seems like I can't find any evidence of what language it is or of the card even being printed in this language. It looks like Korean or Chinese (either traditional or simplified) but there are no copies on eBay and I can't seem to find records on which languages Onslaught was printed in. If anyone could help me out with specifics, such as what language it actually is and what it might be worth, that would be much appreciated. I can tell for certain that it is not Japanese, as I found pictures of the card in Japanese and it does not match.
I can't really see Geist going higher than he is now. If you plan to dump him, get rid of him ASAP. He isn't really an EDH all-star, due to the fact that his angel token doesn't contribute to general damage. I agree that he'll be good in standard, but anything more than that is just a flimsy argument at best.
I would say it looks like a printer error. It doesn't really look blue, but more of a faded green from what I can tell. Maybe the ink in the printer used at that particular time ran low or something (I could be conveying my complete unfamiliarity with the industrial printing process here). That being said, I have no clue on value. It's pretty much 100% dependent on rarity though. The fact that this card is in no way interesting or relevant itself is also a bit of a depressant on the value.
She will definitely drop, but only because she can only go into a limited range of decks. You really have to structure your deck around wanting what Liliana offers, and if you don't, she's just an overpriced edict effect. You really need to be able to abuse the +1. That being said, a Solar Flare type deck seems pretty good right now, but even if that deck becomes the "best deck" in the format, Liliana is just too narrow to be worth more than the $15-$20 that similar cards have shown to maintain in the past
This pool makes me hate Sealed. Reaper of the Abyss is just...so insanely bomby, but playing him just doesn't really work in this pool. GW seems definitely correct, going for the human synergies.
I come as close to agreeing here as possible except the red is so bad that you aren't going to be splashing enough mountains to make her really good. Black has strong cards, but nothing to back them up (and a lack of zombies to make the rates good). I think white and blue are the strongest colors, and you could blue/green ramp though you would only be going into 6/6s. I think white blue is your best bet.
In a pool like this, you really need to play to your strengths, and since none of the colors are actually good in an objective sense, you pretty much have to play Olivia Voldaren and hope to get lucky. Plus, red isn't the absolute worst, there's a few cards I'm happy to play (that scourge looks pretty good as a probable 5/5 for 5).
There is literally no way you can open Olivia Voldaren and not play her. Which leads me to some sort of Jund build, since the green here is pretty good.
I stand to benefit from this a lot haha. Someone looking through my binder of decent stuff once described it as "cards that suck because of Mental Misstep". Seems good. In terms of predictions, I think Candelabra might gain some more, Time Spiral will be back up. Meditate might gain a bit. Exploration seems good right now. Goblins seem good right now. Basically we're reverting to the legacy metagame of pre-NPH, but I think that Stoneblade and RUG will continue to be real decks, just not as good as they once were.
i missed glimmer for cloud. i was mistakened that they were goimg for a lighter touch
okay, other than the obvious slowing of the format, where is the meta gping and what specific cards benefit.
Control cards do. Engineered Explosives, Vedalken Shackles, Cryptic Command, Gifts Ungiven, Grove of the Burnwillows, etc. The aggressive mark of the format is Domain Zoo now, since there's really no point in running CounterCat. A control deck can definitely be designed to beat a deck like Domain Zoo, and whatever new combo decks spring up will be slow enough that control decks have time to gain their ground.
It's already online. The big question is...where do we go from here? EVERY tier 1 deck lost a key component. Storm is dead, at least in its dominant form. Cloudpost is obviously dead, unless you want to try to assemble the Urzatron. Zoo is severely weakened by losing GSZ (CounterCat that is, the domain zoo list that jams a bunch of one drops with Dark Confidant and Tribal Flames is probably the best deck again), and everything else is just dead. It seems like Wizards really wants this to be a weak format. That being said, look for Gifts to be getting a lot better now that the format is being artificially slowed down. Also, I wish I didn't sell off my burn deck on MTGO, seems like heaven for that deck now.
Auntie's Hovel probably wins this one.
In a pool like this, you really need to play to your strengths, and since none of the colors are actually good in an objective sense, you pretty much have to play Olivia Voldaren and hope to get lucky. Plus, red isn't the absolute worst, there's a few cards I'm happy to play (that scourge looks pretty good as a probable 5/5 for 5).
Control cards do. Engineered Explosives, Vedalken Shackles, Cryptic Command, Gifts Ungiven, Grove of the Burnwillows, etc. The aggressive mark of the format is Domain Zoo now, since there's really no point in running CounterCat. A control deck can definitely be designed to beat a deck like Domain Zoo, and whatever new combo decks spring up will be slow enough that control decks have time to gain their ground.