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May 21, 20141
Antknee42 posted a message on [[SCD]] Paliano, the High CityPeople said the same about DFC'sPosted in: Cube Card and Archetype Discussion
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Valarin posted a message on [[MM]] Modern Masters - Modern Legal Booster Product Announced at Pro Tour RtRPosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from Georg51Seriously, don't waste your money preordering. You would be best served approaching your LGS and asking how they will be planning to move the product.
I went to three LGS's this week and asked specifically how they will be doing MM sales. Two of the stores are drafting only, and only a limited amount of pods each week. One of the stores, the largest of the three, plans to sell the product directly but not by the box as they want their product to last.
None of them are taking preorders, so I contacted another store a littel farther away and they were taking preorders at $240/box. When I asked them how many they had sold, they said none, and they based their prices off Ebay (ridiculous).
That's when I told them if they sold me two boxes for $360 I would provide them with credit card info right then and there, and they still said no.
Some stores are convoluted in thinking how this product will move, and are holding us players hostage. Others are doing it the right way and allowing the distribution to be spread out and moderately priced. Call all your LGS's and ask and you will learn a lot about how in touch with the players the store is.
I'll have fun drafting and trading MM, and I know I will get the cards I want while also playing and having fun. Have fun blowing your money down the drain if you fork over $200+ for a box.
Future Sight and Worldwake are selling over $400 for a box because of a single card in the set.
Even if you believe MM will have zero other chase cards besides Goyf, it's still a fantastic buy at $200. Heck, people are paying $10 for Unhinged packs for the chance to pull an Island
The fact it's a set full of powerful reprints is good for the value of the set, not bad.
I've already had 2 people offer me $250 a piece for all my boxes I preordered. I could flip them for $300 profit before it even ships if I wanted to. -
Jun 15, 20122
joejack8445 posted a message on [Official] Digital Rendering ThreadI was wondering if someone could make Full-Art versions of Tamyio, Taibalt, and the new M13 Lilliana in this style, each using their original art.Posted in: Artwork - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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My black themes are based heavily around sacrificing things, as I've found that's one of the more interesting and fun to play themes within black (I've seen it pushed in other cubes as well). I have no idea if it's powerful enough, but my own cube seems to have solid representation from black due to the fact that it gets some powerful & interesting artifact theme cards and just a bunch of generically powerful removal. Drawing from my own cube, here's some suggestions:
- Sacrifice enablers are things like: Carrion Feeder (aggro), Priest of Yawgmoth (ramp), Syndicate Trafficker (aggro), Fleshbag Marauder (control), Shadowborn Demon (control), Gate to Phyrexia, and if you want to go really heavy, Smothering Abomination.
- To make sacrifice themes work, you need recursion. Helpfully, artifacts are good at recursion: Bloodghast, Skeleton Shard, and Ovalchase Daredevil all come back from the dead indefinitely.
- To help sacrifice more, you can also use things like Sly Requisitioner, Pawn of Ulamog, and Smothering Abomination to keep generating cards/dudes to sacrifice.
- And for sacrificing payoffs... Skirsdag High Priest, Moriok Rigger, Disciple of the Vault, and Blood Artist love it when you sacrifice things for cheap.
- It helps when your themes play into other colors; because I'm based on the Antiquities set specifically I use cards like Argivian Archaeologist and Orcish Mechanics to support the theme in other colors (white resurrects, black sacrifices creatures, and red sacrifices artifacts) but you can easily find sacrifice outlets and engine cards in other colors, whether it's Metallic Mastery/Harness By Force in red or Sun Titan/Auriok Salvagers in white.
- I've found it makes the game more interesting than The Rock (efficient green beaters and cheap black removal... which I'll admit is my BG theme) but it also has the potential to do really powerful things like jam early Sundering Titans or Greater Gargadons, swarm the board with white metalcraft guys backed up by Painsmith and Disciple of the Vault, or generate long engines where you overwhelm your opponent with Trading Post, Skeleton Shard, and Unwinding Clock.
- Also, I know you're Mirran themed, but oh man is Praetor's Grasp cool in an artifact cube.
Hope that inspires you!3
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These are awesome! Do you have them available in higher quality? With your permission, I'd love to download that Guardian Beast to use as a proxy in my Artifact Cube (until I can actually get a copy of the real card one of these days)