Swiss and 8-4 drafts average 1.5 packs with a 50% win rate. If you consider that it takes 3 packs and 2 tix to enter a draft, you will realize it is not sustainable with a 50% win rate.
Thus you need to win a lot more than 50% of the time, or be incredibly lucky and draft expensive cards each time.
The best way to sell off your cards is check various bot chains that you can either get tix or packs. Check the Beginner's Guide in this forum under bots for a good starting place.
OK, let me qualify that; they are the cheapest I could find that actually keeps cards in stock. The MTGOTraders site has 1 or 2 ofs, whereas I was able to find playsets of all the cards I needed on VRTStore.
So other than VRTStore copying MTGOTraders prices, anyone have any experience buying cards from them?
They have 4 bots in game, but the stock on them isn't so great. However, the website has amazing stock(www.vrtstore.com), and prices way cheaper than MTGOTraders or MTGOLibrary.
I don't want to put in a $100 order with them and end up never getting my cards.
Question:
Would it be profitable to redeem a set and then sell it somewhere? (Any tips on a shop/person that buys full packaged sets?)
Or would you be better off selling the online cards for tickets somewhere? (Again, are there people that buy full sets specifically for the redemption?)
How about being able to look at the playing field and anything else at the same time?
The interface regarding revealed cards, cards in graveyard, exiled cards, etc. is terrible. Double clicking them to close them, and then playing a shell game when trying to open them back up is ridiculous. It is especially frustrating currently with so many graveyard based strategies.
I think the rules implementation is very good. It does have a steep learning curve, but once you get over the hump, things are fine. I remember a friend of mine playing in a SOM draft, casting leeching bite, killing his own creature and pumping his opponent's. Things like that wouldn't happen in paper magic, but for the most part, they only happen once to you online, and then you figure it out.
Is there anyone that would be willing to loan me a standard deck for TNMO tonight? I just started playing online about a month ago, and haven't been able to put together a standard deck yet.
I can offer up some sort of collateral depending on the value of the deck, and I'll trade it right back to you after the last TNMO tonight.
how did he play slash panther for 1 mana even with semblance anvil and paying the life it would still cost 2
edit: beat me to it should reload the page before posting
If Semblance Anvil has an Artifact Creature under it both Artifacts and Creatures each cost {2} less to cast, but Artifact Creatures still just cost {2} less to cast. It's in the rulings for the card.
If I do a Cackling Counterpart targeting a creature that I stole with Traitorous Blood would the Cackling token have haste and trample until end of turn? Would my opponent end up getting the token when the traitor is returned to him?
Someone bought cards from me on this site. The cards arrived on Friday afternoon. The member hasn't logged onto the forum all weekend, and hasn't responded to the email I sent him either. I understand some people just might not log on over the weekend, but how long should I wait before I get worried?
Swiss and 8-4 drafts average 1.5 packs with a 50% win rate. If you consider that it takes 3 packs and 2 tix to enter a draft, you will realize it is not sustainable with a 50% win rate.
Thus you need to win a lot more than 50% of the time, or be incredibly lucky and draft expensive cards each time.
The best way to sell off your cards is check various bot chains that you can either get tix or packs. Check the Beginner's Guide in this forum under bots for a good starting place.
2 packs later I opened a pack that had a foil Abattoir Ghoul, and a foil Butcher's Cleaver.
Anyone gotten a pack with 3 or 4 mythics in it?
So other than VRTStore copying MTGOTraders prices, anyone have any experience buying cards from them?
They have 4 bots in game, but the stock on them isn't so great. However, the website has amazing stock(www.vrtstore.com), and prices way cheaper than MTGOTraders or MTGOLibrary.
I don't want to put in a $100 order with them and end up never getting my cards.
4 Phyrexian Crusader
4 Blighted Agent
4 Plague Stinger
4 Whispering Specter
2 Spellskite
Removal: (6)
2 Doom Blade
2 Dismember
2 Virulent Wound
Draw: (2)
2 Tezzeret's Gambit
3 Lashwrithe
1 Livewire Lash
Artifacts: (6)
2 Contagion Clasp
2 Tumble Magnet
2 Trigon of Rage
Land: (24)
4 Inkmoth Nexus
4 Drowned Catacomb
12 Swamp
4 Island
3 Black Sun's Zenith
3 Surgical Extraction
3 Ratchet Bomb
3 Batterskull
2 Tribute to Hunger
1 Spellskite
Would it be profitable to redeem a set and then sell it somewhere? (Any tips on a shop/person that buys full packaged sets?)
Or would you be better off selling the online cards for tickets somewhere? (Again, are there people that buy full sets specifically for the redemption?)
The interface regarding revealed cards, cards in graveyard, exiled cards, etc. is terrible. Double clicking them to close them, and then playing a shell game when trying to open them back up is ridiculous. It is especially frustrating currently with so many graveyard based strategies.
I think the rules implementation is very good. It does have a steep learning curve, but once you get over the hump, things are fine. I remember a friend of mine playing in a SOM draft, casting leeching bite, killing his own creature and pumping his opponent's. Things like that wouldn't happen in paper magic, but for the most part, they only happen once to you online, and then you figure it out.
I can offer up some sort of collateral depending on the value of the deck, and I'll trade it right back to you after the last TNMO tonight.
Thanks in advance
If Semblance Anvil has an Artifact Creature under it both Artifacts and Creatures each cost {2} less to cast, but Artifact Creatures still just cost {2} less to cast. It's in the rulings for the card.
2 Boneyard Wurm
4 Merfolk Looter
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Kessig Cagebreakers
4 Splinterfright
4 Deranged Assistant
4 Veridian Emissary
2 Acidic Slime
2 Armored Skaab
2 Skaab Ruinator
2 Unburial Rites
2 Postmortem Lunge
Lands: (8)
4 Hinterland Harbor
4 Woodland Cemetary
Basic Lands: (16)
4 Island
2 Swamp
9 Forest
1 Plains
2 Naturalize
2 Phantasmal Image
4 Viridian Corrupter
2 Gnaw to the Bone
3 Ghost Quarter
2 Act of Aggression
2 Grave Titan
2 Olivia Voldaren
2 Sheoldred, Whispering One
4 Solemn Simulacrum
Instants: (10)
4 Dismember
4 Doom Blade
2 Altar's Reap
Sorceries: (9)
4 Black Sun's Zenith
4 Arc Trail
1 Army of the Damned
3 Curse of Death's Hold
2 Warstorm Surge
Basic Lands: (18)
7 Mountain
11 Swamp
Lands: (8)
4 Dragonskull Summit
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
Work in Progress
4 Act of Aggression
4 Slagstorm
4 Tumble Magnet
4 Ancient Grudge
I really like the idea of maybe fitting Mimic Vat in there, the combo with Warstorm Surge is ridiculous.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
What is a BTR?