You say your journey has been inspiring; please know seeing the three of you travel it with such grace and dignity is inspiring to others.
Quote from 9909your son is the cutest little button that I have ever seen.
This as well.
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Quote from 9909your son is the cutest little button that I have ever seen.
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I hate to do this because I really hate when it's done but here is what you've done through your last posts:
1. Constructed a strawman argument.
2. Begged the question.
3. Ad Hominen'd me.
More importantly than any of that -
My initial statement was simply a word of caution. It was not an absolutist statement or prediction or evaluation of value. I will not conform to your demands to make it a numbers argument - it doesn't require it. It is supported by very simple and sound logic and I continue to stand by the assessment - people who are paying a lot for this product are putting themselves in a position of risk.
I think you are still unable to see what I'm saying clearly so here: The relationship is monotonic increasing - NOT black and white. Consider an upward sloping linear line which represents cost of a box. As you move to the right, the probability of that line being above the EV line (currently not drawn bc it's unknown) decreases at an increasing rate. You keep asking for me to quantify this when it doesn't need to be. When I refuse to quantify you try to make it black and white - it is not that either. Would you pay 500$ for a box of MM? Probably not, but why? Because risk, as you percieve it, is probably too high at that price point. You're asking me to quantify the risk equation and that's impossible. It doesn't invalidate my point or validate yours to ask me something that's impossible.
ps: Your assessment of comparing MM to Zendikar is still completely faulty. I'm not sure why you're even bothering on that point, but ok.
pps: I think you might want to take internet forums a little less seriously.
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^ experiment results
Pretty interesting overall - looks relatively equal across the board. I would consider, just from looking at this, that mashing and riffling are probably about the same or at least close enough to not matter.
I'll probably just change my routine to do a quick pile to count the deck and then mash 10 and go. Seems fast and at the end of it all, you're going to be averaging 2 bad pockets per shuffle - you just have to hope your opponent doesn't cut to them.
Also did a quick test of Cockatrice and while the sample size was small, it seemed equal.
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With a growing player base and shocks being used in standard for 1.5 more years + modern.. they might hit the high teens by this time next year.
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Legendary Land
T: Add 1 of any color to your mana pool.
When Dragon's Maze enters the battlefield under your control, any opponent may search your hand and library for a copy of Dragon's Maze. If a copy is found, you lose the game.
Having long understood the nature of his foes, Niv-Mizzet formed the leylines with a singular purpose - to provide for them a resource so enticing that they would trade knowledge for power.
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4-0 gets 12 packs
3-0-1 gets 9
3-0 gets 6
There's only 4 rounds.
This way with a big turn out (we get like 40-50), there's a big group of people winning. You see a lot more variety in who's placing.
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/no. Compensation for WHAT? You got exactly what you paid for.
The card is: sleeved, taped securely to cardboard, and arrived to you undamaged. A lot of sellers use cardboard instead of toploaders (I use toploaders personally) and sellers assume 100% of the risk on ebay and with mailing. You, as a buyer, took zero risk and have all the recourse. You weren't shorted anything. Being angry and wanting compensation strikes me as ridiculous in this scenario.
As an aside, you might not have been offered any other type of shipping but that is also irrelevant - you click buy knowing the terms of shipping.