They won't give us Manlands because Manlands mean Zendikar because flavor.
I'd like to point out to you that Celestial Colonnade, Creeping Tar Pit, Lawaclaw Reaches, Raging Ravine and Stirring Wildwood have no flavour connections in their names to any plane.
Because Wizards stopped making 5 card land cycles.
I don't know if you can really say they've "stopped" doing something with one block in the books since the announcement of equal support for color pairs. There are good reasons to support all ten color pairs while RTR is still in Standard, but that doesn't make it an eternal truth.
Why would all ten two-color pairs need to be accounted for? I keep seeing people say that, but the statement was really more "we're going to support enemy-color pairs to the extent we support allied-color pairs", not that they'd be supported exactly the same always and everywhere.
A staple in the deck. It's a creature, so it counts towards our creature count. It grabs a land, so it's a pseudo mama dork. It mills, making it a dredger. It chump blocks buying us time. It does everything this deck wants.
I'm going to cut the 13th mana dork, and a few other things. This is what I will be testing.
I really don't get why people hate on mill so much. It's a viable strategy, and if it becomes good enough there are sideboard options that will keep it in place. Phenax is pretty interesting. It could be a build around me card, with walls etc, or it could be the indestructible win condition in UB control (as I mentioned earlier, it turns mutavaults into pseudo drownyards).
Either way, he's interesting and has plenty of reach and potential. Watching people whine about how unfun milling is, that's just icing on the cake.
The entire point is that it's not a viable strategy.
Usually you would sell to an LGS or some other game store due to not needing to go through the hassle of selling independently. Same sort of reason that companies sell their product to retail stores as opposed to only selling directly to the consumers themselves. Game stores exist to make money. So they, like every store that buys products from consumers to resell, will buy lower than their sale price in order to make a profit. I don't see why that is such a bad thing to try to do when it is as transparent as selling cards usually is.
Not only that, but he's also misstating the transaction as "I sell for 30, you buy for 30, everyone wins". Realistically, no one is going to buy your card, after shipping, for more than TCG mid. And that's not counting the cut eBay is going to take.
Why on earth would xenagos target? You mean the tutor ability? Tutors never target AFAIK.
Clone doesn't really DO anything to the creature you're copying, so it seems kind of reasonable. Like being hexproof implies spells bounce off of you. It wouldn't stop somebody from just looking at you and drawing a picture of you, for instance. Or morphing into you by look.
Cipher, however, I totally agree with. That should be targeted.
And tutors don't target for good reason: you could fail to find.
I'm pretty sure "violent business practice" doesn't mean what you think it means. At least judging by that comment.
Also, yes if you bought every single underground sea it would be detrimental. Good thing SCG didn't buy out every single copy of any card ever.
You know, because its pretty much impossible.
Maybe cut back on the hyperbole?
They obviously influence the market but certainly not as much as you think they do.
To frame his argument in a more reasonable way, let's say he meant purchased every copy on the market. If that happened, it's hard to see why that's a problem. They're not going to be able to move them independent of demand.
Can you explain that? I play legacy, and i don´t see what SCG has to do with it.
Because SCG are really the only ones running Legacy events. Otherwise, there's what, one Legacy GP a year? Without SCG's events, Legacy would be almost as dead as Vintage.
The following factors make me dislike and distrust SCG:
-The incestuous relationship between SCG and WOTC, in terms of employment and transmission of information.
-How just about every LGS uses the inflated SCG price for singles.
-Evan Erwin (sp?) overhyping every **** card in a new set.
Evan Erwin did that before he ever worked for SCG. That's just part of his schtick. Don't like it? Don't watch his Youtube videos.
Doesn't mean they're all in the first set...
This. Also, Ghitu Encampment and pals say hello.
1 Belligerent Sliver
1 Blood Keeper
1 Crowd's Favor
1 Altac Bloodseeker
1 Act of Impulse
1 Hammerhand
1 Miner's Bane
2 Scrapyard Mongrel
2 Rummaging Goblin
1 Clear a Path
1 Wall of Fire
1 Might Makes Right
2 Borderland Marauder
2 Generator Servant
1 Frenzied Goblin
1 Forge Devil
1 Krenko's Enforcer
1 Soul of Shandalar
1 Goblin Roughrider
1 Siege Dragon
1 Aggressive Mining
1 Blastfire Bolt
1 Lightning Strike
1 Heat Ray
1 Cone of Flame
1 In Garruk's Wake
1 Typhoid Rats
2 Carrion Crow
1 Gravedigger
1 Accursed Spirit
1 Zof Shade
1 Indulgent Tormentor
1 Shadowcloak Vampire
Green
1 Hornet Queen
1 Plummet
1 Ancient Silverback
1 Charging Rhino
1 Hunter's Ambush
1 Vineweft
1 Verdant Haven
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Hunt the Weak
Blue
1 Chief Engineer
2 Chronostutter
1 Statute of Denial
1 Invisibility
2 Negate
1 Welkin Tern
1 Quickling
1 Divination
1 Nimbus of the Isles
1 Amphin Pathmage
1 Turn to Frog
1 Void Snare
1 Selfless Cathar
2 Sanctified Charge
1 Divine Favor
1 Battle Mastery
2 Triplicate Spirits
2 Oreskos Swiftclaw
1 Ephemeral Shields
1 Pillar of Light
1 Raise the Alarm
1 Sungrace Pegasus
1 Midnight Guard
Artifacts
2 Meteorite
2 Will-Forged Golem
1 Juggernaut
1 Bronze Sable
1 Hot Soup
1 Tyrant's Machine
1 Staff of the Wild Magus
1 Profane Memento
1 Gravedigger
1 Accursed Spirit
1 Zof Shade
1 Indulgent Tormentor
1 Shadowcloak Vampire
1 Will-Forged Golem
2 Borderland Marauder
2 Generator Servant
1 Frenzied Goblin
1 Forge Devil
1 Krenko's Enforcer
1 Soul of Shandalar
1 Goblin Roughrider
1 Siege Dragon
1 Blastfire Bolt
1 Lightning Strike
1 Heat Ray
1 Cone of Flame
10 Mountain
7 Swamp
I felt pretty happy with this deck. Ended up going 3-1.
I don't know if you can really say they've "stopped" doing something with one block in the books since the announcement of equal support for color pairs. There are good reasons to support all ten color pairs while RTR is still in Standard, but that doesn't make it an eternal truth.
He never said he's entitled to know. He said he's curious...
Sure, but would they want to create that kind of absurd environment even if it was for only three months?
Think you meant Nemesis of Mortals.
The entire point is that it's not a viable strategy.
Not only that, but he's also misstating the transaction as "I sell for 30, you buy for 30, everyone wins". Realistically, no one is going to buy your card, after shipping, for more than TCG mid. And that's not counting the cut eBay is going to take.
And tutors don't target for good reason: you could fail to find.
To frame his argument in a more reasonable way, let's say he meant purchased every copy on the market. If that happened, it's hard to see why that's a problem. They're not going to be able to move them independent of demand.
Because SCG are really the only ones running Legacy events. Otherwise, there's what, one Legacy GP a year? Without SCG's events, Legacy would be almost as dead as Vintage.
Evan Erwin did that before he ever worked for SCG. That's just part of his schtick. Don't like it? Don't watch his Youtube videos.