On a side note, does anyone know why the hell B/R dual lands are always cheaper than the other ones in whatever cycle their in?
Bloodstained Mire is a full $30 less than next cheapest Onslaught fetch
Graven Cairns is half the price of the other filter lands
Dragonskull Summit was cheaper than the rest of that cycle till they rotated out of standard and cratered.
And while I'm not 100% on this one, I'm pretty sure the Blood Crypt was cheaper than the other shocks before the reprint as well.
It's weird.
B/R just isn't a very popular color pairing. The two colors do very similar things in a vacuum, so most colors would rather splash one or the other for removal options rather than use both since there's not very many specifically BR cards that push people towards that combination otherwise. Given all that, there's less demand for their lands and hence cheaper prices.
Good news, once RtR rotates out, maybe they'll reprint fetch lands!
Pfffffffffffffffffthahaha.
So ah
Why are you laughing at the idea of fetchlands being reprinted?
Its basically guaranteed.
I'll believe it when I see it, and not a second sooner.
This is weirdly skeptical of a move they've already done before(with reprinting the Shocks), would increase the modern player pool(one of their current goals) and that Mark Rosewater has said many times in on the agenda.
They also said they wanted to decrease the barrier to entry on modern when they were putting out Modern Masters, and look how that went.
I just don't see fetches being reprinted in mass quantities. Onslaught block fetches go from just below $100 to nearly $200 a piece (with the exception of Blood Mire, which is hanging out at $30 for some reason), Zendikar ones are sitting around $50, and for whatever reason, they don't want to piss off the secondary market so they have been super wary of reprinting anything that pricey.
While reprinting shocks was great they
1. Were being reprinted in a block that was for all intents and purposes a sequel to the one they were originally printed in
2. "Only" worth about $20 to $25 each, which is below that weird "don't want to piss off collectors" threshold.
So while I would love to be proven wrong, I don't see fetches coming back in a non-limited release.
The. Modern masters situation really isn't similar at all. But even so the MM set did exactly what they wanted to. Everything that wasn't goyf or bob fell pretty hard in price and even those put more goyfs and bobs in players hand and at least around here had a big effect on the modern and legacy player bases.
I personally, never even saw a pack of MM, much less got a chance to buy any.
The two boxes the store near me got in were bought out by pre-order by the 8 or so modern players that frequent the place. So here, all MM accomplished was giving the people that were already into modern some more stuff to play modern with.
Even so if you decided to play modern you could get kitchen finks, murderous redcaps or street wraiths for a pittance. This was not true a year ago. Furthermore if you go through your groups trade binders you're probably way more likely to see a lot of the mildly expensive cards available for trade.
I might try talking a friend into making some budget modern decks with me. Izzet blitz looked fun
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I might try talking a friend into making some budget modern decks with me. Izzet blitz looked fun
Instead of making an awful modern deck, why not start a paper pauper league at your local store where izzet blitz is an actual force to be reckoned with?
My local store actually gets more people in for pauper than standard now, so the store supports pauper pretty heavily. Do it do it do it.
I might try talking a friend into making some budget modern decks with me. Izzet blitz looked fun
Instead of making an awful modern deck, why not start a paper pauper league at your local store where izzet blitz is an actual force to be reckoned with?
My local store actually gets more people in for pauper than standard now, so the store supports pauper pretty heavily. Do it do it do it.
I think my local store did a pauper league, but its on hiatus
4x Eidolon of Countless Battles
4x God-Favored General
4x Precinct Captain
4x Frontline Medic
4x Hopeful Eidolon
2x Archangel of Thune
2x Brimaz, King of Oreskos
3x Path of Bravery
3x Rootborn Defenses
3x Angelic Accord
2x Spear of Heliod
2x Whip of Erebos
2x Nykthos
4x Temple of Silence
17x Plains
Brimaz - $50 (preorder)
Archangel of Thune - $40
Whip - $5 (already own one)
Spear - $10
Everything Else: Dirt
Needs a sideboard, which should obviously include Revoke Existence and Celestial Flare. Not sure what else to take, really.
Yo dawg where your ethereal armors at? That list would be much more potent with a playset.
I'm not really sure where I could fit it in.
I should probably take it over Angelic Accord but goddamn I want Angeli Accord in a deck for some reason. It's not even a good card! The art isn't even super-catchy! Yet still I try to force it into every deck with white I make for some reason.
Good news: Channel Fireball had no Angelic Accords in stock so Ethereal Armor fills that slot
I'd like to thank Channel Fireball for forcing me to make my deck better and saving me from spending money on dumb shit
So I'm putting an order in for Born of the Gods and keep looking at Flame Wreathed Phoenix. I feel it's a solid card, and if it gets run in a deck then it's a four of, especially if Xenagod takes off.
It's at about $6-7, but I might be better off trading or waiting a few weeks since PT Born of the Gods won't be Standard and spike up prices. If it drops to $4ish, then I'd feel better about picking up a set.
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B/R just isn't a very popular color pairing. The two colors do very similar things in a vacuum, so most colors would rather splash one or the other for removal options rather than use both since there's not very many specifically BR cards that push people towards that combination otherwise. Given all that, there's less demand for their lands and hence cheaper prices.
All of these are exceptionally good pulls for the archetype they belong in.
I think you're a little out of the loop, is all.
well, I guess I'll take back my grumbling
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Funny. Reading this makes me WANT to crack some MTGO packs.
I'll resist and just do a Theros sealed pool on Monday. That's six packs and a chance to go 0-X in my first tourney!
Then I beat my roommate, the guy who taught me everything I know about the game, 2-1. Student bests the teacher.
STEAM!
Have we talked about Merfolk O-Face yet?
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I'm not going to lie I had to read this like five times to figure it out
stormbreath alone covers the cost of those packs and then some
He traded his thumbtack for a candle, for a poster, for a van, for a pair of boats.
Later on in the night, I made trades to get some morningtide mutavaults.
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Should have traded for the mystery box. It could have been anything! Even a pair of boats!
So glad I pitched my foil Elspeth and master of waves right after the GP and those cards spiked really hard.
I got 3 decks then. Now I'd be lucky to get one.
I am cackling idly. These cards...my silly shit orzhov deck.
If I am sick during the prerelease I will stab everyone.
Instead of making an awful modern deck, why not start a paper pauper league at your local store where izzet blitz is an actual force to be reckoned with?
My local store actually gets more people in for pauper than standard now, so the store supports pauper pretty heavily. Do it do it do it.
And this is one I needed! Now I can make this joke:
Just what do we have here?
STEAM!
STEAM!
Its 100% you-had-to-be-there joke.
STEAM!
I think my local store did a pauper league, but its on hiatus
Good news: Channel Fireball had no Angelic Accords in stock so Ethereal Armor fills that slot
I'd like to thank Channel Fireball for forcing me to make my deck better and saving me from spending money on dumb shit
It's at about $6-7, but I might be better off trading or waiting a few weeks since PT Born of the Gods won't be Standard and spike up prices. If it drops to $4ish, then I'd feel better about picking up a set.
I think if you're planning on having 2 Temples out in order to play your Whips, you're gonna have a bad time.
This is my similar deck, but with more black and more lifelink
3 Fiendslayer Paladin
2 Hopeful Eidolon
2 Ghostblade Eidolon
4 Soldier of the Pantheon
1 Blood Baron of Vizkopa
2 Fencing Ace
2 Frontline Medic
4 Ethereal Armor
2 Indestructibility
4 Sanguine Bond
2 Whip of Erebos
2 Gift of Orzhova
3 Orzhov Charm
3 Doom Blade
3 Godless Shrine
4 Temple of Silence
8 Plains
7 Swamp
SB: 1 Tithe Drinker
SB: 2 Ordeal of Heliod
SB: 3 Ultimate Price
SB: 3 Revoke Existence
SB: 2 Gods Willing
SB: 3 Eidolon of Countless Battles
SB: 1 Phalanx Leader
STEAM!
Nighthowler
Sylvan Caryatid
Boon Satyr
Sedge Scorpion x2
Insatiable Harpy
Disciple of Phenax
Felhide Minotaur
Mogis' Marauder
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Voyaging Satyr
Pharika's Mender
Nessian Asp x2
Blood-Toll Harpy
Boon of Erebos
Savage Surge
Pharika's Cure
Lash of the Whip
Read the Bones
Time to Feed
Artisan's Sorrow
Thoughtseize
Swamp x9
Forest x8
Even just the one Gary saved my ass multiple games.
Monoblack Control against Mazes End
Monoblack Heroic against Monoblack Control.
his entire 75 is foiled out
If you're going to foil out a Standard deck, foiling out the one where the entire manabase is made up of commons is a good choice.