Magic: The Gathering - Page 167

On May 15 2012 07:58 hkf wrote:

Not really a question of whether the prices will go up (p9 and co have had a stable price for a while, and generally do barring advent of new formats - rare), but whether prices will FALL. My opinion is that it will remain steady, as loam is a very unique and very powerful mechanic.

Also reprinting loam will be either $ grab or just... brokenness.

On May 18 2012 01:52 deth2munkies wrote:
Yes.

In RE: Loam,

Izzet vs Golgari is the next duel deck, and I wouldn't be surprised to see it there.

On May 18 2012 01:58 Judicator wrote:


Would seem highly out of place unless there's a reason for running Life in Golgari, aka unless there are sweet land interactions from either Golgari itself or from Izzet wrecking lands, neither seems that likely to be honest as I don't recall land being that big a deal in RGD (outside of color fixing etc. not direct game interaction like Zendikar for example).

On May 18 2012 03:21 deth2munkies wrote:


Golgari dredge things. Lands get dredged. New players might not like seeing a bunch of useless lands in their graveyard and a card that interacts with them would be a good idea. Loam is there.

Also, Yes.

On May 18 2012 10:14 Judicator wrote:


Except it does nothing to fill the theme of the decks, this isn't a reprint of the guildss greatest hits, the decks are suppose to play off of each other. Life from the Loam doesn't fit that theme, nor does the Dredge argument fit as new players are more terrified of Dredging in the first place and more so regarding spells than lands. You are forgetting that interaction with lands has little relevance other than getting back lands. Unless there's a discard-for-abilities theme already in place to take advantage of dead (possibly land) cards in hand, but even then there's little reason to choose the bloated Loam line over just discarding Dredge cards in the first place.

Anyways at Limited GPs, for those of you who have never been, you open and register a card pool for someone else, pass said card pool to other people, that card pool you register a sealed deck, then turn said registration papers in to the judges. Then you play, etc., etc. The cards are now yours (since you effectively paid for them with your registration fee). If you were fortunate/skilled enough to make Day 2, the format changes to Draft where the packs are already registered by judges and the cards will have a nice little stamp on them.

On May 18 2012 13:41 wunsun wrote:


Man, I am way to curious for my own good. I live in Ontario and am really pushing my friends to play more competitvely (Standard and such). However, both of them prefer limited as the money required to play in it is much less. Anyways, I was curious as any positive things would hopefully get them to play more and more. I am hoping that eventually that GP limited will encourage them to play more standard.

Now, the chances of me making GP day 2 is ridiculously remote, I can't help it. T.T Do you keep the cards from the booster draft.

Sadly, this won't happen this year as the GP in Toronto is Modern

Also, thanks Judicator for answering me oo (infinity) questions before and now (and future! XD)

On May 19 2012 14:36 wunsun wrote:
Granted, they're not doing that much drafting anyways. I like limited cause I only started in Innistird, so I don't have many cards in the Scars block. Furthermore, I still make really really stupid mistakes, and drafting is helping me learn a set better and get me playing a bunch, so hopefully I learn from them.

On May 20 2012 00:44 Judicator wrote:


That was the same boat I was in like 1.5-2 years ago. I had to make a judgment call on whether to buy Jace TMS and actually play T2 (fuck Valakut), decided against it and play for the post-Zendikar rotation. So I just drafted the shit out of SOM block building up my land base, spent a little money on Titans when M12 was announced since they were gonna be cheap, and then worked towards Snapcasters and Lilianas by trading off Inkmoths and extra SOM lands that I wasn't gonna play.

Basically, build your land base, then figure out what the staples are and trade up for those. T2 is only expensive if you decide to jump in blind mid format.

On May 19 2012 13:33 Judicator wrote:


The whole notion of Limited being cheaper than Standard is pretty much a farce unless you buy every individual card and have zero reads on the meta. Drafting is far more expensive over the course of time. I think I only actually spent about 100 dollars directly for my current standard deck (control and its infinite variants) and the rest I managed to pick up through trades and drafting weekly.

Very true, I'd not suggest going all in now, wait until M13 and R2R comes out, then jump in with everything.

On May 20 2012 02:51 DEN1ED wrote:


What? This makes no sense. Standard is cheaper than drafting because you use the cards you get from draft to play standard? If you were to just purchase the current deck I am playing in standard, it would cost you a little over $400. My deck is probably on the expensive side but still, that's almost a years worth of drafting once a week. And if you sell back the cards you get from drafting and the packs you win, drafting isn't that expensive.



You can't really go wrong with picking up snapcasters and huntmasters now though.

On May 21 2012 04:17 slyboogie wrote:
Dudes, just win your drafts and play for free for the rest of your life.