Magic: The Gathering - Page 61

On September 19 2011 23:55 Jaksiel wrote:
I bombed out of GP Montreal pretty hard, so my extremely outside chance of getting to Worlds on Pro Points is now over. I would have needed a first or second place finish, so that's not too surprising. I'm down to making day 2 in 4 out of 6 limited GPs. Both of my misses (Montreal and GP Boston '09) were in Core Set limited. Damn Core Sets.

I don't really have the time or inclination to grind out PWP this qualifier season, so it will be back to the same old same old for me: gotta win a PTQ to qualify for Honolulu. I'm always confident going into limited events, though, so I like my chances.

On September 20 2011 00:02 Orpheos wrote:


how have sealed ptqs been in your experience? it seems really frustrating because if you get a mediocre pool you really have to grind out with good play to get to the top. only to be faced with a bunch of X-0/X-1 decks with like 5 bomb rares.

On September 20 2011 00:35 Iwan wrote:
Hello,

I was recently watching a few Magic The Gathering Online Drafts on youtube and was wondering how expensive it would be to play a few drafts from time to time on MTGO.

I've played in a few tournaments back in 2002-2006 so I am quite familiar with the rules and stuff, but I don't know much about Magic Online so I would love to know what options I do have and what I have to watch out for when I am trying to play MTGO for the first time.

E.g. how much does a standard M12 draft cost to play on MTGO? What can I do with the cards I keep after a draft?

On September 20 2011 00:54 Jopz wrote:

MTGO drafts are paid for by booster packs or event tickets, or a combination thereof. If you do well in a draft, you get boosters as prizes, and you get to keep your drafted cards which you can then trade for tickets.

Therefore, if you're good, you can theoretically draft forever by paying only your initial outlay for your first booster packs and tickets

Packs are like ~$3 and tickets are $1 a piece; to join an 8 player draft you need 3 boosters and 2 tickets, so you're looking at ~$14 for your first draft).

On September 20 2011 01:00 Iwan wrote:


This sounds quite cool. Is there a list for how much tickets the cards are worth or something like that?
Can I keep the cards I drafted from the boosters or will the cards be picked at the end of the draft one after another with the winning player starting to pick a card?

On September 20 2011 01:00 Iwan wrote:


This sounds quite cool. Is there a list for how much tickets the cards are worth or something like that?
Can I keep the cards I drafted from the boosters or will the cards be picked at the end of the draft one after another with the winning player starting to pick a card?

On September 20 2011 01:12 Jopz wrote:

For your first question, I just do a quick scan of card prices in the classifieds section of MTGO when I want to sell something. There are a bunch of trading bots there and I just get prices from some 2 or 3 of them to form a benchmark price and usually just put up a listing in the classifieds with a slightly lower price.

On September 20 2011 02:11 DEN1ED wrote:
Disappointing there is no good 1 cmc black discard spell. It's going to be weird playing black without inquisition.

Also, when drafting online, never buy packs from the store. Just buy tickets. 99% of the time, you can buy the current set packs for less than 4 tickets.

On September 20 2011 02:42 DEN1ED wrote:
It was really one of the only reasons to play black though. Black really doesn't offer anything unique now.