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I play a lot of multiplayer and lately I’ve been looking through old boxes of cards to create super annoying multiplayer decks.
Most spells target each of my opponents and their creatures... so having either pyrohemia or pestilence and light of sanction out asap is key... and using blood tithe, exsanguinate and soul warden to gain enough life to stay on top.
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You sir are a giant bag of douche haha, but that seems like how you want this to work.I would say stuffy doll but you have Light of Sanctionand that seems counter productive, I feel you could replace holy day with something, not sure what just yet.
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Ragged Veins is an option. Since you have a way to keep Pestilence around...Ragged Veins. Treacherous Link.Now you just turned Pestilence into more direct damage.Worth consideration. So would be Circle of Affliction.
Ugh? Why would you go for Pestilence AND Pyrohemia!? Both require colored mana to work, the result will be that you won't have enough mana for either. If you think that 4 Pestilence isn't enough you could add Thrashing Wumpus (but you don't even run 4 so what's the point?). Also, both Pestilence and Pyrohemia require you to have creatures in play, otherwise they will be sacrificed at the end of turn. Your Magma Phoenix is no solution for that problem. And you run Soul Warden? AURIOK CHAMPION!!! But even with Auriok Champions you will still run into problems of maintaining the Pestilences. Yes, there is Light of Sanction, but honestly, that's one card too much just get running and way too fragile. You want to drive people nuts in multiplayer? Run Stuffy Doll in this ...Blistegrub is fine but Guttersnipe? He will die the first time you activate your Pestilence and with just 9 sorceries he won't pay off until then. Grim Guardian would make more sense.Then I don't see why you need 4 Holy Day. Either your deck works in which case your oppnents won't have much to attack with or it doesn't and if that's the case, Holy Day won't help you and just prolong the beating. Since you rely heavily on enchantments, I would expect Enlightened Tutor (Idyllic Tutor if on budget) in this slot. Or Academy Rector.And you should probably run some enchantment/artifact removal yourself.
As you said, the Auriok Champions works with both protections. So, it keeps pestilence/pyrohemia on the board. Great call. At least...it helps keep them on the board. It isn't fool proof...but it does require your opponent to have to try and answer to Auriok Champions (i.e.forcing your opponent to try and remove it from play). That is a very solid choice to help better this deck. Academy Rector...another excellent catch. No problems, at all, of it dying in this deck. That is for sure! A great search engine for this deck. Yep, Stuffy doll is the tried and true card for Pestilence. Side note...stuffy doll combos with so many freaking cards...still do not know why it is so cheap, money wise. Under 2 bucks a piece.
On Stuffy Doll being cheap: It might combo well with lots of things but nothing of that is tournament worthy with the possible exception of Guilty Conscience. It costs 5 mana and that's too much for a card that doesn't do much on it's own (in the formats it is legal in). And in multiplayer, EDH and so on it gets overshadowed by the abundance of ridiculous creatures we have meanwhile, especially those pesky tramplers (they literally just run over a Stuffy Doll). Having said that, 2 bucks is still a solid price - at least it is worth *something*. Most older cards have lost their value, the average rare costs a few cents. Look at Reins of Power, a card that turns every multiplayer game upside down, what is it worth? 60-70 US cents ...
Its too slow for competitive formats and casual(with the exception of very few edh staples*looks at avacyn*) has a very small effect on the market.
Yeah, remember when a card shop guy bought my Hammer of Bogardan, back in 2001, for 8 bucks. Said it was the number 1 sought after card in his shop. lol believe it or not. Now, that same card is 70 cents!But, back in 2001, Lion's Eye Diamond was less than 3 bucks, and rated 1 out of 5 stars by Inquest Magazine.Now it is banned, rated as one of the highest rated cards in Mtg History, and is 90 bucks a piece.Time is weird, on cards. Usually...the trend i have seen...is that cards that stay relevant to Legacy/Vintage are the cards that rise. Cards like Hammer of Bogardan...no matter how much they were loved in the Standard of their day, if they aren't still considered Legal worthy...they are trashed. That is sad, but true.
I went through my old binder of cards i had when i was a kid, and in it was 3 mint lion's eye diamonds was stupid happy lol.Legacy/ vintage cards are mostly expensive due to the reserve list.Cards that are no longer printed and cant be reprinted due to the list limits QTY and makes prices skyrocket.Cards that are staples across multiple formats in top tier decks are work more depending on the success rates of the decks they are played in.Standard staples have the biggest price jumps due to rotation and meta shifts etc.Banning/unbanning cards in legacy/modern can cause huge jumps.
One of the reasons i do not play standard...a 20 dollar standard card, rotated out of standard, is 3 bucks.
Well if you play the market right its good to trade all your rotating cards 4 months before standard rotates.(at 3 months everyone is thinking about the rotation and don't trade for rotating cards as often)
No, that's what everybody does, if you play the market right, you don't play standard at all and sell all the expensive cards right after pulling them out of the booster. I usually sell the 5 or 6 most expensive cards right away when they are still about 10 euro each and then get rest of the display basically for free. Some years later I pick those that I like up again for a tenth of what I got. EDIT:Of course, if I see a card that I know will probably play a role in Legacy or stay expensive for other reasons, I don't sell them right away.
If you play the market right you don't buy boosters as the risk/reward almost never pays off unless youre lucky as shit.Only boosters I open are for limited.Buying singles is wayyy cheaper in the long run, and most bigger stores cut you deals depending on what you spend or like if you trade in cards for singles they will give you bonus store credit.Standard can be fun, just the last few formats have been stale.zen block standard was fun playing dredgevine in standard was amazing.I also didn't mind new phyrexia/inn standard as esper control was the shit and wasn't as boring as it is to play now.
Yep, there are people who make money on doing nothing but buying/selling cards around rotation times.
Like the card's that I would invest in atm would be chord, carytid, courser, seize, jace(he's bound to go up after J,AoT rotates.) and just a few other randies. I also fell some of the souls are very underrated.
Magic is a hobby, not a job. What you describe is a job. And I doubt you really make any profit if you count the hours you invest against it - unless you do that as a fulltime job. But there are so many people trying just that, the market is truly saturated. And most of them DO open boosters - tons of them. Did you know that packs have patterns that aren't random? When you opened a few dozen displays you can do a "map". With that, you can open a sealed display, pick a certain booster that is on the indicator spot of that display (for example middle row, fifth on top), open it and then you know that is is display type #18 which contains rares X, Y and Z including their location. Sure, opening so many displays is a huge investment but the first one to do it can sell that map. Then hundreds of shops and retailers open these displays, pick the good boosters and sell the remaining boosters in their shop or online. (That's why you should NEVER buy single boosters, especially not on Ebay, only SEALED displays!). And then the specualtion begins. By the time Joe Average opens his first packs, a big portion of the production is already in the binders of retailers and scalpers. And they open up with high prices. Almost EVERY hot card starts out high, maybe peaks a bit and then loses a lot of value in the coming weeks. (That's when I sell my hot cards).In fact, this process means that WotC sells more product than is actually needed. The speculators and retailes open so many displays that the price for commons, uncommons and even average rares is so low these days, even if the card is standard legal. And the only way to win as a player is to not care about standard at all. ------------About standard (still "Type II" for me :) ), I never really liked it, especially since block mechanics dictate what you can play so much.
Not really, magic is just a hobby to me. When I play in a format I study the meta looking at all the top decks seeing which cards I have to look out for/ take advantage of.While looking at these cards and figuring out what you want to play you get a general understanding of the cost of each card. When a format is about to rotate you know most of the strong stand alone cards will retain their value or go up.I know packs aren't completely random, I just mean more times than not you lose value on just buying a few packs.That being said someone at my local store bought 1 modern masters pack and opened a gofy with a foil bob in it-_-.I will buy boxes to teach my gf deck building through sealed pools or to draft with a circle of friends but thats about it. I haven't lost money playing standard, I haven't gained much but i cant remember the last time i payed to build a standard deck.Hell I just traded in 600$ worth of cards (mostly standard) to build what I was missing of my modern deck.----------------I just call in standard as a lot of new people don't understand the "types" and "teirs" and got tired of explaining it.I always brew my own deck or just play control as I love control deck, I get tired of some rotations but thats about it. I don't blame people for not liking standard.
Yep...that is why, even though alpha/beta booster packs are still unopened...believe it or not, there still are some that have never been opened...people will claim that every Black Lotus has been found. At least that is what i have heard...and it makes sense with how Puschkin describes it.
People still have boxes of Alpha and beta unopened as Its value will only go up.
What do you think of the rumor that every Black Lotus is accounted for? DO you think that is possibly true? I sorta hope not! Imagine someone's face if they finally open up that unopened Beta pack and find one!
It could just be a rumour from people who own them and want the value to increase, I mean its completely possible as they know how many were printed. Knowing how many were destroyed, lost or etc is another thing.It's also hard to say forsure with that fact alone because you know there will be the odd douche whos like " yeah i totally had one of those and I lost it" which would account for 1 but might not actually account for 1.I feel as long as there are un opened boxes of Alpha/Beta the rumour is nothing more than a rumour.
There are also a lot of fake ones, so the number of Black Loti in circulation is not countable. But I am pretty sure the number of unopened displays is. And only displays count since boosters from Revised/Fallen Empires and earlier had different wrappings that allowed "scanning" for the rare.