Yeah, but worst case scenario is that you sell it at cost to someone, really.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT| Ravnica Allegiance - These 5 Lands Will SHOCK You!
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That's fair I suppose. And in like 2 years it will definitely be higher than cost.
lol what? It's designed to.
And I'm up like $700 from my UMA boxes already that I got for an avg of 245ish.
I'll be selling them later once the price goes up further. It's not "imaginary" if the price appreciates and I'm going to be making future income. The price isn't going to go down on them, primarily because the UMA Box Toppers are basically impossible to reprint.
It won't though. It will still be up a week from now. That set sucks ass.
There are 20K availalble. They'll be sold out by the end of the day.
Am I doing my math wrong? It says 61% sold right now, which suggests there are 14.5K instead. Also, it's getting near the end of the day and they still have 39% left.
The number sold went way down earlier, meaning a bunch of cancelled orders of greater than 2 are temporarily out of this listing.
No Lotus petals? Makes it so easy :PI don't think this deck is capable of that... haha
I own Lotus Petals. It's something I'll consider depending on how testing goes.
I just had four insane and long games in a constructed event in a row. I need a better win condition for my Esper deck. I won all those games, but it took way too long. I have Chromium but it just seems like it drags things out. I would love to get Dawn of Hope, but no rare wildcards at the moment. I am sitting here considering splashing a single Mountain and Banefire just to have something.
any blue deck with counterspells and pressure should do okay, but those decks can't beat a red deck
or you can play creatureless control and beat both red and nexus of fate, but you'll probably bore yourself to death after 50 games with it
pick your poison
or you can play creatureless control and beat both red and nexus of fate, but you'll probably bore yourself to death after 50 games with it
pick your poison
In Bo1, yes. In Bo3 the best option is bring a lot of enchantment hate to the sideboard and hope they run out of counterspells, bindings and azcantas before you run out of creature spells
Bought 4 packs on my way home from work tonight and got a foil Angel of Grace in the first one!
I just started playing properly from Guilds, and this was my first ever mythic pull. Pretty stoked.
Gonna sell that thing back tomorrow, lol
I just started playing properly from Guilds, and this was my first ever mythic pull. Pretty stoked.
Gonna sell that thing back tomorrow, lol
I find Syncopate really useful against Nexus. They are usually trying to rush their first one out as soon as possible, so hitting them with that kills the graveyard return and they usually can't respond to it or pay the X. But generally speaking it's only going to buy you time until you hope they don't draw another one.
Might add syncopate to my merfolk deck then to see how that helps. Good idea, thanks.
Tempting idea, thanks! Will probably try to brew something around it.
Name nexus of fate.
Now that I've had some time with it, I'm updating my hot take of "indifferent/mildly disappointed" to a cold take of "I actively dislike this set in all formats".
Thanks for giving mono-white EDH Smothering Tithe so they're slightly less sad, I guess. That gets you a star for Less Than Complete Failure.
Thanks for giving mono-white EDH Smothering Tithe so they're slightly less sad, I guess. That gets you a star for Less Than Complete Failure.
I like the new deck variety in standard, but Nexus and Wilderness Reclamation do tick me off a bit.
Only in the super strange case your opponent is tapped out. I've had matches with guys that pretty much had 4 Negate, 4 Cancel, 4 Spell Pierce, at least a couple of Syncopate and 4 Thought Collapse so with the constant cantrips they ALWAYS had one or two on hand and enough mana open to cast both.
After a week, I have to say aristocrats is indeed very meh in standard. You're better off just playing b/g saprolings, at least that has a instant speed manaless sac engine.
Most Nexus decks don't have room for many counters g1; they'll board into some g2 but it's not like the deck is structured to reliably prevent three-mana cards from resolving. I also think the deck has an unfavorable monored matchup.
The Pro Points podcast today is all talking about the exploitative Gates strategy in Arena draft. Take advantage before they change the bots!
The Pro Points podcast today is all talking about the exploitative Gates strategy in Arena draft. Take advantage before they change the bots!
You're probably better off running Mortify to kill their Reclamation. (You run into the same problem of them potentially having a counter, of course.) I am running 4x in my Esper control deck and it's crazy how often they are a big factor in matches. At least on Arena, enchantments are everywhere. I also run 1x Devious Cover-Up so I can cycle Mortifys and Absorbs back into my deck depending on the situation. Might not be optimal but it has the added benefit of exiling the countered spell and it's worked well for me so far.
Isn't the Gates strategy heavily reliant on the uncommons though?
I never see the uncommons. I see tons of gates but not the uncommons.
M-Files: Ravnica Allegiance – Monocolor
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M-Files: Ravnica Allegiance – Monocolor
Dan Musser
Take a peek into our card database to see what Magic's designers were talking about as they created Ravnica Allegiance.
* There's a mistake in the first entry. Lumbering Battlement can exile other copies of itself.
* Tithe Taker had them check to make sure it was fine in Modern Humans decks.
* Benthic Biomancer started as a 1U non-merfolk with a 1U adapt ability to draw a card. To help merfolk decks, they lowered the cost, changed the effect to looting, and had it trigger on any +1/+1 counter being placed on it.
* I hadn't realized that the Persistent in Persistent Petitioners was a riff on Relentless in Relentless Rats. It's a shame the art didn't directly reference that card like suggested here. It was originally uncommon, but moved down to enable a Limited deck.
* They were really worried about Drill Bit.
* Gates Ablaze was 4R, but was moved down to 2R to enable a Constructed Gates deck.
* Of course, they knew about Electrodominance and the no-mana suspend cards, but determined it wasn't a big risk. It started as a sorcery, but was made instant to push it for Constructed.
* End-Raze Forerunners shows they aren't ready for green to grant haste to other creatures yet, even if it has become secondary.
Dan Musser
Take a peek into our card database to see what Magic's designers were talking about as they created Ravnica Allegiance.
* There's a mistake in the first entry. Lumbering Battlement can exile other copies of itself.
* Tithe Taker had them check to make sure it was fine in Modern Humans decks.
* Benthic Biomancer started as a 1U non-merfolk with a 1U adapt ability to draw a card. To help merfolk decks, they lowered the cost, changed the effect to looting, and had it trigger on any +1/+1 counter being placed on it.
* I hadn't realized that the Persistent in Persistent Petitioners was a riff on Relentless in Relentless Rats. It's a shame the art didn't directly reference that card like suggested here. It was originally uncommon, but moved down to enable a Limited deck.
* They were really worried about Drill Bit.
* Gates Ablaze was 4R, but was moved down to 2R to enable a Constructed Gates deck.
* Of course, they knew about Electrodominance and the no-mana suspend cards, but determined it wasn't a big risk. It started as a sorcery, but was made instant to push it for Constructed.
* End-Raze Forerunners shows they aren't ready for green to grant haste to other creatures yet, even if it has become secondary.
That's surprising -- that hasn't been my experience. I see the bots constantly passing the gate payoff cards (and obviously you take them over any other card in the set). It is reliant on those cards, though.
My Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder EDH deck has been banned by my wife lol, taking a 15 minute turn to draw half my deck with Dark Prophecy and slowly whittle her down with Falkenrath Noble+Blood Artist will do that. Going full fuckery by sticking Contamination and Smokestack in there for when I really want my opponents to hate me.
I listened to the podcast, which was a good listen. I'll give their method a shot. I've just not seen the payoff cards later, except the Angel, that they talk about.
Just ran one while eating lunch where I saw one Gate payoff card (Ram), in P1P4. Just the one.
Thanks :) Will keep the gold for the Allegiance drafts, but good to know I can do the limited rank with those then.
The true purpose of every mono-red player on Bo1 ladder is to get to a high rank and then spring mill on people.
also I feel like a legitimate genius right now, I got into an awkward matchup against a Drakes deck where I had no win condition other than letting the guy deck himself out, and I correctly anticipated he was going to Banefire me so I cycled 3 Absorbs back into my deck and countered my own spells just to give myself enough life to get out of range of his burn
Every single creature in my Abzan Tokens deck is female including both the legendaries and the non legendaries in the art. Lyra, Teysa, Shalai, Vraska, Vivien, Shanna, Seraph of the Scales, Imperious Oligarch, Hero of Precinct One, sometimes Trostani out of the board.
It wasn't intentional but now I keep calling the deck Gorgeous Ladies of Wizardry.
It wasn't intentional but now I keep calling the deck Gorgeous Ladies of Wizardry.
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What list are you running? This sounds right up my alley.
I'm sitting in a diner at the moment so I'll have to go home and look.
Deck: GLOW (Gorgeous Ladies of Wizardry)
//Lands
1 Forest
4 Godless Shrine
4 Isolated Chapel
4 Overgrown Tomb
2 Plains
2 Sunpetal Grove
3 Temple Garden
2 Woodland Cemetery
//Spells
2 Assassin's Trophy
2 Find // Finality
4 Flower // Flourish
4 History of Benalia
4 Mortify
2 Vraska, Golgari Queen
//Creatures
4 Hero of Precinct One
4 Imperious Oligarch
2 Lyra Dawnbringer
4 Seraph of the Scales
3 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
2 Shanna, Sisay's Legacy
1 Teysa Karlov
//Sideboard
2 Carnage Tyrant
1 Vivien Reid
4 Duress
1 Find // Finality
1 Kaya's Wrath
1 Vraska, Golgari Queen
2 Cast Down
3 Conclave Tribunal
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