I'm needing help with my friends' Alela, Artful Provocateur EDH / Commander deck. After a few games of playtesting I feel as though the deck is missing something though I'm not sure what it is. Most of the expensive cards on this list my friend already has in his personal MTG collection. I feel as t...

I was a bit disappointed that non-foil variants of the Mystery Booster Foils aren't available in this product which means that the foils are going to be much harder to pull than the non-foils. Whether If that was intentional just for the draft experience I'm not sure. At least it will help lower the...

I feel that a lot of the people I know who played when I started playing made the switch from other games to MTG. I remember my first few decks were awful, used to play 20 lands, 20 creatures, 20 in some combo of enchantments and artifacts then 290 instants and sorceries. so 80 card decks, which we...

I remember when I first heard about MTG back in the mid to late 90's from reading video game magazines that I used to collect before they went out of business (Electronic Gaming Monthly, Game Fan, Game Pro, etc.). I also ended up receiving some Portal cards from way back in the day with Cloud Pirate...

Yeah I don't know why I forgot about Pir, Imaginative Rascal . I guess I was a bit turned off by the "your team controls" line of text when I don't even have a team in normal multiplayer EDH / Commander. Wizards of the Coast clarified this when discussing Battlebond Mechanics saying, "...

It's like whenever I manage to draw and cast Gravity Well I'm usually up against decks that don't run many flyers though I can see how it's a bit situational at times. So far the only creature I don't get as much value from would probably be Temur Sabertooth either because the opportunity hasn't pre...

Thought I'd share my own build for this EDH / Commander deck primer. Mine's a bit more group hug with Helix Pinnacle as an alternate win condition. Other than that I try to close the game with Avenger of Zendikar with either Craterhoof Behemoth pumping my Plant tokens to swing for game or with Nissa...

DirkGently wrote: ↑

4 years ago

For clarification for future readers: Box toppers are coming back. Obviously Buy-a-box promos haven't gone anywhere.

So apparently box toppers and Buy-a-Box Promos aren't the same thing? I could've sworn they were. Oh well...

I find the secret lair product to be deeply worrying. They're releasing them constantly, with artificially narrow windows to give customers a sense of urgency and the inability to see how the prices will shake out in any meaningful way , cutting out LGSs, and selling what are essentially premium co...

So is there a legitimate concern that releasing these Secret Lair drops as fast as they've been distributing them is making it hard for the Secondary Market to absorb the amount of variants available within the marketplace? I can't recall something similar that's happened like this before in MTG his...

That's why you run Riftsweeper and Pull from Eternity to get exiled cards back.

Even If someone managed to flip and sell Secret Lair cards at my LGS I still wouldn't buy them. Then again that might be Wizards of the Coast's intent to try to get the LGS to carry these card singles that don't sell due to consumers boycotting them. The danger I see here is If these Secret Lair dro...

I'm currently working on a forums solution. I'm guessing the forums solution is just going to be social media outlets with reddit, Twitter, and Facebook? I'd like there to be something a little more robust in terms of archiving. We'll see. That thought may be the product of a bygone era never to re...

I'd stick with Golos, Tireless Pilgrim as your Commander If you're still going the Gate route with him. You're definitely going to want to run lots of blink effects to get to your win con with Maze's End faster with Conjurer's Closet , Deadeye Navigator , and Thassa, Deep-Dwelling . Even better when...

Since the booster packs for this product are only going to contain 1 basic land each, why not just go the Duel Masters / Kaijudo route and allow mono colored cards to be treated as basic lands but played upside down? If you have multi colored cards why not treat them like ABU duals without the drawb...

Probably worth mentioning here since it was also brought up on MTGS, but LGS owners can't afford to make 10-30% off product alone otherwise they'll go bankrupt. They need to be shooting for 50% margins on just about everything except LEGO and a handful of other stuff. Granted this is on top of runni...

He seems optimistic in his article, but it seems like a bleak future to me. But his analysis seems spot-on. There are way fewer constructed events at my LGSs.... I routinely look at 5 different stores and, other than drafts, events are just not firing. Digital Magic is the place to be for construct...

Sheldon wrote: ↑

4 years ago

I'm currently working on a forums solution.

I'm guessing the forums solution is just going to be social media outlets with reddit, Twitter, and Facebook?

The problem is that MTG is so intertwined with the LGS business model that it's become increasingly difficult to advertise and market it the same as Hasbro's other board game properties with Monopoly and Scrabble. What are the odds of being able to persuade your relatives into playing MTG as opposed...

Apparently there's now a $500 fine for anyone who criticizes the MPL and Wizards of the Coast themselves: http://epicstream.com/news/JakeVyper/New-Magic-The-Gathering-MPL--Rivals-League-Rules-Forbid-Criticism-of-The-League https://www.reddit.com/r/freemagic/comments/ewkd8l/new_mpl_contracts_include_...

Not every struggling LGS has the opportunity to find a new owner to continue staying in business. Such was the case for one I remember that was located on a really bad intersection on the highway to get in and out of. The location was small enough within the plaza that the likelihood of getting mugg...

A lot of people take the safety of playing at an LGS for granted as opposed to playing at a random strangers' house without their parents' permission which is the direction WotC is leading MTG toward. The likelihood of actually getting killed or arrested at a random strangers' house playing MTG and/...

I probably would've banned Karn, the Great Creator and Emry, Lurker of the Loch instead of Mycosynth Lattice and Mox Opal in Modern. The problem is that Wizards didn't ban enough cards in order to help stabilize the format when they're letting it die just to have Pioneer take it's place. It's one th...

Card Slinger J You are right about people not brewing up their own decks, but that is what is so AWESOME about Pioneer right now. This the time that actual deck builders have a real edge over netdeckers. Whether Pioneer ends up at a Turn 4 modern clone in 5 years is besides the point, you have to g...

I'm just tired of everyone complaining about Aggro being the only playable archetype in Pioneer when they haven't even bothered to brew something original instead of relying on tournament results to decide what they want to netdeck. Nobody's going to know what the best cards in the format are unless...