My model would enable you to essentially price-limit things a bit; maybe fetchlands aren't a dollar, and I challenge you to find where I advocate for this. But perhaps you cap them at 15 bucks wholesale, and 25 retail - or pick an algorithm that results in cards sustaining value but allows you to m...

Fiery Emancipation is a card I can get behind. Gratuitous Violence is already one of my favorite cards in most decks I run it in and doing half again as much damage for one more mana (from a greater variety of sources, even) is fine with me. Does nothing on it's own, but plays nicely with an establ...

Sometimes, not always. There's forever going to be those times where thoughtcast is just a draw2 for U . That's pretty hard to beat, speaking in efficiency terms. Today's card is more swingy, and will often get more cards with the right card in play (like, say, a Myr Enforcer ), but swingy =/= effi...

It's not really efficient in that sense either. The price of the card accurately reflects the combination of demand and artificially constrained supply, combined with the artificial cost of buying tons of garbage in booster boxes you don't want (and no one wants), plus the tendency of people to hoa...

Alright. I'm with this. It's no Thoughtcast in efficiency, but I'd be happy playing this card. Isn't it more efficient? I compare this to Recurring Insight. I haven't ever seen it played, but if you're looking for some raw card draw, this is it. So one time, it was late at night and I clicked to pu...

I don't think the system is particularly efficient at getting cards into the hands of players; it takes likely millions of hours of labors of people cracking packs to get cards for people when the cards are printed in ratios that have nothing to do with the actual demand. I'd advocate for them prin...

Chandra's Incinerator with Repercussion allows you to machine gun down all your opponents creatures while dealing damage to opponents. The neat thing is that it doesn't matter what your initial starting damage source is, it'll keep bouncing damage until all the creatures are dead. So even Lava Dart...

Why is the current system not good enough? The current system is incredibly efficient. At making a truly criminal amount of paper product and plastic waste and using up a comical number of man hours cracking boxes for singles. Sure :) You know that I mean the system is efficient at allocating cards...

That would make sense. Instead of Wizards of the Coast distributing booster boxes / sealed product to Local Game Stores (LGSs) regardless of whether or not they're a WPN store, LGS owners, employees, and consumers / players can select what card singles to acquire from Wizards of the Coast to sell t...

I think the natural end state is some variant of wizards selling singles wholesale direct to vendors (e.g. gamestores) - and drafting moving mostly online. Every card in the history of the game available for order, longer delivery time, costs sustained by the wholesale cost from Wizards being based...

In other news - Elder Gargaroth is sure a card. Man that thing is stupid. I'm not sure what you mean by "stupid" and I don't want to read into it. So my comment is separate. Generating value by simply entering play is stupid. Requiring an action in order to generate that value is smart. I...

Try the current Paper EDH / Commander Secondary Market where most players are being priced out of the format from a mass exodus of MTG players leaving Standard for EDH / Commander unless they go out and buy a PreCon or a Custom made deck on eBay for much cheaper. With a lot of Local Game Stores (LG...

Golos isn't overpowered from my perspective of primarily playing cEDH, but I wouldn't shed a tear if it were banned. I played Golos "all the annoying value creatures" and it was the most mind-numbing experience: I either lost because there were too many board wipes without really doing an...

I like this update to the rules. Intuitively, it could have worked like this from the beginning. This change makes some legendary creatures more attractive. But it shouldn't be a big thing for most of the legendary creatures that people already use heavily and build around their death triggers. For ...

Personally, I'm okay with less keywords. For example, I do not think they should have "landfall" as a keyword. So it doesn't matter to me whether or not that "mill" is a new keyword. If R&D is pandering to anyone, it's certainly not me. But I've got to say, all of the alterna...

no, its gamy and anoying. thats player slang with no flavor and they just stuck it on a card. there were dumbas names for al the other keywords like trolshroud but they replaced them with words that made sense and aded something. now they are just lazy. its pandering. Does "mill" actually...

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4 years ago

I didn't say ban the ones they have just stop printing more

Unfortunately, the trend is for everything to go the "exile" route now (spot-removal, mass removal, even discard).

I hate Mind's Dilation. It's two things I hate put together (exile + stealing).

I'm not sure there's any productive ground to be covered here - I'm looking at my cards and I don't see anything. Not sure what I can tell you since it doesn't sound like you're willing to listen. I'm quite sure I could just point the same statement towards you. Whenever, I disagree with you, my go...

Booster packs are similar to loot boxes. However, the ways in which so many people engage in magic makes them an important part of the game. And I have absolutely no problem in existing and being a primary way in which the game is facilitated. For people who dislike what they consider the "pay-...

I feel that a lot of people base their opinion about Magic products being "overpriced" on the basis of it being a paper product. But then again, if they can successfully sell-out a product, how exactly is it overpriced? People want their cards to be worth money and it's justified. However,...

When you sleeve cards without an inner sleeve, the top of the card will get dirty. There's no realistic way to avoid this because there is an opening at the top of the sleeve. If you say so. I'm sure there's some trace amounts of dirt if you busted out your electron microscope, but even for cards w...

When you sleeve cards without an inner sleeve, the top of the card will get dirty. There's no realistic way to avoid this because there is an opening at the top of the sleeve.

Dragonshields are the most durable sleeves. I have some that are almost old enough to attend high school. Of course, they're used very sparingly sleeving my Type 4 stack, but still. My favorite advice is also to use only one color of sleeves for across all decks. I'd say that double-sleeving is wort...

I was very happy to see Dwarven Miner. How about Dwarven Blastminer ? If you want to play either Karn, animating your artifacts might let you use them multiple times a turn when combined with Staff of Domination. I love any opportunity that presents itself to play Thran Turbine This deck is very coo...

How can I possibly calculate this for my primary deck?

I play Child of Alara, there are so many games that I play where I don't even cast it.