Unreleased and New Card Discussion

[DirkGently]

You know this past week, i thought about you and your group and wonder how'd you do there with a deck list that had a total value of the cost of a precon i dunno why i thought about that lol

A year ago playing a precon with them gave me a pretty insane winrate, probably 70%+. These days I think precons are relatively reasonable. But if you tasked me to build a deck with a precon budget but as powerful as possible, I'm sure I could make something pretty effective.

That said, I don't really like budget-restricted builds because it's tedious to track prices while building. I'd much rather build set-commander or PDH or whatever so I don't need to reference any outside sources to ensure my deck remains within the limits.

[duducrash]

I think Eldraine will be pretty neat. I expect faeries to be present and it will prompt me to try and play modern and get absolutey crushed about the degeneracy that is going down there recently.

Im somewhat excited about the storyline too. I expect Rowan to be manic and destructive and Will a downer and passive. Hope there isn't something else manipulating her, but I expect jean grey moments from Rowan, that were set up in stx and a manic-depressive dynamic from the twins

[duducrash]

The fact that it's already graded really validates my suspicion that it wasn't really distributed randomly in the first place.

I don't think it would be random either, but wouldn't it better for them to rollback the release until the latest releases of the 1st printing? like in the bundles that have 1 collector pack, it would give them an extra week of gambling money

[Hermes_]

The fact that it's already graded really validates my suspicion that it wasn't really distributed randomly in the first place.

[TheGildedGoose]

"cashier and forklift operator"

Hell yeah, comrade.

[Guardman]

"cashier and forklift operator"

Hell yeah, comrade.

Please. We all know the best combination is real estate novelist. Even Billy Joel thinks so.

[kirkusjones]

"cashier and forklift operator"

Hell yeah, comrade.

Please. We all know the best combination is real estate novelist. Even Billy Joel thinks so.

What the hell is a real estate novelist? Is there a John Grisham for the high stakes world of fix-and-flips and HOA drama? That line has always bothered me.

[TheGildedGoose]

"cashier and forklift operator"

Hell yeah, comrade.

Please. We all know the best combination is real estate novelist. Even Billy Joel thinks so.

I mean, lol, but mostly I was celebrating the Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryesque vibes of a blue collar worker getting it instead of a business. Sure, it will inevitably end up in the hands of scum, as things of power often do, but tonight I can pour out a can of cold Bud Light^TM knowing a fellow working class person got a golden ticket out of poverty.

[Guardman]

"cashier and forklift operator"

Hell yeah, comrade.

Please. We all know the best combination is real estate novelist. Even Billy Joel thinks so.

What the hell is a real estate novelist? Is there a John Grisham for the high stakes world of fix-and-flips and HOA drama? That line has always bothered me.

You don't need John Grisham to create high-stakes HOA drama. All you need is the minutes from the last meeting.

I always took Real Estate Novelist to mean an aspiring novelist who is working as a real estate agent until he makes it big.

"cashier and forklift operator"

Hell yeah, comrade.

Please. We all know the best combination is real estate novelist. Even Billy Joel thinks so.

I mean, lol, but mostly I was celebrating the Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryesque vibes of a blue collar worker getting it instead of a business. Sure, it will inevitably end up in the hands of scum, as things of power often do, but tonight I can pour out a can of cold Bud Light^TM knowing a fellow working class person got a golden ticket out of poverty.

I agree. So far, it seems like the best possible outcome for The One Ring lottery.

[duducrash]

Real-estate novelists probably dont play magic, they dont even have time for a wife.



Its pretty sweet a person got it instead of a company, specially because its like a regular person. Cool outcome.

* I think real-estate novelist does not exist and he and "dave who is still in the navy and probably will be for life" are closeted gay men lying about their lives And sharing a drink over not being able to be free and true to their lives

[Ruiner]

"cashier and forklift operator"

Hell yeah, comrade.

Please. We all know the best combination is real estate novelist. Even Billy Joel thinks so.

What the hell is a real estate novelist? Is there a John Grisham for the high stakes world of fix-and-flips and HOA drama? That line has always bothered me.

"It was me. It's always been me! I was the fixer-upper this whole time! And you renovated my heart! I can't believe you are looking to flip me now, for some low rent fool, with all the work we've put into this together! You're leaving me upside-down and no other dame will ever want to move in! I'll deteriorate and be left with lousy squatters the rest of my days until finally I'm demolished!"

[TheAmericanSpirit]

I'll be damned. I knew it was found but I didn't know it was found in Canada. You Canucks might have won this round, but I guarantee the stupid thing rots in an American vault for the rest of its days.

It's rad that a normal guy got the big money though. Typically I'd say lottery tickets are a tax on people that can't do math, but buying luxurious playable cardboard rectangles on the other hand, we can't fault a honest fellow for that, now can we?

[Mookie]

Commander Masters previews starting. No new cards in the main set, but there are some reprints that I expect to bring down prices (i.e. Capture of Jingzhou). The usual 'expensive cards are mythic, cheap cards are rare' reprint policy looks to otherwise apply - I see Spellseeker at mythic, but Maelstrom Wanderer has apparently been reprinted enough times to drop down to rare. Extinguish All Hope is now uncommon, which is interesting.

[Dunharrow]

I'm annoyed that Maelstrom Wanderer now has its third art but Karador, Ghost Chieftain is still waiting for a second art.

[Hermes_]

Extinguish All Hope is now uncommon, which is interesting.

And Arcane Signet got up shifted to uncommon

[TheGildedGoose]

I'm annoyed that Maelstrom Wanderer now has its third art but Karador, Ghost Chieftain is still waiting for a second art.

Clear continued anti-Abzan bias on WotC's part.

[duducrash]

That awkward moment when you realize why they called it Junk.

I really wanted Karador face like its posing for a magazine

[duducrash]

RFK new Grand Abolisher goes so hard that im honestly amazed they didnt save it for a secret lair. I really need one. Too bad the deck I would run it in is in eclipses that dont showcase foil arts all that great

[pokken]

man so many new foils I want Faerie Artisans and Cartographer's Hawk and more

C'mon Cosmic Intervention and Deep Gnome Terramancer and Clever Concealment

And if they fail to foil Fellwar Stone I'm going to riot

[Hermes_]

and finally a rift reprint

[Serenade]

Oh, dang, good art and border for these basics.

[toctheyounger]

God I want a Flicker reprint. Stupdily obscure card that just happens to be the linchpin in a Dihada, Binder of Wills deck and has never been reprinted. Can't find it anywhere so reprint sets are my only hope.

Otherwise sweet stuff so far. Stoked to see Finale of Devastation get in here, card needed to reprint desperately.

[duducrash]

Medalions, Arcane Signet, Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Jeweled Lotus, Chromatic Lantern, Fellwar Stone, Thran Dynamo.

They got all in in the rocks

[PrimevalCommander]

Nesting Dragon and Ohran Frostfang have not seen a meaningful reprint since they were released in commander decks years ago. These are the commander masters reprints we need, and I am very happy to see. Finale of Devastation and Spellseeker as well.

[Dragonlover]

Just give me Song of the Dryads Wizards, you know you want to!

Dragonlover