Topic: Magic the gathering...gathering thread

[Finlay]

they must have annoyed people with the c14 decks.
it's funny they have less value but are selling for more this year! people must have been screwed on the wurm.

[Syphon]

Brag:
Last thursday I held a beta Black Lotus.

[Finlay]

also, skullclamp reprint- the bad art version. bleh.

[warhammerlord_soth]

Brag:
Last thursday I held a beta Black Lotus.

Brag : I used to own 3 of those

[Syphon]

Brag:
Last thursday I held a beta Black Lotus.

Brag : I used to own 3 of those

Hark! A past tense! Ended a game in a 4 way tie uesterday by stacking skirk fire marshall's ability 5 times.

[warhammerlord_soth]

Till I loaned them to a "friend"

[rufus sparkfire]

Some sites are asking more for the G/B deck... but it doesn't appear to contain the most expensive cards. 

Magic Madhouse, for example, has G/B at a ridiculous £35, while each of the other four is 25. But if you look at their prices for single cards, the most expensive card in G/B (eldrazi monument) is only the sixth most expensive overall (and it's only £4 anyway). Nor are there a lot of other high-value cards in it. What's going on there!

[Finlay]

supply/demand on most powerful?

it's probably one i want the most so hope i can find for 25!

[rufus sparkfire]

Maybe, but it's not normally how the pricing goes! The ones with the most expensive cards cost the most, regardless of how good they are as decks.

They're still 25 on troll trader!

[Finlay]

wayland doesnt have them at all!

[rufus sparkfire]

wayland doesnt have them at all!

They've got preorders for the next expansion (due in January), but no commander 15 at all! It's very odd.


My B/W deck arrived in the post, by the way! I also bought mystic confluence, gigantoplasm, and a couple of thought vessels. Mystic confluence has gone up a lot in price since I ordered it (it's now about 8 quid), though I don't suppose the price will stay that high.

[Syphon]

Why buy any decks? Just order the singles. Unless you're just starting out it's highly unlikely you have not got the filler cards yet.

[Finlay]

wayland doesnt have them at all!

They've got preorders for the next expansion (due in January), but no commander 15 at all! It's very odd.


My B/W deck arrived in the post, by the way! I also bought mystic confluence, gigantoplasm, and a couple of thought vessels. Mystic confluence has gone up a lot in price since I ordered it (it's now about 8 quid), though I don't suppose the price will stay that high.

PhyrArena is at £4.20 for a c15 single down from 6.17. Might buy that.
(black market is 3.77 vs 8.79 old, and eldrazi monument is £5.61 down form 8.13)
annoyting the card i want most had smallest price drop! guess it also was the cheapest.

I definitely want some mystic confluences! is that in the u/g deck? i wont buy them if they stay at 8 quid. Definitely want one for Roon, it fits really nicely with bounce protection for more ETB effects. of course it's an amazing card without that little incidental roon bonus.

gigantoplasm to replace the clone in roon deck.

Did you see the creature that kinda does what aether snap is (which is in black deck). it's not instant and easier to remove, but is a creature. Not sure if i should use or not.

Every deck wants a thoughtvessel apart from Marath which is pretty low on draw.

it's bizarre wayland don't have them.

Why buy any decks? Just order the singles. Unless you're just starting out it's highly unlikely you have not got the filler cards yet.

i've bought abvout 4 boosters ever. I likely don't have fillers.

still debating if i want to buy 3 of these, or none.

[rufus sparkfire]

Arena is 3.50 on magic madhouse, or 4 on manaleak. But both of those want more for black market. The prices don't follow the same pattern on all three. It's probably best to wait for a while before buying.

Mystic confluence is high due to hype, so will lose value if it turns out to be worse than people expect. It does seem great though.

Thought vessel was 10p! Now it's more like 80. I don't think every deck needs it though. Probably only blue ones.

I think command beacon should have been common and in all the decks, like command tower or opal palace.

It's funny that they reprinted high market after the commander tuck rule went away. It's still fairly useful though. I probably want one for Karlov.

Did you see the creature that kinda does what aether snap is (which is in black deck). it's not instant and easier to remove, but is a creature. Not sure if i should use or not.

It's interesting... though it doesn't remove tokens like aethersnap does (and aethersnap is a sorcery anyway). It should get pretty big. Probably worth trying! Ghave won't like it. Nor will Ezuri.

[Syphon]

Thief of Blood is nuts in any real commander game. Too bad we don't have tech to remove counters from players that aren't poison.

[Finlay]

oh thats quite good for phyrarena! Black market looks pretty stapletastic... but i do think it would fit better into new g/b deck which will be more focused on sacrificing and recursion. my monoblack deck can have the mana doublers!

I hope it drops for sure!

I meant all my other decks, so just roon and erebos, not all decks in general.

I think maybe its worth it. Aethersnap is often a dead card. Then again this is a dead card too if nothing with counters on.
and normal wipe spells can deal with tokens.

[Syphon]

Finl-eh, where do you get your cards?

[Finlay]

Normally magic card trader as they used to have best prices.

Now they dont, so anywhere

[rufus sparkfire]

Game won with 22/22 thief of blood!

It can steal counters from vivid lands too, so maybe that's a reason to keep them around.

[rufus sparkfire]

Possible new Kozilek and land. Might be fake! Note the weird mana symbol and that the land is basic.

[Novogord]

A basic land that only makes colourless mana?
Seems weird, I thought that they would never add a 6th colour?

[Syphon]

You know, it makes sense. In the absence of the colors in magic, colorless remains. So an island stripped of its blue mana is a basic land but not an island. If that makes sense?

[rufus sparkfire]

It looks a bit like the 'snow mana' thing they did in Coldsnap. But we don't even know if these are real cards yet! I think the set isn't due until January.

A colourless basic does fix the issue with colourless EDH commanders.

[Syphon]

Yay breaking news from me this time:

[rufus sparkfire]

Hmmm, that looks quite useful.