I starting to think Estrid the masked is the best commander of the new 2018 precons Commander Decks
Funny just got a fake Jace, TMS in the mail. Knew almost instantly but I showed 5 others and none of them caught it. Luckily TCGplayer is making sure I can return the card and get a refund. Only thing Olive left out was HOW to tell fakes from real cards. The fakes have a crappy Rosetta pattern and is in sides of cards and most fail the light test.
While I canât control how Wizards reprints cards or control the over-the-top demands of the counterfeit community, I can appeal to the large majority of the Magic community thatâs filled with reasonable people who love the game of Magic to do what they can to help lessen the impact of the problem.
see I had a hypothesis about counterfit cards. One of the things I wanted to do with my show was do a long con with these: get a whole deck counterfit, have the cards altered and then play them at a GP to see if anybody could actually tell. Think altering the cards is where the issue crosses the uncanny valley. If you theyâre double sleeved, its even harder to tell they are fake.
At this point youâre going to have to live with counterfits. This is a situation where WoTC is a victim of its own secondary marketâs success; if prices werenât so extra wild then they wouldnât be making counterfits.
So hooray WoTC. All those times you said goyf was too strong for standard and all sorts of other demented bullshit have finally come back to bite you in the ass. I would feel worse about this if WoTC didnât constantly make decisions that ended up fucking over its playerbase. Hell, WoTC fucked over its own judges who provide free labor for large events.
Terrible company that stays afloat because their card game is just that good.
That is already a thing with the altering. So many alters I looked at were fake as they assume you wont tell because of the altering. One player I played against has some alter Duels and I asked to look and it clearly looked fake but I didnât feel a need to say anything. A fake Underground Sea altered is a hell of a lot cheaper than a $500 card.
I want Legacy to become stronger and at this point am ok with some reprints on the RL. Just the Legacy playable crap.
Wish they would do more to promote MTGO since that already exists and letâs them handle putting more reserve list cards into circulation. Either that or people need to accept WoTC will never efficiently meet the demands of people who want to get into older formats, and go from thereâŚ
On counterfeit cardsâŚI think its whatever for like 90% of playing mtg. Iâve bought stuff from aliexpress to flesh out edh decks, and maybe 1 dude out of 30 will be annoyed that I play with stuff like that. I like using them because they feel the most like actual mtg cards and art jarringly off like some alters end up beingâŚonly time itâs an issue is at real sanctioned events, people trying to push them off as real cards.
With Counterfeit cards, the only real solution is to issue reprints.
And that also means abolishing the Reserve list, as the Reserve list is only serving 2 groups
Those who collect and invest in Vintage cards and Counterfeiters.
Best way to deal with the demand for counterfeits is offer the real thing.
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I love the number of people losing they shit over Assassinâs Trophy. Shit is going to be a legacy staple for a very long time but will not live up to the overhype. The canât be countered on Abrupy Decay is why its good the fact that this can be dazed/countered is a huge cost.
Sure this card will be better in Modern rather than Legacy but for sure a Eternal playable card.
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Im pretty sure it enables a modern/legacy land destruction deck. The power level is lit TBH. Gonna be a pain in the ass in standard for people who love stable mana bases.
Assassinâs TrophyâŚDELICIOUS!
Tron players on suicide watch
I got one for preorder for my Meren EDH Deck.
anyone tried this?
Old School European playing cards?
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its actually nothing new,
Wizards already did three free mini PDF settings, For Zendikar, Innistrad, and Kaladesh
And the reception for all 3 been positive. So Ravnica gets a actual serious Hardbound book with a Price tag on it. I hope Dominaria is next.
Shoot I hope they go the other way as well and we get MtG cards based on D&D settings, Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, and Dragon Lance.
Yes, Liliana Vess would fear him and Nicol Bolas would almost bow to his will, the arch-mage:
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Fuck Yeah, Raistlin would fuck up Nico Bolas.
He fucked up Fistandantilus supposedly the most poweful!
He made Cyan Bloodbane (a powerful dragon) his pet!
He knew that a red robe wizard/mage was really a dragon (Ember/Pyros)
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Time of the Twins, that cover. Believe it or not, Iâm actually re-reading it at the moment! Havenât read it since shortly after it was originally out, way back in high school.
Dragonlance novels > Star Wars