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https://twitter.com/SaffronOlive/sta...14116040028160
So Magic has doubled in "size" in the past 5 years, according to the Hasbro CEO - whatever the hell that means, as he hasn't given any specifics and it could be pretty much everything.
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The current state of magic: Underground Sea buyout.
It's every dual that's being bought out
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Am I the only one that actually enjoyed extended? I'll admit I didn't play super competitively, but it was just cool before I played legacy to play a bigger standard.
At what point was this? I've seen a lot of people say they enjoyed Extended... but the Extended formats they point to as enjoying are almost always just the first few rotations of it. It was later on its its life that Extended lost more and more popularity until they finally just replaced it with Modern (some people blame the switch to the 4-year Extended as the reason it died, but in truth Extended was flailing even before that point, and the 4-year was an attempt to bring its popularity back, which admittedly may have made matters worse).
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At what point was this? I've seen a lot of people say they enjoyed Extended... but the Extended formats they point to as enjoying are almost always just the first few rotations of it. It was later on its its life that Extended lost more and more popularity until they finally just replaced it with Modern (some people blame the switch to the 4-year Extended as the reason it died, but in truth Extended was flailing even before that point, and the 4-year was an attempt to bring its popularity back, which admittedly may have made matters worse).
2010. I'll admit I was super casual back then, but Warp World was fun to play with
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Probably referring to the amount of product they make now vs player base. Seems like every week there’s some new money grab product or set being released.
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It's every dual that's being bought out
lol. 1000 dollar underground seas. sick format.
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I dont know if this is the correct site to post this. First of all, excuse my english. I usually play legacy tournaments in my city, I live in a cosmopolitan city and normally i had no problem to play a legacy tournament with 10 players. Last month, this number have decresed, till last wednesday, when we were just three persons and we werent able to play the tournament. I am a little sad, i have a big legacy pool and i can play almost each legacy deck, but this fact make me think about my cards... I am wondering if it could be acceptable to sell a part of my pool, i dont really need money right now but also i dont wanna have a cards in a box cause i have nobody to play... What do u guys think? Any advertisement would be great for me.
Thank you!
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fluuu
Any advertisement would be great for me.
Thank you!
I "advertise" at my LGS that I will make any legacy deck for anyone. Me making decks for people sometimes gets new players to play.
It also helps to bring extra decks and talk to the EDH and Modern players to join as well as maybe allowing proxy cards...
We get from 6-12 players each week and it's always a struggle just to get people to show up.
"I will make you any deck. You just have to show up and play"
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Cedric Phillips of SCG fame did some Q&A on reddit. Here are some Eternal-relevant snippets presented without comment.
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For each format, what card do you most want to see win a game on coverage?
What cards are you most tired of seeing?
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I don't care about what individual cards win a game. I care more about people winning. It's fun to watch players grow from mediocre to good (Ross Merriam, Kevin Jones, Andrew Jessup are good examples).
Watching Brainstorm, Ponder, and Preordain got old quickly.
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If you could unban a card in Modern and a card in Legacy right now, what would they be and why?
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Modern = Stoneforge Mystic Legacy = Survival of the Fittest
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How do you see the future shaping up for competitive paper pauper? Will SCG host more pauper classics? Maybe an open someday? Will WotC ever give in and finally make it an official format in paper?
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I'd love to have a Pauper Open but it has to make financial sense first and foremost. If we can find a way to do that (or guarantee a very large number of attendees), it becomes more realistic.
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Can we please, please, please get more Legacy back into our SCG lives? I know the business response to it, but it's not my fault that Legacy is so much better! #Forever12-Post
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Legacy is a miserable format to cover with any amount of frequency.
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There’s too much shuffling
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Do you believe any changes should be made to the vintage restricted list? If so, what would they be?
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Nah Vintage seems sweet.
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How long do you think Legacy has as a main event format (dedicated or team trios) on the SCGTour what with key cards like USea approaching $1k?
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Not long
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It would've been more useful if you posted the link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/co..._using_reddit/
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https://i.imgur.com/BsY4WiT.png
Fucking lol.
Cedric wanting to unban Survival is gas.
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Lord Seth
Actually I find it far more useful the way he did it. Trying to read Reddit is probably the closest I can come to the experience of having an aneurysm without actually having one.
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Fantastic. The truth hurts, don't invoke it lightly.
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H
Actually I find it far more useful the way he did it. Trying to read Reddit is probably the closest I can come to the experience of having an aneurysm without actually having one.
I meant it would have been more useful had the link been posted in addition to the quoted excerpts.
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The wizards tournament reporter software shit the bed at GP Vegas for Modern I assume. 3 hours behind and only finished round 2. They offered a full refund to all main event participants.
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The wizards tournament reporter software shit the bed at GP Vegas for Modern I assume. 3 hours behind and only finished round 2. They offered a full refund to all main event participants.
I don't understand why they can't even get WER to work properly half the time
Forget Arena and MODO, can they really not get 'player A vs player B' to function consistently?
Props to whoever decided on the refund I guess
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I think one of the most interesting/underreported things about Arena is just how much it's tanked MODO. In like two months a 4x set of everything on there has dropped almost $10k in value. That's nuts.
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I think one of the most interesting/underreported things about Arena is just how much it's tanked MODO. In like two months a 4x set of everything on there has dropped almost $10k in value. That's nuts.
Where do you get those numbers from?
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Barook
Where do you get those numbers from?
Pete Jahn's MTGO column. He publishes the cost of 4x everything at the end of every one.
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morgan_coke
Pete Jahn's MTGO column. He publishes the cost of 4x everything at the end of every one.
Just did a quick check - it lost a bit more or than 4k (or 19%) in the last two months, from 21k to 17k, but in February, it was around 19k. While a 19% drop is still heavy, it isn't as dramatic as you stated, unless I'm missing something.
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Damn last weeks Classic was 6 Brainstorm/Deathrite decks and 2 Moon Chalice decks. This is the state of legacy.