Except they (well, Tom LaPille anyway) noted that it was odd that Modern was starting out without the allied fetchlands and indicated that this would be changed at some point in the future. As you can see from here:Originally Posted by TheAardvark
"As with any format, there are some cards whose conspicuous absence will be felt. In particular, the Onslaught fetch lands feel like a strange omission, when the Zendikar fetch lands combined with the Ravnica dual lands will likely be important to the format's mana bases. I admit that it is strange. However, right before Zendikar released, the format contained only Onslaught fetch lands. I played many Extended tournaments with a green-blue deck that would have loved the option to find a Forest with Misty Rainforest, but I made do with Polluted Deltas, Flooded Strands, and a few Breeding Pools. For now, the lack of allied-color fetch lands would be one of the format's idiosyncrasies. There would be others that we would discover over time, and that's okay too."
Where did he say that? I know he's mentioned how they want to give people access to 10 dual lands whenever possible, but not anything about them not printing half land sets in a block. And unless there's some extremely recent post I missed, I can't think of any "blatant" claim that fetchlands will be in a set of 10.
I will try and find the post when I have access to my pc, but I night not be able to. He posts a lot and that will leave me with no small amount of fluff to look though.
It is better to ask and look stupid then keep your mouth shut and remain so.
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Fuck. Which one of my quotes do I drop for this?
So, contradicting statements from them, it seems. I will say that I think it's a mistake to have the ONS fetches Modern legal, but also believe that they need a large scale reprint. But whatevs.
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I got some needless ONS fetchlands and right now I'm quite uncertain what to do with them. Should I sold them asap, or should I keep them? I think that the best idea is to keep them, because the reprints weren't even announced, let alone happened. It may take another years of waiting before WotC finally repirnts them. In fact I don't exactly understand how they wish to keep Modern available without another print run of shocklands and without several other prints of fetches.
Unless, of course, they want Modern to become a go-to Eternal format with all the aspets of today's and yesterday's Eternal formats: expensive staples, need for devotion, etc.
All three of those cards make really stupid mono-color archetypes viable and don't actually help a typical RBW deck that much.
What's bad about monocolred decks? Also... they were more of a joke cards than real suggestions/wishes.
When the fuck did Chains of Mephistopheles become a $400 card?
I think it started to REALLY spike around the time Sneak and Show was being played everywhere.
Also, Legacy (and Modern) staples have spiked in the past 8-12 months. While I am not saying Chains is a staple, Brainstorm is. Chains hates on Brainstorm. Maybe that is why it really spiked.
Yeah, SCG increased their price to 400$. You can still get it cheaper even at other major retailers, Card Kingdom is still selling for 300$. Anyway, the card is a great sideboard card. I use 2 in my Jund SB, and mainly bring it in to hate on powerful card draw engines: Griselbrand, Glimpse of Nature, Elvish Visionary, Time Spiral, Argothian Enchantress, etc. Hurting Brainstorm and the cantrips is just a bonus.
Not sure where I gathered the info but stated was next FTW is called FTW Fetched. So there you go, limited print, not modern legal, a set if ten, wont shake up a thing.
I'm also in hope it's not true.
Good call on Girselbrand, Glimpse, etc. I don't have the card (let alone 2 copies) so I just know the basic uses
Beta duals are out of control at Starcity. They are asking 4k for USea with none in stock , so somebody is paying that price. That's actually considerably more than a Mox Sapphire. The dual land situation is completely out of hand.
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no one is paying that price it just means they haven't had any sold to them since they sold out at $2000...
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They've always asked WAY high prices for their duals, and it has been this way for a while. Privately, NM Seas are trading hands at 3ish K already, so I'm not surprised SCG just jacks up their price anyway. I've had more people ask me for Beta duals in the last year than in the previous three, so I think people with money are trying to finish pimping, or, there's a few people out there buying up NM's and having them graded.
Either way, I'm glad I finished my set.
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I just started using Pucatrade this week and I really like it so far. I've been able to unload a fair amount of chaff and I'm going to turn it into either (a.) Guru lands or (b.) finishing Shardless BUG. It's definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but it allows for straight trading while losing little-no value on your cards.
How is Pucatrade compared to Deckbox? I've been looking for a new trading site to use since MOTL is just such a pain in my ass to use.
I've never used Deckbox (other than to organize my massive collection), so I can't tell you how they compare. I can tell you that Pucatrade has allowed me to turn my chaff (FNM promos, average Standard rares ripped from boosters) into $57 worth of pucapoints that I can now use to acquire my playset of Shardless Agent.... or I can save my points and try to acquire something like a GURU land.
EDIT: So I signed up this past Monday and I also upgraded to Silver (Uncommon) level membership too. With the account bonuses and all the product I've sent, I'll be at 18639 points, which is $186.39. Once all the points are credited to my account, I'll look into acquiring a GURU Plains or just finish out Shardless BUG. Pucatrade is definitely a sender's market.
SCGs website price varies greatly from their full stock of stuff (what they brought to Gencon for example). I think if you are looking for pristine condition alpha/beta duals it's a sellers market at this point. They aren't required for legacy or vintage and the people picking up the ones in nice shape are clearly collectors so there's always going to be a premium. SCG heavily discounts it's played stuff in person because they (I assume) don't want to sell it online and risk returns based on grading discrepancies. I got an Alpha Trop for $800.
Why are people buying Maralen of the Mornsong at the moment?
what's the hype?
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