[DO NOT TRY TO SELL IN HERE] Pimp Legacy Decks

[Spam]

It looks really nice, but yes, maybe going for a single language would lead to a better looking result. You already have many of the cards in japanese, but It seems that going that way will be really expensive, as you still lack some of the rare cards (like polluteds, rainforests, infernals and therapies..). It seems that you also like chinese, and if you took this other route, you could downgrade the japanese cards to chinese, and get more chinese cards with the remaining money (but you would lose the led's).
It's not an easy decision, but the good think is that you're not in a hurry, just play with the cards and wait for good offers!
P.S.: I always prefer english cards, but I'm ok with people wanting other languages, less demand for my wants :P

I know that what I'm going to say is extremely unpopular for all magic players, but I do think that chinese and Japanese cards are overrated. I love them, but nowadays everybody seems to have those. To me, portuguese or French cards are more rare to find and have some awesome text to pronounce (which always leads to hilarious mispronunciations). I have a weird sense of humor I know.

[nedleeds]

Language is all in the eye of the beholder but I think people would agree Spanish, French, Port as a whole are the least desirable and most sale prices bear this out. One experience was being in France for BoM and the poor French guys trying to trade French cards and basically nobody in the room wanted them, Spanish dudes, 'mericans, Germans, UK guys etc.. Then you had the Russian guys walking around with their little 4 up binders with russian foils asking the moon and hardly anyone acquiescing. I had no problem trading my chinese cards to german guys for german stuff straight up. English traded at market value.

[BadGones]

I know that what I'm going to say is extremely unpopular for all magic players, but I do think that chinese and Japanese cards are overrated. I love them, but nowadays everybody seems to have those. To me, portuguese or French cards are more rare to find and have some awesome text to pronounce (which always leads to hilarious mispronunciations). I have a weird sense of humor I know.

In fact, most of French cards are mistranslated. In France, two cards can have the same name without being the same card. For example : Upheaval & Discombobulate both are translated in "Bouleversement" in French... And it happens many times.
Believe me, even if now French cards are more expensive than English ones, I still prefer VO!

[death]

Asian cards, japanese and korean in particular, were highly sought after because of aesthetics and scarcity back in the day due to far east location being isolated and all. The text on japanese cards were thin (easy to tell them apart a few feet away), unique and being unreadable made them especially appealing. The number of players actually playing japanese cards didn't help the supply either. Korean had a very limited run and the language was discountinued somewhere after the Tempest block that is when the demand skyrocketed, though reintroduced in 2012 are still hard to find outside of ebay.

European languages on the other hand are readable. I don't care if russian scarcity is due to hype or not but, stand a few feet away they look like any regular language. That makes them less appealing to me, aside from they can't match my old-border japanese foils. There are reasons why you see more asian cards nowadays, they are valued more as needleds exemplified. I've seen vintage cards altered to japanese, never in any other language.

[LOLWut]

It's really confusing. Why the different languages?

It looks really nice, but yes, maybe going for a single language would lead to a better looking result. You already have many of the cards in japanese, but It seems that going that way will be really expensive, as you still lack some of the rare cards (like polluteds, rainforests, infernals and therapies..). It seems that you also like chinese, and if you took this other route, you could downgrade the japanese cards to chinese, and get more chinese cards with the remaining money (but you would lose the led's).
It's not an easy decision, but the good think is that you're not in a hurry, just play with the cards and wait for good offers!
P.S.: I always prefer english cards, but I'm ok with people wanting other languages, less demand for my wants :P

A few days ago, I played against a United Nations deck that looked like it included some of every possible language. I actually thought it was really cool. Each turn was a little surprise to see what kind of words would be on the stack, and it looked really interesting on his playmat.

[Megadeus]

A deck with a bunch of 4 ofs and every card of a set was a different language would be fun. Almost makes me wanna do it actually...

[Quasim0ff]

I swear to god, my OCD would turn nuts.

I'm struggling with german miracles w/ english Council's Judgment.

[guillemnicolau]

I swear to god, my OCD would turn nuts.

I'm struggling with german miracles w/ english Council's Judgment.

I know that feeling, the only non-english cards in my ANT are 2 chain of vapor, and sometimes I prefer to lose instead of drawing one of those 'Corrente de Vapor'...

[nedleeds]

Some of it is also about what you started collecting, so if you got the Japanese itch (STD?) and spent time procuring those back in the mirage days you might just want uniformity. Japanese has pretty good reach also, going all the way back to Chronicles / Mirage.

[MoxMonkey]

when you are running a deck with 4 urborgs, you might change your mind. that damage adds up quick.

Well vintage don't use urborg so I'll be alright :P

[nedleeds]

Well vintage don't use urborg so I'll be alright :P

You've obviously never experienced the glory of helmline shops ...

[Koby]

You've obviously never experienced the glory of helmline shops ...

Or Two Card Monte (Painter + HelmLine + Vault Key + Forgemaster to find them all). That deck needs Urborg just to tap Workshop for activation mana. Personally, I like using Chromatic Lantern, since it's castable from Workshop to begin with and accelerates you and casts Welder.

[Allcoin]

Not as many as I wanted to, but yeah. If you're in the market to move, let me know since I'm finishing pimping some decks.

-Matt

There was actually a guy on Craigslist in Seattle selling an island and a forest(?), was looking at buying them if the price was right, he was looking for $400 on the island from what I remember though...

[MoxMonkey]

You've obviously never experienced the glory of helmline shops ...

Ahhhhh ok! I never look at shop based decks. Not my kind of deck to play so I just skip over them.

[TheAardvark]

I swear to god, my OCD would turn nuts.

I'm struggling with german miracles w/ english Council's Judgment.

Seems like a good reason to cut it.

[GoblinZ]

Recieved these two from kidicarus, keep playing WB cards in my ANT, haha!

[sdematt]

Not my favourite arts, but still gorgeous pimp. It's like the completely chrome Fisker Karma that roams about town. Totally unnecessary, but nice nonetheless.

-Matt

[MoxMonkey]

Random pickups today:

[nedleeds]

I haven't resolved a good Channel in sometime. What a fisting that card is.

[MoxMonkey]

I haven't resolved a good Channel in sometime. What a fisting that card is.

I haven't either. But I needed it for my collection of B/R List cards.