Source Secret Santa 2017 Bragging Thread

[EpicLevelCommoner]

MtG The Source Secret Santa 2017 - What Santa got for me!

https://imgur.com/a/O3fTC

EDIT: Bonus!

https://imgur.com/a/nGkkE

[Dan Pyre]

MtG The Source Secret Santa 2017 - What Santa got for me!

https://imgur.com/a/O3fTC
Great stuff, awesome Santa! But it is really hard to see some of the detail in those photos. Any way to retake them so we can read the note? :tongue:

[EpicLevelCommoner]

Great stuff, awesome Santa! But it is really hard to see some of the detail in those photos. Any way to retake them so we can read the note? :tongue:

I'll provide a transcription and a list of what I got; my hands are too shaky for any halfway decent photos.

Letter from Santa:

Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas!

A little birdy told me you were interested in Painter so here's a few pieces to get you started! A friend of mine love playing the Red/White version of this deck so I've included some things to help 'brew' that up if you so like. May you have a happy holiday and I wish the new year leaves a lor of opponents without a library : )

- Santa

Altered Arid Mesa quote:

Caw!
Paint the town red with R/W Painter!
Cah-caw!!

Card Goodies:
1x Knight of the Reliquary
1x Island from Alpha (corners are more round)
1x Altered Art Arid Mesa (extended artwork and signed)
1x Buy a Box promo of Ajani Vengeant
1x Goblin Snowman
1x Nahiri the Harbinger
4x Grindstone
4x Painter's Servant

Note: The Vengeant is an especially nice surprise as my friend is revisiting an old pet deck that, well, let's just say Spawnsire of Ulamog activation doesn't live up to Wrath of God plus Vengeant ultimate.

Supply Goodies:

1x Pink Matte Dragon Shields (another good call; glossy backs are a bit annoying for me)
1x White Ultimate Guard sideloader deck box

Yummy Goodies:

1x Coffe Crisp Candy Bar
1x Chocolate Survival Kit
1x Coffee Beans (if I had a coffee maker, this would be the best as, well, peak season just started where I work).

Anyhow, I'm definitely going to crack down for my victim; the value is there now, but the spirit needs a little more attention hehe.

[Rascalyote]

MtG The Source Secret Santa 2017 - What Santa got for me!

https://imgur.com/a/O3fTC

Wow that snowman goblin card looks sweet! Can you take a picture of it outside the sleeve for me :^)

[EpicLevelCommoner]

Wow that snowman goblin card looks sweet! Can you take a picture of it outside the sleeve for me :^)

Hmm ... I dunno; how do I know you aren't up to rascally things? :P

(Also if this was Thor's Mjolnir I'd be pinned forever; thank you)

EDIT: My first post updated

[PirateKing]

https://i.imgur.com/9Ts3xch_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

So I was all set to brag, but what's the first thing I see? So look for me on the 25th!

[Ace/Homebrew]

What's X-Mass? Is that where mutants go to pray? :tongue:

Edit: Looks like it's a heavy metal festival (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Mass_Festival)!

[PirateKing]

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/016/925/498ed76be651cffb6bb9bac6a9bb75c3.jpg

[haganbmj]

Mail day! A mystery envelope arrived today and I wasn't about to wait until the 25th to open it.
Haven't been able to piece together the username associated with this, but I'll figure out at some point I'm sure.

Here's a good picture of my feet.

https://i.imgur.com/IFkaUwH.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/SkSUn64.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/xb5DoRM.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/dWBreum.jpg

Some beautiful basics, a Japanese Revoker, and 2 German Land Taxes, some Konami coins, with an assortment of tokens for my cube from Dick Tracey, Rad Dudes, X-Men, and some beautiful wrestlers including the charismatic Ultimate Warrior.
All on top of a Source mat!

Thanks so much!

[compacta_d]

Woo received my Secret Santa gift. Love it!

And I do like pimp red storm. I just picked up foil goblins too!

https://m.imgur.com/a/2IHLL

[Pilhas]

Received the package today!

https://i.imgur.com/GydvOTf.jpg?2

Close ups:

https://i.imgur.com/Iiq3tLi.jpg?2

https://i.imgur.com/hot4MGf.jpg?2

https://i.imgur.com/Nf4MZAq.jpg?3


Thanks a lot! The alters are amazing. I think my favorites are the Blood moon and the Grindstone, Super original.

62 cards(Around 8 christmas) to go and I'll get this deck done :D

PS: The cookie came broken but the flavour was all there :wink:
You forgot to sign it, don't know who you are :cry:

[Mr Miagi]

OMG, the alters are soooo sweet! :eek:

[Minniehajj]

Thank you so much Santa!

https://imgur.com/a/UkHOI

[Lord_Mcdonalds]

Thank you so much Santa!

https://imgur.com/a/UkHOI

I meant to include some cringey letter about how by some miraculous chance I am your secret Santa and that in another timeline you could’ve retreated to an island to brainstorm a way to predict such an occurrence but alas I forgot to do that

[Minniehajj]

I meant to include some cringey letter about how by some miraculous chance I am your secret Santa and that in another timeline you could’ve retreated to an island to brainstorm a way to predict such an occurrence but alas I forgot to do that

That'd be all the more tasteful if Search for Azcanta would've been called "Retreat to Azcanta" instead :P
However, seriously, thank you so much, and Happy Holidays :)

[Xod]

You forgot to sign it, don't know who you are :cry:

I thought the signing of the alters was reveiling the identity :wink:

[jandax]

So sad all the former painters [emoji23]

Nice hauls so far! Blood moon alter is killer, awesome idea!

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[PirateKing]

https://i.imgur.com/GgH8WeA.jpg

Excellent Christmas morning!

Card wise, a lovely alerted Sensei's Divining Top and German Falkenrath Aristocrat. Then a German Polluted Delta, French Terminus, English Dark Confidant, Japanese Shadowmage Infiltrator, Russian foil Island, Russian Birthing Pod, Russian foil Forest, Russian Siege-Gang Commander, Japanese Red Elemental Blast, Russian foil Mountain, and best of all Korean Grizzly Bear! Truly a delightful medley of languages, I feel so cultured now :p

Chocolate wise, heaps of options, very excited to see what they all are. There was a note apologizing for the lack of schnapps, no worries, I understand the customs delima; I'll enjoy a bottle of Rumple Minze and think of you. Thank you Santa, Merry Christmas!

[KaiSchafroth]

Awesome looking chocolate and a sweet little card list! Ooo... Rumple Minze...

Hope to see some more holiday hauls soon!

[Lord_Mcdonalds]

Package (https://imgur.com/a/PtSTG)arrived safely. @Commoner I actually kept the letter you sent me three years ago (I believe it was), and should have it somewhere (presuming it didn't get tossed by accident when I moved), much appreciated :) .

So, I kinda messed up :laugh:, due to me writing my wish list in kind of a hurry, I wasn't entirely clear with what I wanted.

This is what I wrote

"Anything Korean, specifically 4th FBB Basics/Swords, or anything playable in lands."

This is what I meant

"Anything Korean (specifically 4th FBB Basics/Swords, or anything playable in lands.)"

I didn't think about it at all until I received my package this morning due to having wrote it in a hurry and not putting much greater thought beyond it. So this morning I opened my package, opened the container and almost immediately realized what I had wrote. By no means is this Commoners fault (I probably would've thought the same thing), I just thought this was amusing, especially in light of the fact this is the third time this has happened either to me or involving me this christmas, as my girlfriend and I each bought each other a copy of the disaster artist, and she also mistakenly bought me an extra copy of Ascension (I'm chalking that one up to being brought up in a conversation involving whiskey)

[EpicLevelCommoner]

Oh it would have been better if UPS didnt lose the punchline part of the gift ;)

https://imgur.com/a/JcIHa

(this will be part 2 sometime in January; has to be redone and I didnt want to overwhelm the artist during the season)

[taconaut]

My Secret Santa Package (!):

https://imgur.com/a/e0zFY

:eek:
Thanks so much, Kai!
:laugh::smile:

[ph88]

My secret santa is a mad man! Holy crap thanks so much!! Everything in the picture was in my SSS (including that beautiful playmat).

https://imgur.com/gallery/O4Xtm

EDIT: Pic is kinda blurry. For those that can't see, everything is Japanese, and the Dazes and Blightsteel are signed.

[KaiSchafroth]

My Secret Santa Package (!):

https://imgur.com/a/e0zFY

:eek:
Thanks so much, Kai!
:laugh::smile:


Glad you received and looks like you had some fun with the draft!

[taconaut]

Absolutely, it began with a friend I haven't seen for years asking my mother if she liked squirrels. :laugh:

[Ajsmirnov]

Thank you so much, Santa!

Mail contained some cards from my wishlist + some extra cards + secret letter (I cannot show it, its a SECRET letter - can only tell, it is about secret Russian Tempo Deck from the past :tongue: )

Cards: https://imgur.com/tU5RIYg

Happy New Year Everyone!:cool:

[entity]

Received mine before Christmas, thanks to ThePirateKing for an amazing present! I received Judge foil Crucible of Worlds, Christmas-altered foil Tranquil Thicket and a Christmas letter praising my deck choice :)

[PirateKing]

Received mine before Christmas, thanks to ThePirateKing for an amazing present! I received Judge foil Crucible of Worlds, Christmas-altered foil Tranquil Thicket and a Christmas letter praising my deck choice :)

Custom agents must have rewrote my letter! :laugh:

Glad it got there safe, apologies again for the lack of other goodies. Merry Christmas.

[Whippoorwill]

Got my package yesterday and opened it today and cleared desk space to take pictures. HUGE thank you to Taconaut, this was beyond anything I expected. I love the alters and despite how it may appear due to my deck choices, I do like playing Storm (I have TES in Japanese aside from the lands). :tongue:

Link to the pictures so I don't break any tables.

https://imgur.com/a/8t81H

[taconaut]

Glad you liked it, and sorry it took so long! Good to hear you're also ad-nauseaming on occasion! :laugh: Gotta tell you, it took all my strength to send off that crispy cabal ritual :wink::tongue:

[Doishy]

Got my package yesterday and opened it today and cleared desk space to take pictures. HUGE thank you to Taconaut, this was beyond anything I expected. I love the alters and despite how it may appear due to my deck choices, I do like playing Storm (I have TES in Japanese aside from the lands). :tongue:

Link to the pictures so I don't break any tables.

https://imgur.com/a/8t81H

Man, you gotta get on the Doomsday train now :D

[Dan Pyre]

I'm so late to posting this! Been busy.

I received my package last Friday - just in time to play the cards in our biweekly Legacy event where I went 4-0 with the new shiny Goblin and shiny Aether Vial :cool: Thank you so much Santa! The Winstigator put in many Matrons and Ringleaders that evening! Trying to convert me with that Entomb though :laugh:

The chocolate was delicious and now I feel bad for not including a treat that like in my gift :(

https://imgur.com/a/xOWHd

[meffeo]

Спасибо, mysterious Russian friend! Got my package today, the wait was totally worth it :smile: Thanks and a happy new year :cool:


SSS2017 (https://ibb.co/j6uRBb)

Goodies (https://ibb.co/injRBb)

[mistercakes]

I got my package a few days ago.

Thanks!

Hopefully my recipient will post soon too. :)

https://ibb.co/hWOpxG

[tsabo_tavoc]

I received an awesome package from Santa (=BaroqueW): https://imgur.com/a/JTC0Y, absolutely delighted by the cards, pretty alters, and the Swedish sweet, thank you very much!
They arrived before Christmas, and sorry for the late bragging as I was isolated from the web.

[jandax]

Bout to break the thread, Dan Pyre delivered like a boss! I asked for a meagre budget towards Old School card stock (ABU, Legends, Dark, ect) so behold!

4 Force Spike LE
4 Power Sink UNL
2 Counterspell UNL
1 Psionoc Blasy UNL
2 Goblin King UNL
1 Goblin Wizard DRK
4 Goblin Baloon Brigade UNL
4 Goblins of the Flarg DRK
4 Goblin Grenade FE
2 Hurricane UNL
1 Typhoon LE
1 Basalt Monolith LEB
1 Red Elemental Blast LEA
1 Tsunami LEA

Aaaand a sweetass deckbox to boot! Really taken aback, thanks so much! They will all be put to good use!


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[Rascalyote]

Package came in today and it's totally awesome! My wants list was pretty much "surprise me" and he nailed it!

https://imgur.com/m9sWzPI

Such lovely printing too on the letter though I dripped a bit on it with my wet hair. At the bottom it says it includes 'the best land I'm not playing' and I was sarcastically like 'this better not be a Cradle because I hate that card'. Bam! Rogue's Passage, maybe I'll cut Stage/Depths for that and get a free deck slot =p.

Council's Judgement was a card I meant to pick up for a long while but just kept forgetting it existed, going right into the SB, along with an extra copy of Garruk so I can play those sweet Wolfe tokens.

I love Sword of Feast and Famine! I was thinking of trying it again because Light and Shadow was letting me down but I couldn't remember where I put mine.

Merry (belated) Christmas!

(I posted this in the other thread, then realized later - oops! Copy/Paste!!)

[Dan Pyre]

Bout to break the thread, Dan Pyre delivered like a boss! I asked for a meagre budget towards Old School card stock (ABU, Legends, Dark, ect) so behold!

Glad you enjoyed them! It was tough searching for actual playable ABU cards that you didn't already have (you had Pox/Land's Edge/Erhnamgeddon) so I opted just go with some 'starter packs' for other decks. The best of course being Old School Goblins AM I RIGHT FELLAS?

Where's the alter at though!? I included a Santa alter Dark Ritual... don't tell me the Netherlands postal service ran off with it :(

[jandax]

Oh shoot forgot to add the alter! Will add to previous post.

You nailed it man! Great playsets of goodies that I'll use to make new decks. I was truly surprised about the Monolith and REB, most awesome!

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[haganbmj]

Package came in today and it's totally awesome! My wants list was pretty much "surprise me" and he nailed it!

https://imgur.com/m9sWzPI

Such lovely printing too on the letter though I dripped a bit on it with my wet hair. At the bottom it says it includes 'the best land I'm not playing' and I was sarcastically like 'this better not be a Cradle because I hate that card'. Bam! Rogue's Passage, maybe I'll cut Stage/Depths for that and get a free deck slot =p.

Council's Judgement was a card I meant to pick up for a long while but just kept forgetting it existed, going right into the SB, along with an extra copy of Garruk so I can play those sweet Wolfe tokens.

I love Sword of Feast and Famine! I was thinking of trying it again because Light and Shadow was letting me down but I couldn't remember where I put mine.

Merry (belated) Christmas!

(I posted this in the other thread, then realized later - oops! Copy/Paste!!)

Spread the good word that is Rogue's Passage throughout Canada.

[Xod]

Finally!

The cookies were good and the cards too!

https://imgur.com/a/Cpo2h

[KaiSchafroth]

Finally!

The cookies were good and the cards too!

https://imgur.com/a/Cpo2h

some spicy foreign pick ups!

[meffeo]

Finally!

The cookies were good and the cards too!

https://imgur.com/a/Cpo2h

Glad you enjoyed them (I'm talking about the cookies ofc :cool: )!

[KaiSchafroth]

I guess we'll call it an... early cryptic cupid..? Redkid43 came through with some sweet foreign stuff! Thanks a ton and hope all is well on the homefront :)

EDIT: no matter what it keeps sticking the image in on its side so...sorry for any strained neck muscles

http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/gg531/KaiSchafroth/sourceSS17_zpstihzrwft.jpg (http://s1242.photobucket.com/user/KaiSchafroth/media/sourceSS17_zpstihzrwft.jpg.html)

[Redkid43]

Glad you liked it man! Sorry for the delay!

[Lord_Mcdonalds]

Damn photobucket

[KaiSchafroth]

Damn photobucket

I'll never win the battle against photobucket (https://imgur.com/HAUkKPE)

[Mr Miagi]

Hi,

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but I would just like to say big thank you to Krasman that took it on himself to ship out a second package since the first one got lost in the mysteries of space and time; or maybe the customs officer had a sweet tooth :)

I didn't really wish for cards but for some candy and Krasman delivered, plenty. Thank you! :cool:

http://i64.tinypic.com/52i3ab.jpg

[Dewil]

Mmmmmm, chocolate. :tongue:
Can I see a little pitchfork on the right corner of the text box on that Krosan grip? :wink:

[Krasman]

Mmmmmm, chocolate. :tongue:
Can I see a little pitchfork on the right corner of the text box on that Krosan grip? :wink:

It is one of the five you did for me. I made the mistake of sending a modern masters one in the first three i sent and then sent two more with the second lot of cards you altered for me.

Also glad you liked all the candy, sorry it took so long to get there. If the first package I sent ever shows up there is even more candy.