Looks like TNT on that Russian Teeg :tongue: Those goyfs are pretty sick.
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Looks like TNT on that Russian Teeg :tongue: Those goyfs are pretty sick.
I've been working on my ANT deck, which I'm planning on playing at GP DC in November. I don't know if it'll be done by then, but it'll hopefully be close.
Everything main deck is Japanese (non-foil, since if you can't go 100% foil what's the point?) except for dual lands (german white border) and 14 cards (the 3 basics, 1 gemstone mine, 4 polluted deltas, 4 infernal tutors, 1 ad nauseam and 1 tendrils of agony). The basic islands are actually done, but are in another deck for reasons that currently escape me, and the last gemstone mine is in the mail, so that'll bring me down to 11 main deck cards left. I'm not actively working on the sideboard at the moment, so that's still all english except for one dual and a cabal therapy.
The long term plan is to expand this into an entirely japanese (where possible) "box of storm", which can be played as either ANT, TES or Belcher. I've got parts of TES and Belcher either done or in the mail, but like the sideboard those aren't being actively worked on until I finish the main deck of ANT, since that's the version I intend to play in DC.
http://electricjellyfish.net/images/...s-cantrips.jpg
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hello to everyone here (=
my friends asked me to post my UG_Post here
so it is/ as usual nonenglish, alterate, signed, all cards in different languages, foil. hate russain cards but :wink:
enjoy (=
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now i want to sign most of the cards by artist and to have more alterations (=
Nice deck, but lacks a consistent theme with regards to language choices. Foil asian is overrated, more people should just go foil German or Italian.
I've got 2 island slots I need to fill in a deck. Should I play summer, japanese foil snow-covered/full art zendikar, miscuts or textless 4th? The summer and 4th ones are white bordered, and I don't have two of my favourite art for the 4th ones (different arts), which kinda sucks.
Very nice alterations!
Greetings
foil asian isn't overrated - foil Japanese is still a popular pimp choice espec for older printings - nice all is dust
Hey Lox
Will you be slinging that @BoM? (and how did everything Work out with that DQ?)
Nice alterations, I particularly like the Karakas. The Foil RU Emrakul is very nice as well.
Any special reason why you had Saito sign a Mindbreak Trap?
Summer. 100% summer. It's the cream, and Zendikar are honestly ugly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Occam
Summer are boss. Textless 4th could be another option, but go with summer :cool::cool:
Glad someone agrees with me on the Asian is overrated and to go German. And of all people, it's Occam making that comment ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Occam
I'd probably go with summer for the color saturation being quite a gem. I know you're in the works of picking up some other textless 4th basics, is one of the islands your favorite art?
You can German out most internet legacy decks. Something you can't say about jap/chinese/korean/russian ... especially if you don't like playing with foil-ghi-oh cards. Ice Age forward, plus Revised gets you essentially everything unless you are rocking Forcefield or Lich. Italian has slightly more coverage because of Legends but Italian Legends is so ghetto it waters everything down.
Edit: I'm not speaking strictly about $$ value of course. Otherwise ... sure miscut, crimped, Patrick Swayze signed summer then ...
Considering pimp, strictly value-wise, russian (and korean) are obv more expensive, compared to german.Quote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
German, however, are just an awesome language. The cyrillic alphabet are indeed awesome to look at, but I don't care for asian cards, as well.
Besides, when you can't get force's in anything else than european languages (considering you don't get them altered to jap (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l1...mp/JPNFows.jpg). What's the point, if you can't match the entire deck =)?
I am currently trying to get the last few pieces to match in my Grixis Delver deck, will try to upload pictures as soon as I get it done :)!
(All english foil/all german non-foils). Just need 3x foil fetch + 3x foil bob to go, so shouldn't be too long :)!
Jap just reminds me of people who show up with sticky hent@! pr0n playmats. German reminds me of getting shit done. Russian reminds me of drinking. Korean reminds me of value.
agree, basicly. :D Which is why I like german.Quote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
(I can't afford rus foil, otherwise I might go for that, and german non-foil, due to, as mentioned, the cyrillic alphabet being completely insanely cool).
Mostly agree. But fuck value. Why do you need that if you are drinking and getting shit done already?Quote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
Loxmatii I never would have thought I would see Cheburashka on an alteration. Time for an internet reference!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YJGyaxLX1E
Sergey, so glad to see you finally post your masterpiece UG Post here. I was so incredibly honored that I was allowed to play it at BoM Annecy this year. *High-Five*, my friend! :smile:
Those japanese altered forces are actually pretty sweet! Makes me want to change mine to another language as well...Quote:
Originally Posted by Quasim0ff
Of the originals, I like this one quite a bit:Quote:
Originally Posted by r3dd09
http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/cards/8798.jpg
Only have one textless one which is like that, though. Summer or textless would mean white bordered, which look weird in a deck which is completely BB. Unless I play summer duals, which I don't have enough of to make a deck with :(
Well, yeah -- I don't look down nor disagree with people who go foil Asian -- I do it because I like the look and I can get stuff relatively cheap, but when people have to go foil Japanese/Korean because people view European languages (except Russian) or English as inferior, that is what I meant when I made that "overrated" comment.
On jap/chi (and also kor) cards:
I started to use them because asianBB 4th Ed. cards are much cheaper then Beta and I like their design more (I started during 4th Ed.), so for me it was a win-win scenario, as I saved money and had the cards I liked. As the time goes, I started to dislike them a bit, because:
a) using asian languages means I will never have my decks completely jap/chi (not to mention kor) and this makes them far less nice. (And no, I won't be using the alters; I don't like them, moreover WotC may change their policy on alters right tomorrow, and I'm not willing to sit on unplayables.)
b) when I'm missing asian money cards and use just some random crap like Ponders and Spell Pierces, the deck basically screams "Look at me, I'm cheap!"... esp. if I don't even have it in one and only language. For a while I even thought I'll return back to English-only and I really start to consider it being the most pimp.
Also, I'm not really fond of design mixes, so I'd favor if WotC finally abandon the RL and I may buy modern-framed Forces and duals, moreover japanese. Otoh, I don't need duals for my casual deck and whenever I play Tempo Thresh, I'm surprised how very little attention I pay to the languages/frames/condition of my cards (with the only thing that really matters to me being BBs, because mixed borders look incons... ugly), so if all my "pimp" happens on some weird level of petting with cards when I'm not playing, I may just as well cease to care...
Personally, I think there are appealing aspects to many different types of "pimp" magic cards.
For example, my storm (and vintage) stuff is in Japanese when possible because I find the script aesthetically appealing. My dual lands are (mostly) WB german because I like the FWB cards and find the german translations of those words interesting (Mangrovensumpf is just more awesome than Bayou). I like a well done alter, and when I was actively playing EDH I spent a fair amount of effort hunting those down for my decks. Finally, there's just something to be said for the rare stuff, Alpha/Beta/Summer/weird missprints/whatever. They're all awesome in their own way. Heck, I'm totally not a fan of signed cards, but if that's what turns your crank then go for it, and even if it's not my cup of tea I can totally appreciate when Markers posts one of his epic complete signed sets here.
I guess what I'm saying is to each their own, and I'd hate to see someone stop posting their stuff here because someone else thinks it's not awesome enough. There's a lot of awesome stuff out there, and part of what makes it awesome is the dizzying variety of cards that people find appealing. All of this is a matter of opinion anyway, it's not like your korean crimped miscut smokestack is going to magically make me sacrifice more permanents or something, but that doesn't mean it isn't cool.
For me, Pimp is what I think looks nice. I love French/Italian/Portuguese, and have no problems pimping my decks with them. Pimp, for me, is what I like and fuck the haters. I don't need people to tell me what looks nice :p
Edit: French and Portuguese foils, especially Portuguese, are notoriously difficult to acquire. Why would I pimp my deck with something a bunch of other people have? T
french really? you live in canada bro, half of everything there is french.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.C
Not so much half... more like a really vocal 1/13.Quote:
Originally Posted by apple713
A few posts back someone mentioned that they were making their ANT deck all Japanese but their basics were still English (for shame, sir...) and I thought I'd post part of my foreign basic land collection. These are all 4th edition Korean, Japanese or Chinese language basics - in black border, of course - that I've picked up over the years. It's only part of the 4th ed Asian language collection (about 80 others are a little too bent to play in competitive decks so they're set aside flattening out).
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...cs/spread1.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...cs/spread2.png
The Korean ones are certainly the hardest ones to come by and it's unfortunate that the 80 cards mentioned above are all Korean (no Islands) that I can't play.
(edit: forgot to scale the images again. Now they're a reasonable size)
Hey, I'm working on it! The initial effort has gone into picking up the core cards in the deck, I figure it's more important to have Japanese LEDs than Japanese Swamps ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by barcode
Got these the other day, slowly building up painter.
http://i.imgur.com/OIROsmpl.jpg
Well, and and what if I like things that other people have? :smile: My goal is not to be original - well, esp. now when I dissolve the poor collection I once got -, but to use cards that I think look nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.C
I got a playset of Romanic languages Polluted Deltas: one each of Portuguese, Italian, Spanish and French. Although this set is more of a virtue of necessity than anything else, I fell in love with it over years... :laugh: Shame that WotC doesn't print cards in Romanian! :frown:
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Originally Posted by mini1337s
You and me.
Thursday.
We have a talk!
IN FRENCH!
TABARNAK!
Reb are one of the most beautiful cards in english BB. I really love the look on it, it's so awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dice_Box
I have a metric fuck ton of japanese basics I'd burn before I'd play them. PM me.Quote:
Originally Posted by rooneg
Thanks for the offer, PM sent!Quote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
I started working on foreign-ing out my Legacy staples a few months ago, and have made some decent progress. I've never liked foils (light sensitivity means that non-matte sleeved foils are an eyesore for me) so foreign cards are a nice substitute. I'm not really a purist regarding languages (Japanese is the most aesthetically pleasing IMO, but I also like German, Russian, and occasional cards in other languages). Hopefully I'll be able to put some stuff up here soon. I doubt I'll ever have a 100% foreign deck because I can't handle the cost of FBB duals right now, but it might get close.
EDIT: I've also sworn off pimping fetches - at least until a mass reprint - because of skyrocketing costs.
Welcome to Quebec ESTI!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kayradis
My favorite islands ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Occam
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The beta(s) I still have from college have a soft spot in my heart - I had Poole alter one, they are basically destroyed and hardly even feel like a new magic card feels. Also korean saga just look boss. Angry lightning covered double signed islands.
For tomorrow I'm goldfishing these two piles ...
Young Black and Rich
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-t...4/IMAG0705.jpg
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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1...4/IMAG0709.jpg
Stomp the Yard
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-m...4/IMAG0711.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-p...4/IMAG0713.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-b...4/IMAG0714.jpg
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I don't believe you would play either of those two. They both have Islands in them and one even has Force in it!Quote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
On the other hand, those Bobs are still one of the most gorgeous sets of signed cards I've ever seen.
I don't care much about the border or the language (English prefered actually, but I do own an Italian Tabernacle). I DO care about the old card frame and the art of a card though. In that sense, my only 'PIMP' cards I guess would be my 4 Seasons Mishra's Factories. Not sure those count though.
Plundermagier...win.
Nedleeds, your decks are the nut high.
Nedleeds, do you own a full beta playset of duals? I recall you buying some CE's awhile back. Just can't remember if you own a full 40