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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.Quote:
Originally Posted by guillemnicolau
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spam
Believe me, even if now French cards are more expensive than English ones, I still prefer VO!
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.
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Originally Posted by Quasim0ff
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by guillemnicolau
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...
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'...Quote:
Originally Posted by Quasim0ff
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.
Well vintage don't use urborg so I'll be alright :PQuote:
Originally Posted by apple713
You've obviously never experienced the glory of helmline shops ... :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by MoxMonkey
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
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...Quote:
Originally Posted by sdematt
Ahhhhh ok! I never look at shop based decks. Not my kind of deck to play so I just skip over them.Quote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
Seems like a good reason to cut it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quasim0ff
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Recieved these two from kidicarus, keep playing WB cards in my ANT, haha!
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
Random pickups today:
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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.Quote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
This was my best ever https://twitter.com/KIP_NZ/status/441049500367335425Quote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
that's pretty baller :DQuote:
Originally Posted by MinosSnt
I'll be in my bunk.Quote:
Originally Posted by MinosSnt
I approve of this union.
-Matt
That one ugly Beta Taiga :laugh:
just kidding, awesome!
That Taiga looks lovely. Perfect on the battlefield next to a Brudi Plateau.Quote:
Originally Posted by index
My first FBB dual. I'm pretty happy with the condition of it! :smile:
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Better late than english!
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Why 5 Daretti's? You neck-beard-brewing an EDH deck as well?Quote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
because I can? i ordered quad darettis first, then found a good deal on all 5 decks ... so here we are #wwa ... i only play 1v1 edh which is ony moderately beardy, i dont think he makes the cut as a general.
organizing my legends ... I think I am Tuktuk and Karrthus away from having every general in russian ...
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I love that playmat.Quote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
oh yeah ... I got a new Alec Baldwin playmat. There are children who've never actually seen his monologue and they didn't understand what true despair, humiliation and brass fucking balls are.
Daretti Daretti Daretti Daretti Daretti.
Did you tell them that counterspells are for closers?Quote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
I'm building a beardy-group play deck around him. These were the first cards I put into the listQuote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
- Mishra's Workshop
- Bazaar of Baghdad
- Goblin Welder
- Crucible of Worlds
- Strip Mine
- Wasteland
- Forgemaster
- Sundering Titan
- Tabernacle
Were the first cards I stuck in the list, who needs to actually group hug when you can do not a lot for 5 turns then loop Sundering Titan and make the rest of the table hate life?
I thought they banned Sundering Titan from the social neckbeard power struggle committee rules? More power to you for telling them to shove their list up their arse. In honor of your commitment to misery, land destruction and hatred of all things fun I present Alec Baldwin and 6 German Sundering Titans. PUT THOSE LANDS DOWN! LANDS ARE FOR CLOSERS!
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Korean
Work in progress.
Nice stuff. The balance in particular is really beautiful looking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ertai's Familiar
Looks like you're getting stuff signed with a paint pen, how do you approach artists with those? I've found the pens to be kind of finicky and I don't know how comfortable I'd be having to set it up every couple of cards.