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Gorgeous decks - Cabal Therapy really is pretty in the old foil; those tokens are really cool too (the Voss ones, I have mixed feelings about Feyris as a character).Quote:
Originally Posted by Noctalor
For me the new full art frame is just too busy to replace any of the original fetches/shocks. They're pretty novel in their own right, but stand out a little too much for my taste.
Promos and reprints are dogshit.
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Originally Posted by nedleeds
You arent doing the expeditions justice in the unpimp scale man. That artwork is a travesty.Quote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
I played this deck for 3-4 months, it was very fun but didn't put up any results and I kind of just gave up on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by gRR!!
In my opinion:Quote:
Originally Posted by magical-yata
Onslaught>KTK>Expeditions
Zendikar>Expeditions
I don't like reprints, except for some very exceptional cases (7th Edition foils, Mercadian Masques Brainstorm).
Truly obvious attempt by Wizards to distract people from the fact that they won't actually be getting (what modern needs) a reprinting of fetchlands. Seems to be working pretty good so far.
It's mostly a marketing move to sell a HELLUVA number of boxes. This is gonna be crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by jamesh
Personnaly, I'm gonna buy 1 or 2 boxes, but mostly to get a lot of lands to alter. If I get a expedition land I'll be super happy, but it's not a priority. But hey, most zen fetches are <30bucks, so I don't think it's too high, compared when sclading tarn was 80+ bucks.
-French Alters
I don't understand how anyone could put the KTK fetches above anything. They are garbage and the expeditions look better even with the weird frame.Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnGalt
The expedition frame is awful. Really awful, they sould've kept the "normal" frame.Quote:
Originally Posted by supremePINEAPPLE
-French Alters
The normal modern frame is awful too and the expeditions have the added bonus of no dragon theme. People can irrationally hate the new lands all they want but there is just no way that the KTK fetches are more pimp than they are.Quote:
Originally Posted by French Alters
People arguing about which foil reprint is better is like a Mormon and a Scientologist having a history argument.
I think you should just pick the art you like, who cares if its a reprint.Quote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
For example i will likely play FTV berserks if the artwork was inverted and the alpha one had the kiddo werewolf, for the same reason im fine with foil japanese KTK polluted, i dislike the art on the old ones, but if i had to pick a flooded i would pick the old one 100%.
Sure i think is "bad" if you pick a card over another just for the $$$ and you call it pimp, but i think once you go full pimp money is not even a issue
New card's desing after m15 is awful I think. Damn borders vanishing on the bottom of the card? But new fullart cards design is awful as well, text on the art makes it muuuaah
Anyways I loke this land much better then others, really good art!
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/6Z...o=w658-h877-no
Comments like this are so out of touch. Wizards probably should have reprinted the ZEN fetches in MM2. They won't be reprinted in a Standard set until they find a Standard environment that needs them. It's possible they'll come in Oath of the Gatewatch, with only 3 months of 10 fetch Standard, or they'll come in 6 months in the post-rotation large set when Khans rotates out. This makes more sense I think because it guarantees that there will be fetches in Standard for the entire BFZ block, to pair with landfall as well as the new slowlands.Quote:
Originally Posted by jamesh
It's actually an obvious attempt by Wizards to appease people who are clamoring for them, without hurting the Standard environment that they're trying to create. Yeah it "sells packs" but fuck players eat this shit up like crack, so of course we want it. Why are we getting mad at Wizards for trying something new? It's unfortunate that it's in the set with the goofy hedrons, but other than that it's a good move by them all-around.
I like the new borders, except the hologram looks goofy and the font change is lame. There's actually more room for art on the new cards. The text does kinda kill the Expedition lands though. They'd be so much nicer without the big white block of text on them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vishen
My opinion on this "problem":
Artwork > everything else (and I really mean everything, if I like the art the most, I would play with WB cards).
Besides that, I like the art from the Flooded and the Steam Vents, all others are meh at best (although Godless Shrine and Misty are the best one among them).
Depending on how much they will cost and how much money I have spare, I might get a playset of the Flooded/Scalding Tarn (if it looks good).
Greetings,
Kathal
Echoing this. I play KTK Strands in my Japanese Miracles deck because I like the art better. I mean, WTF is in the ONS one? Some grass and a little bit of a puddle? My idea of pimp also takes into account the scarcity or hard-to-find nature of the card. For example, I play a $75 Pyroclasm because that shit took months to source from Europe, and I play Coldsnap STPs because FBB are a dime a dozen. To me, pimping is as much about the troubles one has to go through to find a version of a card as it is about the price of the card. When they banned Birthing Pod in neo-extended, I could have sold all of my Japanese cards to further fund my Legacy collection, but the time and effort I spent gathering the Japanese versions of the cards in that deck were worth more to me than the money I could have recouped if I cashed out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kathal
I don't get why people dislike ONS Flooded Strand, I find the art beautiful. The new fetches are not exactly pleasing, especially the Orgy version.
I love the ons art as well. While i dont mind the new art as much as some do, what irritates me is the stupid little holo stamp on the bottom. Hell with that nonsense
I prefer paintings. I don't even play ABU COP: Black.
CoP: Black wasn't in Alpha. :tongue:Quote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
Jesper didn't paint that? I don't understand your meaning here.Quote:
Originally Posted by nedleeds
I'm not sure how he meant that, but I do have to say that the CoPs serve as a great example of a card that I will use a non-original version of solely because of the art. I mean, Harold's shit is really top fukken notch.
COP black was the first MSPaint art in Magic.
I actually sort of contend this, because first, COP: Black actually was never printed in Alpha.Quote:
One of the only initial constraints for artwork was that it could not be digital, the only digital piece to make it into Alpha was Circle of Protection: Black as a last minute addition.
Second, because Beta would be the first set with a digital piece, COP: Black, also had the third Island, which is a digital manipulation of the second (Mark Poole) one.
Changing deck until DTT's come back signed... Bryant Cook's TES seems pimp enough:
http://i.imgur.com/MRCfG5j.jpg?2
http://i.imgur.com/f5QNs5q.jpg?2
Those gold signed Probes made me go from 6 to midnight.
I finished my 1996 era gauntlet. I thought I would share it here.
I decided to build a gauntlet of decks from black summer. I'm using 4th/Ice Age/Alliances/Chronicals/Homelands/Fallen Empires as my sets with the following ban list. My attempt was to make something that looked accurate to the time, thus the miss-matching basics, the lack of attention to white vs black bordered, etc.
Restricted
Balance
Black Vise
Land Tax
Ivory Tower
Zuran Orb
Banned
Mind Twist
Ante Cards
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...psu9kqsep8.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...pswsz6rwcn.jpg
Sadly this is the first box like this that they made to my knowledge. I would have liked something a little older. If someone has the ability to print boxes on cardboard I would be interested in getting a more Ice Age-y one built. I still need to get two more Ice age starter decks to finish this off.
Onto the decks.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...psibxrduie.jpg
Pretty simple white weenie deck. I cut a Factory to help with the double white mana cost.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...pss1htagsh.jpg
My favorite deck of the bunch. I should be running forces but I'm not for budget reasons.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...psdb7levxa.jpg
Necropotence, the deck that everyone wants to play. It's amazing that the best thing you can do with a necro at the time is black knight.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...ps08knqvuq.jpg
The mono-red deck of the group. All the pump knights have been errataed to also be knights so An-Zerrin Ruins is spicey.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...pszg2qm1bd.png
This is the deck I was most excited about, it has been a dud in most of our games.
So I hope you enjoyed this blast from the past.
You have some signatures that I don't have yet. </sadness>Quote:
Originally Posted by guillemnicolau
n/a
I decided to have some fun and build a 1994 EDH deck:
http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/...ps1ucjnu6e.jpg
http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7hv8qbuo.jpg
http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/...psf9pkiqn5.jpg
Is 1994 what rich people whom are bored with Vintage play?
A 1994 deck with 1997 lands? Come on!
Truly unacceptableQuote:
Originally Posted by Hidetaka
@ Pringlesman
I love the idea. This brings me back to the time I began to play competitive, and I have fond memories losing to armageddon with my stasis deck. As a teen, I had not enough money to afford for the necros, which costed 50 french francs then (let alone Jester cap which have even more expensive)... I hope that a scene appears for this format, just like it happened for 93-94, with the same casual spirit but without the associated elitism (after all, who cares if your lands are not betas...). This "95" format would allow playing among the most iconic cards in the history of magic, without all the brokenness that followed. I think a generation in Europe began to play in this format.
Some cards from GP Madrid. Maybe I'm addicted to foil "foreign" stuff.
http://s9.postimg.org/735ac65a7/IMG_20150914_150643.jpg
http://s1.postimg.org/z6evo19xr/IMG_20150914_150558.jpg
http://s3.postimg.org/9n0ma2xgz/IMG_20150914_151008.jpg
http://s1.postimg.org/94hg1qyz3/IMG_20150914_151252.jpg
http://s22.postimg.org/ehqnq6xjl/IMG...914_151517.jpg
I have other stuff to get first. Beta lands are on the back burner.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hidetaka
Rest asured that I loved every pixel of the pictures! I especially love the Erhnamgeddon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pringlesman
I'm considering to put this together in case our old group awakens from slumber, but I guess they'd be hating the Strip Mines. I guess that I may simply print 32 Wasteland proxies and house-errata them to read "This was printed in 1996."
Nice decks. Also, WotC made a real mistake when they printed stuff like Veldt instead of a full cycle of painlands.
You got me with the foil japanese metalworker, WP bro!
I had to buy so many strip mines for this project.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bed Decks Palyer
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...ps5loribkp.jpg
I like the Summer Magic Strip Mine in the bottom, it must cost 1000 dollars! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pringlesman
Btw, are you going for a full-period experience? In your place I'd allow the APO enemy painlands so that the cycle is full and so that you'll got all the color combination properly covered. But then again if your concern is to be as true to the era as possible, there's no need for that.
Also, you really need Erhnam-and-Burn-em. With Howling Mines preferably, as that card was a source of my main pleasure back in times when everybody and their mother played Necro.
Howling Mine and Storm Seeker "eot pay six draw six; in response sekyra"