Quote Originally Posted by pettdan View Post
Many games with combo decks end before the other deck manages to deal much damage, however many games are also drawn out and in these games a couple of points of damage will make a difference (in some non-negligible percentage of games). Edit: or well, whether that's a negligible percentage of games or not is the central question here, not intending to answer it. Maybe it's negligible, maybe not. Should depend on the deck..
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Quote Originally Posted by FourDogsinaHorseSuit View Post
By "comparatively" priced you mean that we can compare them. Like we can compare the top deck in Legacy: UR Delver at 2500 dollars, and UG Whirza at 1400. A difference of over a thousand buckeroos.

Shocks are not duals. Shadow excepted.

Caverns are sixty, Taigas are a hundred and sixty, hundred bucks per card, blah blah blah.
@FourDogsinaHorseSuit You are not being constructive. Shocks are nonbasics with multiple basic land types which allow for the construction of resilient fetchland heavy manabases. You even take damage at your own volition, so you don't get damaged by them 100% of the time and if you can't afford the damage, you don't have to unlike tapping a fetch land.


https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=24256&d=369320&f=LE


Card Kingdom
$1988 (NM)

TCGplayer
From $1559

Replace 2 volcanic island with 2 steam vents to knock $479.99*2 = $959.98 off the price

<$1k top tier deck with the maximum downside of taking 4 extra damage, which in most matchups will be 0 or 2 damage.

For someone arguing that the format is too expensive, exchanging 2 duals for 2 shock duals is a very small price to pay to attend a legacy event. Building a format starts with local tournament support. If you only host big events, you wont get new players because it makes no sense to spend thousands of dollars for 3 days of magic per year. Use the tournament winnings to save for a volcanic the way we used to do with proxy 10 vintage tournaments where the price was a Mox.

Suboptimal lists win all the time. Don't attribute you losing to not having a volcanic island when it's probably your own skill as a pilot that leads to losses.