[DO NOT TRY TO SELL IN HERE] Pimp Legacy Decks

[nedleeds]

IIRC, people did this so they would match Alpha pre widespread use of sleeves.

Correct, pre-black bordered sleeves if (typically your power) was Alpha sometimes you were better off corner shaving your deck to make the corners match. Actually people would line up the whole deck and put a heavy weight on it (or put it in a press) then just sand the whole decks corners at once.

Thanks to me screaming on usenet eventually opaque sleeves were allowed. But it was really WotCs own printing woes in Alliances and then Mirage (US mirage being really distinct) that forced them to allow opaque sleeves. You could pick out a Mirage card back from a revised or beta card quite easily and thus have a deck of Mirage lands.

I rant about it like 17 years ago here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms...k/0GjnNX0eeK4J

You're welcome ultrapro.

[jandax]

Says the guy who literally had to ask the difference between Alpha and Beta Trops two pages ago. The assumption that that tropical island is a "Alpha cut" is purely wishful thinking. I don't know why someone would have cut the corners of a Beta themselves and it doesn't truly make sense but those corners are almost certainly not "Alpha cut" with any die.

For my defense, I was looking at sdematt's pic of the two trops side by side and immediately responded to the thread. Obvisouly they are the same card, that's why I was confused.

tldr; rtfp

[socialite]

You ladies should take it to PM and spare us the meager bullshit.

[Clio]

You ladies should take it to PM and spare us the meager bullshit.

You might want to take your own advice? You purposely just brought up something that was already resolved as if fishing for a bit drama for your own enjoyment.

[hukstor]

Alright, less bickering ... more pictures ...

[Clio]

Alright, less bickering ... more pictures ...

Gorgeous. That thing has got to be at least a 9 if not more.

[Koby]

Nice clean Beta Lotus! Now do us all a favor and put it in an inch of lucite!

[hukstor]

Nice clean Beta Lotus! Now do us all a favor and put it in an inch of lucite!

I thought you weren't a fan of graded?

[Koby]

I thought you weren't a fan of graded?

I'm not a fan of graded. I'm a fan of plastic.
http://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Pro-1-Lu...C4BC78P12XQ2EK

[aahz]

That deck is awesome. Ice Flow + Alpha Nether Shadow.

Thanks! However, it says "Ice Floe" on the card (and didn't feel like showing up in any of my openers). I made sure all the lands were in English with the old skool card frame (except the Salvage, which is only in there because sometimes you just need to Dredge TWO and I couldn't find a non-English Necroplasm in time) to throw my opponents a bone in games two and three since I knew they would mostly be intoxicated and were probably not particularly pleased to be sitting across from dredge, let alone manaless dredge in funny moon languages. The only land of any real use was Maze of Ith (won me a game!), though I still think that Diamond Valley has some potential if it were to actually show up in an opening hand. Also, the correct response to a Show&Told Emrakul is to empty their hand then Dread Return Blazing Archon. Especially when you can just sit for a few turns and watch Ichorids get it on with Bridges to make lots of zombie babies until the Angel of Despair shows up to inform the Flying Spaghetti Monster of his (or her!) shortcomings. Sadly, the opportunity for tapping Island of Wak-Wak to reduce the power of a certain demon to zero failed to materialize.

Beta zombie tokens rock!

They're okay, I guess. I only threw them in there to avoid having a bunch of dead space in the bottom right corner of the picture. And I only keep them around for the rare occasions that I run out of Alpha Zombie tokens (which are mixed in with the deck for the sake of confusion). I might try to have them altered into proper zombie tokens at some point by removing the casting cost and "Scathe" (and maybe the trailing "s", though the STC flavor text stays for obvious reasons). Ideally, they should also be signed by George Romero and Bruce Campbell (I'd toss Fulci in that list as well if he weren't dead, even if that would make it even more appropriate).

Alright, less bickering ... more pictures ...

This is something I can get behind. Though to be fair, this is the pimp thread and sometimes individuals who the lack proper sophistication to appreciate mtg pimp need to be forced to kneel in their filthy, uncultured ignorance. Not saying that's what's going on in the last few pages, but, for the record, I'll just throw that out there anyway.

<sexy Beta Lotus>

Nice Lotus! Such beautiful specimens are few and far between. Thanks for sharing!

Nice clean Beta Lotus! Now do us all a favor and put it in an inch of lucite!

Hukstor, please disregard Koby's post. What he is really trying to say is that you should double sleeve that Lotus immediately and then gently shuffle it lovingly as you play some Vintage and sip on the adult beverage of your choice (assuming your choice of beverage is of sufficient quality for a gentleman and scholar to sip while playing Vintage, of course). Power wants to be played! Cheers!

[Markers]

Some nice new arrivals this week...




The Mirage, Visions, Portal and Tempest needs are slowly but surely reduced...

[socialite]

Dislike when artists sign within the picture frame.

[Occam]

Nice lotus. Clean bb power is something I appreciate even more as the game gets older.

Closing out a deal on a textless-ish foil high market. WIll be back in a couple weeks with scans (and spending a few more tracking down Squee, MisD and Port).

[Markers]

Dislike when artists sign within the picture frame.

Sigs with this type of rarity I have to take what I can get.

[socialite]

Sigs with this type of rarity I have to take what I can get.

Oh no I agree. I just don't understand why they do it, half the time you cannot see/read the signature.

[pochy]

in my mails today




ongoing... (needs 2 grisel, 1 empyrial, 1 hapless, fetches, and maybe black bordered seas)

[StefN]

We need more Legacy Decks in this thread .
So this is my ImperialPainter deck. I know it's not finished yet. Still need to upgrade the last Welders and I need 3 Bridges

[Kayradis]

Gorgeous!

[jamesh]

budget pimp

[chlb]

Slowly getting into playing something that doesn't have rainbow lands.