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

[jandax]

Those look clean, good job man

[Megadeus]

God I love those LEDs. How much (and who did them?) were they?

[Lemnear]

God I love those LEDs. How much (and who did them?) were they?

Those bad boys? They are made by Demonium aka Yannis Henrion an extraordinary artist from France . One remark: He's not doing ripoffs/copies of his own alters, so getting your own "Lost eye diamond" themed playset should be impossible (aside from me already having requested a second set ;D)

I'm not talking about money ;)

[alphastryk]

Current progress of Miracles (with a new bonus pickup off to the side) - about 50%, but it's starting to look the way I want it to. A lot of what I'm missing is pretty hard to find.







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[Whippoorwill]

These:

-List-

Thought I might have some of them, but unfortunately I don't have any that you're looking for. Hopefully Carl starts doing signings again soon since it seems that would be a good portion of them.

Also, thanks for posting the pictures. I like seeing all the different signatures (both good and 'bad').

Lemnear: Seeing promos where possible kinda makes it look better than if they were just randomly added.

Alphastryk: Love seeing all the Korean cards. Good luck with the hunt for Brainstorms though.

[Lemnear]

Don't know if I like my german FOIL Promo Gitaxian Probes :/

[Quasim0ff]

Not missing alot now, for my decks now.

Just received my duals for BUG vintage :)!

[guillemnicolau]

foil TES
Ready for BoM!

Well, ok, the deck is foil, but it's not quite pimp.
To clarify why I'm saying this:
gitaxian probes
FNM -> New Phyrexia foil
ponders
M10 foil -> Lorwyn foil
brainstorms
FNM -> Mercadian Masques foil
burning wishes
Judge Promo -> Judgement foil
dark rituals
Judge Promo -> Mercadian Masques foil
duress
FNM -> 7th Edition foil or US promo foil
chrome moxes
GP Promo -> Mirrodin foil
cities of brass
Modern Masters foil -> JSS Promo
flooded strands
Judge Promo -> Onslaught foil
empty the warrens
Modern Masters foil -> Time Spiral foil
gemstone mines
Judge Promo -> Time Spiral foil

So more than half of the cards have a much better version.

[Einherjer]

Pimp should not be measured by financial context only, it depends on what the owner likes. I think my altered cards are pimp. Some think it's japo-foil only. Well, it should be up to everybody on it's own to clarify their own meaning of pimp. If it was just about money only, would it then be pimp if I played with Revised Duals but a 500 Euro note inside the sleeve? I don't think so.

Greetings

[Lemnear]

Well, ok, the deck is foil, but it's not quite pimp.
To clarify why I'm saying this:
gitaxian probes
FNM -> New Phyrexia foil
ponders
M10 foil -> Lorwyn foil
brainstorms
FNM -> Mercadian Masques foil
burning wishes
Judge Promo -> Judgement foil
dark rituals
Judge Promo -> Mercadian Masques foil
duress
FNM -> 7th Edition foil or US promo foil
chrome moxes
GP Promo -> Mirrodin foil
cities of brass
Modern Masters foil -> JSS Promo
flooded strands
Judge Promo -> Onslaught foil
empty the warrens
Modern Masters foil -> Time Spiral foil
gemstone mines
Judge Promo -> Time Spiral foil

So more than half of the cards have a much better version.

Why are you bitching about my attempt to get everything modern-frame-promo-Foil for the tailormade look it has now?

I sold off the Lorwyn Ponders and most of the other old-frame foils like Wish, JSS Cities, and ugly stuff from Timespiral. If your attempt is to mock me because I'm not blowing several thousand $ extra just for certain languages and an ugly new-/old-frame mix, show me your Summer Dual Collection first before picking on a man running a biz and feeding a family...

[guillemnicolau]

Why are you bitching about my attempt to get everything modern-frame-promo-Foil for the tailormade look it has now?

I sold off the Lorwyn Ponders and most of the other old-frame foils like Wish, JSS Cities, and ugly stuff from Timespiral. If your attempt is to mock me because I'm not blowing several thousand $ extra just for certain languages and an ugly new-/old-frame mix, show me your Summer Dual Collection first before picking on a man running a biz and feeding a family...

My ANT list is the next one:

MainDeck
4x Brainstorm ENG FOIL Mercadian Masques
4x Ponder ENG FOIL Lorwyn 1 signed
4x Gitaxian Probe ENG FOIL New Phyrexia
4x Lion's Eye Diamond ENG Mirage
4x Lotus Petal ENG FOIL FTV
4x Dark Ritual ENG FOIL Mercadian Masques 3 signed
4x Cabal Ritual ENG FOIL Torment
4x Cabal Therapy ENG FOIL Judgement
3x Duress ENG FOIL 7th Edition
4x Infernal Tutor ENG FOIL Dysension
3x Burning Wish ENG FOIL Judgement
1x Ad Nauseam ENG FOIL Shards of Alara signed
1x Past in Flames ENG FOIL Innistrad
1x Tendrils of Agony ENG FOIL Scourge
4x Polluted Delta ENG FOIL DCI
2x Bloodstained Mire ENG FOIL DCI signed
2x Scalding Tarn ENG FOIL Zendikar
2x Underground Sea ITA/GER FBB signed
1x Volcanic Island ITA FBB
1x Badlands ITA FBB
1x Bayou ITA FBB
1x Swamp ENG FOIL Unhinged signed
1x Island ENG FOIL Unhinged

SideBoard
1x Past in Flames ENG FOIL Innistrad
1x Tendrils of Agony ENG FOIL Scourge
1x Empty the warrens ENG FOIL Time Spiral
1x Pyroclasm ENG FOIL 7th Edition
1x Massacre ENG FOIL Nemesis
1x Duress ENG FOIL 7th Edition
3x Extirpate ENG FOIL Planar Chaos
3x Abrupt Decay ENG FOIL Return to Ravnica
3x Xantid Swarm ENG FOIL Scourge

My last upgrade for the deck will be to get foil onslaught polluted deltas, as I already own foil onslaught bloodstaineds. I'm planning to post scans in a few days.

I agree that mixing borders doesn't usually look good and getting it all modern-framed may be a way to go, but you are playing FNM gitaxian probes, modern masters empty the warrens, m10 ponders, gp promo chrome moxes... That's not pimp, even if you go for new borders.

[Lemnear]

Mirrodin Moxen and Lorwyn Ponder as well as the Timespiral stuff look simply ugly Artwise, what's why I choose the other versions. On Probe I already mentioned, that NPH ones have a better picture.

In your list I can also see a lot of cards available in a "much better Version", starting with your italian Duals which are by far the cheapest FBB and could also be Beta or Summer, as well as the whole cards could be in Japanese FOIL too blahblah. I still think it's pointless to debate on such stuff or seriously pick on people.

[guillemnicolau]

Mirrodin Moxen and Lorwyn Ponder as well as the Timespiral stuff look simply ugly Artwise, what's why I choose the other versions. On Probe I already mentioned, that NPH ones have a better picture.

In your list I can also see a lot of cards available in a "much better Version", starting with your italian Duals which are by far the cheapest FBB and could also be Beta or Summer, as well as the whole cards could be in Japanese FOIL too blahblah. I still think it's pointless to debate on such stuff or seriously pick on people.

What is pointless is to debate on the beauty of a deck with a blind person.

[Lemnear]

Indeed, that's why I stop comparing an all new-frame/promo deck with a frame-mix/signed & unsigned-mix/Language-mix-duals one ;p

[blackberrybold]

Since i dont play legacy i will never understand it, but maybe is the answer so obvious that i dont get it:

Why you mostly buy foil fetches and f.e. korean foil thoughtseize/foil ponder/foil unhinged land but dont buy beta duals? Instead i mostly see rev or fbb ger/ita etc that costs like 4-5 times the same, where beta would cost i guess 10x as much as a revised?
Like if the money is short, i would wait until i have those beta tbh :)
In modern i can foil all "duals" but i like to play with beta basics and would likely have a beta swords and bolts :(

b2t: i like the ger set foil flooded strands and scalding tarn, pretty hard to find, even in germany.

[Lemnear]

Since i dont play legacy i will never understand it, but maybe is the answer so obvious that i dont get it:

Why you mostly buy foil fetches and f.e. korean foil thoughtseize/foil ponder/foil unhinged land but dont buy beta duals? Instead i mostly see rev or fbb ger/ita etc that costs like 4-5 times the same, where beta would cost i guess 10x as much as a revised?
Like if the money is short, i would wait until i have those beta tbh :)
In modern i can foil all "duals" but i like to play with beta basics and would likely have a beta swords and bolts :(

b2t: i like the ger set foil flooded strands and scalding tarn, pretty hard to find, even in germany.

I guess it's the financial gap between FBB & Beta and the fact that the darker coloring compared with Beta and the brighter letters look dashing.

[Kayradis]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[guillemnicolau]

Since i dont play legacy i will never understand it, but maybe is the answer so obvious that i dont get it:
Why you mostly buy foil fetches and f.e. korean foil thoughtseize/foil ponder/foil unhinged land but dont buy beta duals? Instead i mostly see rev or fbb ger/ita etc that costs like 4-5 times the same, where beta would cost i guess 10x as much as a revised?
Like if the money is short, i would wait until i have those beta tbh :)

Well, it's not only that a Beta underground sea price is the same as the price of a playset of FBB underground seas (which would be similar to the difference between a mercadian foil brainstorm and a FNM brainstorm), but also that this price is +800€. Not everyone is willing to pay that amount of money for a single card. And obviously, the visual difference between beta underground and fbb underground is smaller than the visual difference between foil mercadian brainstorm and fnm brainstorm.
Also, as someone already said before in this thread, having a foil deck with revised/fbb duals is semipimp, but having a non-foil english deck with A/B duals is just +50 normal cards along with some high value card, which isn't a pimp deck.
This is why I think most the people starts pimping the non dual-land cards.

In modern i can foil all "duals" but i like to play with beta basics and would likely have a beta swords and bolts :(

I prefer old borders, but when I play modern I use Terese Nielsen's swords, newborder lightning bolts and unhinged or zendikar basics.
I think it has more sense (unless you can have many more old border cards in the deck, which doesn't seem to happen in modern).

[Megadeus]

The pimp police are out in full force today. I like the FNM probes personally. I disagree on the chrome mox and burning wish, but to each his own. I can see what you are saying about borders matching. Also core set ponder is much cooler than random merfolk swimming around

[Quasim0ff]

Since i dont play legacy i will never understand it, but maybe is the answer so obvious that i dont get it:

Why you mostly buy foil fetches and f.e. korean foil thoughtseize/foil ponder/foil unhinged land but dont buy beta duals? Instead i mostly see rev or fbb ger/ita etc that costs like 4-5 times the same, where beta would cost i guess 10x as much as a revised?
Like if the money is short, i would wait until i have those beta tbh :)
In modern i can foil all "duals" but i like to play with beta basics and would likely have a beta swords and bolts :(

b2t: i like the ger set foil flooded strands and scalding tarn, pretty hard to find, even in germany.

Because the value is so fucking high on beta.

You don't start out by pimping the most expensive stuff, but work your way up. Some of these decks is worth close to 10k$, WITH fbb instead of beta. That price can easily be doubled if you want beta sea's/beta volc for instance.

Also, beta are really hard to find good looking ones, and that is what matter most.

@Lemnar: Lorwyn ponder Best Ponder. Eod.