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3 years ago ::
Nov 10, 2010 - 6:57AM
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I actually used Cyclopean Mummy  in a deck many years ago. It was, at one time, the only 2-power creature for   that you could leave back to block without getting hit for 2 damage a turn. I was actually a little sad to see it go, but not so much that I didn't notice all of the other ridiculous decisions made with regard to Fifth Edition.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 10, 2010 - 8:52AM
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Hmm, voting out cards? Runeclaw Bear  , I'm looking at you.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 10, 2010 - 9:49PM
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I would gladly pay those prices for the decks in RL.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 10, 2010 - 10:26PM
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I would gladly pay those prices for the decks in RL.
Same here. Especially with the white one. Just a single Karakas  is by itself about 30 $.
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You clearly overestimate my cognitive skills by assuming that I could have accumulated that knowledge independently.
Okay, I'll be sure not to make that kind of assumption in the future. 
Now, if you'd like to go back to the main Magic General 'forum' page (that's the one that lists all the different 'discussion threads' that people have 'posted') from this page, just press the up-arrow key on your keyboard until you reach the top of the page, then click the link that says "Magic General"--it should be in fairly small font, just above the buttons labeled "Post Reply" and "Subscribe" and the box labeled "Jump Menu", but below the blue link labeled "Preferences". It'll be in a line with a number of other small-font links with different names.
From the 'forum' page you will be able to select another 'thread' to view; 'threads' that people have 'posted' to since you last looked at them will have their names listed in bold font and have the number of unread replies listed just to the right of the name. If you click that unread replies number, it will take you right to the last reply you viewed in the 'thread' so that you can continue reading all the new replies from there. To get back to the main Magic General 'forum' page, just repeat the process from the previous paragraph--don't worry if you're on a different page, all 'thread' pages will have the same basic layout, so it should work exactly the same on any page in the Magic General 'forum'.\
And remember, if you accidentally click on the wrong link and find yourself on a page you're not familiar with, there's no need to panic; you can always press the 'back' button in your browser to go back to whatever you were looking at before. It should be on the left-hand side near the top of the screen, just below the menu bar, and will probably have a picture of some kind of arrow pointing to the left on it.
Hope that helps! 
The explanation given was that since land cards represent mystical bonds to far-off places rather than actual tangible things like creatures and other permanents, a person might have more than one memory of an area, or different mages could forge a bond to different parts of a place, etc. and that simply being a unique location doesn't necessarily mean that a land card has to be legendary.
"I remember my days as a schoolboy at the Tolarian Academy  ..."
"Really? I went there too-"
"Wait don't- Well ****, there goes my childhood."
I was clearly wrong about Dragon_Whelp, he clearly is a jerk.
Allow me to extrapolate—regular game play, as defined by WotC, is tournament play. As such, Casual, EDH, Planechase, and all that other stuff is irregular Magic; if Magic at all.
So the next time someone says Competitive Constructed decks are not the only decks that count in Constructed (Casual Constructed), then I can gleefully point to the definition set forth by WotC and say that Competitive Constructed is in deed the only ones that count, and that they are playing some irregular form of Magic.
Dragon, just don't argue with Hovercraft. He's his own Legacy metagame.
One with Nothing is the third iteration in an attempt to make Black Lotus fair:
Black Lotus  : That's too good, we need to tone it down.
Lion's Eye Diamond  : Dammit, players are still using it in a very broken manner!
One with Nothing  : Alright! We got it now.
What happened to the really fun cards? Well you see a long long time ago the earth was ruled by dinosaurs. They were big so not a lot of people went around hassling them. Then a giant meteorite struck the earth, good bye dinosaurs. But what if the dinosaurs weren't all destroyed? What if the impact of that meteorite created a parallel dimension where the dinosaurs continue to thrive and evolve into intelligent vicious aggressive beings? What if they found a way back? ....wait that's not what happened to the fun cards that's the intro to the mario brothers movie. Get those two confused all the time, my bad.
It's a folllow-up on the Priceless Treasures, Deadly Perils idea. See, what happened was, you got the packs that the Eldrazi had already gotten to--the had annihilated everything but the land itself.
In fall, expect to open some packs and find cards covered in goopy, black oil.
It's all about the marketing angle, people.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 10, 2010 - 11:22PM
#45
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I would gladly pay those prices for the decks in RL.
Same here. Especially with the white one. Just a single Karakas is by itself about 30 $.
please please PLEASE start releasing them for paper magic. I would love to get into legacy, and this seems like a great way to do it.
I would have killed, literally ended someones life, to NOT have Arrogant Bloodlord  riding a giant ant... Good times: Spoiler:
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but where DID the other fork come from?
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Lord_Zed:
I was at my friends house when this happened. He's married and his wife was an excellent baker. She had baked a homemade apple pie the night before.
I was hungry, and my friend convinced me to try those low carb monster drinks. Before this day, I had never triend energy drinks before.
Boy was I in for a treat.
When I tried that first monster, I really enjoyed the flavor, but the taste that it left in my mouth wasn't so good. What was my solution? Drink another!
before I could finish drinking that 2nd monster, I felt it already kicking in(these drinks were not very far apart, we're talking minutes here) my friend decided that it was a good idea to whip out that fresh pie his wife made the night before. I didn't know what to do, since I felt incredibly invigorated, and at the same time, freaked out by the rush I was feeling, but I was also hungry, and my friend have me an entire plate with a fork and said "help yourself." He extended his saucer to me, and I cut him a piece of the pie and handed it to him, then I looked at the pie, noticed that the pie was in an aluminum holder, and dumped the entire pie onto my plate and started eating it with 2 forks. I don't know where I found that other fork, it probably came from my friend. Anyhow, his wife wasn't happy, and I was already in magical christmas land. 2 days later, I was in my friends bed and I slept for 14 hours.
His wife outlawed my from having any of her baked goods for a while(which sucked because I could just show up at there house, steal some sweets, and leave) and said I couldn't have any energy drinks at her house, unless under close watch.
My friend, on the other hand, had to take me out to a steak dinner, because apparently I won a bet where I climbed a tree and didn't die.
The great land debate:
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Zendikar had fetchlands, and Worldwake had manlands. What are the new Scars duals called?
Explosive Peanut Lightning lands. Well, that's just what I call them.
i'm just trying to figure out what the point of saying this is. it's just really random.
And so the pot met the kettle.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 10, 2010 - 11:29PM
#46
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Date Joined:
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I would gladly pay those prices for the decks in RL.
Same here. Especially with the white one. Just a single Karakas is by itself about 30 $.
please please PLEASE start releasing them for paper magic. I would love to get into legacy, and this seems like a great way to do it.
It would be. But they won't do it. Why? Because of this: www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x...
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In case contacting me over the forums is not possible for some reason or another, my email is morten.c.k.olsen@gmail.com. Please state who you are, because I will most likely end up ignoring people that I don't know at least somewhat. Alwaaaaays, I wanna be with you!
Show
You clearly overestimate my cognitive skills by assuming that I could have accumulated that knowledge independently.
Okay, I'll be sure not to make that kind of assumption in the future.
Now, if you'd like to go back to the main Magic General 'forum' page (that's the one that lists all the different 'discussion threads' that people have 'posted') from this page, just press the up-arrow key on your keyboard until you reach the top of the page, then click the link that says "Magic General"--it should be in fairly small font, just above the buttons labeled "Post Reply" and "Subscribe" and the box labeled "Jump Menu", but below the blue link labeled "Preferences". It'll be in a line with a number of other small-font links with different names.
From the 'forum' page you will be able to select another 'thread' to view; 'threads' that people have 'posted' to since you last looked at them will have their names listed in bold font and have the number of unread replies listed just to the right of the name. If you click that unread replies number, it will take you right to the last reply you viewed in the 'thread' so that you can continue reading all the new replies from there. To get back to the main Magic General 'forum' page, just repeat the process from the previous paragraph--don't worry if you're on a different page, all 'thread' pages will have the same basic layout, so it should work exactly the same on any page in the Magic General 'forum'.\
And remember, if you accidentally click on the wrong link and find yourself on a page you're not familiar with, there's no need to panic; you can always press the 'back' button in your browser to go back to whatever you were looking at before. It should be on the left-hand side near the top of the screen, just below the menu bar, and will probably have a picture of some kind of arrow pointing to the left on it.
Hope that helps!
The explanation given was that since land cards represent mystical bonds to far-off places rather than actual tangible things like creatures and other permanents, a person might have more than one memory of an area, or different mages could forge a bond to different parts of a place, etc. and that simply being a unique location doesn't necessarily mean that a land card has to be legendary.
"I remember my days as a schoolboy at the Tolarian Academy ..."
"Really? I went there too-"
"Wait don't- Well ****, there goes my childhood."
I was clearly wrong about Dragon_Whelp, he clearly is a jerk.
Allow me to extrapolate—regular game play, as defined by WotC, is tournament play. As such, Casual, EDH, Planechase, and all that other stuff is irregular Magic; if Magic at all.
So the next time someone says Competitive Constructed decks are not the only decks that count in Constructed (Casual Constructed), then I can gleefully point to the definition set forth by WotC and say that Competitive Constructed is in deed the only ones that count, and that they are playing some irregular form of Magic.
Dragon, just don't argue with Hovercraft. He's his own Legacy metagame.
One with Nothing is the third iteration in an attempt to make Black Lotus fair:
Black Lotus : That's too good, we need to tone it down.
Lion's Eye Diamond : Dammit, players are still using it in a very broken manner!
One with Nothing : Alright! We got it now.
What happened to the really fun cards? Well you see a long long time ago the earth was ruled by dinosaurs. They were big so not a lot of people went around hassling them. Then a giant meteorite struck the earth, good bye dinosaurs. But what if the dinosaurs weren't all destroyed? What if the impact of that meteorite created a parallel dimension where the dinosaurs continue to thrive and evolve into intelligent vicious aggressive beings? What if they found a way back? ....wait that's not what happened to the fun cards that's the intro to the mario brothers movie. Get those two confused all the time, my bad.
It's a folllow-up on the Priceless Treasures, Deadly Perils idea. See, what happened was, you got the packs that the Eldrazi had already gotten to--the had annihilated everything but the land itself.
In fall, expect to open some packs and find cards covered in goopy, black oil.
It's all about the marketing angle, people.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 10, 2010 - 11:47PM
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Date Joined:
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These decks for Magic Online, of course, provide a tantalizing hint of what may be coming for Standard instead of Legacy when the Event Decks become available to help people get started playing Standard Constructed at FNM.
I know that when the Event Decks were first announced with few details, there was much interest and discussion then.
Coming up with weird ideas to make everyone happy since 2008! I have now started a blog as an appropriate place to put my crazy ideas.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 10, 2010 - 11:50PM
#48
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Date Joined:
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Am I the only one considering these two decks an epic fail? Given the moniker "Legacy", I'd have expected a substantial amount of cards previously unavailable online.
The red one is just a bread-and-butter burn deck which isn't any different from those piles running rampant for years in any format.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 10, 2010 - 11:55PM
#49
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Date Joined:
Aug 26, 2010
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These decks for Magic Online, of course, provide a tantalizing hint of what may be coming for Standard instead of Legacy when the Event Decks become available to help people get started playing Standard Constructed at FNM.
I know that when the Event Decks were first announced with few details, there was much interest and discussion then.
Yeah the Event Decks should be of this quality (and widely available), especially with regards to consistency and not being afraid of sticking power cards in there. But I'm not getting my hopes up.
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3 years ago ::
Nov 11, 2010 - 1:48AM
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Am I the only one considering these two decks an epic fail? Given the moniker "Legacy", I'd have expected a substantial amount of cards previously unavailable online.
The red one is just a bread-and-butter burn deck which isn't any different from those piles running rampant for years in any format.
Uh... yeah, that's the point. "Legacy". As in the tournament format. As in 'the format which, of those cards actually played, is mostly just missing a bit of Urza's and Masques block now'.
If you expected stuff that wasn't already available, you expected wrong. These are pretty obvious cousins to that "Event Deck" idea, and if they are of similar quality they should be very nice. The red deck is unexciting but effective, and the other one isn't half bad.
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