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2 years ago ::
Aug 25, 2011 - 5:57PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 24, 2008
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This thread is for discussion of this week's Latest Developments, which goes live Friday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 25, 2011 - 9:21PM
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Date Joined:
Mar 30, 2008
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2 Things...
1. I am a person made happy by Druidic Satchel. Fun card for getting mana/tokens in a creature/land deck. Play some big creatures... a garruk (or both)... some jade mages and an adaptive automaton. It's a fun colorless way to get something every turn.
2. The poll could have used another choice. I haven't played modern on magic online yet, but I do plan to.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 25, 2011 - 9:25PM
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My name is Phil, and I love Druidic Satchel  . Marginal value is highly appealing to my Spike side ( Pith Driller  and Sacred Mesa  are two of my favorite cards ever), and the randomness keeps Satchel from creating a repetitive game state. It's like the actually-fun version of Elspeth v1's first ability. And I had a paper Modern deck within a couple hours of your article going up. Just because I had to be at work in six hours didn't stop the urge to deckbuild!
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2 years ago ::
Aug 25, 2011 - 9:25PM
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- Warm, wet and squishy inside
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I hadn't bothered to make a Modern deck (not specifically). I haven't found the format compelling, particularly because there's not been too many off-beat cards in sets that are longing to go into another set. Ravnica plays nicely with others, and it's fun to drop random Ravnica stuff into an otherwise "Standard at some point" legal deck. I never found Modern to be interesting enough to be worth devloping for, though. I remember Extended was supposed to be kinda like that at some point, but I was bummed so much when that format got killed that I quit watching it. There's really not a whole lot to build since then, though. Mirrodin/Scars of Mirrodin looks like a fun combination, and ditto Ravnica/Shards of Alara/Shadowmoor. The other sets are too insular to be really interesting (Kamigawa, Lorwyn, etc.). Strong themes make for fun blocks but not for fun cross-block goodness. Random out-of-place rares do that sometimes. I did look at updating my mono-black spirits with a Banshee recently, though (that nice "lose 3 life" one). It doesn't help that nobody else I know is playing it. They're all nuts for that horrible Commander format you guys have been pushing.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 25, 2011 - 9:39PM
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Date Joined:
Aug 28, 2009
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MY REPLY TO THE POLL QUESTIONS: AN OPEN LETTER TO TOM LAPILLE & THE WIZARDS.COM WRITING STAFF.
Dear Tom LaPille,
Regarding your article "The Magic 2012 Multiverse Dump, Part 2":
To be honest the problem with Modern is the disgusting and shocking sudden rise in card prices. I mean, I love my cards accruing value, but to find in less than a week my 2 Goyfs went from $60 to $100 plus and my 4 Grove Of the Burnwillows went up from $4 to $20+ is disgusting... Add in my Cliques going to $35 dollar cards, Vesuvas going from $7 to $20+, and I am shocked at how any of the new and returning players could even consider Modern tournaments as an option.
About me: I have been playing Magic for something like 7 or 8 years. I played roughly from 98-02 and then picked up again shortly after the release of M10. Because I enjoy powerful cards, collecting play sets of cards I plan to use, and having fun with EDH, I acquired some of the Modern cards low because I planned to use them in EDH, Old extended (before it changed to 4 year and as it looks to be soon just modern) PTQs and maybe even Legacy decks eventually. I am techincally an adult (August 26th, I turn 27, half an hour from when I started writing this), and have more of the means to purchase cards on the secondary market if it comes down to it.
However, the rant isn't about me, it's about the health of the game. How healthy is it for the game when the younger players who fall in the "have nots" just get scrubbed right out of the tournament scene because of card availability and cost issues that are normally only associated with Legacy and Vintage? The have-nots could just as easily be college students or young players without supportive parents.
I fail to see how releasing paper Event decks like those MTGO received for Legacy/Classic would not help ensure the overall longevity and health of this eternal format.
Budget busting mana bases don't build formats, they threaten them.
PS. I think cards that have only been printed in the modern card frame (Scavaging Ooze, Edric, Spymaster Of Trest, Chaoswarp, Stranglehold) SHOULD be Legal in Modern. It's a simple way to allow the special purpose cards in the format without opening the flood gates for any reprinted card.
I thank you for the time you have taken to read this. As I mean this to be an open letter, i am also posting it as a reply on Wizards.com Community Forum.
old quotes from the Worldwake talk: Mike Turian: While Mark Rosewater made Tarmogoyf, I made Tarmogoyf what he is today Mark Rosewater: Would we ever reprint Tarmogoyf? Maybe. 
174 How many of your friendships have lasted more than ten years? Which of your current friendships do you still feel will be important to you ten years from now?
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2 years ago ::
Aug 25, 2011 - 9:39PM
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I'm joining the "I like Druidic Satchel " bandwagon. I'm a fan of all-upside random effects, or modular "choose one" type effects, because they prevent every game from playing the same. I'm not as big a fan of random upside/downside-mixed effects, like Goblin Bangchuckers  , though.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 25, 2011 - 9:46PM
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Date Joined:
Aug 25, 2011
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I was pretty on the fence about Druidic Satchel until I played with it and realized all it does is games.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 25, 2011 - 9:54PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 16, 2007
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Druidic Satchel is awesome. Firstly there is the flavor. Especially for any D&D fans who love items like the bag of many things and rod of wonder (don't rem the exact names). Second, if I have two mana left over that I'm not using, I'm happy to get anything for it. I have played against the satchel twice in Limited and its fun to play the guessing game (do I attack into a potential saproling, do I try to kill them in one turn that might not work if they get the 2 life) and its cool when you can beat them despite or before they can get too much advantage out of their bag.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 25, 2011 - 11:04PM
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I'm continuing the Druidic Satchel love. I enjoy it just because of the rich flavor and the art. It looks like a lot of the satchels that one can buy at Renaissance Festivals on the East Coast and gives me offseason nostalgia for the faire.
I also included a copy in an introductory green deck I put together for my younger cousin that included all sorts of faeries and creatures of the forest. When she pulled it and we finally got through all the different things it can do, she went wild for the flavor of it. That was a really fun game.
So, thanks for being willing to let the card through, against your better judgment, Mr. LaPille. It was a success in my spellbook.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 25, 2011 - 11:10PM
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Date Joined:
Mar 25, 2005
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TML 5/6/2010: Used to be tap target creature. Now bonks them in the face for Bloodthirst.
This makes me wonder what Crown of Empires  originally did.
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