This is the first expansion (not counting 2012) that I have had the oppurtunity to count down. I just started playing in June so needless to say I'm pretty excited. Checking new spoiled cards every day or so and trying to get build ideas ready for the end of the month is a lot of fun. So how are you going to start picking up Innistrad? I probably won't do any of the release parties as there arent any close. But I have pre-ordered a common/uncommon playset off ebay ($30 shipped to my door the week after release) and I think Im going to buy a fat pack for storage, lands, (I love new art on lands) and the rares/mythics. Up to this point I have mostly only bought packs so having a lot of the cards already will be strange. It takes some of the fun out of boosters but pack wars will still be a blast. I just probably wont buy any packs outside of the fat pack. I plan to make whatever deck Id like and playtest it with rare/mythic proxies and if I like it enough make the purchase.
So, my question to you is, how do you experience new sets? Do you just buy booster boxes? Intro decks? Playsets? Just draft?
I dunno, I'll draft it a few times and if I like it I'll keep drafting. I'll buy some cards for casual decks maybe. I might actually build a Standard deck this year.
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I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".
Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.
Now, now. 1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".
Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms. "THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?
I like to think up what I consider clever names for my decks, only later to be laughed at by my wife. It kills me a little on the inside, but thats what marriage is about.
Of course, the best use [of tolaria west ] is transmuting for the real Tolaria.
Absolutely. I used to loose to my buddy's Banding deck for ages, it was then that I found out about Tolaria , and I was finally able win my first game.
Browbeat is a card that is an appropriate deck choice when there's no better idea available. "No better idea available" was pretty much the running theme of Odyssey era.
Modern is like playing a new tournament every time : you build a deck, you win with it, don't bother keeping it. Just build another, its key pieces will get banned.
I always find it helpful when im angry to dress up in an owl costume and rub pennies all over my body in front of a full body mirror next to the window.
Dymecoar:
Playing Magic without Blue is like sleeping without any sheets or blankets. You can do it...but why?
Omega137:
Me: "I love the moment when a control deck stabilizes. It feels so... right." Omega137: "I like the life drop part until you get there, it's the MtG variant of bungee jumping"
Zigeif777:
Just do it like Yu-Gi-Oh or monkeys: throw all the crap you got at them and hope it works or else the by-standers (or opponents) just get dirty and pissed.
Normally it's difficult to pick up on your jokes/sarcasm. But this one's pretty much out there. Good progress. You have moved up to Humanoid. You'll be Human in no time.
My friends and I usually go in for a booster box or two. I'll probably be going to the pre-release and release party. Definitely looking forward to Innistrad.
But I have pre-ordered a common/uncommon playset off ebay ($30 shipped to my door the week after release) and I think Im going to buy a fat pack for storage, lands, (I love new art on lands) and the rares/mythics.
You won't get many lands in a fat pack. Only one in four packs will have one. So you'll probably only get 2 or 3 out of a fat pack on average. Of course, you won't get many out of a box either, about 9 non-foil on average, when there's 15 different art pieces, 3 for each basic land type
So, my question to you is, how do you experience new sets? Do you just buy booster boxes? Intro decks? Playsets? Just draft?
I'm planning on playing in a prerelease tournament or two. I'll buy one fat pack, primarily for the booklet with all the card pictures it'll contain. I'll buy singles for the cards I want/need the most. And other than that, I'll draft it as long as there's cards from it I still want (where I draft, you can draft with any magic booster bought in the store).
You won't get many lands in a fat pack. Only one in four packs will have one. So you'll probably only get 2 or 3 out of a fat pack on average. Of course, you won't get many out of a box either, about 9 non-foil on average, when there's 15 different art pieces, 3 for each basic land type
Except that fat packs come with a set package of land in addition to the boosters, unless they've changed that for Innistrad.
So, my question to you is, how do you experience new sets? Do you just buy booster boxes? Intro decks? Playsets? Just draft?
I preorder a booster box at my FLGS, for my wife and I to use for Packwars at home (spread out over the next couple of months or so).
I also attend the Pre-Release & Launch Party, and 1-3 Drafts over the course of the set. Then there is Game Day (as well as normal Standard tournaments).
I buy a few cheap singles to complete playsets, and I trade to get the rest of the cards I need.
Not bad. But what happens flavor wise when one kamahl kills the other one?
Zis iz a sign uf deep psychological troma, buried in zer subconscious mind. By keelink himzelf, Kamahl iz physically expressink hiz feelinks uf self-disgust ova hiz desire for hiz muzzer. [/GermanPsychologistVoice]
If they spelled the ability out on the card in full then it would not be allowed in a mono-black Commander deck, but because they used a keyword to save space it is allowed?
You want to make a milky drink. You squeeze a cow.
I love this description. Like the cows are sponges filled with milk. I can see it all Nick Parks claymation-style with the cow's eyes bugging out momentarily as a giant farmer squeezes it like a squeaky dog toy, and milk shoots out of it.
You won't get many lands in a fat pack. Only one in four packs will have one. So you'll probably only get 2 or 3 out of a fat pack on average. Of course, you won't get many out of a box either, about 9 non-foil on average, when there's 15 different art pieces, 3 for each basic land type
Except that fat packs come with a set package of land in addition to the boosters, unless they've changed that for Innistrad.
That shows how much attention I pay to non-full art lands
