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1 year ago ::
Feb 03, 2012 - 11:02AM
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Zac is hilarious. He is quickly become one of my favorite authors to read here, just because his tone, style, everything is just so perfect. Explaining who everyone is, then having a quick, self-deprecating "some idiot. poor guy" on his own explanation was tastefully done; sometimes, you have days where you feel like the stupidest person around. But hes quick to share what he thinks isn't a good thing ("i dont like durdly incremental value flashback"), even about the most recent set, which I feel a lot of people on the mothership aren't willing to do. Basically, his style just reads as very down-to-earth, and its always a pleasure to get to his articles.
A+, would read again.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 03, 2012 - 12:18PM
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It's funny; I wish every game of Magic were about the slow accumulation of incremental advantages, and he wishes none of them were. Oh well, obviously someone there is on my side or Mulches and Desperate Ravings wouldn't be printed.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 03, 2012 - 1:45PM
#23
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Meow.
Magic: The Gathering Rules Manager
Wizards of the Coast
Follow me @TabakRules
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1 year ago ::
Feb 03, 2012 - 2:48PM
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Nov 18, 2004
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Meow.
I have to say, Sanctuary Cat  tickles my fancy, as a cat-lover. The same has been true of a few other vanilla commons that have been printed of late. The problem runs toward when you compare them to other commons like Ezuri's Archers  : a super-cheap common with THREE abilities. "You guys" (R&D) think that's good, but not some ability to make a "french vanilla" common.
"Possibilities abound, too numerous to count."
"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)
"Ever since man first left his cave and met a stranger with a different language and a new way of looking at things, the human race has had a dream: to kill him, so we don't have to learn his language or his new way of looking at things." --- Zapp Brannigan (Beast With a Billion Backs)
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1 year ago ::
Feb 03, 2012 - 2:49PM
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To be honest, the only reason I ever open packs is to draft, because drafting is just that much fun for me. I consider it money lost unless I win or happen to open something expensive, but I don't expect either to happen. If I want to play the financial game, I buy and sell singles that I expect to go up and down in price. IMO, it's never been very smart to rely on opening specific cards in draft to get your money's worth. Of course, I only play online, I have a heavy bias in favor of drafting for drafting's sake, and the only constructed format I play competitively is Pauper, so...yeah. I guess I'm probably the one here with the most "skewed" view of the set. Still, it ain't no Worldwake, but from what I can gather from card prices so far, it doesn't seem like the set has that bad of an EV.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 03, 2012 - 3:50PM
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You guys realize you're all gushing over two weaksauce Portal  cards  , right?
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1 year ago ::
Feb 03, 2012 - 4:04PM
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You guys realize you're all gushing over two weaksauce Portal cards , right?
Yes. But it's a cat. That makes all the more difference. Note that I like Kami of Old Stone  a lot, too.
"Possibilities abound, too numerous to count."
"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)
"Ever since man first left his cave and met a stranger with a different language and a new way of looking at things, the human race has had a dream: to kill him, so we don't have to learn his language or his new way of looking at things." --- Zapp Brannigan (Beast With a Billion Backs)
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1 year ago ::
Feb 03, 2012 - 4:05PM
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This comment has nothing to do with this article. Idea: no DCFs in avr right? Think that means no werewolves? Really, REALLY want a legendary werewolf for a tribal werewolf EDH deck? Wishing that R&D would come to their senses and NOT deprive EDHers of a werewolf deck? Did you read one of the initial articles of original Innistrad containing the flavorful backstory of the plane and notice it mentioned what could've easily been a legendary werewolf in card form? Notice that it said that werewolf is almost always in it's WEREWOLF FORM? If you answered yes to any of those questions get this out of this planet idea! Wait for it...wait for it...SINGLE SIDED WEREWOLVES. What do you say, you think they'll give us that legendary in a one-sided form? Please post answers.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 03, 2012 - 4:40PM
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This comment has nothing to do with this article.
Single-  sided  werewolves  you say?
On topic, this was a neat article, seeing some of the commentary the cards got in development.
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1 year ago ::
Feb 03, 2012 - 5:45PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 23, 2011
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You know what I mean. Those are old and they lack in werewolfishness.
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