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6 months ago ::
Nov 26, 2012 - 9:13PM
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Playable for the first time in Magic Online, the Power Nine will be in the 2012 Holiday Cube. The Cube events will start after the downtime on Wednesday, Dec. 19th and run until the downtime on Wednesday, Jan. 2nd. For the full details, see the official article. Also, make sure you check out designer Max McCall's article, where he gives an introduction to the Cube format (for those who aren't familiar) and talks about some of the work that went into creating the 2012 Holiday Cube.
Sean Gibbons Community Coordinator Magic Online & Duels of the Planeswalkers Twitter: @SeanGibbons Official MTGO Twitter: @MagicOnline
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6 months ago ::
Nov 27, 2012 - 1:36PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 10, 2007
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Make the prize structure worth playing for and someone might actually care about the power nine being in the cube.
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6 months ago ::
Nov 27, 2012 - 1:38PM
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Date Joined:
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Yeah really. Is this some type of joke?
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6 months ago ::
Nov 27, 2012 - 2:04PM
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I love the cube but won't play it with these cube tickets. Just my two cents.
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6 months ago ::
Nov 27, 2012 - 3:10PM
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Same terrible prize structure, and this time there's even less desirable packs being paid out. Not to mention that the power 9 and crap like Mind Twist and Mana Drain just make the cube worse. No thanks, once again Wizards loses my money. I've gone from spending several hundred dollars a year on MTGO to about 1/5 of that because the MTGO team can't provide events worth spending on. What an absolute joke.
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6 months ago ::
Nov 27, 2012 - 3:38PM
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- Volunteer Community Lead
- blame me for the weather
Date Joined:
Feb 27, 2002
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Not everything in MTGO is going to be about +EV. Feel free to continue complaining, but that is unlikely to change about cube events anytime soon.
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6 months ago ::
Nov 27, 2012 - 3:53PM
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Not everything in MTGO is going to be about +EV. Feel free to continue complaining, but that is unlikely to change about cube events anytime soon.
EV has nothing to do with it. Prizes are nothing more than a price decrease in the entry fee that is variable with your skill at the game. These events have terrible prizes, which is just another way of saying they cost more to enter than normal events.
I am aware that they aren't changing anything soon. I am also of the opinion that Magic Online is extremely poorly managed, and as a result is likely costing Hasbro and its shareholders a significant amount of money in the form of lost potential profits.
But keep being an obnoxious corporate shill that isn't even getting the benefit of being on the payroll.
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6 months ago ::
Nov 27, 2012 - 4:02PM
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- Volunteer Community Lead
- blame me for the weather
Date Joined:
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EV has nothing to do with it. Prizes are nothing more than a price decrease in the entry fee that is variable with your skill at the game. These events have terrible prizes, which is just another way of saying they cost more to enter than normal events. .
You may want to look up the definition of expected value.
Magic Online Volunteer Community Lead. • Also assisting the Paper Magic area for the time being. I'm trying to make my official VCL posts in purpleYou posted saying my thread was moved/locked but nothing happened. Spoiler:
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Unfortunately, VCLs do not currently have the tools necessary to take moderation actions directly. VCLs submit their actions to ORCs, who then actually perform the action. This processing can take between a few minutes and several hours, depending on how busy/attentive the ORCs are. If you see something that needs VCL attention, please use this thread (MTGO) or this thread (paper) to make a request and a VCL will look at it as soon as possible. CoC violations should be reported to Customer Service using the "report post" button. Please do not disrupt the thread by making requests of either kind in-thread.General MTGO FAQYes, the Shuffler is Random!The definitive thread on the Magic Online shuffler. Magic Math Made EasyDraw probabilities, Swiss results, Elo ratings and booster EV Event EV CalculatorCalculate the EV for any event with a fixed number of rounds and prizes based on record Dual means two. A duel is a battle between two people. Lands that make two colors of mana are dual lands. A normal Magic battle is a duel. Thanks to PhoenixLAU for the awesome avatar! Quotables Spoiler:
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"While a picture is worth a thousand words, each lolcat actually produces a negative wordcount." -Ith
"I think "Highly Informed Sarcasm" should be our Magic Online General motto." -Ith
"Sorry, but this thread seems just like spam. TT is for off-topic discussion, not no-topic discussion."
-WizO_Kwai_Chang
"Stop that! If you're not careful, rational thinking may catch on!" -Sax
"... the only word i see that fits is incompitant." -Mr44 (sic)
"You know a thread is gonna be locked when it gets to the hexadecimal stage." -Gathion
"It's a good gig" - Gleemax
"I tell people often, if you guys want to rant, you've certainly got the right to (provided you obey CoC/ToS stuff), and I don't even really blame you. But if you see something you think needs changing a well thought-out, constructive post does more to make that happen." - Worth Wollpert
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6 months ago ::
Nov 27, 2012 - 4:27PM
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EV has nothing to do with it. Prizes are nothing more than a price decrease in the entry fee that is variable with your skill at the game. These events have terrible prizes, which is just another way of saying they cost more to enter than normal events. .
You may want to look up the definition of expected value.
Accidentally left the "+" from your initial quote out, but my point still stands.
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6 months ago ::
Nov 27, 2012 - 4:37PM
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Date Joined:
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Any word on whether or not the cube tickets will remain untradeable? To me that is the worst part of it.
Untradeable prizes in a trading card game are all but useless to me. I like being able to cash out my prizes and move them around from one format to another. Especially when certain formats are not always available.
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