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What, you don't want to play Trap Dragon?

He is more of a late game finisher then hyper aggo type of card I think although a couple of them in a burn deck might work.

Nah, Burning Bridges worked because Grafted Skullcap, Ensaring Bridge, and (at times) Null Brooch were all synergizing together, and way over-taxing the limited artifact removal that got played. This guy is running out there without any of those fabulous synergies, and as the most-easily-killed card type.

I just reopened my old MTGO account. I have a bunch of shit onslaught cards, an onslaught sealed deck, and a starter kit. Anything useful I can do with that crap?

Have a good bit of cards now if anyone wants to trade

Had a pretty good time on staff for GP Charlotte. My shoes were awful and I walked way too fucking much compared to a handful of staff who walked far too little, but it was a good experience overall. Finished black bordering the duals in my main legacy deck, picked up a handful of other judge promos (Armageddon, Crucible of Worlds), and dumped a few modern things for a NM Chains of Meph. Also managed to pass my L2 exam on the first try. Pretty stoked about that.

Heylel_sl said:

Had a pretty good time on staff for GP Charlotte. My shoes were awful and I walked way too fucking much compared to a handful of staff who walked far too little, but it was a good experience overall. Finished black bordering the duals in my main legacy deck, picked up a handful of other judge promos (Armageddon, Crucible of Worlds), and dumped a few modern things for a NM Chains of Meph. Also managed to pass my L2 exam on the first try. Pretty stoked about that.

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Congrats on L2!

Dumping my collection again . Just need to find a buyer for my Arsenal now. Getting 50% SSG value in cash for my collection at least. $250 for $478 in non bulk rares ($300 of that is cards over $10) with about 40 bulk rares, C/UC, a dice block, 5x spindown, 1 deck box, and my shitty ultra pro case thrown in. Wish I had sold my fucking Narset and Sarkhan earlier but not terrible value considering I built from scratch via sealed/drafts starting last November. Two more guys were wanting to look at it before I sold it so they might make a slightly better offer as well but between credit for wins and 50% value in cash I've played free for almost a year I guess.

Edit: Lied. Forgot I had a Bloodmoon and another $10 or so in bulk/dollar rares when I came up. Yay Bloodmoon going from $15 to $60 since November.

Blood Moon's price is officially retarded. I couldn't have sold mine faster this weekend.

Chris_sl said:

How much are they now? I have two painted over "altered" by a crack addict I got at a discount.

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$70 for The Dark copies, $45-60 for the others.

They spiked hard overnight last week. Star City went on a shopping spree. Pretty much the same shit that happened with Zendikar Fetches when Misty went from $20 to $70 overnight, although with a smaller differential since it's just a sideboard card.

It wasn't this weekend. Blood Moon was fairly prevalent in main decks.

Snapcaster is also trading very high. I think it's sitting at $85 this evening after a high of $100 on the GP floor. Cavern of Souls is also jumping because of Elves.

They spoiled a 2GR creature at uncommon today, I'm surprised. Maybe there will be enough spice in this set to make it a fun draft format.

I have been playing this monstrosity at the last 3 standard FNM's.

U/R Control, by Jeffrey Applebee - A Magic: the Gathering Deck

Except mine also has Keranos in it.

Tonight round one was 1-1-1, round two was 1-1-1, and round three 2-1. If I don't draw my win con you sure as fuck aren't going to beat me either. This deck makes people so salty it isn't even funny. Good shit.

Mist_sl said:

Mindswipe does not seem like a 4x in that deck.

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It's one of the win cons, It gets to a point where if they cast any spell at all they just die. I won one game tonight by mindswiping for 8, draw a card, play a land, cruise for 1 blue mana, get mindswipe, mindswipe for 8 again on there turn.

Also mindswiping a on curve courser gives me an erection.

I am managing to win some tournaments pretty steadily while only still having spent ~$10 on tickets having gotten some great deals and of course cheaper cards with high utility and play value like Sylvan Caryatid and whatnot but man I am hitting a brickwall here. Seems like no matter what, in order to get to that next tier of deck building I am gonna have to drop a decent amount of cash. Was trying to avoid it as long as possible, but I think I'm going to play MTGO for a very long time so it will probably be worth it.

Was wondering if I could get some opionions on the WoTC sponsored tournaments - for someone who knows how to play very well, but might be teetering on the line between medium and high level cards, is it reasonable at all to expect to be able to win any of the online WoTC hosted Constructed Open Standards or is all pretty much a ridiculous fuckfest of high level play? What's the best return on investment as far as starting tournaments goes? I am hesitant to spend $25-35 on one tournament just to get a 'feel' for the playing grounds. I understand it's a very open ended question and common sense tells me you know it's like anything else, but I want to make sure I'm not missing something before I pull the trigger.