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Originally posted by Skwirlnutz:
EDH is pretty cheap if you go Mono-Colored.

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I'm actually gonna try that. It'll save me a bunch on the various duals and artifact acceleration.

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Originally posted by AlmostGrown:
I'm actually gonna try that. It'll save me a bunch on the various duals and artifact acceleration.

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Thats what I thought too.

I didn't really want to invest into expensive cards if I don't even know if I like the format yet.

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Originally posted by Skwirlnutz:
Thats what I thought too.

I didn't really want to invest into expensive cards if I don't even know if I like the format yet.

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I would make a mono colored general...except I have none except Mangara of Corondor. Which I'd want Karakas for. Derp.

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Originally posted by stab107:
I've got a buddy who runs Zirilan in paper. He likes to tutor up Dragon Tyrant, bash face, tuck it back with Tel-Jilad Stylus and do it again next turn. It can be pretty potent if not disrupted, and who doesn't love bashing with the Tyrant?

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Great suggestion! I'm trying to put together Zirilan in paper. Trading for crappy dragons is the hard part, coincidentally.

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Originally posted by AlmostGrown:
Would the unused pre-release packs have to be sent back to WotC or are they unsellable because of what may/may not be good in that faction? Or are you just not allowed to sell them at all. I'm sure you could ebay them later on...

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Because they are not the normal packs that will be sold for retail, they can not be sold at all. I have no intentions of risking our relationship with WotC over stuff like that. As I said, it shouldn't be an issue, as we will be in good shape, at worst running a screwy draft after the prerelease to use up the extra stuff.

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Originally posted by AlmostGrown:
I'm actually gonna try that. It'll save me a bunch on the various duals and artifact acceleration.

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EDH = How much money some people are willing to spend on a casual deck.

EDH = How many combos can you stuff into a deck.

EDH = How many people can you lock out of the game.

EDH = How fast can you flip Erayo.

EDH = How fast can you cast Big Fatty "X".

EDH = How big can you Genesis Wave for on turn X.

EDH = How fast can you turn your library over onto the battlefield.

EDH = How big a deck you can pimp out before your friends do the same.

EDH = Bragging about your pimped out deck.

EDH = A format that should be fun for all, but in reality is a conglomerate of douchebaggery of seeing who can do the stupidest and most annoying **** the fastest while making sure the rest of the table can only sit there and accept their inevitable defeat as you "win more" for then next twenty turns.

EDH = Big spells = Good.

EDH = Small spells = Not So good.

EDH = Oh look, I spent $XXXXX.xx dollars on this deck cause I needed to have each dual land, fetch land, ravinca land, cradle, academy, wasteland, library, pendel haven, force of will, bazar, Krakaras, Maze of Ith, Workshop, Tabernacle, reflecting pool, mutavault, and a dozen others.

EDH = Oh look, INFINITY! I have achieved it.

Eight times in this game.

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Originally posted by AlmostGrown:
Joz, what you stated is all true. And yet I still love it. I have learned that I will never build a "competitive" or "good" EDH deck, and have settled for theme based decks. They can be a lot of fun too

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If you want to play a non-competative, but very fun EDH, go with Oona as your general, then run a Zombie (PLUS) Rebel or Mercenary theme; with a large sac outlet, steal effects and wraths.
Zombies are quite good in EDH; and Rebels and Mercenaries generate good card advantage and deck thinnning.

Just need a good group, that's it....only time Broken/Lock get out of hand is when you have one or more people who just watch it happen then whine :P

(and yes this happens in my play group way to often)

and I LOATHE making EDH decks, mostly cause it can take me upwards of several weeks and/or months to build one, like Zombies (Mono Black) or Sedris (187.dec) still working on both...lol

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Scion the One Shot Kill (Love Skittles in this)
Mormir Vig
Mayeal
Mirri the Cursed (Mono Black Vamps)

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Originally posted by Lord Crovax:
Just need a good group, that's it....only time Broken/Lock get out of hand is when you have one or more people who just watch it happen then whine :P

(and yes this happens in my play group way to often)

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Scion the One Shot Kill (Love Skittles in this)

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That annoys me to no end, people that tries to be diplomatic and doesn't try and kill the guy that just resolved a mana reflection. Then complains the next turn when mana reflection powers out a tooth and nail with counter backup

However there are a lot of my friends that play pretty much exclusively play EDH and draft, so one time I decided to just make a ridiculous EDH deck that really couldn't win but would just warp the game and make people laugh. I grabbed Horobi, death's wail, went to gatherer, typed in "target", and started searching.

In the end the few games I played with the deck were some of the most fun I've had playing magic. I had some real gems in there: The "wand of tawno's" (I think?): 2/artifact that reads 2:target creature gains banding = super house. Plus everyone's techy lands turned into unkillable Visaras. Best line of the night:

"Ugh, what are we going to do about that Bullwhip"

(search gatherer for Bullwhip)

Recurring Sundering Titan five times was pretty fun too, and didn't even come close to ending the game which indicates the power level I was up against with my pile.

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Originally posted by choco man:
So difficult to enjoy EDH sometimes...

EDH is equal parts of what I like most about Magic (casual games with friends/opponents) and the part I hate most about Magic (people playing slowly)

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Yeah I notice that games tend to go longer because people play EDH much more relaxed than other formats and take their time/get easily distracted.

Other thing I hate is politicking. Let people play the way they want to. Unless its really obvious that something needs to be dealt with, then its fine. Otherwise it gets really annoying hearing someone try to influence another player's decision just to keep his land or something.

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Also, placing a shorter person between two taller persons generates very interesting "I-must-protect-the-short-guy" persona's, even when the short guy has the best deck (me usually.) I've also found out, that no matter what, there is always a Sliver deck and/or elf deck in a group of 4 or more.

But to me, the most fascinating thing about EDH is the clash between same general decks, with entirely different strategies. Like my Rayne turbo-card-draw vs my friends super-combo. Since he has so many combo pieces he doesn't run as many counters, and since all my deck does is counter and draw (into capsize+doubling cube as my only real combo) its a pure slugging match as we toss Confinscates, Control Magic, Counterspells, combo pieces and janky artifacts onto the battlefield in the hope of getting something to make a difference.

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Originally posted by ProfileNotFound:
Does anybody know if anyone on this site is still collection foil basic lands signed by MOTL members? I have a bunch and I'd rather not throw them out.

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I'd be willing to trade for foil basics (don't care if they're signed or not), but I wouldn't trade high dollar cards for them.

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Originally posted by ProfileNotFound:
I am not really looking to trade them (Not really sure of a value), I am looking for some who wants them and are willing to pay the shipping. Preferably someone who will add them to their collection.

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LMK what the shipping cost will be and I'll do it.