Real fun story of the day, one of the guys who works at the store took a shot at a box of cards on ebay this guy was selling. All the listing said was that it was a box of like 100 cards from Unl/Rev/Legends. The seller wouldn't answer questions about what was inside. Guy won it for about $100 and got it in yesterday.

Highlights inside - 6 duals, Gauntlet of Might, Karakas, Chain Lightning and some assorted other goodies. It's nice to win the lotto sometimes.

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Originally posted by stizkidz:
I like how he has "MTG" in the title twice...

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Even better "Alpha and Sealed" in the same sentence. Seems kinda lamebrain the seller has only 10 feedback and auctioning big ticket stuff. Reminds me of an AC/DC song. But hey, you never know <see above>.

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Originally posted by Bugger:
My prerelease deck:
1x Putrefax
1x Phyrexian Vatmother
1x Carnifex Demon
1x Contagion Engine
2x Spread the Sickness
1x Grasp of Darkness
1x Infiltration Lens
1x Viridian Emissary
1x Plague Myr
1x Pistus Strike
1x Viridian Corrupter
2x Carrion Call
1x Trigon of Infestation
1x Blightwidow
1x Scourge Servant
1x Vector Asp
1x Phyrexian Rager
1x Trigon of Rage
1x Tumble Magnet
1x Blight Mamba
1x Sylvok Replica
1x Virulent Wound

Pretty good deck if I do say so myself

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Very nice indeed! I ended up going Phyrexian and having a super awkward BG Infect deck that couldn't put enough pressure on early and just lost when my opponents bomb(s) came online. I found Living Weapon and Infect were kind of awkward together; one of the two games I "won" was by using a Germ token to punch through for the final points of regular damage. The only removal I had was a Flesh Allergy, which admittedly does have some synergy with Living Weapon, though when you go BG in sealed with one removal spell you are bound to lose a lot.

2 Myr Sire
2 Phyrexian Digester
1 Core Prowler
1 Corpse Cur
2 Neurok Invisimancer
1 Flesh-Eater Imp
1 Phyrexian Rager
1 Septic Rats

1 Morbid Plunder
2 Spread The Sickness

2 Instill Infection
1 Virulent Wound
1 Steel Sabotage

1 Lux Cannon
1 Bonehoard
1 Flayer Husk
1 Trigon Of Corruption

9 Swamps
8 Islands

My Rounds:

Round 1: 1-2
I got Mana-Screwed BAD.

Round 2: 2-0
Lux Cannon was bomb that round.

Round 3: 2-0
Won by the skin o' my teeth.

Round 4: 2-0
This was the only round I actually drew Tezzeret and god was he amazing, I drew him both games, it was awesome turning infect artifacts into 5/5s.

I wish I would've pulled more Ragers and Virulent Wounds...:-/

In my 4 prize packs, I got a Tezzeret, Slave of Bolas and Praetor's Counsel.

--Evil

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Originally posted by JTAubrey:

That would be AWFUL

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In the main event, I chose Mirran and went 3-3. I played five of my rares:

Kuldotha Phoenix
Tempered Steel
White Sun's Zenith (aka Meow Mix)
Myr Turbine
Sword of Feast and Famine

I dunno, I guess it just didn't come together like I'd have wanted it to. I mulliganed a lot and got flooded several games. It could have been worse... it was a lot of fun!

In other news:

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Originally posted by @thepchapin:
Just wrote the entry for Blightsteel Colossus for my set review. Time to go kick puppies& knock little kids' ice cream cones on the sidewalk

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Also, I'm sure it will just end up getting stolen with bribery if I do run it.

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Originally posted by iccarus:
I'm trying to decide if I want to run the Blightsteel Colossus from my pool in one of my EDH decks. I'd probably end up cutting it after only one use, simply because I'd feel bad the first time I killed someone with it.

Also, I'm sure it will just end up getting stolen with bribery if I do run it.

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Yeah, as good as it would be in my Momir Vig EDH deck, I'm not gonna throw it in there cause I'm not a massive *******. Or at least not that big an *******

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Originally posted by caquaa:
It shows zero thoughtfulness or play skill to run him in an EDH deck. Unless skittles is your general, he just doesn't belong.

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Yeah, that's the way I've been feeling about it. I guess I'll just trade him off now and get stuff I can actually use.

Bribery is going back in decks though, so I can steal copies others decide to run and kill them with it.

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Originally posted by stab107:
Very nice indeed! I ended up going Phyrexian and having a super awkward BG Infect deck that couldn't put enough pressure on early and just lost when my opponents bomb(s) came online. I found Living Weapon and Infect were kind of awkward together; one of the two games I "won" was by using a Germ token to punch through for the final points of regular damage. The only removal I had was a Flesh Allergy, which admittedly does have some synergy with Living Weapon, though when you go BG in sealed with one removal spell you are bound to lose a lot.

It will be interesting to see how drafts run moving forward. How many people will jump on the infect train, only to have them derailed halfway through the draft?

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Yeah it was. There was a LOT more phyrexia than mirrodin players at my lgs, easily 3 out of 4. My first round was against a b/w phyrexian deck, I absolutely thrashed him 2-0 (virulent wound takes out all 2cc infect creatures and turns the tables in a race...awesome card) but I had to concede cause I had to leave afterwards effing parents wanted me home by 1, no excuses.

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(Humans) are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just self-congratulatory delusion. Next Question."
-- Michael Crichton, The Lost World

I chose Phyrexia and went 3-1 after losing round 1, netting me two Mirran and two Phyrexian Faction Packs. My roommate started off 2-0 and lost the next two rounds. Two of my other friends (including one who got me started with Magic in the first place) went 3-1 and 4-0.

I used NONE of my MBS rares (Mitotic Manipulation and TWO Psychosis Crawler), but used all of my SOM rares (Putrefax, Nim Deathmantle, Prototype Portal).

I had enough cards to make a B/G infect deck, but I still ended up winning a game with 20 damage - Phyrexian Rager + Nim Deathmantle + Flayer Husk and Plague Maw Beast went all the way.

I think that Viridian Corrupter was the MVP of the day, allowing me multiple times to destroy a Living Weapon equipment and allowing me to gain a huge advantage. One game, when I was on the play, turn 2 Plague Stinger, turn 3 Viridian Corrupter destroying his Myr was just enough tempo to win.

This is what my sealed deck looked like:

Plague Stinger
Rot Wolf
Flensermite
Viridian Corrupter
Ichor Rats
Phyrexian Rager
Necropede
Core Prowler
Putrefax
Tangle Angler
Copper Myr
Leaden Myr
Viridian Emissary
Plaguemaw Beast
Blightwidow
Sylvok Replica
Perilous Myr

Nim Deathmantle
Flayer Husk x2
Virulent Wound x2
Spread the Sickness

Edit to add:

We had a bad collation error and a small group of Phyrexian people opened NO rares in their packs. The head judge (Eric Levine) remedied the situation by telling those people to set aside those 15 commons and uncommons, which they could NOT use in the sealed, then they would all get a new Phyrexian pack, as long as they took this vow:

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Eric Levine:

I, {insert name}

promise that I will not use these packs

and if I do

I will go outside

and play in traffic.

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Two more people at another table had the same problem and he amended his vow to:

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Eric Levine

...

and if I do

I will buy Eric

a new XBOX.

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Now, I have 14 promo and 3 non-foil Glissas that I have to figure out a use for. :/

In semi-related news, to give you an idea of our play group, we ended up doing a draft since we couldn't pull enough people for 2HG sealed, and I ended up with a pack 1, pick 4 Green Sun's Zenith. At least it paired nicely with my pack 1, pick 1 Thrun.

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All your Gruul Nodorogs are belong to me. Trade them to me, please!

Report rules violations.

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I'm gonna take care of this cuz I got b.o.

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Originally posted by nderdog:

Now, I have 14 promo and 3 non-foil Glissas that I have to figure out a use for. :/

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I will take a non-foil one off your hands for my Legends collection. Check my list and make me an offer please

--Evil

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Originally posted by revenger:
I'm half way tempted to add my Rob Alexander collection for trade now...to get the cards I need for decks. Should I or should I not do this? I mean I have some cards that are decent- but some crap as well. I am only missing like 4 cards from all of his artwork (Underground Sea, Elephant Graveyard are the hardest to get a hold of) Some cards would be wanted (His duals that are drawn by him) but some are considered total crap rares (Tectonic Instability, Winter's Night, Koskun falls to name a few.) Suggestions?

~Revenger

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If you feel as if there is no other way to get the cards you need, I say go for it. If you think you can still get the cards you need through other means, then maybe you should hold out a bit longer.

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Originally posted by evilempire22:
I will take a non-foil one off your hands for my Legends collection. Check my list and make me an offer please

--Evil

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Probably won't get rid of the non-foils unless we pull a couple more, as they'll go into the Playset Collection Project.

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All your Gruul Nodorogs are belong to me. Trade them to me, please!

Report rules violations.

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Originally posted by sammyt125:
I priced out my EDH deck on Apathy House today and it came out as over $1250. The deck isn't done (still need 2 more duals) and I have probably another 100-150 in cards that I swap in to change the deck up when I feel like it. I think I have a problem with this "casual" format.

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Originally posted by caquaa:
lol, you're not even close to problem yet. Lets start my list w/ 10 beta duals and 10 foil fetches and go from there...

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