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Originally posted by Volcanon:
Why is a foil high market like $40? It's just a really good sack outlet or something?

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Originally posted by Zakman86:
EDH and the rarity of MM Foils.

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Academy Rector + Pattern of Rebirth x4
4 Phyrexian Ghoul, 4 High Market

Any combo that wins the game involving 2 Creatures, 2 Enchantments, or one of each (Mind over Matter/Quicksilver Dagger, Serra Avatar/Cloak of Invis, that sorta thing).

Really unfair.

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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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Why so much? Are you playing a 5-color deck or trying to foil things out? You can build quality decks for way less than that.

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Originally posted by iccarus:
Why so much? Are you playing a 5-color deck or trying to foil things out? You can build quality decks for way less than that.

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Originally posted by sammyt125:
Foils are a hell of a drug.

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Then that's your own fault

I did the foil/beta treatment on my Maga deck once upon a time. After it was done, I ended up selling off all the pimp because I just couldn't justify having so much tied up in one deck.

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Originally posted by iccarus:
Then that's your own fault

I did the foil/beta treatment on my Maga deck once upon a time. After it was done, I ended up selling off all the pimp because I just couldn't justify having so much tied up in one deck.

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I also had bidders starting disputes without even telling me. 1st guy started a dispute (in April 2010), probably for kicks, never responded after that and I won the case. More recently ( a week ago), this guy didn't email me and went on to start a dispute, and claimed that he tried to email me via ebay. Hasn't responded since I submitted a tracking number. 3rd guy didn't sign for the package, got returned to me and I resent it out of my own expense. He ignored all my emails, as I wanted to show him the scans of the returned envelope. He said it was a waste of time. Got the 2nd tracking number, started a dispute a week later. His reason was that the tracking number was invalid. After questioning him, turns out he was checking a courier service website to track the article instead of SingPost. He still claimed I was some sketchy person and suspecting I didn't ship the cards at all. What an idiot. To cap it off he won 2 items, and he disputed on those 2 items. Ebay just went ahead and counted those 2 disputes as seperate cases and I get 2 dispute strikes against my evaluation for top rated seller status (I'm allowed max 2 disputes but I have 4 right now).

Talked to an ebay rep today, she said evaluation for the status is done based on the previous month's performance. I went to check my previous month's evaluation, the dispute that was opened on April 2010 is still logged in my account and counted towards my evaluation. Her attitude and tone throughout the entire conversation wasn't great either, and from the looks of it she just wanted to end the conversation quickly. Then went on to say its my fault for not shipping quickly and communicating well with the buyers. I shipped within 3 business days as promised, emailed all buyers with tracking numbers when I ship, what more do they expect? This is ridiculous.

/rant

EDIT: Not the first bs ebay pulled on me. Sometime last year when all I was doing is sell via fixed priced items for the past few months, I got a call from them telling me that my selling privelages are suspended because I was shill bidding. The time frame they've given was a time when I did not bid on anything, and only sell via fixed priced listings. I told them that and the rep just said: 'you can't sell, period'. Approx 1-2 weeks later I got a call from another rep saying that they got the wrong seller, and restored my status. Epic fail.

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Originally posted by Scopes13mtg:
I posted something in the Suggestions forum, it got no responses for a week, and got deleted. Basically, I think it would be useful for the T/A forum to have selling and buying fields when posting a list the way the H/W forum has wants and haves fields. Currently, if you want to buy a Wasteland, you end up sifting through a bunch of buylists with it, or you go into a sales list only to find that it is listed as credit. I thought it was a good idea.

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Originally posted by AlmostGrown:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Scopes13mtg:
I posted something in the Suggestions forum, it got no responses for a week, and got deleted. Basically, I think it would be useful for the T/A forum to have selling and buying fields when posting a list the way the H/W forum has wants and haves fields. Currently, if you want to buy a Wasteland, you end up sifting through a bunch of buylists with it, or you go into a sales list only to find that it is listed as credit. I thought it was a good idea.

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There is a TON of stuff that should be done on MOTL.

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Originally posted by Mr.C:
There is a TON of stuff that should be done on MOTL.

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Originally posted by joz:

This.
ad infinitum.

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http://classic.magictraders.com/ubb/Forum8/HTML/001948.html

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Originally posted by stu55:
Buying a collection some point this coming week or 2...mentally preparing myself for Mold damaged Libraries and chewed duals because everything was described in "nice" condition...ugh

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I feel that pain...

I sent a shipment of old Decipher SWCCG out; the other guy contacts me and says that all the cards are damaged (I sent them out nm/m) and then a week latter admits that the packaging was all wet (and I find out latter...not even the original box I shipped it in..) and it all ends up with me getting shafted for some hundreds of rare magic cards...

Was my 1800 card collection, including multiple R2 and UR (ultimate rares) for his 600 some random rares since he no longer plays MTG.

I valued that 1800 card collection using ebay, pricing commons at five cents and uncommons at 10 (store prices are 33 for commons and 50-75 for uncommons) and each rare I had rounded down to nearest half dollar, aka: $750 worth of SWCCG, 1/2 of it from rares alone.

Still haven't received jack****...

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Originally posted by Scopes13mtg:
Prediction:

Sword of Order and Chaos 3
Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and red.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control and ~this~ deals 3 damage to target creature that player controls.

Equip 2

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My prediction:

Sword of Divine and Fury 3
Artifact - Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from red.

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, return target creature in your graveyard with converted mana cost 1 or less to the battlefield and destroy target nonbasic land.

~Revenger

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Constructed:
Format Record: 26-11-3 (0 byes, 40 total)
Format %: 65% - 27.5% - 7.5%

Limited:
Format Record: 17-8-0 (0 byes, 25 total)
Format %: 68% - 32% - 0%

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Originally posted by Scopes13mtg:
Find your win percentage by format: http://www.bradleyjx.net/rh/ratinghistory.html

Constructed:
Format Record: 26-11-3 (0 byes, 40 total)
Format %: 65% - 27.5% - 7.5%

Limited:
Format Record: 17-8-0 (0 byes, 25 total)
Format %: 68% - 32% - 0%

Limited will be going down after 0-3 drop for the prerelease sealed. Also, this makes me realize that considering how much time I spend researching, thinking about, and handling Magic cards, I don't play NEARLY enough.

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Constructed
Format Record: 435-199-39 (5 byes, 678 total)
Format %: 64.63% - 29.56% - 5.794%

Limited
Format Record: 25-14-1 (0 byes, 40 total)
Format %: 62.5% - 35% - 2.5%

I don't play enough limited compare to constructed.

0-6.

Limited:
Format Record: 125-69-5 (5 byes, 204 total)
Format %: 62.81% - 34.67% - 2.512%

Wow I didn't realized how many tournaments I have actually played in.

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I don't play NEARLY enough.

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I was just thinking the same thing - my ratings are 1743 and 1711, for Constructed and Limited, but there was a time when both of those numbers were about 100 points higher.

Here's my lifetime stats:

Constructed:

Format Record: 715-314-97 (7 byes, 1133 total)
Format %: 63.49% - 27.88% - 8.614%

Limited: