http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x362/Markersman/Magic/P1000681.jpg

VERY happy at the moment

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Beta: 259/302 signed
AN: 82/92 signed
AQ: 92/100 signed
LG: 254/310 signed

Total signed cards: 23'312

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Originally posted by Markers:
Yesterday I finally got the crown jewel of my Magic collection:

http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x362/Markersman/Magic/P1000681.jpg

VERY happy at the moment

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That's awesome! Do you get the original artist to alter the cards? Also how many left till you have a coomplete set of P9 like that?

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Originally posted by Skwirlnutz:
That's awesome! Do you get the original artist to alter the cards? Also how many left till you have a coomplete set of P9 like that?

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Only Amy, Dan, Mark P, Mark T or Chris Rush are allowed to touch my power unsleeved

I currently have 3 Moxes done (see my sig)...The pearl and jet are on their way back to me.

The Walk is currently with Amy to get "the treatment". Recall and Twister are "only" signed but when I get the chance.

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Beta: 259/302 signed
AN: 82/92 signed
AQ: 92/100 signed
LG: 254/310 signed

Total signed cards: 23'312

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Originally posted by Markers:
Only Amy, Dan, Mark P, Mark T or Chris Rush are allowed to touch my power unsleeved

I currently have 3 Moxes done (see my sig)...The pearl and jet are on their way back to me.

The Walk is currently with Amy to get "the treatment". Recall and Twister are "only" signed but when I get the chance.

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Any luck with the Lotus?

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Originally posted by Skwirlnutz:
Any luck with the Lotus?

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Finding an ok-priced NM-ish signed Beta Lotus is quite tricky...It's my last card to have a set complete.

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Beta: 259/302 signed
AN: 82/92 signed
AQ: 92/100 signed
LG: 254/310 signed

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Originally posted by caquaa:
I'd be worried w/ Amy Weber touching my walk. I've seen her selling art on ebay and I'm not really a fan of that work. Walk really is more of an iconic piece of magic history more then a great piece of art, at least in my opinion.

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I hear ya. It's not a major alter like the moxes but a funny one. The previous alters she did for me (Beta Fork / CE Walk / Serra Elemental) I really liked.

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Beta: 259/302 signed
AN: 82/92 signed
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Originally posted by andrew777:
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Originally posted by Tha Gunslinga:
No more SCG shirts, then?

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We can only hope. Those shirts are just horrible '80s hair metal regurgitations that are just horrifying to see.

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Originally posted by Markers:
Yesterday I finally got the crown jewel of my Magic collection:

http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x362/Markersman/Magic/P1000681.jpg

VERY happy at the moment

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Congrats man . I love seeing you post your stuff. Pretty swank compared to, well, pretty much anything I have (don't ask to see my Lotus, you might go into cardiac arrest because there is more white than anything on the card thanks to shuffling for ages sans sleeve).

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Originally posted by yakusoku:
I think lots of people really shy away from Infect because it's also possible that if it's overdrafted, you end up with an awful deck. I have more success with it than any other archetype, though and my friends are pretty sick of me drafting Infect all the time. When I draft online, if someone's watching over my shoulder, they often will comment:

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Whats the requirements of a cube and how many peeps do I need?

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Originally posted by Skwirlnutz:
How difficult is it to make a cube? I heard its so fun to play a cube. I want to make a Pauper cube thought, too poor for the big stuff.

Whats the requirements of a cube and how many peeps do I need?

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The creation of cubes is the best thing to happen to Magic since drafts. It IS really fun.

Pauper cubes are fairly easy to build, and I suggest you go to MTGSalvation to get some help. It's the best resource right now to get help and see other people's lists.

The only real requirement is that you have enough cards to support how many people will be playing with your cube (45 cards per person), including basic lands so people can build decks. You need just TWO people, but people often draft with 4-8 people. Thus, you'll see a lot of lists that are exactly 360 cards (45 * 8 = 360). I have a cube with 400 cards, 50 white cards, 50 blue cards, 50 black cards, 50 red cards, 50 green cards, 50 multi-colored spells (5 of each two-color combination), 50 colorless spells (artifacts), and 50 lands.

You usually want to balance things out so that you have an equal number of each color combination so nothing is favored, and you want to make sure you have enough creatures, removal, and other spells and that they are distributed appropriately so that both aggro and control strategies are viable. For example, I'm running Figure of Destiny, Isamaru, Elite Vanguard, Student of Warfare, and Savannah Lions - all creatures that can attack on turn two for two damage to make sure aggro is viable and I'm also running Wrath of God, Day of Judgment, Akroma's Vengeance, and Martial Coup, white sweepers that make control viable.

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Originally posted by yakusoku:
The creation of cubes is the best thing to happen to Magic since drafts. It IS really fun.

Pauper cubes are fairly easy to build, and I suggest you go to MTGSalvation to get some help. It's the best resource right now to get help and see other people's lists.

The only real requirement is that you have enough cards to support how many people will be playing with your cube (45 cards per person), including basic lands so people can build decks. You need just TWO people, but people often draft with 4-8 people. Thus, you'll see a lot of lists that are exactly 360 cards (45 * 8 = 360). I have a cube with 400 cards, 50 white cards, 50 blue cards, 50 black cards, 50 red cards, 50 green cards, 50 multi-colored spells (5 of each two-color combination), 50 colorless spells (artifacts), and 50 lands.

You usually want to balance things out so that you have an equal number of each color combination so nothing is favored, and you want to make sure you have enough creatures, removal, and other spells and that they are distributed appropriately so that both aggro and control strategies are viable. For example, I'm running Figure of Destiny, Isamaru, Elite Vanguard, Student of Warfare, and Savannah Lions - all creatures that can attack on turn two for two damage to make sure aggro is viable and I'm also running Wrath of God, Day of Judgment, Akroma's Vengeance, and Martial Coup, white sweepers that make control viable.

You can go HERE to see other people's lists, including pauper/peasant cubes. I have updated my cube with Mirrodin Besieged cards, but I haven't changed the list on MTGS recently.

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Oh okay cool, Thanks!
Just one question. Do I add the Basic Lands in the cube or how does that work?

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Originally posted by Skwirlnutz:
Oh okay cool, Thanks!
Just one question. Do I add the Basic Lands in the cube or how does that work?

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Originally posted by AlmostGrown:
Yeah, you have to provide the basic lands, obviously. Have you ever been to a draft where the TO said "get your own basics"? Don't forget that if you sleeve your cube, you'll have to sleeve the basics too.

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Well I knew I had to provide the lands I never said I didn't. My question is do I add them in the cube or do I keep them separated from the rest of the cube? Thanks psrex for the answer.

Also AlmostGrown, No need to be a smart ass, I'm just trying to learn something new.

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Originally posted by Skwirlnutz:
Well I knew I had to provide the lands I never said I didn't. My question is do I add them in the cube or do I keep them separated from the rest of the cube? Thanks psrex for the answer.

Also AlmostGrown, No need to be a smart ass, I'm just trying to learn something new.

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keep them separate.

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Originally posted by Skwirlnutz:
Well I knew I had to provide the lands I never said I didn't. My question is do I add them in the cube or do I keep them separated from the rest of the cube? Thanks psrex for the answer.

Also AlmostGrown, No need to be a smart ass, I'm just trying to learn something new.

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It's all good AG. I just wanna learn how to do this because after I'm done with the two EDH decks I'm currently working on I want to build a cube, Not a really expensive one, just one to have when we are bored.

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Originally posted by yakusoku:
THIS is my cube storage system.

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LOL! That is just amazing.

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Originally posted by Skwirlnutz:
Okay cool, Thanks everyone! I wonder how fun it would be to build a junk cube out of a bunch of random commons/uncommons that I have that are foil, But still keeping it balanced between spells and creatures.

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That's really the glory of the cube too. You can make it as cheap or expensive as you want. You can use whatever cards are in your collection now, and naturally progress is as however you see fit (add/replace cards, increase rarity, incrase pimpness) You get to add whatever you see fit. If you think a card is too broken, you can take it out; same goes for it a card is too weak.

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Originally posted by urza187:
That's really the glory of the cube too. You can make it as cheap or expensive as you want. You can use whatever cards are in your collection now, and naturally progress is as however you see fit (add/replace cards, increase rarity, incrase pimpness) You get to add whatever you see fit. If you think a card is too broken, you can take it out; same goes for it a card is too weak.

My cube is nonfoil with no power. I use KMC perfect fit's along with KMC Super Blacks. My basic lands are all the same pictured zendikar basics. I treat the cube as a sunk cost; I don't look at the cube as anything of value. I look at it as a set of cards that I'm going to use quite a bit, and don't care if they turn into played cards. Obviously, this can hurt thinking about Jace TMS and Goyf, but once again, it's a sunk cost

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Haha sweet, I think I am going to do that though. For the next few weeks I am going to try and just gather up as much common/uncommon foils (Same with foil basics.) as possible and when the time comes to assemble the junk foil cube I will see what all I have to work with! I'm pretty stoked about this now lol.

Lost:
Blightsteel Colossus (LOL if only I had two Infect Myr in my pack!)
Shimmer Myr

Won:
Blue Sun's Zenith
Black Sun's Zenith
Foil GFTT!

Pretty sad when I couldn't cast my Blightsteel .

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Originally posted by yakusoku:
THIS is my cube storage system.

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Originally posted by yakusoku:
THIS is my cube storage system.

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Dude, that is just awesome. Hats off to you! I want to put together a unique transportation device for my own Cube but haven't had the chance to do it yet.

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Originally posted by Skwirlnutz:
How difficult is it to make a cube? I heard its so fun to play a cube. I want to make a Pauper cube thought, too poor for the big stuff.

Whats the requirements of a cube and how many peeps do I need?

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To echo what Yakusko said, Cube is hands down the best thing to happen to Magic since draft. It's so much fun and is so customizable. Anyway, here is a link to a thread where I posted some helpful links that helped me put together my Peasant Cube (which is shaping up nicely):

http://classic.magictraders.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/024752-8.html

Scroll to the bottom of the page. I would retype it all but don't have time atm. May add it to The Cube thread later this week if I get a chance.

Happy Cubing!

-Glenn