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Originally posted by Volcanon:
Some YGO cards are expensive. A lot aren't.

The MTGO 4 beta is godawful. Massively laggy and caused a hard crash on my computer, probably from overheating. Why do their clients get worse and worse as times goes on?

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Originally posted by Speed Demon:
Because people will play their game no matter how bad their clients are since Magic has a monopoly and magic players are complete addicts and refuse to take a stand against anything?

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Originally posted by Volcanon:
Doesn't this site still have an MWS advertisement? Also, Cocktrice.

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Originally posted by Volcanon:
MTGO isn't a monopoly. Doesn't this site still have an MWS advertisement? Also, Cocktrice. In fact, Cocktrice is probably better than MTGO. Not least because it's not designed with that awful .NET trash.

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MODO is a monopoly

For the purposes of playtesting, yes (except you gotta buy cards on MTGO). But I know that at least I don't use MTGO just for playtesting. There's a decent sized community of casual players for any format, you can draft for realsies, and there's like a secondary market. None of those things are present in the free clients.

Every week, I read about stories of people on MWS/Cockatrice who don't understand how a card works and argues with another player. I can't recall the last time I've ever heard about someone on MTGO complaining about a rules problem that was NOT related to a bug. Your opponent can't argue that he can Arc Trail you for 3 damage if the program simply won't let him distribute the damage that way. Life totals and cards changing zones are NOT handled by players, so I have not had players try to insist that a permanent should still be on the battlefield or that they should be at a higher life total than I think.

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Checked my records today and sent him this reply:

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Originally posted by AlmostGrown:
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=405016

Everybody, share this on FB and we can get a spoiler early! (Surprisingly, this is legit!)

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You do realize that you could have posted the FaceBook link and saved people the headaches of having to go to Salvation, right?

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Originally posted by junichi:
I had a pretty crazy EDH/Commander game on Friday. Turn 1, Land, Sol Ring, Grim Monolith, Mana Vault, Unwinding Clock. Turn 2, Land, cast my general, Kozilek, Butcher of Truth. Turn 3, Possessed Portal.

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Super mean!

Scoop them up and play again

What are your favorite grn/red/art fatties, or good dudes with ETB effects?
I'm looking to play a tight budget.

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Originally posted by Lord Crovax:
Anyone have to deal with Pawnbroker's License for a Game Shop dealing in Singles?

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I'm fairly sure you do not have to do that.

Obviously dealer prices will be high, but don't know where else would have ana ccurate assessment of them.

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Originally posted by ryan2754:
Whats the best way to find the values of each of the Apac, Euro and Arena lands?

Obviously dealer prices will be high, but don't know where else would have ana ccurate assessment of them.

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Originally posted by Sovarius:
The meta at my local shop is pretty casual. As in, like most people are not good. Mono green high-mana elves and Genesis Wave is probably pretty decent, but i'm also thinking of splashing red.
They put Archdruid in M12 but there's very few elves in standard...

What are your favorite grn/red/art fatties, or good dudes with ETB effects?
I'm looking to play a tight budget.

Also, is Pod worth running if i'm not basing the deck around pod?

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if we're talking very very budget, you might be able to get away with a mana-deprivation type deck using Acidic Slime, Brutalizer Exarch, Invader Parasite and Phyrexian Metamorph. Ramp into them with elves or Rampant Growth/Dawntreader Elk/Sphere of the Suns/etc, keep your opponents off mana, and suit them up with swords or something (which is fine with gen wave). Low cost removal like Galvanic Blast, Arc Trail, Whipflare, and Slagstorm will be your best friends against ramping opponents.

birthing pod is fine in a deck like that, especially if you acquire some higher cost rares slowly, like Solemn Simulacrum, titans, etc.

~200 Zend Lands
~10 Foil Zend Lands
Book Promo Jace
~13 other 10-20$ PW'ers
Foil Scalding Tarn
~15 Fetches
a nice stack of other 10-30$ rares/mythics plus a stack of ~500 0.25-5$ rares, and a stack of ~700 c/u's in the vein of Paths and O rings....

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Originally posted by Lord Crovax:
OK, best day ever.....got a collection for 200.00 that had among other stuff

~200 Zend Lands
~10 Foil Zend Lands
Book Promo Jace
~13 other 10-20$ PW'ers
Foil Scalding Tarn
~15 Fetches
a nice stack of other 10-30$ rares/mythics plus a stack of ~500 0.25-5$ rares, and a stack of ~700 c/u's in the vein of Paths and O rings....

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Originally posted by Lord Crovax:
OK, best day ever.....got a collection for 200.00 that had among other stuff

~200 Zend Lands
~10 Foil Zend Lands
Book Promo Jace
~13 other 10-20$ PW'ers
Foil Scalding Tarn
~15 Fetches
a nice stack of other 10-30$ rares/mythics plus a stack of ~500 0.25-5$ rares, and a stack of ~700 c/u's in the vein of Paths and O rings....

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Originally posted by Mr.C:
Stolen?

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Nope, local guy who quit, his wife came up with the number, she wanted the stuff gone.

Still in shock I even got it, went with the 200.00 off just what I knew he had which was a Foil Fetch and a few nonfoils, found everything else in a big box he told me was all commons and uncommons...lol

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Originally posted by Volcanon:
Yeah, well I bought a collection for $30 that had five hundred foil Jace the Mind Sculptor and several beta boxes.

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http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/other/04062012