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Crash21 Member	posted April 04, 2012 11:45 AM quote: Originally posted by Jtrade77: In my opinion the biggest over-hyped card ever was Silence. I traded every single one of the I ever opened as fast as I possibly could. Got about $20 in value for each in the weeks after the M10 release. Never had a good deck in standard. Never was as good as Orim's Chant... but silly people thought it was good. Silence is a fantastic card...in EDH
daner Member	posted April 04, 2012 12:25 PM Does someone have a link or archived the thread with the idiot claiming that Eye of Ugin was going to be big? Then went on a rant because someone wouldn't trade away their Black Lotus for like 20x of them?
hilikuS Member	posted April 04, 2012 12:38 PM quote: Originally posted by daner: Does someone have a link or archived the thread with the idiot claiming that Eye of Ugin was going to be big? Then went on a rant because someone wouldn't trade away their Black Lotus for like 20x of them? http://classic.magictraders.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/077254.html
mm1983 Member	posted April 04, 2012 01:34 PM I'm surprised nobody has said Cranial Extraction yet. IMO probably the most over-hyped card in the game of Magic. In it's days of Standard it was a $25+ card and now you'd be lucky to get $2 for the card.
junichi Moderator	posted April 04, 2012 02:01 PM Twincast. __________________ MOTL Fantasy NBA 2010 Champion You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help.
GenghisTom Member	posted April 04, 2012 02:43 PM quote: Originally posted by mm1983: I'm surprised nobody has said Cranial Extraction yet. IMO probably the most over-hyped card in the game of Magic. In it's days of Standard it was a $25+ card and now you'd be lucky to get $2 for the card. If it was 25 while it was in standard then it wouldn't have been ovrhyped. I think you're misunderstanding the topic
Volcanon Member	posted April 04, 2012 06:57 PM quote: Originally posted by GenghisTom: If it was 25 while it was in standard then it wouldn't have been ovrhyped. I think you're misunderstanding the topic It was pretty good against contemporary t1 decks, like worldgorger.
broiler1977 Member	posted April 04, 2012 11:15 PM Here are some old-timey cards Icy Manipulator Shivan Dragon Royal Assasin Demonic Hordes and any really cool card with a high casting cost edit: vanda1evil, I use countryside crusher to pretty good effect in my lumberjack deck. Although the deck may be more fun than effective. [Edited 1 times, lastly by broiler1977 on April 04, 2012]
Lord Crovax Member	posted April 04, 2012 11:39 PM I think 99,9% of people who come to this thread don't understand the word overhyped. Just because something fell out of favor doesn't make it overhyped, a overhyped card is one everything thought would be amazing out the gate, but never saw any play. 90% of the cards being named were powerhouses when they came out, they just fell out of favor for one reason or another. __________________ I shall have the souls of all who defy me. "Lord Crovax"
hilikuS Member	posted April 05, 2012 05:38 AM quote: Originally posted by mm1983: I'm surprised nobody has said Cranial Extraction yet. IMO probably the most over-hyped card in the game of Magic. In it's days of Standard it was a $25+ card and now you'd be lucky to get $2 for the card. Agree with Crovax on this one. Overhyped means it was never actually useful, but everybody thought it was. Also, unless you're talking SCG or something, no Standard card was worth $25 back then. I think Cranial peaked at like $15 here on MOTL.
fluffycow Member	posted April 05, 2012 07:05 AM The most overhyped cards was rishadan port, I mean seriously, I gotta pay 2 mana to stop your 1? That sucks! Then some random type 2 W/U owned my "legacy" white deck by tapping down my third land to stop my emperial armor. I no longer thought port was overhyped
AlmostGrown Member	posted April 05, 2012 07:36 AM Time Reversal! Or was this already mentioned?
xxxcryoserumxxx Member	posted April 10, 2012 01:24 PM At the moment I think temporal mastery but I'm not sure. A 40$ preorder price is why I think that.
Speed Demon Banned	posted April 10, 2012 02:09 PM quote: Originally posted by AGO: Dragonskull Summit. $38 for a playset HELL YEAH! This is unfair. Jund was really big at the time (probably as big as caw-blade and Bloodbraid elf should have gotten the axe in standard), and Dragonskull Summit had only been printed once. A dual land with a minimum drawback printed once in a top standard deck? I'm suprised it wasn't more (See seachrome coast / darkslick shores). Even now, printed 3 times in core sets, a set still fetches $10-12. Seems fine, paying $38 for a playset of cards you've now played with for 4 years.
hyperchord24 New Member	posted April 22, 2012 08:24 PM How about Street Wraith? I don't remember the presale price, but everyone was talking as if the sky were falling and he'd be a 4-of in every deck because it allows for a virtual 56-card deck. Myself included. I wish I had learned. The sky always seems to be falling when they release a new set. My first thought about Temporal Mastery was that well, the sky was falling.
valorale Member	posted April 23, 2012 12:08 PM Jester's Cap .. to quote Inquest "This guy will get restricted faster than new doors on the Pentagon" Then again Inquest also named Necropotence the worst rare in the set.
AlmostGrown Member	posted April 23, 2012 12:22 PM How about the UG utility land from AVR, thats pretty overhyped.
MagicPatty Member	posted April 23, 2012 01:32 PM quote: Originally posted by valorale: Then again Inquest also named Necropotence the worst rare in the set. It was a fairly common misconception after IA came out that Necropotence made you pay a life for the card that you draw and that's it. It wasn't immediately apparent that you could draw more than one. Players weren't as sharp back then, and magazines weren't much better.
-Lunch_Box- Member	posted April 23, 2012 03:06 PM quote: Originally posted by mm1983: I'm surprised nobody has said Cranial Extraction yet. IMO probably the most over-hyped card in the game of Magic. In it's days of Standard it was a $25+ card and now you'd be lucky to get $2 for the card. Someone was considering selling their collection of older cards recently and I told them I would like to take a look and asked about highlights. He told me he was not sure about everything he had but told me he had 9 Cranial Extractions
gcowhsu Member	posted April 23, 2012 03:34 PM quote: Originally posted by AlmostGrown: How about the UG utility land from AVR, thats pretty overhyped. how is this overhyped? You can get it for 2-3 dollars. That's not a lot of hype.
Th3Sparkl3r Member	posted April 23, 2012 04:16 PM quote: Originally posted by xxxcryoserumxxx: At the moment I think temporal mastery but I'm not sure. A 40$ preorder price is why I think that. It sold out at 26 bucks, then the price was jacked up to 40. It'll drop once people realize it's not as good in standard as they were hoping, then it'll drop again when it's banned in legacy, where it's ridiculously easy to abuse.
FleeceItOut Member	posted April 23, 2012 05:09 PM vexing devil
Zeckk Member	posted April 23, 2012 06:43 PM quote: Originally posted by Th3Sparkl3r: It sold out at 26 bucks, then the price was jacked up to 40. It'll drop once people realize it's not as good in standard as they were hoping, then it'll drop again when it's banned in legacy, where it's ridiculously easy to abuse. For the love of God, TEST temporal mastery in legacy. It literally makes zero difference in the performance of existing tier legacy decks. If anything, it makes targeted discard even more powerful, since snatching a brainstorm on the play with IoK or thoughtseize can actually leave you with a garbage hand and no way to fix it. Temporal mastery is going to be a $10 card in 3 months, and a $5 card in 6 if standard doesn't get a reasonable way to use it.
Th3Sparkl3r Member	posted April 23, 2012 07:35 PM quote: Originally posted by Zeckk: For the love of God, TEST temporal mastery in legacy. It literally makes zero difference in the performance of existing tier legacy decks. If anything, it makes targeted discard even more powerful, since snatching a brainstorm on the play with IoK or thoughtseize can actually leave you with a garbage hand and no way to fix it. Temporal mastery is going to be a $10 card in 3 months, and a $5 card in 6 if standard doesn't get a reasonable way to use it. I HAVE been testing it in legacy, and I like what I've seen so far. I've got it coming out of the sideboard (a single copy, don't need any more) with my Doomsday package and so far it's been an all-star. Does every top-tier deck want to run it? Of course not...but that doesn't mean it won't be prone to abuse.
Battle_of_Twits Member	posted April 24, 2012 07:37 AM From the new set, I believe Tibalt is the most overhyped. Yes it's a two mana Planeswalker, and yes that's never done before, but it just doesn't do anything. It, as LSV would put it, is just a lot of durdling. __________________

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