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Originally posted by mattw:
For the record, I really dislike americans that only want to trade within the US because sending to canada is too expensive.

It costs me 1.35 to send cards to the states.

How much does the post office gouge you guys down there to mail some trading cards!?

I actually sent a bubble mailer to nicholas biron this week with a tamiyo and jace 4.0 in it. Costed me.... A buck thirty five! Canada post may be slow but apparently you can't beat those prices.

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Liability is the main problem with international shipping. Without a waiver of liability I don't usually ship internationally

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Originally posted by Zeckk:
You go for card value, I go for playability. And to provide some perspective, I have the card pool for roughly any legacy deck I wish to play, same goes for modern and standard. Standard is the format for roughly 75% of any high-REL event in my area - why the **** would I focus all my time and effort on making sure my trades "retain long-term value" when I need to make sure I actually have the correct deck for the 891273428975 standard events in any given year? Especially when I can flip the standard cards I used AT THE SAME EXACT EVENT. using the excuse that you can't convert hot standard staples into less-volatile commodities is a lazy excuse, nothing more.

And to further refute the "legacy is king" thinking - most legacy players already have the older staples. It's the new stuff that they have to acquire in order to keep the deck competitive. Duals and onslaught fetches are rarely traded in the first place, so bringing up the mythical "deltas for thragtusks" trade is a red herring. Few enough people even LIST duals and other high-end legacy stuff for trade.

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http://classic.magictraders.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/097244.html

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Originally posted by mattw:
For the record, I really dislike americans that only want to trade within the US because sending to canada is too expensive.

It costs me 1.35 to send cards to the states.

How much does the post office gouge you guys down there to mail some trading cards!?

I actually sent a bubble mailer to nicholas biron this week with a tamiyo and jace 4.0 in it. Costed me.... A buck thirty five! Canada post may be slow but apparently you can't beat those prices.

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Did that bubble mailer have delivery confirmation on it? If not, did you get him to waive liability for lost/stolen/damaged mail? If no to both questions, what will you be doing if, a month later, he sends you an e-mail saying he never received those cards?

The SHIPPING cost to Canada is cheaper than the shipping cost to any other international country, but registered mail still costs $11.50 no matter where we send it to. On the other hand, shipping with delivery confirmation is typically $1.64 to $1.81 for me, and generally a maximum of $5.15 if I absolutely have to send using a small priority mail box (>100 cards).

That's on top of the delays. Ontario's like a 9 hour drive and California's like a 3-day drive from me, but cards from California are going to arrive in 3-4 days while cards from Canada might not arrive for 2 weeks.

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Originally posted by Zeckk:
Should be able to push the guy for .25 on some of the more playeed uncommons like Augur of Bolas and Vampire Nighthawk, but the rest of them look fine. You can also prolly push him to .75 on lingering souls.

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Originally posted by Zeckk:
Should be able to push the guy for .25 on some of the more playeed uncommons like Augur of Bolas and Vampire Nighthawk, but the rest of them look fine. You can also prolly push him to .75 on lingering souls.

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Originally posted by Myy:
When does mtgo set redemption start? if there a fixed date or is it as soon as somebody collects the full set?

~Myy

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Originally posted by AGO:
Got a RTR gift box. 2 Rares were Conjured Currencey the others even worse..... Bah hum bug.

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Ouch. Nderwife got me one today, and the 3 rares, Hypersonic Dragon, Loxodon Smiter and Supreme Verdict all completed playsets, then the Trostani was just a bonus. Kind of funny since all I really wanted was the box and the stickers. Still need to find more stickers for my collection sorting.

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Originally posted by stizkidz:
I received this PM yesterday:

"Hi. I have demonic tutor and vexing devil for a polluted delta if you are interest."

This HAS to be a joke, right? I don't even have a Polluted Delta listed for trade.

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Originally posted by wayne:
Is the weekly price guide not working?

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I don't think the regular one is updating either. Craterhoof is $2.60 still.

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Originally posted by stu55:
I didn't know my sales list was there for ppl to make money off of, sorry my bad :/

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Obviously Its all about ripping you off

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Originally posted by FleeceItOut:
waiting on olivia voldaren to drop

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Originally posted by Pail42:
Maybe you should share some more of your experience with them. I'm not surprised by the phyrexian arena thing - I've seen it plenty of times myself - qbut wow on calling that damnation play bad.

Mentioning card value is likely to alienate you from them also. They may just see it as bragging and ignore any advise.

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His brother and friend agreed with me. Drawing cards is usually good and Damnation is just awesome. He quickly changed his mind with Damnation, but still aint sure bout Arena

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Ancestral Vision
Dread Return
Umezawa's Jitte
Wild Nacatl

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With shock lands, Wild Nacatl is a 3/3, and doesn't let you down when your opponent kills your Doran. With some effort, Student of Warfare becomes a 3/3 First Strike creature, but that isn't a sufficient reward for the effort compared with Wild Nacatl. This creature is so efficient it is keeping too many other creature decks from being competitive. So, in the interest of diversity, the DCI is banning Wild Nacatl.

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Although Umezawa's Jitte is by far the most powerful Equipment in Legacy, it is not quite as game-ruiningly powerful as some of the other cards on this list. Historically, Umezawa's Jitte has been an extremely powerful card against creature decks, with mirror matches between creature decks often degenerating into battles over Jitte. Unfortunately, Stoneforge Mystic gives decks that want to fight against creature decks consistent access to Jitte and a creature to put it on. We think that Stoneforge Mystic is the more fun of the two cards, so rather than allow such a strong anti-creature-deck pressure to remain in the format, we chose to ban the real offender: Umezawa's Jitte.

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Originally posted by WeedIan:
Ok i'm bad at magic, can someone explain why the following is banned in Modern. I can figure out why other cards are banned or at least convince myself there is a good reason except for these 4.

Ancestral Vision
Dread Return
Umezawa's Jitte
Wild Nacatl

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Vision's banning is largely because R&D doesn't want combo and control to have easy access to CA. While I think it's probably ok for vision to get unbanned, I do worry about the boost it could give Storm and Teachings.dec.

Dread Return should be unbanned, and I think it will once we get run through the upcoming modern season. Deathrite shaman and surgical extraction are sufficiant hate to make a combo-ish reanimator list risky enough.

Jitte hoses aggro, period. UW tempo is already a strong deck in the format, even without access to SFM or Jitte. Honestly, I would rather see SFM come off the list before Jitte.

I know i'd love drawing it while trying to combo off.

I guess Jitte is reasonable to ban, its hard for me to see Nacatl as being too good when Delver is a thing.

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