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Originally posted by dfitzg88:
Going by what I've been seeing in the past 2 weeks in MODO top 8s, blue duals are the most commonly played in legacy at the moment. Particularly, the decks playing ANY duals that see the most top 8s are Show and Tell, UGx Delver, UW Countrbalance, and UWx Stoneforge. Almost every other top deck doesn't even play duals.

-Landless Dredge: no duals
-Lodestone Control decks: no duals
-Pox: generally mono-black with no duals

There are outliers, but in generally, Underground Sea, Volcanic Island, and Tropical Island are by far in the most top decks. Tundra and Bayou also make appearances, but generally 1-2 of's.

I've never seen a vintage top 8 and I don't even want to imagine the shenanigans going on there.

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The weird thing is Trop is the lowest priced blue dual.

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Originally posted by JoshSherman:
Does anyone else find "what's the lowest you'll go for x?" To be super insulting? Do your own damn work and make an offer. If you're actually this lazy, how do you have a job that can afford the cards you want?

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Originally posted by JoshSherman:
Do your own damn work and make an offer.

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Originally posted by WeedIan:
The weird thing is Trop is the lowest priced blue dual.

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I did some vintage research (and it's scary...)

I think the differences are mostly due to Vintage price history, where people don't want to give up their Underground Seas even though they're becoming less oppressive.

The most COMMON top 8s HISTORICALLY contain just a few decks:

-UB Tendrils
-UB Tinker/Blightsteel
-UBr for artifact hate and blue-nerf spells (pyroblast, red elemental blast)
-UBg Oath of Druids combo
-Random other decks like Bazaar Dredge

The 2013 Eternal Weekend Championship had a very different Vintage top 8 (http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/eternal13/welcome#6a)

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Originally posted by mattw:
Anybody know offhand of people who sell cardboard cards for mtgo tix?

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Originally posted by JoshSherman:
Does anyone else find "what's the lowest you'll go for x?" To be super insulting? Do your own damn work and make an offer. If you're actually this lazy, how do you have a job that can afford the cards you want?

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Well, I'll give the person credit. They did make an offer. I am curious how "make an offer on my thread" got translated into "PM me an offer."

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Originally posted by stu55:
Some guy wouldn't send first to me because he didn't have a photo that matched my name..true story..

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Originally posted by oneofchaos:
Clearly because he doesn't want to get ripped. Personally I wouldn't send first without their blood type and social security number.

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Why not ask for a highest priority lien on their house?

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Originally posted by oneofchaos:
Anyone have a sample pauper cube list? I'm debating making one, wondering how much it'll set me back.

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Yep.

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Originally posted by oneofchaos:
Clearly because he doesn't want to get ripped. Personally I wouldn't send first without their blood type and social security number.

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Originally posted by paragondave:
maybe that's why you haven't gotten a ref since Jan of 2011 and only have 35 refs after being here almost 9 years...maybe? Sorry, I tried but I just couldn't resist. I'm sure it's something else...

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So many people that can attend and participate in tourny's need cards I have but I hold onto them cause my playgroup is more competitive than those tournys.

I would like to say I live in a mining community town and those of us that play magic can get the best of the best, not me, i'm a cook, however I have a gross collection and drop hundreds of bucks in singles every time I go to the city.

Not sure where this rant is going, wish I didn't own 12 decks of awesomeness with no proxies and only played 1 or 2 decks at a fnm. Would prolly have a lot more sweetness in my bank account and not need to own 5 of every dual, shock, temple, mland, innistrad land.

edit: grammar for yaku

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Originally posted by mattw:
I live in northern manitoba canada, middle of butt-swear word nowhere, after looking at a lot of lists to make a trade I almost feel my collection is at a waste.

So many people that can attend and participate in tourny's need cards I have but I hold onto them cause my playgroup is more competitive than those tournys.

I would like to say I live in a mining community town and those of us that play magic can get the best of the best, not me, i'm a cook, however I have a gross collection and drop hundreds of bucks in singles every time I go to the city.

Not sure where this rant is going, wish I didn't own 12 decks of awesomeness with no proxies and only played 1 or 2 decks at a fnm. Would prolly have a lot more sweetness in my bank account and not need to own 5 of every dual, shock, temple, mland, innistrad land.

edit: grammar for yaku

I hate my ocd

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so I shall start this sentence by not capatalizing my pronoun, nor shall I make any sense by thinking that I even know what a pronoun is.

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Originally posted by mattw:
get more grammatical errors in there paragondave, I miss yaku and I love/loved how he ripped people for being stupid.

so I shall start this sentence by not capatalizing my pronoun, nor shall I make any sense by thinking that I even know what a pronoun is.

I love lamp!!

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A pronoun is just a noun that has lost its amateur status.

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Originally posted by stab107:
A pronoun is just a noun that has lost its amateur status.

I love desk!

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Originally posted by JoshSherman:
I keep hearing that the dude from GP Richmond that took pics of all the Kami of the Crescent Moon lookalikes got a six month suspension, but there seems to be no actual evidence of this.

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If true, I think that's a fair punishment. Publicly shaming people over something so stupid should not be tolerated in the magic community.

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Originally posted by iccarus:
If true, I think that's a fair punishment. Publicly shaming people over something so stupid should not be tolerated in the magic community.

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That much asscrack shouldn't be tolerated in public either. Pull your ****ing pants up.

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Originally posted by chaos021:
That much asscrack shouldn't be tolerated in public either. Pull your ****ing pants up.

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Still not an excuse for that kind of behavior.

And let's be honest, those folding chairs they use at big events tend to be horrible in terms of covering your back. The seats are sometimes not even big enough for a person of average size to sit in comfortably, let alone someone who is overweight.

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Originally posted by iccarus:
Still not an excuse for that kind of behavior.

And let's be honest, those folding chairs they use at big events tend to be horrible in terms of covering your back. The seats are sometimes not even big enough for a person of average size to sit in comfortably, let alone someone who is overweight.

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Yea, let's blame the chair for not covering asscrack. I guess they also ban belts at these events too

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