Jace reprint will definitely cause more people to call for his unbanning in modern, which should happen if wizards wants that format to grow. 

Each store is gonna get like 20 or 30 boxes tops, 60k is a laughable number.  Prices will not change at all, preorders are at 450 ATM with only 6 cards spoiled.

Teferis realm? What kind of deck is this?

Vindicate is black/white, one of the worst color combos in the game and is a sorcery.  This card will definitely see play in a bunch of different decks, especially those with Oath/Jace or hell, repeal.  

G/B Aggro deck with Lotus Cobra, Urborg Tomb and this guy, book it, done. 

Stealing a Bazaar isn't THAT bad, the whole matchup against Dredge is always a race to win or find your hate so using it sounds ok.
Workshop- steal Tolarian, steal Strip Mine and then look for your basics, Crucible will always be good, and depending on board state, stealing a Metalworker or 6 mana creature would be fine.
Combo or Blue: Obviously pretty busted
Aggro: Will stink against tribal aggro but against other decks, stealing their equipment or a Goyf seems fine. 

Gilded Lotus was actually a powerhouse in the 7/10 decks for a year or so when it originally came out, it is pretty garbage now but then again the format was a lot slower so spending 5 on a mana accelerator worked out alright. 

Just another attempt to control the market, they advertise for old Staples every couples of months.   Buy a shitload of cards, raise all their prices, sell a shitload of cards, rinse and repeat. 

I know you probably want this mono white, but this setup as G/W would also seem really strong.  Remove the Student, the Ghostquarters, and the Relic-Warders for G/W mana base, Noble Hierarch, and Pridemages would seem to make this pretty strong.  Mirran Crusader with exalted triggers seems pretty disgusting.   

Obligatory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I7Ue2wX6iQ

Should probably squeeze in a Stoneforge Mystic or two since your decks seems to run pretty well off equipment. 

What are you talking about? I never mentioned any assumptions about playing the same deck, learn to read.  


I mention the concept of a safe investment because trading as a whole has turned into one guy needing a card to play a deck and the other guy always trying to act as if trading is his sole means of survival.  It has not turned into a few rotten apples, I literally stopped trading for the most part about 5 years ago because every single person I tried to trade to acted like a pocket EBAY and would make sure they made a few bucks on every trade they did, empathy be damned.  Every trade has winners and losers, yes, but the rise of prices has made it that you have to be a cheap asshole or your gonna lose value on your collection.  No one wants to a nice guy and throw in cards when every card these days seems to be hitting a ridiculous value, from old uncommons now worth $5 to $100 planeswalkers.  Trading shouldn't have to be a second job, I don't wanna spend hours trading every event so I have the constant edge over my opponents.  I want to sit down and play magic and talk with friends, that is it.  I am generally empathetic to people trying to burst their way into the format but many are not interested in fair trades.  

We're talking about a game designed for children where single cards (much less a playset) are worth a large percentage of an average American's weekly paycheck.   There is way too much money being throw into a hobby that has a such a high dollar ceiling for competitive play, when their is no concept of fair play, then the game will ultimately fade.  

I am really surprised Wizards has not resorted to just selling expensive cards directly off their website that can only be purchased straight from them.  Why wouldn't they do it?? You know people would buy them up.  


Edit: As for an on topic reason to improve magic, make Magic Online with an MMO $15 per month charge where you can play with all the cards but then charge money for all the tourneys.  It would draw a ton of people to play who aren't interested in collecting cards constantly for every deck while still be able to make money on all the events, it is genius. 

I don't see how the playerbase is not in a huge hissy fit these days regarding prices, especially with Legacy and Standard.  Legacy has become more expensive than Vintage if you really want to work on multiple decks, which you will surely want to.  The joke was that Vintage was way too expensive to play, now Standard and Legacy are especially unplayable price wise unless your a trade leech and spend hours and hours manipulating people for money.   I think we may be in a midst of a price bubble where players think card prices are gonna keep going up so they keep buying more and more cards (and packs, probably good for Wizards), until they realize that no one is going to pay a few hundred dollars for a cardboard hobby when there is plenty of other ways to keep yourself entertained for 1/10 the cost.  Prices will then either take a huge freefall or Wizards is forced to issue reprints which piss off the collectors.  Why buy the newest Standard/Legacy deck when I can pay for my gym membership, buy a brand new tv and video game console, go out to eat and take a vacation sometime and possibly still have money left over?? Because the cards are an investment????  The only reason I own Power 9 is because they are considered safe and go in everything, rare Legacy cards and Standard are just too risky unless you are a huge trade leech whose only hobby is paying attention to magic card prices. 

You should have done the article artistically with just back and forth pictures of the art from REB/Pyro and end the article with "Case Closed," the artwork on Pyro stinks. 

With the movement of blue decks transitioning from Nature's Claim/Trygon strategies to powering out crazy artifact Tez strategies, now seems like a good time for Gorilla Shaman. 

The deck is still pretty good but I've had a lot more success with a black splash in it.  It allows you to effectively run Nihil Spellbomb in the main and makes your sb graveyard hate ridiculous, also Jailer for dredge and it gives you Demonic/Vamp/Will (making Vault/Key much better).  By staying U/W, your stuck running junk like FOF and Balance instead of the real bombs. 

Discuss the death of card drawing (sans Gush) and the new age of tutoring/card selection. 

Jace is the primary standout for the moment. 

Agreed, even for other formats there does not seem to be much of anything. 

Duck tits

Probably because he was throwing grenades at it and the crazy asshole shot one of their guys in the leg.  I'm just amazed that European Antarctic researchers, who you would assume to be extremely educated, didn't have the commonsense or the knowledge to shout something in English. 

I think a couple of yutes found out Tracer's account password. 

The Usual Suspects

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPuXWtDx9g

I wanted to link the ending but there must be some fool who hasn't seen the movie yet. 

Top 5 off the top of my head in no grand order

Toy Story 3
Inception
Agora (probably the best though)
Scott Pilgrim
Social Network

Even if they banned Vengevine, wouldn't the Necrotic Ooze variants be still pretty ridiculous??

He'll take you out for a nice steak dinner and never call you again!

It's a card game made for children. Get over it.  

The system has always been pretty dumb, I recently asked for an upgrade because hell, why not.  My post has been sitting in that forum for weeks with no response at all.  The forums should be open for everyone to post in. 

The forums should really be combined down again, I never check the deck forums anymore because it takes about 30 clicks to find anything.  The biggest factor I think is that there is no improvement forum per say anymore, only creative.  A lot of threads get made for really janky crap that should not exist in the first place. 

Post a link to the group please!  Easier than just messaging you.