A signed card goes for, generally, not much more then what an unsigned card goes for. The artist throws a couple sharpie strokes on the pic and the price sky rockets? Whats up with that? A local guy wants $250 for a 4 set of altered non-foil welders, 4 sets on ebay of anything altered goes for good coin. Think the market will hold up on them?

TMD open was my very first tourny ever, made it to the fifth round on my control slaver build. I must say that i had an AWESOME time. My first match was rough but i thoroughly enjoyed getting my ass handed to me by some pro tour player, who was also rocking control slaver. Everyone i played against was friendly, i made some awesome trades IMO (walked out of there with 3 italian drains (2 signed), a LoA, the last FoW I needed (signed in silver)and other little random cards i wanted/needed). It was a fantastic event that has lit a fire under my ass to get back into playing alot more.

Fav. players to go up against...the friendly type. Although i seemed uptight and newbesque in my first matchup, i was just plain nervous. First match, first tourny (and it was a big one), pro tour player(supposedly), mirror match, hangover, didn't know anyone, etc....He made me alot more relaxed and wasn't a douche when i meesed up (a ton of times). I think the community would thrive alot better if it were all players like him. My cousin ran into a certain someone there who just snubbed him off like he was godly since he had power. Those players suck.

I never had to call a judge, the players i was up against were very serious about the match, but approached it with enough casualness to keep it fun.

All in all, thank you everyone for this tourny. The vendors, the players, the hotel, the organizer, even the pizza delivery dudes :p

sorry for the rant, just excited about the game again.