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Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: KMC Pefect sleeves
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on: February 19, 2008, 02:41:21 pm
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I get these for 4.98 a pack. I fail to understand why anyone would spend anything over 5.00 USD for these sleeves. Yes they are excellent and work very well but contrary to popular belief they are not hard to find nor are they out of production as many people claim. Pro Tip E-Mail KMC for a complete vendor list that sells the sleeves. Not all vendors actually list them on the internet and not all of them jack up the prices like SCG.
Could you be a bit more specific and mention your sources? When I asked KMC all I got was SCG as an option. |
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Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Cards with more than 1 art
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on: January 21, 2007, 04:54:24 am
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I was wondering what people do with cards that have more than one art (City of Brass, BoPs, Wraths etc) Do you try to get a playset of the single piece of art you like best, or do you try to get as different arts in your playset as possible?
Myself I prefer variety, so I try to get as many different versions as possible. And yes, for me that means leaving my playset foil Asian Brainstorms in the box to play with a FNM one!
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Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: You Make My Interior
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on: April 15, 2006, 03:27:41 am
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Theme apartments are cool!
I bought one myself as well, and I'm totally going for the Ancient theme.
I've seen some very cool roman interior pieces. And I've also loaded up on some very large and interesting ancient statues from last year's holiday to Greece. Combine that with a Egyptian sarcophage and you have a very nice appartment indeed!
As for your options Bram, I would go with the Myst/Jules Verne one. Don't forget to upload pictures when you're done!
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Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Re: Important Announcement about TMD
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on: November 08, 2005, 01:51:02 am
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I think Peter really deserves some credit for his strong comminment to Vintage. I'm sure his take-over will be a success.
And Steve, thank you for your time and effort in building the site. I think you did/doing the right thing
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Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: Vintage Academy
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on: September 29, 2005, 01:03:52 am
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I vaguely remember something that once there was an actual summer class. People like Randy Buehler (then still a player) were connected to it. You could sign up for I think a week, and they would give you personal draft advice etc. I'll ask my friend, I believe he went there.
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Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Re: (Article and updated Primer) How to play control slaver now.
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on: September 28, 2005, 12:37:33 pm
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Yeh, we're getting some very constructive discussion in this thread  Very good article. I used to play a lot of Slaver but have put the deck aside for a few months. The article brought me up to speed with the latest lines of thought. Let me put in my 2c: Instead of Merchant Scroll, how about Cunning Wish? 2U instant is not that far of from a 1U Sorcery. At the cost of sideboard space you can keep several narrow cards in the 'board, and have access to goodies such as RED, Rack & Ruin, and perhaps Fact or Fiction (if you play it SB like I do) With regard to Darksteel Citadel, I had quite some occassions where I really missed the Blue mana. I happily replaced them with Seat of the Synod. However, that was in the pre-Shaman era so i may need to revise that. I never liked Pentavus. I very rarely pull of the hard Slaver lock, and in many occassions a single Slaver activation would have done it as well. I'm leaning towards another Trike. I always plays Memory Jar in all my Slaver builds, and always love it. It is my prime Tinker target, and many times Jar+Untap phase=GG. Let's not even discuss Jar recursion with Welder.  |
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Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: repack ripoff
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on: August 13, 2005, 12:34:23 pm
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I did buy out a repack auction once. This scammer was not so smart: he said that all featured cards (P9 etc) would be in this series of repacks. So I bought them all. That was of course not what he expected. i neverd heard from him.
Fortunately he had to eat the substantial Ebay fees for the auction. That'll teach him.
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Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Ravinca Mechanic, seems interesting for Vintage
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on: August 09, 2005, 09:07:02 am
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New card:
Muddle Up The Mix
Instant
Counter target spell unless...?
Transmute: (, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with converted mana cost equal to this card's, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Play this ability only any time you could play a sorcery.)
If this mechanic is true it could have very serious Vintage potential. We would get some very
decent tutors to dig up broken stuff. And the actual ability of the card would be icing on the cake.
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Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Re: FREE ARTICLE: Interview with Buehler - Want to Learn Meandeck Gifts?
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on: August 06, 2005, 05:39:40 am
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@ Mrieff
I know what Randy means by those statements. If pros played vintage (which ain't gonna happen so don't fret) their testing would eliminate some of the chaff that gets played. Sometimes it isn't quite as apparent as it would seem, that any particular card is not good enough to make the cut, because there are so many broken spells in any given deck, that the weak link hidden within won't cost you games. Pros make it a point to tighten up deck lists and weed out these little nuggets. They don't have to create brand new innovations. They can just make the decks we all play better, and that alone will significantly impact the format. With really tight deck lists we lose a lot of our freedom.
On a related note, pros player better than us. Our only advantage is greater understanding of the format, and if vintage were supported in a pro format, we would lose that advantage. It's no fun to be the best player in your metagame, only to have it invaded by hundreds of more skilled opponents. It may become more challenging, and possibly encourage you to improve your own skill, but most of us do not have the free time to invest into magic, that the pros will undoubtedly devote to it. Casual players in particular will get frustrated when they no longer stand a chance.
It's not that complicated actually. They are better at this game than us, and lack only the motivation that sanctioned play would provide to learn "our format," and beat us at "our" game. Nobody enjoys losing, do they?
Of course Randy would sound like he was insulting us, if he simply stated, "they are better than you, and you will lose to them." Being the nice guy that he is, he avoided actually stating what everyone should already know. "Johnny Magic is gonna make you look like and feel like an amature whe he plays against you."
But what I don't understand is why that specifically is the case for Vintage. In all other formats (limited, Extended etc) there are many casual/decent players, and there is a pro community. And nobody is arguing that Limited is much less fun because there are pro players out there who are just flat out better than the rest. I would argue the other way around: as long as there are people around you that are better than you, you can learn much faster. If you are the best player in your area that is much harder to do. I have played two Pro Tours as well, and from those few matches against excellent players I learned so much. Personally I would be delighted if Magic's best and brightest would tackle the Vintage format. Even if that means loosing to them. That would motivate me all the more to bring my play up to a higher level. |
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Vintage Community Discussion / General Community Discussion / Re: New Mana Symbols
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on: August 06, 2005, 05:23:58 am
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There are already some known Ravicna cards with that mechanic.
Just as was happening with Apocalypse, their very awkward mana cost (enemy colors) allows for some very undercosted cards if you can meet the color requirement. I'm really looking forward to this expansion!
With regard to mechanics, I really love madness. Overall, I think Odyssey block introduced some of the most interesting cards/mechanics for constructed Magic in the modern age.
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) and thank you for organizing it.
THIS!!! 
