Editorial Section:
Last week I played in the first week of MTGO's Thursday Night Magic Online (TNMO) and had a great time despite being rocked by my anti-deck, Jund and tilt. So I decided to join this week's four pack sealed queue at noon, because, what the heck, right? I joined 30 minutes early and we fired with 133 players so 32 MOPRs since it was a Premier Event! Woot! Curse of Wizardry, here I come!
After a quick look at the opened pool... I see mill and some beats. I'll try U/G mill first, but if that fails I'll move into G/w with Day of Judgment
Match 1 goes to plan with milling taking the day in two quick games.
Match 2 runs headlong into Elixir of Immortality. DANG IT! We get into a stalemate in game two and a nicely timed Negate from my opponent kills me via... running out of cards... Oh, the irony!
Match 3 I run into an actually aggressive deck which takes me in game one. After that, I really should have brought in the anti-aggro deck of Day + ... um, Siege Mastadons, I guess. Game one is close, game two is a blow-out.
So after all that, I get one pack (for winning a match), the cards I opened and a promo card. Not too bad for the price, considering my lackluster performance on the day!
Discussion Items: Prize Sharing on MTGO:
It's a very good thing to see that MTGO people are finally addressing this issue publicly. Essentially, the end result is don't talk about conceding when talking about the splits. You can discuss who gets what when the match is over. Then, after the agreement is done you can ask your opponent to concede ONCE in the match. Weird rules, but at least an official statement about the policy finally.
Card Price Discussions: Primeval Titan has already started to regain a bit of his value, which is unfortunate if you didn't have the opportunity to pick one up yet. I don't seem him falling anytime soon. Lots of pieces the new cards of M11 regained their value this week despite the fact that the cards are still in their release events!
I don't know what I'm missing, but I don't understand why you conceded M2G1. I don't know what I'm not seeing. I admire your guts in going for the Mill deck though. At 30 card decks it does make more sense.
The price tables are ... well, those are two-weeks-ago prices, aren't they? And two weeks ago prices didn't really exist for M11 because it wasn't trading yet. So the result is that... well, we've been over that before. So rather than harp I'll just add the disclaimer for newer readers that Primeval Titan was in fact not being sold for 4 tickets last week, you didn't miss anything.
I want to know where you found baneslayer angels for $4. OR grave titan for $4 for that matter.
I really never see anything remotely close to that. Are you parsing Ebay prices or something? If there are some available for that price, it can't be too many.
They are the default prices that Mtgotraders set for each card based on rarity ($4 for each mythic) before the set was released. No one bought or sold those cards for that price, it's just the default starting point.
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4 pack sealed might be the best choice for TNMO. That said I still probably won't be joining any time soon.
I don't know what I'm missing, but I don't understand why you conceded M2G1. I don't know what I'm not seeing. I admire your guts in going for the Mill deck though. At 30 card decks it does make more sense.
The price tables are ... well, those are two-weeks-ago prices, aren't they? And two weeks ago prices didn't really exist for M11 because it wasn't trading yet. So the result is that... well, we've been over that before. So rather than harp I'll just add the disclaimer for newer readers that Primeval Titan was in fact not being sold for 4 tickets last week, you didn't miss anything.
It's a shame you didn't post your card pool, it would have been nice to see what other choices you had.
I want to know where you found baneslayer angels for $4. OR grave titan for $4 for that matter.
I really never see anything remotely close to that. Are you parsing Ebay prices or something? If there are some available for that price, it can't be too many.
They are the default prices that Mtgotraders set for each card based on rarity ($4 for each mythic) before the set was released. No one bought or sold those cards for that price, it's just the default starting point.
I actually think they mixed up the chart and swapped column 2 and 3
they didnt.
Hi
I missed your State article last week, and don't know if it's late this week, or not coming?
Come back Hamtastic!
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