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WotC just announced the first wave of what we can expect to see from our Lifetime Points Promos, Round 1! Pretty sweet, assuming you've been on MTGO for a while and haven't had qualms about running your credit card through the store... I must admit that I'm surprised to see mine as low as it was!
Also, the M11 Paper Pre-release is done, looking forward to insanity online! I mean, any set you can see green being playable... in DRAFT is pretty amazing in our eyes!
Prices:
M11 is all over the place... look for lots of volatility in the coming weeks before the MTGO pre-releases. In fact, the pre-releases might not even be a bad idea. As expected, most of the Titans are hot hot hot! Namely the Black, Green and White ones. The Red and Blue aren't really going to be as in demand namely because they rarely fit together properly with decks of that color. Fauna shaman is hawt, and will be a quick sell if you manage to crack one on MTGO during the pre-release/release events!
Whatcha been playin':
Sebs: hanging on until he can get a draft going
Erik: Draft, Sealed, building new RDW for Standard
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I should point out that the "lifetime player rewards" is NOT your whole modo account life time. It only tracks from last year. So perhaps that will make more sense of the points you've earned Sebastian.
Quoting from the final paragraph of the following web page:
http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=magic/online/rewards/welcome
"In addition to tracking your monthly activity and rewarding it with promo cards as explained above, we will keep track of your lifetime points (total points earned since Magic Online relaunched in April 2008)."
Right but not since say 2006 when my active account was created and when I did the most drafting. (I did forget that it was 2 years ago.) Some of my friends have been drafting since gold began and I am certain the bulk of their points have been ignored too. Rather cheesy imho to call it lifetime then. Which was my point.
Sorry Paul. Just thought it be good to give the exact timeframe. You are right it is unfair though. I also have lost a significant number of points.
finally!
well no lotus yet, but let the freebies keep coming
Mildly Entertaining prerelease story:
It's about turn 5 of game 1. We'd traded a couple of random creatures and not achieved a lot. I'm playing G/W/b, and my opponent's playing U/G. I played out a serra angel on turn 5 and it got mind controlled, I doom bladed it on my next turn, and played out a warlord's axe. On my opponent's turn he played time reversal, shuffling back both of our hands and graveyards and drawing us seven each. I got my protean hydra! I play him out with 6 counters, and pass the turn, feeling smug. My opponent plays out a deathtouch basilisk, but my hydra cares not (damage is prevented!). I have a basilisk of my own, but decide to play around giant growth (which would kill my hydra) by equipping my hydra (prevent all damage + static toughness boost = sweet). My hydra goes in and gets blocked, so at the end of the turn he grows to a 12/10 who can't be killed by damage. On my opponents turn, I discover that the "shuffle graveyard back in" part of time reversal has got him his mind control back!
Ouch.
I do eventually pacify the hydra, but it's way too late by then!
As it happens, I managed to claw the win out in the remaining two games, but this one was certainly the most memorable.