The index chart is something I started a long, long time ago after I realized it was too difficult to really see what was happening in an overall view of the MTGO Market. What the index chart shows is the value of 1x of each card online, broken apart by Standard, Extended and Classic. This way one can see the trends of the market as a whole, not just of the top x, y and z cards that moved up or down. Maybe Classic surged but Standard dropped, the only way to see the demand shifts is as a whole, and in relation to one another. You can also gauge the demand shifts when certain formats become 'paper en vogue' and when the stop being so.
Card prices come from www.mtgotraders.com, and are updated in batches which I get once a week. To respond to the person looking for a stock ticker... the data I use wouldn't be useful for such an application. I can't think of anything that would work for that.
I love this sort of challenge. Castigate, Unmake, Tidehollow Sculler, Jund Charm, Circu, Dimir Lobotomist, Thought Haemhorrage, Turn to Mist, Crystallization, Mistmeadow Witch, Beckon Apparition, every single Unearth card (Sedraxis Specter, Fire-field Ogre, Shambling Remains, Kathati Bomber, Etherium Abomination) Necrogenesis, Puresight Merrow, Dimir Doppelganger, every card with Haunt (Blind Hunter, Orzhov Pontiff) Teysa, Orzhov Scion, Vanish into Memory, Ghastlord of Fugue, Morbid Bloom, Vengeful Rebirth, Oona, Queen of the Fae, Sedris, the Traitor King, Necromancer's Covenant, Identity Crisis, Brilliant Ultimatum. I've seen all those cards played in the format.
...knew you. Well that said..yeah it seems a no brainer to take it out of the format. Nice article. I feel for your loss. You can't predict how things will go even if you are incredibly knowledgeable of all the decks you face including your own.
Well? Where are the comments about the mana symbols?
I see from the selected source this:
img src="/sites/all/modules/puremtgo_replace/mana/b.gif" img src="/sites/all/modules/puremtgo_replace/mana/g.gif" img src="/sites/all/modules/puremtgo_replace/mana/w.gif".
(took out the greater than and less than signs.)
Which I guess means we can just insert the proper URLs but I figured there was some RichText Editor trick to use?
RE: Bituminous Blast...I'm a big fan. Though it is rather expensive it removes quite a few men and sets up a take down for many others via combat damage. Plus you get the cascade which feels like a huge bonus when its another cascader.
I think that wishes getting 1% less powerful isn't a convincing argument for unbanning them in any format where they're banned (or restricted) now. Especially when the reasons given for bans were the stuff wishes were used for 99%+ of the time, not the unusual trick they might be used for the other 1% of the time.
It seems particularly strange to call for unbanning Glittering Wish in Kaleidoscope, when it was so much relatively stronger in that format than any wish is in any format. As they stated, Glittering Wish could wish for any and every card legal in the format, period. Also I think that tiny weakening due to Exile zone is less of a weakening in Kaleidoscope than it is in any other format. How many commonly played spells in Kaleidoscope remove a card from the game? Maybe Tidehollow Sculler?
I just can't see returning wishes to any format based on an amazingly tiny change in their power level.
yes it was 2 traumatic vision they help getting mana if you have nothing to counter at eot.
and are a good counterspell in late game
dunno why they dont appear
I read this again. I have to say, your articles are one of the few I look forward to Pete. I dig the walk through for Shards block! Reading this made me almost go to the Wawa and buy a gift card just to draft, and try a force.
I love Hammy! I just dont get the charts. Maybe I shouldnt have skipped every Economics class but your charts and graphs mean nothing to me. Thats a lie. I understand most, but the Index means nothing. It all makes sense in my head, but I cant get it out in type. Damn!!
It's a sign! Surely MaGo (or the DCI, whichever) read your comment and said aloud "Wow, Elightended Tutor! Steve really needs this right now and no one else is using it. Let's give it to him!"
I played a swiss Alara draft last night, tried going Jund first, but that wasnt happening too well, so I tried to go 5 color. It didnt work, I didnt draft enough mana fixing. I got beat up hard. But, I learned a lesson. I just hope I remember that lesson!
There is no layering involved here, both effects try to set the P/T to a specific number, which obviously happens in the same layer, so the latest effect is the one that affects the creature. Which is why I never considered "target the mimic with snakeform" to be the play AJ advocated - it seemed to much easier to forget that the oversoul has protection from blue than to mess up on the fact that the mimic will end up a 1/1.
I did try it in game, just to see if there was a bug in-game. There isn't. The mimic ended up as a 1/1 green snake.
The actual play should probably be to hit the hydropond with the snakeform to kill the oversoul. Which works and doesn't even require a trade if the hydropond still has all its counters.
Yeah I figured he gets his info. from a published source. I saw a program you can buy for like $100 to start selling mtgo cards (it includes an price updater (like much in the same way gas station prices are updated) bot software etc.
I'm sure it's definitely supply n' demand, I wonder if it's a central source like you know how interest rates are done by the Federal Open Market Committee. The idea of value and collector's items is interesting to me,like Detective Comics #17, what if I found one at some old ladies garage sale? Could I sell it for it's listed value? Or would it be so rare that I'd get more, or less because people aren't willing to pay that much. It's interesting...
I'm not offended, I just think it's futile and only harms you in the long run -- wasn't trying to be insulting or anything.
I realize that you are one of the few writer/advocates for the format, but WotC is not going to change their mind based on the impact on a format that relatively few people play (even if I do think it's a great format, hence why I like your articles). The wishes were never designed with the explicit intention to be able get RFG'd cards, even if that ended up as one of their two major uses in the tournament environment. Quite obviously they were designed with the casual player in mind, and extra benefit for tournament players. Since they're only going to be legal in a few formats soon, the net reduction in functionality is at best 10%, so they're still 90% as good as they were for the general magic playing populace, which means they're not changing their minds about it.
Why would they make them say "Take a card from outside the game, or from the-exiled-zone-which-used-to-be-outside-the-game-but-isn't-anymore"? The big to-do about wishes is that they get cards from outside the game--something almost no other card did before. As long as the cards still work 90% of the time, there's no reason to water down the splashiness just to make them work like we're used to them working. I mean, we're not asking them to make mogg fanatic work like he 'used to', and he gets a lot worse from the changes than the wishes do.
Has anyone played other games like the World of Warcraft TCG? In that game and most of the other TCG games they dont use the stack for combat damage. I've played both and I have to say that I GREATLY prefer magic's combat damage on the stack method...which is now going away.
So...Ive played without damage on the stack and I say it sucks. Just my 2cent tho.
For those of you looking for the weekly QP charts: a power outage at WotC yesterday meant they were unable to post the updated QP totals until today (Friday), which means I wasn't able to make charts in time for inclusion in the SotP. They are up now however:
The index chart is something I started a long, long time ago after I realized it was too difficult to really see what was happening in an overall view of the MTGO Market. What the index chart shows is the value of 1x of each card online, broken apart by Standard, Extended and Classic. This way one can see the trends of the market as a whole, not just of the top x, y and z cards that moved up or down. Maybe Classic surged but Standard dropped, the only way to see the demand shifts is as a whole, and in relation to one another. You can also gauge the demand shifts when certain formats become 'paper en vogue' and when the stop being so.
Card prices come from www.mtgotraders.com, and are updated in batches which I get once a week. To respond to the person looking for a stock ticker... the data I use wouldn't be useful for such an application. I can't think of anything that would work for that.
seriously, doesn't anyone edit anything around here?
Hi everybody,
(mana=R) will give you Red mana. (mana=WUBRG) will give you White/Blue/Black/Red/Green mana. And Jamuraa is still working on hybrids.
LE
I love this sort of challenge. Castigate, Unmake, Tidehollow Sculler, Jund Charm, Circu, Dimir Lobotomist, Thought Haemhorrage, Turn to Mist, Crystallization, Mistmeadow Witch, Beckon Apparition, every single Unearth card (Sedraxis Specter, Fire-field Ogre, Shambling Remains, Kathati Bomber, Etherium Abomination) Necrogenesis, Puresight Merrow, Dimir Doppelganger, every card with Haunt (Blind Hunter, Orzhov Pontiff) Teysa, Orzhov Scion, Vanish into Memory, Ghastlord of Fugue, Morbid Bloom, Vengeful Rebirth, Oona, Queen of the Fae, Sedris, the Traitor King, Necromancer's Covenant, Identity Crisis, Brilliant Ultimatum. I've seen all those cards played in the format.
...knew you. Well that said..yeah it seems a no brainer to take it out of the format. Nice article. I feel for your loss. You can't predict how things will go even if you are incredibly knowledgeable of all the decks you face including your own.
Well? Where are the comments about the mana symbols?
I see from the selected source this:
img src="/sites/all/modules/puremtgo_replace/mana/b.gif" img src="/sites/all/modules/puremtgo_replace/mana/g.gif" img src="/sites/all/modules/puremtgo_replace/mana/w.gif".
(took out the greater than and less than signs.)
Which I guess means we can just insert the proper URLs but I figured there was some RichText Editor trick to use?
RE: Bituminous Blast...I'm a big fan. Though it is rather expensive it removes quite a few men and sets up a take down for many others via combat damage. Plus you get the cascade which feels like a huge bonus when its another cascader.
I think that wishes getting 1% less powerful isn't a convincing argument for unbanning them in any format where they're banned (or restricted) now. Especially when the reasons given for bans were the stuff wishes were used for 99%+ of the time, not the unusual trick they might be used for the other 1% of the time.
It seems particularly strange to call for unbanning Glittering Wish in Kaleidoscope, when it was so much relatively stronger in that format than any wish is in any format. As they stated, Glittering Wish could wish for any and every card legal in the format, period. Also I think that tiny weakening due to Exile zone is less of a weakening in Kaleidoscope than it is in any other format. How many commonly played spells in Kaleidoscope remove a card from the game? Maybe Tidehollow Sculler?
I just can't see returning wishes to any format based on an amazingly tiny change in their power level.
Great article. It's good to see some inside Classic decks and how they perform, etc. Nice tournament telling style, I really liked that.
yes it was 2 traumatic vision they help getting mana if you have nothing to counter at eot.
and are a good counterspell in late game
dunno why they dont appear
I read this again. I have to say, your articles are one of the few I look forward to Pete. I dig the walk through for Shards block! Reading this made me almost go to the Wawa and buy a gift card just to draft, and try a force.
Great articles as always!
I love Hammy! I just dont get the charts. Maybe I shouldnt have skipped every Economics class but your charts and graphs mean nothing to me. Thats a lie. I understand most, but the Index means nothing. It all makes sense in my head, but I cant get it out in type. Damn!!
Unbelievably, just four days after you said that, Enlightened Tutor was unrestricted!
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/43d
It's a sign! Surely MaGo (or the DCI, whichever) read your comment and said aloud "Wow, Elightended Tutor! Steve really needs this right now and no one else is using it. Let's give it to him!"
I had been drafting Esper splash red and Grixis splash white for a bunch of drafts. I wanted something different.
If you hadn't been forcing 5 colour you would have ended up with so many good black cards (blue black red maybe splashing white) why force?
I played a swiss Alara draft last night, tried going Jund first, but that wasnt happening too well, so I tried to go 5 color. It didnt work, I didnt draft enough mana fixing. I got beat up hard. But, I learned a lesson. I just hope I remember that lesson!
Great article! Thanks for keeping us updated on all the 100CS happenings.
There is no layering involved here, both effects try to set the P/T to a specific number, which obviously happens in the same layer, so the latest effect is the one that affects the creature. Which is why I never considered "target the mimic with snakeform" to be the play AJ advocated - it seemed to much easier to forget that the oversoul has protection from blue than to mess up on the fact that the mimic will end up a 1/1.
I did try it in game, just to see if there was a bug in-game. There isn't. The mimic ended up as a 1/1 green snake.
The actual play should probably be to hit the hydropond with the snakeform to kill the oversoul. Which works and doesn't even require a trade if the hydropond still has all its counters.
This was a swiss draft right?
Anyway Sphinx summoner is a bona-fide bomb but i believe you made the correct pick
No love for the slavedriver, surely the pick over borders? He is really friggin insane in 5 colour and even better with 2 fleshbags
my 2 cents
the 5/3 overrides the 1/1 because of layering rules or something. Try it in a game and see.
Yeah I figured he gets his info. from a published source. I saw a program you can buy for like $100 to start selling mtgo cards (it includes an price updater (like much in the same way gas station prices are updated) bot software etc.
I'm sure it's definitely supply n' demand, I wonder if it's a central source like you know how interest rates are done by the Federal Open Market Committee. The idea of value and collector's items is interesting to me,like Detective Comics #17, what if I found one at some old ladies garage sale? Could I sell it for it's listed value? Or would it be so rare that I'd get more, or less because people aren't willing to pay that much. It's interesting...
I'm not offended, I just think it's futile and only harms you in the long run -- wasn't trying to be insulting or anything.
I realize that you are one of the few writer/advocates for the format, but WotC is not going to change their mind based on the impact on a format that relatively few people play (even if I do think it's a great format, hence why I like your articles). The wishes were never designed with the explicit intention to be able get RFG'd cards, even if that ended up as one of their two major uses in the tournament environment. Quite obviously they were designed with the casual player in mind, and extra benefit for tournament players. Since they're only going to be legal in a few formats soon, the net reduction in functionality is at best 10%, so they're still 90% as good as they were for the general magic playing populace, which means they're not changing their minds about it.
Why would they make them say "Take a card from outside the game, or from the-exiled-zone-which-used-to-be-outside-the-game-but-isn't-anymore"? The big to-do about wishes is that they get cards from outside the game--something almost no other card did before. As long as the cards still work 90% of the time, there's no reason to water down the splashiness just to make them work like we're used to them working. I mean, we're not asking them to make mogg fanatic work like he 'used to', and he gets a lot worse from the changes than the wishes do.
They're used in the esper block deck, price shot up right after honolulu (thankfully i got mine ahead of time :))
why master of etherium and canonist have made those prices? has some new deck risen?
Has anyone played other games like the World of Warcraft TCG? In that game and most of the other TCG games they dont use the stack for combat damage. I've played both and I have to say that I GREATLY prefer magic's combat damage on the stack method...which is now going away.
So...Ive played without damage on the stack and I say it sucks. Just my 2cent tho.
-M
For those of you looking for the weekly QP charts: a power outage at WotC yesterday meant they were unable to post the updated QP totals until today (Friday), which means I wasn't able to make charts in time for inclusion in the SotP. They are up now however:
Season 3: http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?p=18843405#post18843405
Year-to-Date: http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?p=18843423#post18843423