Mostly I have no interest in sorting my commons to see which are worth 2c compared to 3. If they took the most expensive then the went back and took the rest I could care less but they do not and they leave all the ones they don't want. Advertising you take ANY commons/uncommons and then picking and choosing is false advertising. There is no reason to say ANY except to lure people in
Do the bots not take some commons or do they just start with the more expensive ones? If they take any just make the more expensive ones untradable and you shouldn't have a problem. You can't really say they are misrepresenting themselves if they take and but start with most expensive.
I like this idea but that is not my biggest pet peeve about the selling and buying rooms. Since I have been known to draft on occassion I tend to accumulate a bunch of commons and uncommons. My biggest annoyance is the sellers that claim they take 'ANY' common or uncommon. Such as 'Buying ANY commons: 192 for 1' and then when you enter the trade they begin picking and choosing the more expensive ones. If you are going to advertise you take 'any' common or uncommon your bot should start at the start at the beginning of your binder and head to back taking each one that is marked tradable. There is my rant. Great article
Several months ago the spam made me quite going to the auction room. I decided to try it again, now that elf has stopped people from posting "buying" and "selling" messages. I type /join auction, and all I saw was "buyin LLL for..." and "sellin LLL for ..." and "sellfing ..." No auction, not usable. Bah.
I hope your readership grows with this type of fantastic coverage of the dark corners of MTGO! This reminds me of what Menendian and the like have done for the Vintage format and as a result of their hard work, SCG readership grew and so did the Vintage format.
It's not a matter of giving the server more capacity or buying new servers, as a lot of folks seem to think. That would be easy and would've been done long ago. The problem is with the software not being able to have multiple/larger servers handle things like card images, or something like that. That's why the only fix is redesigning the software, hence V3.
I just wish they would concentrate on the stability of V3, rather than spending a lot of time on the user interface. Get a stable program online, then redesign the UI and release V3.1 or whatever.
Enjoyed reading this article, though I am not a tourny player it's interesting to see the cards that make the grade. So the decklists were fantastic and very helpful.
It turns out that tribal spells DO NOT count. Changelings can be used wherever but adding a tribal spell does not count for your minimum. I think it might have been interesting to see where format went with tribal spells but I think is fine ether way.
Glad to hear people like this, will be happy to bring the next installment when constructed events resume.
Fantastic Job well written and knowledgable. I look forward to reading future articles in this series. Its good to see the alternative formats getting some coverage which will surely help them to grow.
I disagree with allowing tribal spells as part of the requisite 1/3 tribe constraint. Tribal should be about creatures and knowing your opponent is playing with the same thematic restrictions. Allowing the tribal spells to count as 1/3 of your TRIBE I could live with, but reducing the 1/3 total creatures fundamentally alters the format.
Hah that is pretty funny. Andrew lives down the road from me and works evenings for mtgotraders.com and we go biking together etc. He actually doesn't look anything like that picture which makes it kind of funny to me.
I'm not saying your experience isn't common, I believe that the last release event I participated in (Tenth) I got crud, however I've done two Lorwyn release events (One a tourney the other a league) and in the league I pulled a Thoughtsieze, and the tourney saw a Garruk fall into my pool. Some times the rares are really bad, sometimes they are really good. My experience is though, go ahead and play, but play early and sell off rares while they are still overvalued. Just my opinion....
Of course the lag is bad, it's making the game unplayable at times, but the good news is, the new set is fantastic, and people want to play it in drafts/leagues.
I do think it's not beyond WOTC to upgrade to a larger server, right now.. or maybe go offline for a few days and sort it out. They are a money making machine, and it's easy to think they don't care as long as people keep feeding the machine. But I do believe some people care about our experience and in the long run, we will get the operating system we need.
As for card buying, well... I had my affirmation of never to buy a booster unless it's part of a release league reaffirmed for the Lorwyn League. I got my set and much to my horror pulled 3 Hideaways as part of my rares, the other two were of no greater impact either, one a Boggart Mob and the other a Fathom Trawler, best card I got was an Imperious Perfect.. now if I'd have taken my dollars to mtgotraders, I could have filled my boots with good cards, and then spent a ticket on the avatar... so from now on, I won't even join a league, as opening boosters and starters is disheartening to say the least.
Other than that, I like the article, it really does not matter to me about offline tourney's so not concerned that this article was a primer for a tournament that's not coming.
I am interested in Lorwyn block, so found it a good insight into a treefolk build.
There is absolutly no reason for any kind of post that ends with the good ole /wrists. Behavior like that will not be condoned, and please refrain from it in the future.
My apologies guys, I got my seasons mixed up for some reason. This is completly my fault, and I should have had my head on straight.
However, no one knows if there will be a PT or a PTQ season for block as that has yet to be announced, we know that Kuala Lumpur is Limited, while Hollywood is Standard (qualfiers are extended). I'm going to assume that the other constructed pt is going to be Legacy (gross) and could use the mega block as the qualifier. However, I am terrible at looking into the future.
Heh Nameless Inversion might as well be rare for me. Opened 0 in three sealed events and in 6 or 7 drafts I've picked up none. Seen it maybe 3 times in draft but always next to a bomb or when I'm not black/splashing tons of stuff.
that is about the dumbest thing i have ever heard of. you are actually saving keep giving these people money and they will make it better. ummm i has been 4 years of crap. that seems to be working on real well. go kill yourself.
Thanks for the headsup, I would have been upset next week if I'd gotten enough together to do a draft and not been able to. Once more I'd like to thank you, Erik and the others who are keeping us abreast of what's happening at the official site without having to wade through it all.
Ok folks, every time I see a post like this on the message boards I want to scream (it was posts like this that caused me to take a hiatus from the boards as I couldn't deal with stupid people any more). Can you think of ANY company that will provide you the forum to arrange a boycott of their products? Nope, neither can I. For those of you who want to arrange their boycott, go and post it somewhere that is unconnected (yes this site qualifies though judging from the people I've talked to in the program most of the active members of PureMTGO are unlikely to support such action) Personally I think that you are being foolish and trying to be a firebrand in a situation where it is unwelcome, destructive and all told a prickish thing to do in our community. We need to work with these people to make our experience better, and your attitude and those like it, Arronwolf, have nothing to do with improvements. A company that sees one branch suddenly become unprofitable isn't likely to throw more money into fixing it, they are more likely to scrap it.
Mostly I have no interest in sorting my commons to see which are worth 2c compared to 3. If they took the most expensive then the went back and took the rest I could care less but they do not and they leave all the ones they don't want. Advertising you take ANY commons/uncommons and then picking and choosing is false advertising. There is no reason to say ANY except to lure people in
Do the bots not take some commons or do they just start with the more expensive ones? If they take any just make the more expensive ones untradable and you shouldn't have a problem. You can't really say they are misrepresenting themselves if they take and but start with most expensive.
I like this idea but that is not my biggest pet peeve about the selling and buying rooms. Since I have been known to draft on occassion I tend to accumulate a bunch of commons and uncommons. My biggest annoyance is the sellers that claim they take 'ANY' common or uncommon. Such as 'Buying ANY commons: 192 for 1' and then when you enter the trade they begin picking and choosing the more expensive ones. If you are going to advertise you take 'any' common or uncommon your bot should start at the start at the beginning of your binder and head to back taking each one that is marked tradable. There is my rant. Great article
Hi,
I'm keep on blocking the listed users. If I do so though, I'd like to periodically update my file with a new list.
Will you continue to include this section with your article?
Thanks
Several months ago the spam made me quite going to the auction room. I decided to try it again, now that elf has stopped people from posting "buying" and "selling" messages. I type /join auction, and all I saw was "buyin LLL for..." and "sellin LLL for ..." and "sellfing ..." No auction, not usable. Bah.
Jerks.
So does setting a username to hide remove it from the message board too?
I hope your readership grows with this type of fantastic coverage of the dark corners of MTGO! This reminds me of what Menendian and the like have done for the Vintage format and as a result of their hard work, SCG readership grew and so did the Vintage format.
Keep up the good work,
-Paul
It's not a matter of giving the server more capacity or buying new servers, as a lot of folks seem to think. That would be easy and would've been done long ago. The problem is with the software not being able to have multiple/larger servers handle things like card images, or something like that. That's why the only fix is redesigning the software, hence V3.
I just wish they would concentrate on the stability of V3, rather than spending a lot of time on the user interface. Get a stable program online, then redesign the UI and release V3.1 or whatever.
Enjoyed reading this article, though I am not a tourny player it's interesting to see the cards that make the grade. So the decklists were fantastic and very helpful.
THANKS
It turns out that tribal spells DO NOT count. Changelings can be used wherever but adding a tribal spell does not count for your minimum. I think it might have been interesting to see where format went with tribal spells but I think is fine ether way.
Glad to hear people like this, will be happy to bring the next installment when constructed events resume.
Tremendous amount of info here. I especially love the singleton metagame breakdown and deck lists...hope to see more of those in the future!
Fantastic Job well written and knowledgable. I look forward to reading future articles in this series. Its good to see the alternative formats getting some coverage which will surely help them to grow.
I disagree with allowing tribal spells as part of the requisite 1/3 tribe constraint. Tribal should be about creatures and knowing your opponent is playing with the same thematic restrictions. Allowing the tribal spells to count as 1/3 of your TRIBE I could live with, but reducing the 1/3 total creatures fundamentally alters the format.
-Jed R
Absolutely right, but I like the leagues for the avatars, and then you have to wait a week for the league to finish so your cards become your own.
Hah that is pretty funny. Andrew lives down the road from me and works evenings for mtgotraders.com and we go biking together etc. He actually doesn't look anything like that picture which makes it kind of funny to me.
I'm not saying your experience isn't common, I believe that the last release event I participated in (Tenth) I got crud, however I've done two Lorwyn release events (One a tourney the other a league) and in the league I pulled a Thoughtsieze, and the tourney saw a Garruk fall into my pool. Some times the rares are really bad, sometimes they are really good. My experience is though, go ahead and play, but play early and sell off rares while they are still overvalued. Just my opinion....
Of course the lag is bad, it's making the game unplayable at times, but the good news is, the new set is fantastic, and people want to play it in drafts/leagues.
I do think it's not beyond WOTC to upgrade to a larger server, right now.. or maybe go offline for a few days and sort it out. They are a money making machine, and it's easy to think they don't care as long as people keep feeding the machine. But I do believe some people care about our experience and in the long run, we will get the operating system we need.
As for card buying, well... I had my affirmation of never to buy a booster unless it's part of a release league reaffirmed for the Lorwyn League. I got my set and much to my horror pulled 3 Hideaways as part of my rares, the other two were of no greater impact either, one a Boggart Mob and the other a Fathom Trawler, best card I got was an Imperious Perfect.. now if I'd have taken my dollars to mtgotraders, I could have filled my boots with good cards, and then spent a ticket on the avatar... so from now on, I won't even join a league, as opening boosters and starters is disheartening to say the least.
Just my two cents...
You really need a less gay picture of yourself.
Other than that, I like the article, it really does not matter to me about offline tourney's so not concerned that this article was a primer for a tournament that's not coming.
I am interested in Lorwyn block, so found it a good insight into a treefolk build.
There is absolutly no reason for any kind of post that ends with the good ole /wrists. Behavior like that will not be condoned, and please refrain from it in the future.
My apologies guys, I got my seasons mixed up for some reason. This is completly my fault, and I should have had my head on straight.
However, no one knows if there will be a PT or a PTQ season for block as that has yet to be announced, we know that Kuala Lumpur is Limited, while Hollywood is Standard (qualfiers are extended). I'm going to assume that the other constructed pt is going to be Legacy (gross) and could use the mega block as the qualifier. However, I am terrible at looking into the future.
The irony of course being, Lorywn Block means nothing,as there will be no PT or PTQ season utilizing the format. Period.
Heh Nameless Inversion might as well be rare for me. Opened 0 in three sealed events and in 6 or 7 drafts I've picked up none. Seen it maybe 3 times in draft but always next to a bomb or when I'm not black/splashing tons of stuff.
that is about the dumbest thing i have ever heard of. you are actually saving keep giving these people money and they will make it better. ummm i has been 4 years of crap. that seems to be working on real well. go kill yourself.
Thanks for the headsup, I would have been upset next week if I'd gotten enough together to do a draft and not been able to. Once more I'd like to thank you, Erik and the others who are keeping us abreast of what's happening at the official site without having to wade through it all.
Ok folks, every time I see a post like this on the message boards I want to scream (it was posts like this that caused me to take a hiatus from the boards as I couldn't deal with stupid people any more). Can you think of ANY company that will provide you the forum to arrange a boycott of their products? Nope, neither can I. For those of you who want to arrange their boycott, go and post it somewhere that is unconnected (yes this site qualifies though judging from the people I've talked to in the program most of the active members of PureMTGO are unlikely to support such action) Personally I think that you are being foolish and trying to be a firebrand in a situation where it is unwelcome, destructive and all told a prickish thing to do in our community. We need to work with these people to make our experience better, and your attitude and those like it, Arronwolf, have nothing to do with improvements. A company that sees one branch suddenly become unprofitable isn't likely to throw more money into fixing it, they are more likely to scrap it.