Imho you are being excessively harsh. Pete works hard on these articles sometimes with very little time to do them in. The relevance of some prices not being absolutely correct seems small to me in the larger picture. Merry xmas.
Last week the prices were wrong. They were from early December. This week "Last week" prices are unfortunately not corrected. So they are all still wrong. No wonder Modern prices were all over the place last week. It is unfortunate that the article makes conclusions/interpretations based on these prices without taking account of the proper time frame.
there are also like 78 or so State Championships a year now. You know...if you fail this week, come back and be a state champ next. Pretty safe to say the bloom is off that rose.
There is room for reasonable doubt. Quijote is an alternate spelling of Quixote, and Murtra is an artist that did some colour illustrations for a version of Miguel De Cervantes' work in 1898. Couple a quixotic name with a quixotic Oscar Wilde quote and it could just be someone trying to make a point.
I should note another mill deck that is viable in Pauper but I failed to mention in the article - UB Teachings decks that feature Curse of the Bloody Tome.
I would love to do a lot of these, especially for formats I missed the first time around... but knock out means I'm very unlikely to try any but the formats I played a lot and enjoyed the first time.
Swiss means losing a couple of drafts early in the week often gives enough experience of the format and knowledge of the cards to make it worth playing more through the week. Two bad drafts would be 20 tix for at least 12 games of experience under Swiss, but could be as little 4 games under knockout.
This "gearing" effect means for formats I might try and enjoy, the number of drafts I do might switch from zero (knock out) to 5 or 6 (Swiss).
Yeah, I could not resist the deal on drafting. I went around and bought up all every pack I could find of some of the sets going for a buck something a pack, I'm looking forward to a lot of drafting and catching up on old sets I missed.
2 tix plus product is a good deal for 3 of the sets. They have a pack price of 1.59-2.13. For 8 of the sets the price is between 2.31-2.65. Since there are no pack prizes, I expect the value of these packs to go to 2.66 very quickly. At that point the 10 tix entry fee is equivalent. The remaining 4 sets have prices well above 2.66 tix.
It is not efficient to keep packs around on your account once you dont use them in drafts anymore. Just sell them immediately. Flashback drafts are a bad excuse for poor management of your packs.
You aren't investing $10 unless you're dumb or the set is really worth it. Instead, you're investing 2 tix plus product (likely almost nothing for the less popular sets, though I don't know how the lack of pack prizes will affect prices) or 100 play points (making this a much cheaper way of cashing out than a current-set draft).
We can pretty much bet that lower rarity cards that include the <> symbol will have a note saying it can only be paid with colorless mana, similar to the reminder text for phyrexian mana, and old cards clearly state when they make colorless mana.
If they made the change in the last set, then it would appear to be an equally confusing change, maybe more so since we would see no purpose to it at all.
The timing on the colourless/generic change is absolutely baffling. I can't even begin to see the line of logic that made them think the second expansion in a block was the best place to introduce this change; you're going to have a situation where cards from BFZ are errataed while they're still being used in the current limited formats. It's a guaranteed recipe for confusion and misplays and it's seems so incredibly out-of-character for Wizards, given how concerned they've become about making sure the game is as clear and accessible as possible for new players.
As for the change itself...*shrug*. It depends on the cards they print to make use of the new distinction, I guess; the idea seems fine but nothing about it inherently makes me excited to play with it.
Single Elim events means I will not be playing at all. If I'm investing 10 bucks, I want to ensure more than 1 game with cards I'll probably never use again. Such a shame because I'd love to join in on a couple.
It may also be a small thing, Pete gets the price info from traders mailed to him, and the filed may have been repeated.
Merry christmas to you as well.
Imho you are being excessively harsh. Pete works hard on these articles sometimes with very little time to do them in. The relevance of some prices not being absolutely correct seems small to me in the larger picture. Merry xmas.
Last week the prices were wrong. They were from early December. This week "Last week" prices are unfortunately not corrected. So they are all still wrong. No wonder Modern prices were all over the place last week. It is unfortunate that the article makes conclusions/interpretations based on these prices without taking account of the proper time frame.
Removed for stupidity (mine).
there are also like 78 or so State Championships a year now. You know...if you fail this week, come back and be a state champ next. Pretty safe to say the bloom is off that rose.
Regionals, City Champs, JSS, States, Nationals,
Used to be so many cool Magic events. Now it's just grand prixes and pro tours that you have to walk in the snow uphill both ways to get to.
Fine.
There is room for reasonable doubt. Quijote is an alternate spelling of Quixote, and Murtra is an artist that did some colour illustrations for a version of Miguel De Cervantes' work in 1898. Couple a quixotic name with a quixotic Oscar Wilde quote and it could just be someone trying to make a point.
Definitely a well-run event. I went down a few years later, the next time they ran Nationals in KC. Again...really well run. Great venue, organized.
Man...I really miss Nats.
That Nationals in Kansas City was super weird because of the bans, but the TO for that event ran one of the best events I had ever played in.
I should note another mill deck that is viable in Pauper but I failed to mention in the article - UB Teachings decks that feature Curse of the Bloody Tome.
No doubt about it. They just failed with the usual url part.
I think that might be spam, but I'm not sure though.
Oscar Wilde, if my translation is up to scratch, specifically "A fool never recovers from success." Que tonto y que el éxito?
Un tonto nunca se repone de un exito
I would love to do a lot of these, especially for formats I missed the first time around... but knock out means I'm very unlikely to try any but the formats I played a lot and enjoyed the first time.
Swiss means losing a couple of drafts early in the week often gives enough experience of the format and knowledge of the cards to make it worth playing more through the week. Two bad drafts would be 20 tix for at least 12 games of experience under Swiss, but could be as little 4 games under knockout.
This "gearing" effect means for formats I might try and enjoy, the number of drafts I do might switch from zero (knock out) to 5 or 6 (Swiss).
Good article as usual though - Thanks!
Yeah, I could not resist the deal on drafting. I went around and bought up all every pack I could find of some of the sets going for a buck something a pack, I'm looking forward to a lot of drafting and catching up on old sets I missed.
So you use product for the drafts that have low cost and the play points you win on the 4 expensive ones.
2 tix plus product is a good deal for 3 of the sets. They have a pack price of 1.59-2.13. For 8 of the sets the price is between 2.31-2.65. Since there are no pack prizes, I expect the value of these packs to go to 2.66 very quickly. At that point the 10 tix entry fee is equivalent. The remaining 4 sets have prices well above 2.66 tix.
It is not efficient to keep packs around on your account once you dont use them in drafts anymore. Just sell them immediately. Flashback drafts are a bad excuse for poor management of your packs.
You aren't investing $10 unless you're dumb or the set is really worth it. Instead, you're investing 2 tix plus product (likely almost nothing for the less popular sets, though I don't know how the lack of pack prizes will affect prices) or 100 play points (making this a much cheaper way of cashing out than a current-set draft).
Yeah I wasn't aware of that
I think you are overestimating the confusion.
We can pretty much bet that lower rarity cards that include the <> symbol will have a note saying it can only be paid with colorless mana, similar to the reminder text for phyrexian mana, and old cards clearly state when they make colorless mana.
If they made the change in the last set, then it would appear to be an equally confusing change, maybe more so since we would see no purpose to it at all.
The timing on the colourless/generic change is absolutely baffling. I can't even begin to see the line of logic that made them think the second expansion in a block was the best place to introduce this change; you're going to have a situation where cards from BFZ are errataed while they're still being used in the current limited formats. It's a guaranteed recipe for confusion and misplays and it's seems so incredibly out-of-character for Wizards, given how concerned they've become about making sure the game is as clear and accessible as possible for new players.
As for the change itself...*shrug*. It depends on the cards they print to make use of the new distinction, I guess; the idea seems fine but nothing about it inherently makes me excited to play with it.
Single Elim events means I will not be playing at all. If I'm investing 10 bucks, I want to ensure more than 1 game with cards I'll probably never use again. Such a shame because I'd love to join in on a couple.