Nice write up you pretty much covered all the cads I am interested in.
Thanks for pointing out Lillian's shade, I missed it some how. I definitely will be grabbing one for my mono black creatures deck.
Can I just say I hate boundless realms? It is big and brainless and it will be ubiquitous. As if ramp needed that kind of help. Man I really wish they would come up with an effective and "fair" ramp hoser.
I am quite excited about odric and krenko. Not so much as generals, but I think they will make great additions to some decks.
Trading post seems like an interesting card, and seems quite versatile. I think it will fall into the same camp a Druidic satchel and journeys kite for me. They just seem a little slow and mana intensive for me. I know others love those cards though.
One card I want to try out in some mono red decks is hellion crucible. It might be handy, and a nice mana sink. I want to give it a try anyway.
Last I hope to be able to finally pick up a gilded lotus at a cheap price.
Longterm wise, I suggest buying SOM block mythics, especially those with "bulk" prices. At the end of this and next year, as redemption cutoff date approaches, those will rise in value.
I like your blog post it contains great informatin for any one Search engine optimization (seo)is the process of improving the visibility of website in search engines through the "seo tips''. In general, people want to know seo basics higher ranked on the search results page and more frequently a site appears in the search results, the more visitors it will get from the search engine users
If this year is going to be anything like last year, all the ISD block staples will be going down in price over the next couple months, especially mythics. Last year the swords especially all went down in price at this time, even though standard decks still ran them. Also cards like hero of bladehold were dirt cheap, and they had som block decks backing them up. So my advice would be to invest the $40 in ISD block staples (and expected standard staples) but to do this in a month or so. Particularly I would buy stromkirk noble as soon as it hits a low (i assume it is going down right now) and hold until return to ravnica block standard hits the scene. It always seems like mono red dominates in open fields and this is the best mono red one drop so far (vexing devil is also a consideration but I doubt they will print enough burn cards to make it happen).
Glad you enjoyed the article! Thanks for the taking the time to comment.
Splinter Twin is a fun deck especially if you enjoy combo so I would highly recommend it.
Unless you're talking about the Naya Birthing Pod deck, which is the main deck running the Kiki/Restoration Angel combo, then I haven't seen many other decks trying to combo with Kiki/Restoration Angel. The Kiki/Angel combo is very good in Pod decks where you can search up the pieces you need as and when you need them, also don't forget that Village Bell-Ringer is basically the white Deceiver Exarch. Also, since Pod is already running a load of ETB effects Restoration Angel and Kiki are impactful on their own even without comboing off. Also, if you're asking me if Naya Pod is better than Splinter Twin then I don't really know but high-level results (GP Yokohama) indicate than Pod is better.
Outside of Pod I don't think Kiki/Angel is a combo you want for your Splinter Twin deck. If you are all in on your combo then you don't really need Restoration Angel as it really just waters down your strategy, except as a better beater if things go badly. It's a mana more expensive that it needs to be for your combo creature and only works with Kiki.
Hope I understood your question right and that is a sufficient answer.
Ok, I have absolutely no clue who told you to buy SOM lands. That is like buying eggs that have already went rotten.
Investing in cards is just like the stock market, and clearly nobody knows how the market works here.
There are long term investments and short term investments.
ISD block lands and cards like Cavern are long term investments.
A card like Falkenrath Aristocrat is a short term play because if someone top 8's any tournament with a BR Vamp deck, it will skyrocket.
Here is exactly what you buy.
Fetch lands. They are long term investments. Shock lands are being reprinted, or some sort of lands. But what will you do? Fetch them with Evolving Wilds? Fetch Lands are low because we are not in season, and will tick up as we get back into PTQ Season.
And here is how my thinking works.
If Ratchet Bomb leaves the format, I think more people will be comfortable playing Token based decks. Most notably the Esper variety. That means that Lingering Souls, Sorin, Gloom Surgeon, Drogskol Captain, etc., are all cheap at the moment. In paper I have been picking up Sorin's based on this idea. I mean ISD is tailored for Tokens, and Ravnica hasn't shown me anything yet in terms of DOJ/Wrath of God.
Also Baby Garruk is cheap, and if ISD Block Constructed has shown us anything, it's that people will splash Green into any deck just to fit in Garruk.
And who ever told you to buy right then and there. You are supposed to watch cards that interest you, and then buy them when you think the price is right. What you did was called "Impulse Buying" not investing.
On trading: Wednesday, I made over 60 tix (maybe even over 70, I'm not sure) just buying and selling the mocs promo phyrexian dreadnoughts. When I logged in people were trying to sell for 15, 14, 13 and 12. So I put up an ad selling for 11 because a friends of mine wants to buy tix from me. It's taking a while and no one pms me so I check mtgolibrary bots and there are several buying for 11.X. I sell mine and move on. After a while I notice people trying to sell for 9 and I decide to buy and sell again to bots. After this I put up an ad buying 2 for 17. I manage to buy for 17 and sell for 22.5 several times to several bots and after a while those bots didn't want them anymore but I did a few more times to bots buying for 10. I took a few hours, sure but I got around 70 tix and meanwhile I was playing a T2 DE. So that was very very good.
Great stuff with the analysis on Magic history. Nostalgia (or sheer hate) aside, there's one thing to be said of those times: the game was just FLAWED back then (and that was AFTER correcting the more blatant deviances of Alpha/Beta). It isn't just about players not enjoying the game (although that's important too: your game is successful only when the majority of average players actively enjoys it, not when there's just a restricted amount of hardcore players committed to it) - there was a structural issue with the players treating creatures as useless. Creatures have always been 50% of the printed cards. If those were considered useless, it meant 50% of the game was designed for nothing. It's like designing a videogame where half the levels can just be skipped. Or a tabletop wargame where the miniatures are an afterthought. They needed to fix this, and they did. Just like that.
Still a bit ambivalent on the investment project. I repeat my thought here: you can make tix with smart card trade, but more often than not it's just because you're active in it, not because you were really able to predict changes, especially short-term. Otherwise, just go with real stock trade, you can buy a lot of cards with the real money you'll make there.
Latest example of mine: summer 2010; I'm card-shopping, casually looking for cards I might like. Oh, look at this: Goryo's Vengeance. Cool, I can reanimate that new guy Emrakul with this. How much? 0.1 tix? Little expensive, but fine, I have some leftover credits to waste on this bot. Let's buy it, and make some really casual deck out of it. Which I play for, like, one week. Flash-forward to summer 2012. I need tix, let's see what forgotten card I can sell. Bots buy Goryo's Vengeance for 8 tix now?! Wow, that's a deal. What about 31.6 tix of net revenue? Did I predict this? Of course not! Nobody could. But I just do buy stuff like that, endlessly. And these things happen a lot. I'm buying right now the cards that'll give me 30 free tix on summer 2014. But I can't exactly tell which ones they will turn out to be.
Makes me want to "sleeve up" some Splinter Twins and give the deck a spin. I'm a pretty huge fan of combos that only require two cards and win immediately if they can't answer it.
I'm curious: What do you think of Kiki/Restoration Angel combo builds? Obviously a fairly different deck since the Angel doesn't work with Splinter Twin and therefore needs the Mirror Breaker to win. Better, worse, other thoughts?
Thank you very much for the positive feedback. I'm glad you enjoyed the article and I hope others are also enjoying the series. Splinter Twin has been my favourite deck in the series so far and I hope that shows in the quality of the article.
Yes, my mistake, Spellskite interactions can get confusing.
Really enjoyed the section looking back at the good ol' days of MTG. Sometimes I miss the days of slamming down mirror universe after a hefty mana drain, then dropping to zero with my own city of brass during my upkeep and swapping life totals to kill my opponent before end of phase. Wurmcoil or Primeval would have fueled a mana drain in those days, or eaten a swords to plowshares... Incredibly efficient removal and counters made creatures largely irrelevant, but dropping a nice Moat for those pesky weenie decks cleared up anyone who thought otherwise.
But as much as I get nostalgic about those days, I too like the change. While the feeling of locking the game down brutally and taking my opponent from 20 to 0 with a single card is one that I'll always cherish, there's something that feels more real and exciting about winning with huge beefy creatures, being on the edge of your seat with both players having a very real chance of winning... These are fun times for Magic, my friends. And there are good people at the helm, so I feel it's only going to get better.
I am very glad to see more modern content. Just one thing though, your opponent can re-direct a Kiki-Jiki activation all he wants but it can only target one of your creatures.
I like Restoration Angel right now. Decent price and the draft format is about to change so the supply is pretty much set. And it is starting to see more play in modern. I expect the ceiling to be around $10 (a la Blade Splicer, Phantasmal Image, etc).
You really should add Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker to the modern card list. Up to $16.72 today, more than a 300% price increase since the beginning of June.
You should not buy Modern, as prices are pretty high right now.
If you want to buy cards that are low right now, you should look at what flooded the market recently. Some cards from these sets should spike up once supply dries :
Cards from Graveborn and F&L premium sets;
Cards from the IPA block (prices from Cube drafting);
Cards from the OLS block (prices from Cube drafting).
Let's look at the case of Tarmogoyf. It was ~80 tix, then we learned that TPF would be the payout of Cube draft. It dropped below 40 tix. It is now back up to 55 tix. Had you bought when supply was high around 40 tix, you would have made a 15 tix profit for each Goyf.
Can't agree that the current environment of swingy overpowered creatures is an improvement. It just encourages people to ramp to 6 and start throwing haymakers back and forth, which isn't really that interesting. It's flashy but it isn't smart or tactical. Those blue aggro-control decks that everyone loves to hate are only here because they're the last remaining option to beat ramp, LD and prison decks having gone the way of the dodo as you point out. This battlecruiser magic just feels to much like playing something based on a Japanese kids cartoon. I choose you, Avacyn! Battle that Blastoise!
Having come from the 90's, you're precisely right about the 5cmc line. I still refuse to cross it, without a way to cheat something into play. I live a sweet five drop, but wont go to 6 without some gimmick. I never hardcast a 6cmc spell in a tournament until this spring playing Frites, since that does happen sometimes.
Btw, modern staples are probably ur best bet for your experiment. Avoid anything from overdrafted sets like Ravnica. Loam and Bob have low upper limits because theres ample supply. Engineered Explosives, Threads of Disloyalty, and Kira all seem like good bets. I expect Muta to hit 30 tix again. And as always I think the money cards in the cheapest viable decks are a good bet. Figure in boros was a good example before the premium deck giveaway crashed his price. Birthing Pod is going to be at it's lowest when it rotates then a month later will start picking up for Modern season, and it's from a notoriously overpriced and scarce set on mtgo, so there may be a window there to make a little money.
buying and selling cards, much like the real stock market, is sometimes entirely left up to gut feeling. Like the US stock market, you really aren't going to be swinging around a mace made of insider information. You can poll the community all you want, but the community has nothing to lose if you've polled the players and their recommendations are lousy. It's you who loses the money. I've been out of the game for about 8 months, starting back from scratch, so the last two sets (not counting the upcoming m13) I know nearly nothing about. However, back when I was trying my hand at earning profit through MTGO cards, I never relied on what everyone else had to say or what was trending at that moment, because trends in the current moment are fleeting. Your best bet is to try and predict what's going to be up and coming. It's all a gambling game. Unless you can count cards, when you play blackjack, you have to go with your gut to hit on a 16. When playing Magic, you never know if your opponent's one plains left untapped is untapped because they hold a path to exile, or if its just untapped. In this vein, is how I've I've always run with trying to make money. When I got rumblings of Rise of Eldrazi, I knew big creatures were on their way into the game. I snatched up a ton of Summoning Traps at 8 cents apiece because my gut told me the new sets gonna need ways to cheat creatures into play. For a while, the summoning traps rose in price to around a buck ten a piece. If you have 40 summoning traps (which I did), that's a great profit, but if it hadn't risen in price, I wouldn't have lost much money at all, only $3.20; but since it paid off, I actually made 41$ profit. That may not seem like a ot to some, but to me it meant I could snag two more duals on my fixed, fixed budget. It doesn't always work out, but I've had the best luck doing it this way than relying on any other data. :)
The current client doesnt support filtering of any format.. Only the ones that we had already in the V3 client.
I of all people would know this.
It was talked about wanting the new client to be able to do this down the road at some point
Chris K said he wanted a client that could someday allow players to set up a game by the filters for whatever type they wanted to play.
Honestly it looks like your trying to lose money on some of your specs.. (Darkslick Shores, Sorin, Mikaeus, Cavern).
Sell Finks now whilst Modern demand spikes the price, there is a risk that hybrid will be in RtR and hence a reprint of finks possible.
Below is some of my recent specs.
Craterhoof Behmoth (Extrmely Powerful effect. format appears to be slowing)
Pyrmancers Swath (flagged this a few weeks back when it was 0.16 ea, now 0.28ea and plenty of room to spike higher)
Nourishing Shoal (random one, in the hopes that the deck Gerry T wrote about this week does something. has already gained a little from yesterday. move fast on these)
Someberwald Sage (can see this hitting $1 mid to long term. currently in decline after a small spike driven by Travis Woo's Summer Green deck)
Lingering Souls (playable in legacy. Now is the right time to buy. Likely to be one of the format defining cards post rotation)
Promo Hymn to Torach (around half a tix currently. Casual favorite. With Legacy Mocs round the corner has good chance to spike.)
All of these are low exposure (cheap now) with high potential upside (could spike +300% or more)
You can play Omniscience pretty easily with Rasputin Dreamweaver as general. And that puts you in white, which lets you play with Academy Rector and various enchantment tutors as well.
it says u[p to one creature so you can still add a loyalty counter onto ajani and actually notput a counter on anything. It allows you to pump loyalty when ou have no creatures on the board
great breakdown, but can anyone explain to me Ajani's +1 wording? if it only generates a single +1 counter then why do they need to say "up to one target creature" I would find it hard to put a single counter on multiple creatures...
trick is you're swinging with a bunch of those little guys and if they leave the sac unblocked you eat your blocked guys to hit big and then follow with the harvest... not sure its good enough to be more than a rogue deck, but its crazy fun to play
Nice write up you pretty much covered all the cads I am interested in.
Thanks for pointing out Lillian's shade, I missed it some how. I definitely will be grabbing one for my mono black creatures deck.
Can I just say I hate boundless realms? It is big and brainless and it will be ubiquitous. As if ramp needed that kind of help. Man I really wish they would come up with an effective and "fair" ramp hoser.
I am quite excited about odric and krenko. Not so much as generals, but I think they will make great additions to some decks.
Trading post seems like an interesting card, and seems quite versatile. I think it will fall into the same camp a Druidic satchel and journeys kite for me. They just seem a little slow and mana intensive for me. I know others love those cards though.
One card I want to try out in some mono red decks is hellion crucible. It might be handy, and a nice mana sink. I want to give it a try anyway.
Last I hope to be able to finally pick up a gilded lotus at a cheap price.
Longterm wise, I suggest buying SOM block mythics, especially those with "bulk" prices. At the end of this and next year, as redemption cutoff date approaches, those will rise in value.
I like your blog post it contains great informatin for any one Search engine optimization (seo)is the process of improving the visibility of website in search engines through the "seo tips''. In general, people want to know seo basics higher ranked on the search results page and more frequently a site appears in the search results, the more visitors it will get from the search engine users
If this year is going to be anything like last year, all the ISD block staples will be going down in price over the next couple months, especially mythics. Last year the swords especially all went down in price at this time, even though standard decks still ran them. Also cards like hero of bladehold were dirt cheap, and they had som block decks backing them up. So my advice would be to invest the $40 in ISD block staples (and expected standard staples) but to do this in a month or so. Particularly I would buy stromkirk noble as soon as it hits a low (i assume it is going down right now) and hold until return to ravnica block standard hits the scene. It always seems like mono red dominates in open fields and this is the best mono red one drop so far (vexing devil is also a consideration but I doubt they will print enough burn cards to make it happen).
Glad you enjoyed the article! Thanks for the taking the time to comment.
Splinter Twin is a fun deck especially if you enjoy combo so I would highly recommend it.
Unless you're talking about the Naya Birthing Pod deck, which is the main deck running the Kiki/Restoration Angel combo, then I haven't seen many other decks trying to combo with Kiki/Restoration Angel. The Kiki/Angel combo is very good in Pod decks where you can search up the pieces you need as and when you need them, also don't forget that Village Bell-Ringer is basically the white Deceiver Exarch. Also, since Pod is already running a load of ETB effects Restoration Angel and Kiki are impactful on their own even without comboing off. Also, if you're asking me if Naya Pod is better than Splinter Twin then I don't really know but high-level results (GP Yokohama) indicate than Pod is better.
Outside of Pod I don't think Kiki/Angel is a combo you want for your Splinter Twin deck. If you are all in on your combo then you don't really need Restoration Angel as it really just waters down your strategy, except as a better beater if things go badly. It's a mana more expensive that it needs to be for your combo creature and only works with Kiki.
Hope I understood your question right and that is a sufficient answer.
Ok, I have absolutely no clue who told you to buy SOM lands. That is like buying eggs that have already went rotten.
Investing in cards is just like the stock market, and clearly nobody knows how the market works here.
There are long term investments and short term investments.
ISD block lands and cards like Cavern are long term investments.
A card like Falkenrath Aristocrat is a short term play because if someone top 8's any tournament with a BR Vamp deck, it will skyrocket.
Here is exactly what you buy.
Fetch lands. They are long term investments. Shock lands are being reprinted, or some sort of lands. But what will you do? Fetch them with Evolving Wilds? Fetch Lands are low because we are not in season, and will tick up as we get back into PTQ Season.
And here is how my thinking works.
If Ratchet Bomb leaves the format, I think more people will be comfortable playing Token based decks. Most notably the Esper variety. That means that Lingering Souls, Sorin, Gloom Surgeon, Drogskol Captain, etc., are all cheap at the moment. In paper I have been picking up Sorin's based on this idea. I mean ISD is tailored for Tokens, and Ravnica hasn't shown me anything yet in terms of DOJ/Wrath of God.
Also Baby Garruk is cheap, and if ISD Block Constructed has shown us anything, it's that people will splash Green into any deck just to fit in Garruk.
And who ever told you to buy right then and there. You are supposed to watch cards that interest you, and then buy them when you think the price is right. What you did was called "Impulse Buying" not investing.
On trading: Wednesday, I made over 60 tix (maybe even over 70, I'm not sure) just buying and selling the mocs promo phyrexian dreadnoughts. When I logged in people were trying to sell for 15, 14, 13 and 12. So I put up an ad selling for 11 because a friends of mine wants to buy tix from me. It's taking a while and no one pms me so I check mtgolibrary bots and there are several buying for 11.X. I sell mine and move on. After a while I notice people trying to sell for 9 and I decide to buy and sell again to bots. After this I put up an ad buying 2 for 17. I manage to buy for 17 and sell for 22.5 several times to several bots and after a while those bots didn't want them anymore but I did a few more times to bots buying for 10. I took a few hours, sure but I got around 70 tix and meanwhile I was playing a T2 DE. So that was very very good.
Great stuff with the analysis on Magic history. Nostalgia (or sheer hate) aside, there's one thing to be said of those times: the game was just FLAWED back then (and that was AFTER correcting the more blatant deviances of Alpha/Beta). It isn't just about players not enjoying the game (although that's important too: your game is successful only when the majority of average players actively enjoys it, not when there's just a restricted amount of hardcore players committed to it) - there was a structural issue with the players treating creatures as useless. Creatures have always been 50% of the printed cards. If those were considered useless, it meant 50% of the game was designed for nothing. It's like designing a videogame where half the levels can just be skipped. Or a tabletop wargame where the miniatures are an afterthought. They needed to fix this, and they did. Just like that.
Still a bit ambivalent on the investment project. I repeat my thought here: you can make tix with smart card trade, but more often than not it's just because you're active in it, not because you were really able to predict changes, especially short-term. Otherwise, just go with real stock trade, you can buy a lot of cards with the real money you'll make there.
Latest example of mine: summer 2010; I'm card-shopping, casually looking for cards I might like. Oh, look at this: Goryo's Vengeance. Cool, I can reanimate that new guy Emrakul with this. How much? 0.1 tix? Little expensive, but fine, I have some leftover credits to waste on this bot. Let's buy it, and make some really casual deck out of it. Which I play for, like, one week. Flash-forward to summer 2012. I need tix, let's see what forgotten card I can sell. Bots buy Goryo's Vengeance for 8 tix now?! Wow, that's a deal. What about 31.6 tix of net revenue? Did I predict this? Of course not! Nobody could. But I just do buy stuff like that, endlessly. And these things happen a lot. I'm buying right now the cards that'll give me 30 free tix on summer 2014. But I can't exactly tell which ones they will turn out to be.
No talk about them giving 2 Phyrexian Dreadnought instead of 1 as the MOCS promo?
Thanks for the article. :-)
Makes me want to "sleeve up" some Splinter Twins and give the deck a spin. I'm a pretty huge fan of combos that only require two cards and win immediately if they can't answer it.
I'm curious: What do you think of Kiki/Restoration Angel combo builds? Obviously a fairly different deck since the Angel doesn't work with Splinter Twin and therefore needs the Mirror Breaker to win. Better, worse, other thoughts?
Thank you very much for the positive feedback. I'm glad you enjoyed the article and I hope others are also enjoying the series. Splinter Twin has been my favourite deck in the series so far and I hope that shows in the quality of the article.
Yes, my mistake, Spellskite interactions can get confusing.
Really enjoyed the section looking back at the good ol' days of MTG. Sometimes I miss the days of slamming down mirror universe after a hefty mana drain, then dropping to zero with my own city of brass during my upkeep and swapping life totals to kill my opponent before end of phase. Wurmcoil or Primeval would have fueled a mana drain in those days, or eaten a swords to plowshares... Incredibly efficient removal and counters made creatures largely irrelevant, but dropping a nice Moat for those pesky weenie decks cleared up anyone who thought otherwise.
But as much as I get nostalgic about those days, I too like the change. While the feeling of locking the game down brutally and taking my opponent from 20 to 0 with a single card is one that I'll always cherish, there's something that feels more real and exciting about winning with huge beefy creatures, being on the edge of your seat with both players having a very real chance of winning... These are fun times for Magic, my friends. And there are good people at the helm, so I feel it's only going to get better.
I am very glad to see more modern content. Just one thing though, your opponent can re-direct a Kiki-Jiki activation all he wants but it can only target one of your creatures.
I like Restoration Angel right now. Decent price and the draft format is about to change so the supply is pretty much set. And it is starting to see more play in modern. I expect the ceiling to be around $10 (a la Blade Splicer, Phantasmal Image, etc).
You really should add Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker to the modern card list. Up to $16.72 today, more than a 300% price increase since the beginning of June.
You should not buy Modern, as prices are pretty high right now.
If you want to buy cards that are low right now, you should look at what flooded the market recently. Some cards from these sets should spike up once supply dries :
Cards from Graveborn and F&L premium sets;
Cards from the IPA block (prices from Cube drafting);
Cards from the OLS block (prices from Cube drafting).
Let's look at the case of Tarmogoyf. It was ~80 tix, then we learned that TPF would be the payout of Cube draft. It dropped below 40 tix. It is now back up to 55 tix. Had you bought when supply was high around 40 tix, you would have made a 15 tix profit for each Goyf.
Can't agree that the current environment of swingy overpowered creatures is an improvement. It just encourages people to ramp to 6 and start throwing haymakers back and forth, which isn't really that interesting. It's flashy but it isn't smart or tactical. Those blue aggro-control decks that everyone loves to hate are only here because they're the last remaining option to beat ramp, LD and prison decks having gone the way of the dodo as you point out. This battlecruiser magic just feels to much like playing something based on a Japanese kids cartoon. I choose you, Avacyn! Battle that Blastoise!
Having come from the 90's, you're precisely right about the 5cmc line. I still refuse to cross it, without a way to cheat something into play. I live a sweet five drop, but wont go to 6 without some gimmick. I never hardcast a 6cmc spell in a tournament until this spring playing Frites, since that does happen sometimes.
Btw, modern staples are probably ur best bet for your experiment. Avoid anything from overdrafted sets like Ravnica. Loam and Bob have low upper limits because theres ample supply. Engineered Explosives, Threads of Disloyalty, and Kira all seem like good bets. I expect Muta to hit 30 tix again. And as always I think the money cards in the cheapest viable decks are a good bet. Figure in boros was a good example before the premium deck giveaway crashed his price. Birthing Pod is going to be at it's lowest when it rotates then a month later will start picking up for Modern season, and it's from a notoriously overpriced and scarce set on mtgo, so there may be a window there to make a little money.
buying and selling cards, much like the real stock market, is sometimes entirely left up to gut feeling. Like the US stock market, you really aren't going to be swinging around a mace made of insider information. You can poll the community all you want, but the community has nothing to lose if you've polled the players and their recommendations are lousy. It's you who loses the money. I've been out of the game for about 8 months, starting back from scratch, so the last two sets (not counting the upcoming m13) I know nearly nothing about. However, back when I was trying my hand at earning profit through MTGO cards, I never relied on what everyone else had to say or what was trending at that moment, because trends in the current moment are fleeting. Your best bet is to try and predict what's going to be up and coming. It's all a gambling game. Unless you can count cards, when you play blackjack, you have to go with your gut to hit on a 16. When playing Magic, you never know if your opponent's one plains left untapped is untapped because they hold a path to exile, or if its just untapped. In this vein, is how I've I've always run with trying to make money. When I got rumblings of Rise of Eldrazi, I knew big creatures were on their way into the game. I snatched up a ton of Summoning Traps at 8 cents apiece because my gut told me the new sets gonna need ways to cheat creatures into play. For a while, the summoning traps rose in price to around a buck ten a piece. If you have 40 summoning traps (which I did), that's a great profit, but if it hadn't risen in price, I wouldn't have lost much money at all, only $3.20; but since it paid off, I actually made 41$ profit. That may not seem like a ot to some, but to me it meant I could snag two more duals on my fixed, fixed budget. It doesn't always work out, but I've had the best luck doing it this way than relying on any other data. :)
The current client doesnt support filtering of any format.. Only the ones that we had already in the V3 client.
I of all people would know this.
It was talked about wanting the new client to be able to do this down the road at some point
Chris K said he wanted a client that could someday allow players to set up a game by the filters for whatever type they wanted to play.
ah I get it now thx
Honestly it looks like your trying to lose money on some of your specs.. (Darkslick Shores, Sorin, Mikaeus, Cavern).
Sell Finks now whilst Modern demand spikes the price, there is a risk that hybrid will be in RtR and hence a reprint of finks possible.
Below is some of my recent specs.
Craterhoof Behmoth (Extrmely Powerful effect. format appears to be slowing)
Pyrmancers Swath (flagged this a few weeks back when it was 0.16 ea, now 0.28ea and plenty of room to spike higher)
Nourishing Shoal (random one, in the hopes that the deck Gerry T wrote about this week does something. has already gained a little from yesterday. move fast on these)
Someberwald Sage (can see this hitting $1 mid to long term. currently in decline after a small spike driven by Travis Woo's Summer Green deck)
Lingering Souls (playable in legacy. Now is the right time to buy. Likely to be one of the format defining cards post rotation)
Promo Hymn to Torach (around half a tix currently. Casual favorite. With Legacy Mocs round the corner has good chance to spike.)
All of these are low exposure (cheap now) with high potential upside (could spike +300% or more)
You can play Omniscience pretty easily with Rasputin Dreamweaver as general. And that puts you in white, which lets you play with Academy Rector and various enchantment tutors as well.
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it says u[p to one creature so you can still add a loyalty counter onto ajani and actually notput a counter on anything. It allows you to pump loyalty when ou have no creatures on the board
It is made this way so you can use without any creature on play.
great breakdown, but can anyone explain to me Ajani's +1 wording? if it only generates a single +1 counter then why do they need to say "up to one target creature" I would find it hard to put a single counter on multiple creatures...
trick is you're swinging with a bunch of those little guys and if they leave the sac unblocked you eat your blocked guys to hit big and then follow with the harvest... not sure its good enough to be more than a rogue deck, but its crazy fun to play