I suppose that is as good as reason as any, although I would prefer any card printed at common to be legal, and just weed out the problem cards individually. Kird Ape was released online at uncommon, but I'm sure that was just a draft consideration and was not aimed at the MTGO pauper community, same with REB/BEB.
I don't actually play paper pauper, I just played back before revised, and anyone who cracked packs remembers having a million useless apes. The only once common creature that would be a legit problem in pauper would be Hypnotic Spectre, but it was reprinted at rare (and was terrible, it is only broken with the real menace, dark ritual).
For all the bad cards and combos played back then, everyone on earth figured out how sick that and black vise (not a common, I know) were.
so, enigma opened up your article before rd 1 of modern started today. "Under 700 usd is affordable??" The whole room erupts in laughter and says yes Joe, for classic it is.
Hope you guys enjoyed the coverage from the mother ship.
Thank you for keeping hams work going your doing a great job and i look forward to your post as i did every friday for hams post, keep up the great work and Go Team
Fair enough, especially when compared to Batterskull and its ilk.
On the other hand (and at the risk of coming across as an overcritical jerk) my math puts the average price of a mythic at around $5 making it priced exactly like a mythic - just not one with relevance in standard.
Congrats to the Community Team for completely dominating the modern format yesterday! The WotC Team is going to be hard pressed to overcome that beating.
I also want to congratulate you, Pete for continuing this series in a way that has exceeded my expectations. Of course it's different than it was, but it's every bit as valuable. Thanks for that.
Please make sure that the recording uses the entire frame. I'm not sure if the issue arose from your recording or your uploading, but there's a large black 'border' around what we're actually watching.
As far as I can recall, Online Pauper's rules were designed by the people running the Online Pauper PREs before WOTC decided to make it an official format. The "it only counts if it is part of a common print run in a set online" rule made sense then and it still does. After all we are talking about Magic Online, not M:TG everywhere.
Ahh, MTGO has weird rules regarding their online print runs, got it. Explains why Pyroblast is a 2 dollar common while REB is much less, even though it was definitely common in paper.
I get the distinction of vintage/classic online, and their choice not to release the power nine (proxies aren't possible online, cards were a mistake, etc) But that's definitely a weird policy - is there a reason behind it? It definitely isn't due to Kird Ape, all the problem cards for pauper are outright banned, so I can't see why they made online and IRL print run distinctions/legal cards.
Standard and legacy are exactly the same (minus cards de facto banned due to not being available online, that's another issue) so that choice seems baffling.
char49d - Perhpas you play paper pauper which is slightly different than MTGO pauper due to what cards are legal. Kird Ape isn't legal on MTGO. It hasn't been released as a common except as a promo. If you're playing paper, no doubt it's a great creature.
Motu - I dig the article. There isn't enough classic pauper coverage now that SpikeBoyM and Dr. Anime aren't putting stuff out, so great to see someone give my format of choice some attention. I like the look of the Wellspring deck, a departure from regular Affinity. However, while looking it over, I couldn't help but think of 2 omissions: Kuldotha Rebirth + Goblin Bushwhacker. Those dudes combined with the Wellsprings and other artifacts has seen play in Standard (both pauper and real standard) and could give the deck some real pop. Unlike standard, you have access to artifact lands which greatly increases your artifact density and ability to fire off Rebirth.
Thank you we will look at getting this resolved. We really do want to raise the profile of the cast and reach out to people, so that we have immpact on a range of audiences - hopefully for the greater classic good.
I dont think any of us anticipated making it to 20 episodes and to still be going strong. We have an absolute blast doing the podcast and to me it as much part of my hobby as sling the 75 cards in the TP. We dont want to lose the fun and spirit of the cast, but with all that said we realise that there are areas where we can improve the professionalism of our podcast. New mics is definetly a good suggestion (although I think my headset is pretty good). I will say this that the amount of work that goes into each episode is phenomenally high. I dont think many of our readers are away of the time and passion. Massive props goes to Zach who spends so so so much time editing the cast. If you think the published versions are rough with mic sounds and what not - you should hear the unedited of topic ramblings and such forth.
Goblin Guide is a rare.
Goblin Guide is also a mythic. You could always go edit the script to say nothing costs more than 5 bucks...
all five need to be the same type
does anyone know if the 5 warmarks have to all be from the same side, like could i enter with 2 phyrexian and 3 mirrordin?
Hippy SPec was never common. It was an ubiquitous uncommon in all it's paper printings before it was reprinted as a rare.
RE your main point yeah well :) As said...rules by the PRE guys.
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I suppose that is as good as reason as any, although I would prefer any card printed at common to be legal, and just weed out the problem cards individually. Kird Ape was released online at uncommon, but I'm sure that was just a draft consideration and was not aimed at the MTGO pauper community, same with REB/BEB.
I don't actually play paper pauper, I just played back before revised, and anyone who cracked packs remembers having a million useless apes. The only once common creature that would be a legit problem in pauper would be Hypnotic Spectre, but it was reprinted at rare (and was terrible, it is only broken with the real menace, dark ritual).
For all the bad cards and combos played back then, everyone on earth figured out how sick that and black vise (not a common, I know) were.
I'm reading it right now! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Great job!
A job well done Whiffy. Sad I missed your standard matches today as I fell asleep before they started.
so, enigma opened up your article before rd 1 of modern started today. "Under 700 usd is affordable??" The whole room erupts in laughter and says yes Joe, for classic it is.
Hope you guys enjoyed the coverage from the mother ship.
The rewards for June have been posted, just in an older blog post. http://community.wizards.com/magiconline/blog/2011/05/24/announcements_-...
Wild Mongrel, Gatekeeper of M something, Cancel and DoJ, the latter two being full art textless
Thank you for keeping hams work going your doing a great job and i look forward to your post as i did every friday for hams post, keep up the great work and Go Team
Fair enough, especially when compared to Batterskull and its ilk.
On the other hand (and at the risk of coming across as an overcritical jerk) my math puts the average price of a mythic at around $5 making it priced exactly like a mythic - just not one with relevance in standard.
but not priced like a Mythic, I guess.
"This one has the advantage of being really, really cheap: no Mythics at all! "
Hero of Oxid Ridge is Mythic
Congrats to the Community Team for completely dominating the modern format yesterday! The WotC Team is going to be hard pressed to overcome that beating.
I also want to congratulate you, Pete for continuing this series in a way that has exceeded my expectations. Of course it's different than it was, but it's every bit as valuable. Thanks for that.
A great showing of CawBlade before Wizards hopefully kills it come Monday.
Please make sure that the recording uses the entire frame. I'm not sure if the issue arose from your recording or your uploading, but there's a large black 'border' around what we're actually watching.
As far as I can recall, Online Pauper's rules were designed by the people running the Online Pauper PREs before WOTC decided to make it an official format. The "it only counts if it is part of a common print run in a set online" rule made sense then and it still does. After all we are talking about Magic Online, not M:TG everywhere.
Ahh, MTGO has weird rules regarding their online print runs, got it. Explains why Pyroblast is a 2 dollar common while REB is much less, even though it was definitely common in paper.
I get the distinction of vintage/classic online, and their choice not to release the power nine (proxies aren't possible online, cards were a mistake, etc) But that's definitely a weird policy - is there a reason behind it? It definitely isn't due to Kird Ape, all the problem cards for pauper are outright banned, so I can't see why they made online and IRL print run distinctions/legal cards.
Standard and legacy are exactly the same (minus cards de facto banned due to not being available online, that's another issue) so that choice seems baffling.
char49d - Perhpas you play paper pauper which is slightly different than MTGO pauper due to what cards are legal. Kird Ape isn't legal on MTGO. It hasn't been released as a common except as a promo. If you're playing paper, no doubt it's a great creature.
Motu - I dig the article. There isn't enough classic pauper coverage now that SpikeBoyM and Dr. Anime aren't putting stuff out, so great to see someone give my format of choice some attention. I like the look of the Wellspring deck, a departure from regular Affinity. However, while looking it over, I couldn't help but think of 2 omissions: Kuldotha Rebirth + Goblin Bushwhacker. Those dudes combined with the Wellsprings and other artifacts has seen play in Standard (both pauper and real standard) and could give the deck some real pop. Unlike standard, you have access to artifact lands which greatly increases your artifact density and ability to fire off Rebirth.
Thank you we will look at getting this resolved. We really do want to raise the profile of the cast and reach out to people, so that we have immpact on a range of audiences - hopefully for the greater classic good.
I dont think any of us anticipated making it to 20 episodes and to still be going strong. We have an absolute blast doing the podcast and to me it as much part of my hobby as sling the 75 cards in the TP. We dont want to lose the fun and spirit of the cast, but with all that said we realise that there are areas where we can improve the professionalism of our podcast. New mics is definetly a good suggestion (although I think my headset is pretty good). I will say this that the amount of work that goes into each episode is phenomenally high. I dont think many of our readers are away of the time and passion. Massive props goes to Zach who spends so so so much time editing the cast. If you think the published versions are rough with mic sounds and what not - you should hear the unedited of topic ramblings and such forth.
Yep you are right - It will be interesting to see the impact of the Commander decks and their costs.