Was this in the tourney practice room, or the 2 mans? I assume tourney practice, since one of your opponents lost his connection. This info is important, as it appears the competition in 2-mans is a little tougher.
Well I was waiting to buy Vengevines till they hit 10... that never happened. then I meant to buy them when they climbed to 24... put it off for one day and they hit 34 the next day :(
I bought my set of Vengevines when they were at the $17-$20. They went as low as $12, then went up over $30. I had a strong feeling that they are going to be staples for a long time to come and bought them when I thought the price was right. I didn't do it because I was planning on reselling them later for profit, I bought them because I didn't want to be priced out of playing green the way I'm currently priced out of playing blue because of Jace TMS, and to a lesser extent Force of Will for 100 singleton.
Was I sad when the price of Vengevines went down to $12? Yes, a little, but I wasn't planning on selling them, I just wanted them so I could play, and I don't think I deserve any sympathy because I wasn't perfect in my timing. I think some people are probably going to be upset that I was able to buy Vengevines at a cheaper price than they are able to now. That is just an unfortunate part of the secondary market.
In a way, every player that wants to play competitively in any format is forced to be a speculator to a certain extent. It's the nature of the secondary market.
The problem is when certain people start trying to corner the market on cards. That's a whole different story, and one where I think sympathy is not really warranted.
I side the following usually Standstill,Daze-possibly the worst 2 cards in mirror- and FoW are the only things i sideout. High number of dudes is key, Jitt= rawrsauce, Wake Trasher because it is largely bigger than anything in mirror.
I know I for one could care less when someone starts complaining about their "investments" when cards fluctuate. It's a game not the damn stock market. Personally I would celebrate with a 12 pack of Guinness and some mtgo friends if the market got flooded with FoW and wrecked the price of the card for everyone. Then it would be back to reasonable price for a digital object and there would be lots of weeping and gnashing of teeth. Which is always fun.
As a note: I have very little respect for people that view magic more as an investment than as a game. They are the reason we have crappy things like the reserve list in paper and cant enjoy nice reprints.
If vial was Fow, I wont keep that hand unless I'd be sure that the opponent is running a combo deck : only 1 mana source, 1 mana playable creature and even if I could cast daze/fow, I would be in an aweful situation regarding the card advantage (2 for 1 with FoW for a simple counter, or Daze and a step backward in my deployment ...). If the draws remained the same as you mentioned, you then have a proof that your start wont be efficient, especialy vs any aggro player ...
btw, about the mirror, if if it is a perfect mirror (I mean monoU vs monoU ie, not monoU vs Ug because the strategy could be pretty different) I think that Jitte and Llawan are both very good stuff to deal with "yourself" : Jitte's reason is obvious, and Llawan just paralyzes your opponent as much as you are, but YOU have a merf on board that your opponent doesnt have ...
I think Alex Shearer has written some excellent stuff, so building on him is a great start.
My biggest problem is that I don't have great recall of all the cards that could be in an opponent's hand. (And I probably don't take long enough to recall them.) So I'll be ready to play around removal but walk into a Veteran's Reflexes. (Actually that's not even a fair example, since that's pretty unplayed. But it's true with more obvious examples too.) So I ask "what can they do?" and then shortly after decide "nothing", so I attack. Then they show me what they could do, and I kick myself because I knew it was in the deck.
That's probably a practice thing, but in the meantime I should probably take a minute to check a list and see if I can perceive anything.
On the charts, you gotta love the rectangular curve of a low-volume card like Gorilla Shaman. I have nothing to say on that, it just amuses me. :)
match1, g2: 2 bsas to match 2 malakir, but kor firewalker kills you? if you weren't at below 5 life or so, wouldn't it have been more profitable to let bsa hit you once while you kill the kor with a bwitch? and resume bsa-malakir blocks?
match1, g3: duress saw 2 spreading seas, yet your only red source still gets spreading seas'd? how'd that happen. i see your play as turn 1 swamp-duress. t2 forest. letting him use the other seas on forest or swamp. t3 raging, etc. raging ravine should not have been seas'd.
What about the guy who bought FoW last month for $125?
Is it great for him? How is he/she likely to feel about that?
Like or not, the 2nd market price of cards are at the prices they are at b/c of supply and demand, and while everyone should be be aware of the risks of spending money and having it be devalued, that comes part in parcel with the very real possibility the value will also rise above a price you are willing to pay.
People have every right to be disappointed in the value of something going down as much as they do in seeing the value of that same thing rise.
Only card I found missing from your discussion was Trygon Predator. I put him in all my U/g Merfolk lists (at least sideobard) as he really helps vs some problematic enchantments/artifacts.
Also, I cut Standstill from my merfolk lists ages ago. not that it is a bad card... I just found that the metagame was too aggro and it often ended up being a dead draw as you need to be ahead on the board to cast it. (or have a vial out). It is the worst card vs death and taxes and Goblins...
Its true about any Jace deck being overpriced but its also true that we should look at it by putting things in perspective. If you look at Mythic Bant , Next Level Bant , UW Control or UWR Super Friends or even Naya, its easy to see why I mentioned the "affordable" and "Jace" in the same sentence. Compared to the other tier1 decks this one will give you the feeling of putting together a pauper deck.
Thanks for the comments guys. I probably made the scenario a little to easy lol. I would be keeping that hand for sure and agree with pretty much all that was said.
The decisions get a little tougher if you don't have vial in opener.
Take that same scenario but replace vial with force of will. Do you still keep that opener?
I have not tested this thing, but i assume with 16 lords the speed of the deck is also increased; as you now have something like 2.5 lords out of every 10 cards. Jitt seems like the right call to me as well Impn 26+5 = Jitt is never lonely. What are the plays like with hands where you do not get a vial turn 1, since it plays at 3cc more.
The card choices at the bottom were great. I have seen Athos the Merfolkman put out Sygg, Cutthroat in Classic(always assumed it was for the mirror and possibly ANT-fetch--->Seize could also work-. The Tarmo list was huge in Classic for a time and i played it to a few dailiy 3-1s. Selkie and Stoneforge-fetching SoFI- are both a house against Merfolk. I have resolved either-noble fish- and had Merfolk pilots scoop on sight. The Seasinger is my little pet slot-she was like in almost every merfolk list i played- for when i ran the Merfolk w/ Goyf mainly to steal other Goyfs/Reej or Oath targets. Thada adel is Vintage tech and in mirror stealing Jitt and playing it possibly having the opp counter his own Jitt is not good for them.
Jace 2.0 is just jesus with brainstorms in any deck you play him.
1. Keep
2. Lead island->Vial. Against ant or dredge i go Catcher
3. Turn 2 draw Adept, either scenario we are passing turn here. vs ant,dredge -->Vial turn 2 swing for 1.
4. Draw Muta-->Vial is at 2, cast Adept reveal Corral Vial LoA swing for 2. Ant,Dredge Adept only swing for 1
5. Draw 2nd Coral set Vial at 3--> Reej swing for 13 and keep 2 corrals until i saw Island. Ant Dredge get vial out at 2 activate Muta and Vial out LoA swing for 8.
even more budget friendly is to assume Jace will die fairly quickly a lot of the time and run Ponder or some card drawing instead ... I have a bad Grixis deck - the only rares in it might be Sed. & Hyp. Spectres, 2 Cruel Ult, and 2 Earthquake
I'm not saying it wins me tourneys but I'm a casual player and like to have a cheap version of some of the popular decks
1) 4 cards playable immediatly + 2 playable on a land draw + presence of early disruption + presence of vial = Yes I keep !
2) If I guess my opponent is a combo player, I'll go with island & crusecatcher t1 to be able to counter 1 or maybe 2 spells if needed. If not, I'll go with vial to accelerate the deck & avaoid any futher counters on creature.
3) If I played vial T1, I play nothing. If I didnt, I play vial.
4) If I played vial T1 and if it is still active with 2 counters, I'll cast adept and I'll keep LoA if the opponent is running U, coralhelm otherwise as a vial drop at eot on opponent turn. If I didnt play T1 vial, I also cast adept as I cant play anything else and it is still good to play it now.
5) f I played vial and if it is still active with 3 counters,I play nothing and drop reej at eot at opponent turn. If played vial and if it still active with 2 counters, I'll cast LoA via vial at eot.
I will be shouted at again for sure for this, but no, I will not shut up as demanded.
I fail to see the "bad thing" of prices of staple magic card going down. Investing in some cards that can and will fluctuate with each new set, format announcement, draft or re-print is a very bad thing to do, imho. Invest in GOLD is the best thing to do, not in cardboard (ehh..pixels).
Lower prices means more players can afford the cards, and more players will play your format. Isn´t that worth more than a 150$ FoW, which you will not sell anyway?
I understand, it is all a matter of casual vs competative, but I really can not see the bad in lower card prices.. can you?
Nice article. This deck always wrecks me, because it's virtually creatureless (and completely un doomblade-able) and I'm always packing loads of removal.
Why doesn't it run sphinx of jwarr isle though? It looks like that would be strong?
On a side-note, I know everybody says vampires isn't a real deck, etc. etc. but I've found that it absolutely wrecks mythic, nlbant and naya ('though i am playing in the tournament practice room, so am probably playing weaker players {then again, I am a weaker player too!}) because of its masses of removal and the ability to just run 4 bojuka bogs main, which nobody seems to expect and leaves lots of exiled vengevines.
It's still a dog to jund, and as I mentioned, grixis steamrolls it, but the U/W and U/W/R matchups are both ~50/50.
I'm not saying it's sick tech for the metagame or anything, but I certainly think it's playable, and is super-super budget (I built the deck for about 14 tickets).
But in every single one of your games, the opponent does absolutely nothing relevant post-moat. IMHO you could've probably won with any random win condition post-moat in these games. Using a non-creature is neat because it prevents your opponents killing your condition (giving themselves more time to draw some kind of answer to moat), but it could've easily just been some kind of shroud-monster or x-spell or something?
As I said, it's a neat deck, and a cool win condition, I just think you're understating how cold most of the decks you faced were as soon as you dropped a moat.
I absolutely agree with you 100,000,000,000% (non-mathematical shenanigans added for effect)
As it is, I find it's pretty much only viable to run decks with flying tribes, counterspells, a playable anti-enchantment creature (i.e. stomphowler, zealot, KOALa and maybe harmonic sliver), maelstrom pulse or mortify.
Moat is such a powerhouse in this format because you generally only have ~15 non-creature spell slots, and because each deck will involve at least 20 creatures, you want most of those to interact with creatures in some way, so it's difficult to justify just sticking naturalize or something in there.
just a comment on your last line "One of the advantages of the deck besides putting up good results against most of the decks of the field is that besides Jace, The Mind Sculptor its a fairly affordable deck."
So other than the $320 for the jaces its affordable huh?
With the MED 1 sealed just 2 days away I hate to see all my investments of MED 1-3 dropping. I don't foresee that many chase rares hitting the market. Even with a max of 512 (1024 total of each pack) users I wouldn't expect to see more than 18 new FoWs, 1024 packs / 60 total rares (I think I counted that correctly). And i'm sure a lot of the prizes will end up on bots and not get cracked.
I hope to see the MED prices bounce back in the next few weeks after the market has stabilized and people have gotten over the fear of a MED market price crash. People will realize that they can buy a FoW @70-75 again and buy them all up forcing the price back to around 100, which is where I think it should back to. Its a legacy staple that EVERY player needs, I just cant see it staying that low when just recently it topped at 150. It is also a bit disturbing that a card that was just @150 is the same price (84) as Jace 2.0 when its a mythic rare from the lastest block. He certainly isn't opened as frequently as Giddeon is right now, but compared to a MED1 card that rarely gets drafted, its not the price you would expect. Yes, both cards see legacy play, yes you are likely to see FoW in any deck that runs Jace 2.0. I just cant grasp the idea that a Standard card could be worth that much (insert Supply/Demand comments here). Maybe the problem is that people cant afford to play legacy, but can afford to play standard so they deal with the one card that costs so much, rather than have an entire deck where every card cost 10-84 tickets each.
I think it is safe to say that Jace 2.0 is the most expensive card on MTGO right now, as it likely will continue to tick its way up a few tickets more while FoW hits a low around 70 after the event on Saturday. Hopefully this week not be the case come July. Now don't get me started on the playset of duals I just finished collecting 2 weeks ago.
Another great article hamtastic, i've been reading it every Friday morning for as long as I can remember. I never comment, nor had an account here for that matter. I just felt a discussion about FoW was needed. I expect to likely see some more talented (than me) writer, come with a good article looking at the prices of MED, FoW and the duals. I look forward to it every Friday Morning when I get to work, its usually the 2nd thing I do after check my email. Well done sir.
I remember playing for ante. Of course, that stopped after I beat a couple people and took their Serra Angels.
5 decks an article! Holy cow that's a lot. I'm always tempted to try and cram Doran into decks based around spiders.
Was this in the tourney practice room, or the 2 mans? I assume tourney practice, since one of your opponents lost his connection. This info is important, as it appears the competition in 2-mans is a little tougher.
Well I was waiting to buy Vengevines till they hit 10... that never happened. then I meant to buy them when they climbed to 24... put it off for one day and they hit 34 the next day :(
I bought my set of Vengevines when they were at the $17-$20. They went as low as $12, then went up over $30. I had a strong feeling that they are going to be staples for a long time to come and bought them when I thought the price was right. I didn't do it because I was planning on reselling them later for profit, I bought them because I didn't want to be priced out of playing green the way I'm currently priced out of playing blue because of Jace TMS, and to a lesser extent Force of Will for 100 singleton.
Was I sad when the price of Vengevines went down to $12? Yes, a little, but I wasn't planning on selling them, I just wanted them so I could play, and I don't think I deserve any sympathy because I wasn't perfect in my timing. I think some people are probably going to be upset that I was able to buy Vengevines at a cheaper price than they are able to now. That is just an unfortunate part of the secondary market.
In a way, every player that wants to play competitively in any format is forced to be a speculator to a certain extent. It's the nature of the secondary market.
The problem is when certain people start trying to corner the market on cards. That's a whole different story, and one where I think sympathy is not really warranted.
I side the following usually Standstill,Daze-possibly the worst 2 cards in mirror- and FoW are the only things i sideout. High number of dudes is key, Jitt= rawrsauce, Wake Trasher because it is largely bigger than anything in mirror.
I know I for one could care less when someone starts complaining about their "investments" when cards fluctuate. It's a game not the damn stock market. Personally I would celebrate with a 12 pack of Guinness and some mtgo friends if the market got flooded with FoW and wrecked the price of the card for everyone. Then it would be back to reasonable price for a digital object and there would be lots of weeping and gnashing of teeth. Which is always fun.
As a note: I have very little respect for people that view magic more as an investment than as a game. They are the reason we have crappy things like the reserve list in paper and cant enjoy nice reprints.
If vial was Fow, I wont keep that hand unless I'd be sure that the opponent is running a combo deck : only 1 mana source, 1 mana playable creature and even if I could cast daze/fow, I would be in an aweful situation regarding the card advantage (2 for 1 with FoW for a simple counter, or Daze and a step backward in my deployment ...). If the draws remained the same as you mentioned, you then have a proof that your start wont be efficient, especialy vs any aggro player ...
btw, about the mirror, if if it is a perfect mirror (I mean monoU vs monoU ie, not monoU vs Ug because the strategy could be pretty different) I think that Jitte and Llawan are both very good stuff to deal with "yourself" : Jitte's reason is obvious, and Llawan just paralyzes your opponent as much as you are, but YOU have a merf on board that your opponent doesnt have ...
I think Alex Shearer has written some excellent stuff, so building on him is a great start.
My biggest problem is that I don't have great recall of all the cards that could be in an opponent's hand. (And I probably don't take long enough to recall them.) So I'll be ready to play around removal but walk into a Veteran's Reflexes. (Actually that's not even a fair example, since that's pretty unplayed. But it's true with more obvious examples too.) So I ask "what can they do?" and then shortly after decide "nothing", so I attack. Then they show me what they could do, and I kick myself because I knew it was in the deck.
That's probably a practice thing, but in the meantime I should probably take a minute to check a list and see if I can perceive anything.
On the charts, you gotta love the rectangular curve of a low-volume card like Gorilla Shaman. I have nothing to say on that, it just amuses me. :)
match1, g2: 2 bsas to match 2 malakir, but kor firewalker kills you? if you weren't at below 5 life or so, wouldn't it have been more profitable to let bsa hit you once while you kill the kor with a bwitch? and resume bsa-malakir blocks?
match1, g3: duress saw 2 spreading seas, yet your only red source still gets spreading seas'd? how'd that happen. i see your play as turn 1 swamp-duress. t2 forest. letting him use the other seas on forest or swamp. t3 raging, etc. raging ravine should not have been seas'd.
sb plan vs UW seemed decent: - blast - slow creatures (SGC, coupla thrinax) - terminate - bolt + ruinblaster + duress + doom blade + malakir...
Now that the meta has shifted a little bit away from DnT and Goblins, do you think putting it back in is an option?
How do you side for the mirror and do you have any suggestions about playing the mirror match?
What about the guy who bought FoW last month for $125?
Is it great for him? How is he/she likely to feel about that?
Like or not, the 2nd market price of cards are at the prices they are at b/c of supply and demand, and while everyone should be be aware of the risks of spending money and having it be devalued, that comes part in parcel with the very real possibility the value will also rise above a price you are willing to pay.
People have every right to be disappointed in the value of something going down as much as they do in seeing the value of that same thing rise.
Only card I found missing from your discussion was Trygon Predator. I put him in all my U/g Merfolk lists (at least sideobard) as he really helps vs some problematic enchantments/artifacts.
Also, I cut Standstill from my merfolk lists ages ago. not that it is a bad card... I just found that the metagame was too aggro and it often ended up being a dead draw as you need to be ahead on the board to cast it. (or have a vial out). It is the worst card vs death and taxes and Goblins...
I totally remember the "40 card minimum" recommendation. We've come a long way. Unlimited is like Magic's bronze-age
Its true about any Jace deck being overpriced but its also true that we should look at it by putting things in perspective. If you look at Mythic Bant , Next Level Bant , UW Control or UWR Super Friends or even Naya, its easy to see why I mentioned the "affordable" and "Jace" in the same sentence. Compared to the other tier1 decks this one will give you the feeling of putting together a pauper deck.
The guy wants the prices to stay high for his own, egotistic reasons.
For the rest of us, it's great.
Thanks for the comments guys. I probably made the scenario a little to easy lol. I would be keeping that hand for sure and agree with pretty much all that was said.
The decisions get a little tougher if you don't have vial in opener.
Take that same scenario but replace vial with force of will. Do you still keep that opener?
Yes a Legacy article!! YaY!
I have not tested this thing, but i assume with 16 lords the speed of the deck is also increased; as you now have something like 2.5 lords out of every 10 cards. Jitt seems like the right call to me as well Impn 26+5 = Jitt is never lonely. What are the plays like with hands where you do not get a vial turn 1, since it plays at 3cc more.
The card choices at the bottom were great. I have seen Athos the Merfolkman put out Sygg, Cutthroat in Classic(always assumed it was for the mirror and possibly ANT-fetch--->Seize could also work-. The Tarmo list was huge in Classic for a time and i played it to a few dailiy 3-1s. Selkie and Stoneforge-fetching SoFI- are both a house against Merfolk. I have resolved either-noble fish- and had Merfolk pilots scoop on sight. The Seasinger is my little pet slot-she was like in almost every merfolk list i played- for when i ran the Merfolk w/ Goyf mainly to steal other Goyfs/Reej or Oath targets. Thada adel is Vintage tech and in mirror stealing Jitt and playing it possibly having the opp counter his own Jitt is not good for them.
Jace 2.0 is just jesus with brainstorms in any deck you play him.
1. Keep
2. Lead island->Vial. Against ant or dredge i go Catcher
3. Turn 2 draw Adept, either scenario we are passing turn here. vs ant,dredge -->Vial turn 2 swing for 1.
4. Draw Muta-->Vial is at 2, cast Adept reveal Corral Vial LoA swing for 2. Ant,Dredge Adept only swing for 1
5. Draw 2nd Coral set Vial at 3--> Reej swing for 13 and keep 2 corrals until i saw Island. Ant Dredge get vial out at 2 activate Muta and Vial out LoA swing for 8.
even more budget friendly is to assume Jace will die fairly quickly a lot of the time and run Ponder or some card drawing instead ... I have a bad Grixis deck - the only rares in it might be Sed. & Hyp. Spectres, 2 Cruel Ult, and 2 Earthquake
I'm not saying it wins me tourneys but I'm a casual player and like to have a cheap version of some of the popular decks
Nice article about the nasty merf
About the scenario :
1) 4 cards playable immediatly + 2 playable on a land draw + presence of early disruption + presence of vial = Yes I keep !
2) If I guess my opponent is a combo player, I'll go with island & crusecatcher t1 to be able to counter 1 or maybe 2 spells if needed. If not, I'll go with vial to accelerate the deck & avaoid any futher counters on creature.
3) If I played vial T1, I play nothing. If I didnt, I play vial.
4) If I played vial T1 and if it is still active with 2 counters, I'll cast adept and I'll keep LoA if the opponent is running U, coralhelm otherwise as a vial drop at eot on opponent turn. If I didnt play T1 vial, I also cast adept as I cant play anything else and it is still good to play it now.
5) f I played vial and if it is still active with 3 counters,I play nothing and drop reej at eot at opponent turn. If played vial and if it still active with 2 counters, I'll cast LoA via vial at eot.
I will be shouted at again for sure for this, but no, I will not shut up as demanded.
I fail to see the "bad thing" of prices of staple magic card going down. Investing in some cards that can and will fluctuate with each new set, format announcement, draft or re-print is a very bad thing to do, imho. Invest in GOLD is the best thing to do, not in cardboard (ehh..pixels).
Lower prices means more players can afford the cards, and more players will play your format. Isn´t that worth more than a 150$ FoW, which you will not sell anyway?
I understand, it is all a matter of casual vs competative, but I really can not see the bad in lower card prices.. can you?
Nice article. This deck always wrecks me, because it's virtually creatureless (and completely un doomblade-able) and I'm always packing loads of removal.
Why doesn't it run sphinx of jwarr isle though? It looks like that would be strong?
On a side-note, I know everybody says vampires isn't a real deck, etc. etc. but I've found that it absolutely wrecks mythic, nlbant and naya ('though i am playing in the tournament practice room, so am probably playing weaker players {then again, I am a weaker player too!}) because of its masses of removal and the ability to just run 4 bojuka bogs main, which nobody seems to expect and leaves lots of exiled vengevines.
It's still a dog to jund, and as I mentioned, grixis steamrolls it, but the U/W and U/W/R matchups are both ~50/50.
I'm not saying it's sick tech for the metagame or anything, but I certainly think it's playable, and is super-super budget (I built the deck for about 14 tickets).
But in every single one of your games, the opponent does absolutely nothing relevant post-moat. IMHO you could've probably won with any random win condition post-moat in these games. Using a non-creature is neat because it prevents your opponents killing your condition (giving themselves more time to draw some kind of answer to moat), but it could've easily just been some kind of shroud-monster or x-spell or something?
As I said, it's a neat deck, and a cool win condition, I just think you're understating how cold most of the decks you faced were as soon as you dropped a moat.
I absolutely agree with you 100,000,000,000% (non-mathematical shenanigans added for effect)
As it is, I find it's pretty much only viable to run decks with flying tribes, counterspells, a playable anti-enchantment creature (i.e. stomphowler, zealot, KOALa and maybe harmonic sliver), maelstrom pulse or mortify.
Moat is such a powerhouse in this format because you generally only have ~15 non-creature spell slots, and because each deck will involve at least 20 creatures, you want most of those to interact with creatures in some way, so it's difficult to justify just sticking naturalize or something in there.
just a comment on your last line "One of the advantages of the deck besides putting up good results against most of the decks of the field is that besides Jace, The Mind Sculptor its a fairly affordable deck."
So other than the $320 for the jaces its affordable huh?
With the MED 1 sealed just 2 days away I hate to see all my investments of MED 1-3 dropping. I don't foresee that many chase rares hitting the market. Even with a max of 512 (1024 total of each pack) users I wouldn't expect to see more than 18 new FoWs, 1024 packs / 60 total rares (I think I counted that correctly). And i'm sure a lot of the prizes will end up on bots and not get cracked.
I hope to see the MED prices bounce back in the next few weeks after the market has stabilized and people have gotten over the fear of a MED market price crash. People will realize that they can buy a FoW @70-75 again and buy them all up forcing the price back to around 100, which is where I think it should back to. Its a legacy staple that EVERY player needs, I just cant see it staying that low when just recently it topped at 150. It is also a bit disturbing that a card that was just @150 is the same price (84) as Jace 2.0 when its a mythic rare from the lastest block. He certainly isn't opened as frequently as Giddeon is right now, but compared to a MED1 card that rarely gets drafted, its not the price you would expect. Yes, both cards see legacy play, yes you are likely to see FoW in any deck that runs Jace 2.0. I just cant grasp the idea that a Standard card could be worth that much (insert Supply/Demand comments here). Maybe the problem is that people cant afford to play legacy, but can afford to play standard so they deal with the one card that costs so much, rather than have an entire deck where every card cost 10-84 tickets each.
I think it is safe to say that Jace 2.0 is the most expensive card on MTGO right now, as it likely will continue to tick its way up a few tickets more while FoW hits a low around 70 after the event on Saturday. Hopefully this week not be the case come July. Now don't get me started on the playset of duals I just finished collecting 2 weeks ago.
Another great article hamtastic, i've been reading it every Friday morning for as long as I can remember. I never comment, nor had an account here for that matter. I just felt a discussion about FoW was needed. I expect to likely see some more talented (than me) writer, come with a good article looking at the prices of MED, FoW and the duals. I look forward to it every Friday Morning when I get to work, its usually the 2nd thing I do after check my email. Well done sir.
-sspecv