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A little off topic from the steixhaven spoilers, but I’m finally trying to draft my Unstable “drafts matter” cube on April first at my LGS. I’m hoping there’s enough people for it to fire, though I’m also gonna force anyone that does show to do a pick two draft if there’s only four of us…
 
DiabeticSydePhil said:
A $100 dandan secret lair that instantly sold out, only includes half foils, and is getting scalped for $200+

Fuck em, I bought a proxy deck using the secret lair designs because it's just for dandan and the cards are never leaving that specific wacky side game again.

Secret Lairs for decks like this can go to hell.
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Its probably the best value deck they've ever produced for secret lair. Most secret lair decks have between five and seven secret lair cards, and then 93 bulk reprints. The dandan deck was packed with like 50 secret lair cards, plus all the bulk reprints were retro framed.

I'm not a huge fan of the artist, but the fish cards are purty.
 
Stab You in the Back said:
Its probably the best value deck they've ever produced for secret lair. Most secret lair decks have between five and seven secret lair cards, and then 93 bulk reprints. The dandan deck was packed with like 50 secret lair cards, plus all the bulk reprints were retro framed.

I'm not a huge fan of the artist, but the fish cards are purty.
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Value means nothing to me when they sell out in five seconds only to immediately be scalped or broken apart and resold as singles for a profit.

There's no reason they can't do what the boomer die-cast car company has figured out which is a limited window to order followed by 'you'll get your stuff in 6-8 months, but if you ordered you WILL get it'.

The lack of availability means I physically cannot give Wizards my money in a five minute window and then have no choice to do so later.


The dandan ARE pretty though, but I purchased a set of ten proxy dandan where each one is a individual pretty fish design. 10 unique dandan versus 5 and 5 wouldn't have been that difficult honestly.
 
Hey lorehounds and paper lovers...
Brandon Sanderson's mtg book is getting a physical edition.
Back in 2018, Wizards of the Coast pulled off a really clever crossover: They brought in Brandon Sanderson, let him write an Innistrad story, and published the result for free online. That novella, Children of the Nameless, introduced Davriel Cane and quickly became one of the most fondly remembered pieces of modern MTG fiction, but was later taken down. Now Subterranean Press has announced a signed limited edition of Brandon Sanderson’s Children of the Nameless.

The collector angle is very much the point. Subterranean’s limited edition is signed by Sanderson, limited to 1,500 numbered copies, and comes with premium production features including a cloth binding, foil stamping, a slipcase, and six full-color interior illustrations. There’s also an unsigned hardcover edition of 5,000 copies planned for April.
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DiabeticSydePhil said:
Value means nothing to me when they sell out in five seconds only to immediately be scalped or broken apart and resold as singles for a profit.

There's no reason they can't do what the boomer die-cast car company has figured out which is a limited window to order followed by 'you'll get your stuff in 6-8 months, but if you ordered you WILL get it'.

The lack of availability means I physically cannot give Wizards my money in a five minute window and then have no choice to do so later.


The dandan ARE pretty though, but I purchased a set of ten proxy dandan where each one is a individual pretty fish design. 10 unique dandan versus 5 and 5 wouldn't have been that difficult honestly.
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Granted, I never kept too well of track, but isn't that what they used to do? For whatever reason they decided to swap because of FOMO I guess.
 
Flexo said:
Hey lorehounds and paper lovers...
Brandon Sanderson's mtg book is getting a physical edition.
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I haven't read this and am not the biggest fan of Sanderson (His conclusion for WoT is fine considering everything, and from what I've seen he seems like s decent person.} but I would not be surprised if this is the best MtG story since Mirrodin.
 
Billy the Adult said:
Granted, I never kept too well of track, but isn't that what they used to do?
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Yep. Iirc one issue was that they run the secret lairs out of the same print shop as the rest of the product. The FOMO model gives them predictable print times between the 400 different boxes of slop they're pumping out.
 
Guys, why is he black? Did I miss some important story again?
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Noebel said:
Guys, why is he black? Did I miss some important story again?
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Because this one is from an alternate timeline where Ral is Orzhov and kills journalists.

But we don't see him outside of a side story so far.

Basically the Lost 4 students that went to Lorwyn and their faggot elf friend discover that the Not Eldrazi who are Oracles from the future who died..and were sent back to the start of time on Strixhaven are seeing that the future is being undone.

Chandra thinks Jace is at fault..and then the Gorgon of the Lorwyn Students Goldberg spears an Oracle through the Supersnarl...and ends up in wherever the fuck Jace went at the end of Dragonstorm..which isn't the Edge of Eternity because the Prime Numbers told her to.

Not like Magical people with the name Prime Numbers, like actual Prime Numbers because she is from Simic School and their entire hat is math.
 
Flexo said:
and seeing Prismari give your I&S storm
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My Clanka, we have had that effect for less mana for ages with Thousand Year Storm, and honestly I replaced that furry Ral just because it is pretty easy to get him to ult in a storm deck.
 
People are mostly excited for Thousand Year Storm in the command zone, but it's high cost basically banishes it to low power; storm isn't exactly an archetype without commanders. Golgari Dragon is the best, Boros a close second, Orzov and Simic are a strong third (simic is probably too close to other commanders though but at least has a niche of instants/sorceries) and Izzet is probably the worst but still fine.

In constructed I think only Boros is maybe playable in standard/pioneer in some Jeskai big spells tribal.
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
My Clanka, we have had that effect for less mana for ages with Thousand Year Storm, and honestly I replaced that furry Ral just because it is pretty easy to get him to ult in a storm deck.
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Now it's in the command zone, and counts for ALL spells (like cheap mana rocks) instead of only I&S.

Though you could still play all 3 and then have ancestral recall storm off for you at 3x per everything.
 
Flexo said:
Now it's in the command zone, and counts for ALL spells (like cheap mana rocks) instead of only I&S.

Though you could still play all 3 and then have ancestral recall storm off for you at 3x per everything.
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Nah, Storm and Prismari are both I&S only; that's kind of the uniting autism of this cycle of Strixhaven dragons
 
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