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  1. Rusje

    Sets (MoM) April of the Machines Previews

    You know what the next storyline will be not? They accidentally left some oil behind, rinse and repeat.
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    Sets (MoM) April of the Machines Previews

    living lands
  3. Rusje

    Sets (MoM) April of the Machines Previews

    Optimise it by having a lot of of flicker! The cards will return face up
  4. Rusje

    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    Close, I meant that I never have read a fantasy that has good representation/character building and world building. It could exist but I have yet to discover it. Maybe it is due to the problem that the storyline is often between good and evil and that is it.
  5. Rusje

    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    Well, to be honest I never have read a serious mage fantasy book/series where the characters are from all parts/layers/LGBTQIA’s and has a proper mage world feel. The characters of lord of the rings are much more shallow than the wheel of time. The books hat have better characters are either...
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    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    Some books are slow, that’s true. Still, it is great fantasy. I agree that it would be better with less side characters. It reads much better than the lord of the rings. The wheel of time is sometimes slow, the lord of the rings mostly all the time. If you know a better mage fantasy than the...
  7. Rusje

    General CBS

    Well, that is if you have a 360 cube… if you have a bigger cube than the amount of cards you draft then the distribution is likely to be all over the place.
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    General CBS

    Yes and no. There not all over the place. They used to be slightly seeded. I have never heard of a booster which was without 1 or 2 colours. Something which is not unthinkable when you randomly grab 15 cards from a cube.
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    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    Yes, I could recommend the wheel of time 14logy if one wants to have a good fantasy book/series. It is a lot of pages though.
  10. Rusje

    General Secret Lair Spoilers

    My point was that most control decks do not have a big problem with ward/hexproof. Ward sacrifice a creature on a control creature is not hexproof against most non-control decks. That said, I am and have been a firm opponent against hexproof and any thing that even comes close to it. Shroud is...
  11. Rusje

    General Secret Lair Spoilers

    Control decks probably have something like destroy all/each. They are best equipped against ward. The problem is control creatures with ward, they are a beast agains non-control.
  12. Rusje

    General New Format: Oathbreaker

    You are spot on! But the problem is that it is even better than a random card. You know what the card can do and build around it. For fun and giggles, assume you are allowed to have 2 basic lands as signature. Then aggro will likely not have ANY lands in their deck! (Maybe chrome mox and it’s...
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    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    Here we go: * suppose all the value is in one card, let’s call this value X. Let’s assume that there are N packs and for simplicity assume that the probability of opening the card is equal over all packs, so 1/N. * the expected value of each pack is the probability of opening the jackpot times...
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    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    Well, suppose. Lot of the value is concentrated into a few cards. As long as those cards, e.g, the one ring, is still in the boosters than the boosters are worth a lot more than when that card is opened. The math is simple, you could search for expected value and could get a good idea of it.
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    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    The problem is that the scarcity has been mixed with pay to play. Note that I remember the oddessey block. In that block it was dirt cheap to have a standard tier 1 deck, some would say that was madness. But in reality, it is madness that these days it has become play to pay.
  16. Rusje

    Sets (LTR) The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth

    Hmm. I am glad that I am out for a long time. Artificial scarcity has never been anything I like. As is paying for a brand name for bragging rights. The problem is that a game is mixed with fancy smancy fake scarcity value.
  17. Rusje

    General Custom Cards: The Lab

    I would move prismatic to the top, as is often done with property defining cards and would change the ability parts after if you do to bullets and start with the colour restriction. If you do, then do the following: * if ~ is white then add a 1/1 …. * if ~ is black … With bullets you do not get...
  18. Rusje

    General New Format: Oathbreaker

    Yay, boring.
  19. Rusje

    General Custom Cards: The Lab

    It is truly great to play a game where cards do not require an immediate answer! The lack of fixing/card filtering is less great, but one can work around that by using custom rules.
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    General Other News

    I know what a planeswalker used to be before the nonsense of the mending. After the mending they did there best to make big bad bolas as strong as pre-mending… Seriously, before the mending planeswalkers were very strong, almost godlike, wizards. Afterwards, they were really weak. Comparing the...
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