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I still trade when I get the opportunity, but since I have a disposable income nowadays, unlike 20 years ago, I often just buy the cards I want through MagicCardMarket. Many of the players in my playgroup have been playing for over 15-20 years, and are in a similar place.

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If your Azorius decks play for the long game, Irrigated Farmland might seem better, unless they are mana hungry, and don’t want to cycle a land away. In that case go with Azorius Chancery, I mean Restless Anchorage, I mean Meticulous Archive. Seriously though, it’s entirely valid to break up...

Between the more aggressive reprint policy, larger print runs, Arena, and casual Commander taking over from Standard as the most popular format, Magic has never been cheaper as a hobby. Maybe not for the experienced players who knew when to buy and sell, or for those who could go infinite on...

Yes, this is correct, and it has nothing to do with investors. Nobody buys a board game, or a book, or a DVD, expecting to get their money back. Magic is a hobby that costs money, just like other hobby’s. The expectation should be that you lose money.

I only support five guilds, and the resulting five three-color combinations. Monocolored decks seldomly appear, but 4- or 5-Color Green does sometimes appear. So say that there are 11 different colors you could end up in, out of those 7 play either black or white, so 7/11 * 8 ≈ 5 players on...

I’m not calling anyone an EVIL investor, I just believe that you shouldn’t view Magic as an investment (unless you are buying cards from the reserved list). It’s speculation at best, and there is no guarantee you will get your money back if you buy a Magic card (again, excepting reserved list...

Yeah, MtG is not a stock. I get that cards hold some value, but for my part they can and should reprint everything into the ground to temper the cost of playing Magic. It’s expensive enough as is, I don’t give a hoot about investors. (And yes. Everybody who complains that their cards are worth...

Note that in general I’m a fan of slightly pushing the envelope, rather than play it safe. Players will come to you if they feel your custom designs are too strong, but if they are too weak they will just quietly ignore them. Planar Cleansing is definitely a lot more impactful than a Day of...

Yes and no. Obviously paying 3+7 mana isn’t great for a Vindicate, but the same is true for a Day of Judgment. The problem is that you are also paying for the mana rock itself, and paying 3 mana for something without immediate impact is already a big ask. (After all, what is a mana rock but a...

Making the cost colorless could work, but it also means the effect can't be pushed as much. Worth exploring though. The Wall of Hope summoning mana rock could easily be colorless, for example, as life gain is already well within the purview of colorless mana rocks (see Pristine Talisman, for...

Let me be the one to defend the Secret Lairs then. Ever since they stopped printing new cards in them, these are purely cosmetic items. Everybody can simply ignore them, and they will be none the worse off. However, all these extra pimped printings drive down the price of the normal printings...

No, not at all :) I'm seeing how far I can push these so they become like 4th to 8th pick or something. They should be exciting enough to want to pick, but not so hot that you go: "Yeah, that's a snap 1st pick!" To be honest, none of the 3mv rocks really are at that level, except for the ones...

The Outlaw deck is such a letdown, but I am currently building an Aragorn the Uniter convoke deck, and this fits right in XD Bounty Board could definitely be decent! The blue one doesn't do a whole lot in my cube, I don't think. Did I mention have a Karador Desert Eldrazi deck already? Yeah, I...

Heraldic Banner {3} When Heraldic Banner enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. {t}: Add one mana of any color. If that mana is spent on a creature spell of the chosen type, that spell can’t be countered and the creature enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it...

Time to brew up some mana rocks for my mid-power cube. Some particulars of this cube are that I consciously put my mass removal at five mana to give aggro some breathing room, and that I want green to be the king of ramp, but using Nature’s Lore effects instead of Llanowar Elves variants. My...

That person must have also read Alison Lühr’s two-parter then. I can honestly recommend this story. It’s well-written and touches delicately on some adult topics. Part 1 Part 2

Believe it or not, the little creature is a living map to the multiverse with lifetime updates. It shows every plane, every omenpath, and it updates in real time.

Well, it all depends on what you are running in your cube. I don’t run Swords to Plowshares, Lightning Bolt or Dismember in my cube, nor Force of Will or Thoughtseize. Without premium removal, premium threats become problematic, so I don’t want to run a lot of today’s pushed bodies, including...

Fact is, Colossal Rattlewurm still dies to an Infernal Grasp, so the solution is two mana cheaper than the problem, in this case. Creatures have been power crept immensely over the past few decades, but good old Terror variants often still trump them in mana efficiency, and hence could be seen...