Well, My pack most memorable pack comes with how I won it.
At a PTQ I went to awhile back in Rochester, NY they decided to run a "Wacky Draft - 2HG". A Wacky Draft is where EVERYONE at the table gets three different packs and no pack was opened more than once. Some of the packs opened were Unglued(Which was a combination of two Unglued packs because of the lack of cards in it), P3K, Future sight(Before it was released, but after the pre-release), Onslaught, Revised(Same problem as in the Unglued pack) and others I can't remember. Me and my partner started the draft like normal and drafted creatures higher than spells, due to the lack of quality creatures. We got the the Final Round and on my second turn, my partner played Mulch, getting a Izzet Boilerworks and putting a deadhead into our graveyard(w00t) while out opponents were busy eating chinese and wern't holding their cards(w00t w00t). When we told them we were putting it into play they told us that it hadn't resolved and proceeded to argue with us for 20 minutes...while the judge was on OUR SIDE. They eventually lost the game because we had bigger dudes.
What did we win for our Tormoil?
A pair of Italian Revised packs!!!
So, me and my parter did a Pack War with them
Pack War being where your hand is the entire pack and can take 1 land of any color per turn until you get to 10 lands
My pack sucked, at least compared to my opponent who had an Air elemental and Disintegrate in the same pack where I had 3 basic lands, paralyze, and some treefolk wall. But we played the match-up best 2/3 and even switched packs to see if the results changed(which they didn't)
So, after going through 10+ sets and random interactions between them, it was an awesome day.
For starters let me just thank you for giving the breakdown (or at least the place that does) on the top decks. I have DESPISED Faeries since i had my first creature stolen by a Sower and had my answer countered by a freaking Spellstutter Sprite. Now that i have a bit of an understanding on how it works i think i might be able to actually win against it, with proper sideboarding options.
well, i'd have to say that my most memorable pack of cards wasn't really a pack at all. It was the Portal second age starter kit. I was something like 11 or so and i saw this cool little white box with a huge city printed on it at my local K-Mart in Florida. i had no clue what it was, i just knew i had to have it. When i opened it i fell in love with the cards that were there, hell i was even happy to see Norwood Ranger and Wind Drake before i even knew anything else about magic just because the art was so awesome. This was the "pack" that got me started into Magic, and it has been a very satisfying hobby, no, i'll say its a life choice to have.
Great show this week! Keep up the great work, and keep the combo's coming
As for the comment contest question.
My most memorable pack I have ever opened was one from Odyssey. I had seen some of the spoilers and was totally excited for the chance to get some of the new set. After the set was released I had heard about Kamahl, Pit Fighter and instantly went insane! I have always enjoyed playing red, but this card was the Holy Grail to me! And lo and behold after buying about 1/3 of the first box my local game store had opened.... CHA CHING I had my very own Kamahl!!!! My life was complete, well not really... But I was super happy!
I know it may not be the BEST card ever, but that card has been a favorite of mine ever since.
I have to say that I'm not sure I have a memorable pack. I liked cracking a foil godless shrine, but who doesn't? I use PT Player cards as tokens, or I just give them away to the closest person willing to take them. After that, they make great landfill fodder. I remember one guy used to beat people down with the Japanese National team as his Meloku token army.
I was going to also say that I thought Hurly Burly was a great Red Deck card against Faeries, maybe you should try them out in your sideboard for you new Red Deck Tom?
Last weekend I opened the best Shadowmoor pack I've seen yet, but nothing has come close to the Lorwyn Pack I opened a while back. We had a pod of 7 players at a local tournament of 13 players in an LLL draft. First pack I ended up W/R after cracking a Thundercloud Shaman. The player to my right was in B/R Goblins. I crack my second pack, look at the last card, and let out an "Oh sh**!" as I revealed a FOIL Garruk Wildspeaker. I decided to check out the rest of the pack since it was a small pod and I wanted to see what else was in there and the rare was, you guessed it-Garruk Wildspeaker. I showed everyone and even people in the other pod heard about it. The guy to my right took the Garruk as a money draft and neither of us ended up playing the bomb! LOL Three days later I go to a local card warehouse to sell Garruk and I said to my friend who works there, "Hey, you'll never guess what was in the pack I opened last Saturday-" and he interupted "-a FOIL Garruk and a Garruk?" LOL How awesome he had already heard about it! I'll never forget that!
the most memorable packs of magic cards i have gotten in more recent times was i got 3 packs of future sight, 3 packs of lorwyn, and a tournament pack of lorwyn in the mail from a friends of mine in California. she also sent me a play set of rancor, and a copy of Titania's Chosen which i love both cards, and that was for chirstmas btw...
I'll download the PodCast when I'm back at work on Thursday...
As for the comment contest, that's cool of you, giving the foil Squire to possibly the biggest <Edit: only> Squire fan. I'm contemplating changing my screen-name to 'Lover of $25 gift-cards' for this week. Anyway, I collect the Raphael Levi player card, being my favourite player. But I do also use them as tokens. At the Morningtide pre-release, I opened a Garruk in the tournament pack, but I had no tokens for him. So I grabbed a black marker and the Bob Maher card I got in the tournament pack. After scribbling horns onto Bob, I used him as the beasts(beats) Garruk produced. I ended that pre-release in the Top 8.
As for the best pack I ever opened, it also happens to be the best trade I ever made.
Round about January this year, one of the guys at my local hobby shop wanted to trade for the Jace in my file. However, he didn't have anything I wanted, so I told him we could talk after the tournament(our Saturday-morning standard tournament).
He goes on to win said tournament, after which he offers me two boosters for the Jace, one Planar Chaos, the other one Future Sight. I accept the trade and move to my car to open the packs. I start with the Planar Chaos booster, hoping for a damnation at least... Teneb the Harvester.
Bummer.
This was a bad trade, I think to myself.
I open the Future Sight booster, and my heart sinks as the rare is revealed to be... Whetwheel. But then i flip past towards the last card... a foil Tarmogoyf. I almost died. As I sat in my car, i contemplated going back to the store to show the guy what I had opened. I eventualy decided that I would not spoil his day and I drove home with a smile on my face. That pack was special to me.
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
There's no penalty for failing to sacrifice a Homonculus.
Great show once again guys! I always enjoy when all three of you are on to cast. Before I realized that the podcast was skipping, I thought that you were trying to emphasis a point. But when it happenned again several more times, I then realized that it was just looping back like 5 or 10 seconds. Oh well. I guess it's good if you were listening and missed something (and are too lazy to rewind).
My most memorable pack was when I first started playing Magic in 7th grade and purchased a Revised starter deck. I can't remember two of my three rares, but I know that one them was the white bomb Personal Incarnation. Even though it was no Shivan Dragon (which my friend owned and was the most expensive card in the set at the time), I was happy that my Personal Incarnation could take out his dragon and could even come out of the battle alive if I had enough life to redirect the damage to myself. Therefore, I made a powerful white deck to battle against him and was happy to be able to hold my own.
Oh, and Tom may like this, but I later got into a tribal kick and ended up using my Personal Incarnation in a silly Avatar deck along with Hand of Justice, Ethereal Champion, Ebon Preator, Serra Avatar and some other highly costed creatures.
Loved the cast, Limited is my thing as I cannot afford to keep up with non-MWS T2. Draft has been my favorite format ever since my friend took me to a local draft when I was still a new player. "I get to keep the cards?! Sweet!"
Most memorable pack- Some people and I bought a box from our local store (splitting the cost) and drafted. some people I knew, some I didn't. I am not real old, high school, and am not a huge regular at the store, but am a competent player. I am NOT rambling! So we settle down for some draft and I open foil criptic command, regular thoughtseize. Total poker face, I pass the pack, the guy I pass to takes one look at the pack, slams his thoughseize down, and procceds to scoff at me. I get some funny looks from the guys who know me, but nothing happens. "So sue me. I guess I am just not real up to date on price lists!" I tell everyone.
Round 1, paired against the guy who took the thoughtsieze.
"Hey dude, mind if I play this mountain instead of the command? I don't want the foil to get messed up". Everyone starts laughing.
1. My best pack ever was a pack of Torment I got at Target. I cannot remember what cards I got, but I remember how far gone I had become with my Mtg habit. I knew I was broke, but I bought it anyway. The overdraft fees started one hell of a checking account tailspin that ultimately led to dumping my girlfriend of 7-years and moving across country to get away from her. It was a bad situation and one pack of cards got the ball rolling.
2. The worst pack I ever got was a pack of Antiquities that I traded for. The best card in the pack was Obelisk of Undoing. The worst part was that I gave them a Juzam Djinn for that damn pack.
3. I never knew Macabre could be pronounced mə-ˈkäb, mə-ˈkä-brə, mə-ˈkä-bər, or mə-ˈkäbrə. I personally like the mə-ˈkäb option myself.
To the First Question. Most Memoral Pack. I was at my local card shop and sold a buncha craps and pulled a Tarmogoyf, Then sold that Tarmogoyf back and pulled a SECOND goyf.
And for #2, i dont use the PT cards. i give em to other players who use them for tokens and whatnot.. i prefer the real tokens if imma have anything
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Ravarshi Kashaku, Ancient Dragon of the Darkened Realms;
The Merciless Lord of Torture, Permanently Bound To: ">[THE PACK] 11/5/63 - 11/25/09 Goodbye mom, i'll always love you...
I haven't actually received my favourite pack yet, my girlfriend is holidaying in Japan, and let's just say she is less than fond of my magic habit. Having the wonderful, generous, understanding heart she does, however, she's bought me a single Japanese morningtide booster as a souvenir. I'm bound to make a deck out of whatever is inside, even if Hostile Realm is the bombiest card, but i hope against hope that there's a foil Japanese Bitterblossom waiting for me
My pro tour cards make excellent dividers in my big box of commons and uncommons, or head for the bin still in the booster wrapper. Not that I don't enjoy watching the pro tour players duke it out, I just don't feel the urge to collect their cards!
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
I imagine Maro has a huge ancient book in his office titled "Tempo Defined" and inside it is hollowed out and there is a bottle of whiskey
Hey guys good podcast, nice to see all 3 musketeers on line at the same time.
I found it really odd that faeries were so popular, especially with things like the raking canopy and vexing shusher, backing up the already good cloudthresher against the faeries. I guess faeries could aways just bounce them, but it still seems like a hard matchup post-board.
The greatest pack I ever got was the very first booster I bought. Back when mirrodin was the newest set out. I bought a booster of it from my local supermarket. I was kind of new to the whole concept of what was playable and what wasn't so after glancing through the cards my eyes hit the rare. It was timesifter, now keep in mind I was pretty new when I got this. So when I saw the wording on this it blew my mind as to what it did. I tried for an hour to get it's meaning after getting it, but to no avail. After a year or so I tried again....no dice:-/. Then finally after cleaning out my binder a year ago, I looked at it again and suddenly something clicked and I finally understood the card. I traded it to my friend afterwards, since he enjoyed things with a random element to it, and the games were never the same once it got out:rolleyes:. But that card was the first card to mentally stump me in all the years I have played magic, so finally getting its meaning had an awesome feeling to it.
To answer the first question,the best pack I ever opened was a Planar Chaos pack. I pulled a Damnation,Extirpate and a Foil Calciderm. Finished both my Damnation and Extirpate play sets,and traded the Calciderm for 3 Stupors to finish that playset,so I was extremely happy.
To the second question,any Pro Player cards I give to a guy at my local shop,who collects them. I think he has at least one of every card.
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
R.I.P. Richie Proffitt R.I.P. Anthony Burkey
2 of the greatest friends I've ever had and in a better place now.
I must have snafud while editing and I apologize. I have uploaded a FIXED version for you to enjoy, again I apologize. Every once in a while i don't pre-listen to the show, and this is what happens. :^)
My favorite pack? I don't even remember what was in it.
A few years ago, I was playing in Minneosta State Champs. It was Mirrodin-era standard and I was playing a mon-red deck featuring Arc-Sloggers, Pulse of the Forge and Beacon of Destruction. It was definitely a sub-standard deck in a room full of Ravager/Affinity and Tooth 'N Nail decks. I was destined to bat .500 that day and finish about half-way down the list.
I was very new to tournaments and wasn't bothered by my finish in the slightest. I was actually really happy with winning half my games.
I got my favorite pack before the tourney even started.
During deck registration, I wrote down my deck like usual and turned it in. After they collected all the lists and addressed a myriad of registration errors, the tourney organizer got on the microphone and listed off about 6 names, mine included. I thought I had done something wrong, but he went on to say that these six people should come forward and collect a prize for being the only easily readable decklists in the whole room. They thanked us profusely and handed each of us a shiny booster pack. I couldn't believe I had won a prize without even playing one match.
I couldn't tell you what rare I got, or if it was foil, I just know I'll never forget how I got that pack.
My favorite pack? I don't even remember what was in it.
A few years ago, I was playing in Minneosta State Champs. It was Mirrodin-era standard and I was playing a mon-red deck featuring Arc-Sloggers, Pulse of the Forge and Beacon of Destruction. It was definitely a sub-standard deck in a room full of Ravager/Affinity and Tooth 'N Nail decks. I was destined to bat .500 that day and finish about half-way down the list.
I was very new to tournaments and wasn't bothered by my finish in the slightest. I was actually really happy with winning half my games.
I got my favorite pack before the tourney even started.
During deck registration, I wrote down my deck like usual and turned it in. After they collected all the lists and addressed a myriad of registration errors, the tourney organizer got on the microphone and listed off about 6 names, mine included. I thought I had done something wrong, but he went on to say that these six people should come forward and collect a prize for being the only easily readable decklists in the whole room. They thanked us profusely and handed each of us a shiny booster pack. I couldn't believe I had won a prize without even playing one match.
I couldn't tell you what rare I got, or if it was foil, I just know I'll never forget how I got that pack.
Soo i started magic in Urza's Destiny a while back for some, but when i started foils were just starting to hit the market, and i remember getting my first box EVER on Christmas and it was fantastic Urza's Destiny. When i opened my first foil rare EVER i was sooo happy! Ancient silverback i remember like it was yesterday! I'd love to buy a box of Urza's Destiny just to pull 1 again! Not because its a bomb rare or its a 50 dollar card. But because it was my first Box and first foil Rare EVER tahts what makes it stand out in my mind.
So, real quick, let me address the post above me. I thought the re on Macabre was silent as well, but I looked it up, and it turns out that it can be pronounced Ma-Kahb, Ma-Kah-Bruh or Ma-Kah-Bur. Blew my mind.
Anyway, my most memorable pack of all time actually involves a bizarre coincidence that spans 2 separate drafts.
Shortly before the release of Shadowmoor, we were drafting Lorwyn/Lorwyn/Morningtide at my local FNM. I don't remember what I took out of the first pack I opened, but the first pack passed to me was a Foil Jace Beleren. Now, I happen to really like Jace in draft, plus, you know, foil! I took him happily and played him in my final draft deck. Now here's where the weird coincidence comes into it. The very next week, we're drafting L/L/M again and I'm drafting U/B faeries. I open my second Lorwyn pack, pick a card and pass, then I look at the next pack, and lo and behold there's a foil Jace Beleren neatly passed to me. Since I was in blue, I took it and played it. Now I have 2 foil Jace Belerens.
I found out later that the first person to pass me a foil Jace took a Liliana Vess over him as the first pick from the pack. The second person took a Mirror Entity over Jace and he was in white.
As for the pro player cards, mostly we just use them for cross-store card-throwing battles (that we clean up when we're done).
Great show guys. Arrgh...Phlegm! had me rolling Tom.
My favorite pack was actually quite recent. I had lost in the finals of an LLM draft, but we had split the packs before hand. The TO put the packs in two piles and told the winner to pick a pile. He picked his and started busting them. He busted Chameleon Colossus and I said, "Well I guess I'm getting the crap rares." After he busted all of his packs, everyone in the store turned to me to see if I would bust mine. I usually don't just bust packs (I prefer to play some type of limited with them), but the Shadowmoor prerelease was the following weekend, so I wasn't planning on too much more Lorwyn limited. I started busting them. Crap, Crap, semi-Crap, nothing very good. I open the last pack and slowly slide the last card sideways. It's a foil (probably some crappy common).....It's colorless (could it really be?).........OH MY GAWD it's a foil Mutavault!!! Even though I lost in the finals I felt like the winner driving home.
As for player cards, I use them as proxy backings for constructed decks (and sometimes as proxy EDH generals...I still don't have a Reaper King yet).
"Knowing is half the battle," wasn't that G.I. Joe and not Transformers (granted both had PSAs at the end of the shows)? BTW, if you haven't seen the edited G.I. Joe PSAs on Youtube, you are missing out.
I missed the combo of the week.
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
EDH Generals: Scion of the Ur-Dragon; Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker; Stonebrow, Krosan Hero; Azami, Lady of Scrolls; Razia, Boros Archangel; Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker; Verdeloth the Ancient; Karn, Silver Golem; Crovax, Ascendant Hero; Reaper King; Oona, Queen of the Fae
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet it is the most precious thing we have.” - Albert Einstein
To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
MTGCast Facebook Group
MTGCast Twitter Feed
At a PTQ I went to awhile back in Rochester, NY they decided to run a "Wacky Draft - 2HG". A Wacky Draft is where EVERYONE at the table gets three different packs and no pack was opened more than once. Some of the packs opened were Unglued(Which was a combination of two Unglued packs because of the lack of cards in it), P3K, Future sight(Before it was released, but after the pre-release), Onslaught, Revised(Same problem as in the Unglued pack) and others I can't remember. Me and my partner started the draft like normal and drafted creatures higher than spells, due to the lack of quality creatures. We got the the Final Round and on my second turn, my partner played Mulch, getting a Izzet Boilerworks and putting a deadhead into our graveyard(w00t) while out opponents were busy eating chinese and wern't holding their cards(w00t w00t). When we told them we were putting it into play they told us that it hadn't resolved and proceeded to argue with us for 20 minutes...while the judge was on OUR SIDE. They eventually lost the game because we had bigger dudes.
What did we win for our Tormoil?
A pair of Italian Revised packs!!!
So, me and my parter did a Pack War with them
Pack War being where your hand is the entire pack and can take 1 land of any color per turn until you get to 10 lands
My pack sucked, at least compared to my opponent who had an Air elemental and Disintegrate in the same pack where I had 3 basic lands, paralyze, and some treefolk wall. But we played the match-up best 2/3 and even switched packs to see if the results changed(which they didn't)
So, after going through 10+ sets and random interactions between them, it was an awesome day.
Thanks to Spiderboy for at http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=91142
Brawl Rocks!
If you are in possession of a french frogmite/omnibian, PLEASE CONTACT ME VIA PM
well, i'd have to say that my most memorable pack of cards wasn't really a pack at all. It was the Portal second age starter kit. I was something like 11 or so and i saw this cool little white box with a huge city printed on it at my local K-Mart in Florida. i had no clue what it was, i just knew i had to have it. When i opened it i fell in love with the cards that were there, hell i was even happy to see Norwood Ranger and Wind Drake before i even knew anything else about magic just because the art was so awesome. This was the "pack" that got me started into Magic, and it has been a very satisfying hobby, no, i'll say its a life choice to have.
[/center]
As for the comment contest question.
My most memorable pack I have ever opened was one from Odyssey. I had seen some of the spoilers and was totally excited for the chance to get some of the new set. After the set was released I had heard about Kamahl, Pit Fighter and instantly went insane! I have always enjoyed playing red, but this card was the Holy Grail to me! And lo and behold after buying about 1/3 of the first box my local game store had opened.... CHA CHING I had my very own Kamahl!!!! My life was complete, well not really... But I was super happy!
I know it may not be the BEST card ever, but that card has been a favorite of mine ever since.
I have to say that I'm not sure I have a memorable pack. I liked cracking a foil godless shrine, but who doesn't? I use PT Player cards as tokens, or I just give them away to the closest person willing to take them. After that, they make great landfill fodder. I remember one guy used to beat people down with the Japanese National team as his Meloku token army.
I was going to also say that I thought Hurly Burly was a great Red Deck card against Faeries, maybe you should try them out in your sideboard for you new Red Deck Tom?
*Mayreturn*
I have some EDH cards and rare Magic basic lands (APAC, EURO, ARENA, etc) so message me if you're looking.
Number of members banned after I posted a BTR: 7
Looking for honest buyers, sellers, and traders.
As for the comment contest, that's cool of you, giving the foil Squire to possibly the biggest <Edit: only> Squire fan. I'm contemplating changing my screen-name to 'Lover of $25 gift-cards' for this week. Anyway, I collect the Raphael Levi player card, being my favourite player. But I do also use them as tokens. At the Morningtide pre-release, I opened a Garruk in the tournament pack, but I had no tokens for him. So I grabbed a black marker and the Bob Maher card I got in the tournament pack. After scribbling horns onto Bob, I used him as the beasts(beats) Garruk produced. I ended that pre-release in the Top 8.
As for the best pack I ever opened, it also happens to be the best trade I ever made.
Round about January this year, one of the guys at my local hobby shop wanted to trade for the Jace in my file. However, he didn't have anything I wanted, so I told him we could talk after the tournament(our Saturday-morning standard tournament).
He goes on to win said tournament, after which he offers me two boosters for the Jace, one Planar Chaos, the other one Future Sight. I accept the trade and move to my car to open the packs. I start with the Planar Chaos booster, hoping for a damnation at least... Teneb the Harvester.
Bummer.
This was a bad trade, I think to myself.
I open the Future Sight booster, and my heart sinks as the rare is revealed to be... Whetwheel. But then i flip past towards the last card... a foil Tarmogoyf. I almost died. As I sat in my car, i contemplated going back to the store to show the guy what I had opened. I eventualy decided that I would not spoil his day and I drove home with a smile on my face. That pack was special to me.
There's no penalty for failing to sacrifice a Homonculus.
My most memorable pack was when I first started playing Magic in 7th grade and purchased a Revised starter deck. I can't remember two of my three rares, but I know that one them was the white bomb Personal Incarnation. Even though it was no Shivan Dragon (which my friend owned and was the most expensive card in the set at the time), I was happy that my Personal Incarnation could take out his dragon and could even come out of the battle alive if I had enough life to redirect the damage to myself. Therefore, I made a powerful white deck to battle against him and was happy to be able to hold my own.
Oh, and Tom may like this, but I later got into a tribal kick and ended up using my Personal Incarnation in a silly Avatar deck along with Hand of Justice, Ethereal Champion, Ebon Preator, Serra Avatar and some other highly costed creatures.
Most memorable pack- Some people and I bought a box from our local store (splitting the cost) and drafted. some people I knew, some I didn't. I am not real old, high school, and am not a huge regular at the store, but am a competent player. I am NOT rambling! So we settle down for some draft and I open foil criptic command, regular thoughtseize. Total poker face, I pass the pack, the guy I pass to takes one look at the pack, slams his thoughseize down, and procceds to scoff at me. I get some funny looks from the guys who know me, but nothing happens. "So sue me. I guess I am just not real up to date on price lists!" I tell everyone.
Round 1, paired against the guy who took the thoughtsieze.
"Hey dude, mind if I play this mountain instead of the command? I don't want the foil to get messed up". Everyone starts laughing.
I beat him too. That was indeed a fun day!
1. My best pack ever was a pack of Torment I got at Target. I cannot remember what cards I got, but I remember how far gone I had become with my Mtg habit. I knew I was broke, but I bought it anyway. The overdraft fees started one hell of a checking account tailspin that ultimately led to dumping my girlfriend of 7-years and moving across country to get away from her. It was a bad situation and one pack of cards got the ball rolling.
2. The worst pack I ever got was a pack of Antiquities that I traded for. The best card in the pack was Obelisk of Undoing. The worst part was that I gave them a Juzam Djinn for that damn pack.
3. I never knew Macabre could be pronounced mə-ˈkäb, mə-ˈkä-brə, mə-ˈkä-bər, or mə-ˈkäbrə. I personally like the mə-ˈkäb option myself.
WUBRGPauper Battle BoxWUBRG ... and why I am not a fan of Wayne Reynolds' Illustrations.
And for #2, i dont use the PT cards. i give em to other players who use them for tokens and whatnot.. i prefer the real tokens if imma have anything
The Merciless Lord of Torture, Permanently Bound To: ">[THE PACK] 11/5/63 - 11/25/09 Goodbye mom, i'll always love you...
Tibalt & His Devils vs. Avacyn's Inquisitors
My EDH decklists
My pro tour cards make excellent dividers in my big box of commons and uncommons, or head for the bin still in the booster wrapper. Not that I don't enjoy watching the pro tour players duke it out, I just don't feel the urge to collect their cards!
I found it really odd that faeries were so popular, especially with things like the raking canopy and vexing shusher, backing up the already good cloudthresher against the faeries. I guess faeries could aways just bounce them, but it still seems like a hard matchup post-board.
The greatest pack I ever got was the very first booster I bought. Back when mirrodin was the newest set out. I bought a booster of it from my local supermarket. I was kind of new to the whole concept of what was playable and what wasn't so after glancing through the cards my eyes hit the rare. It was timesifter, now keep in mind I was pretty new when I got this. So when I saw the wording on this it blew my mind as to what it did. I tried for an hour to get it's meaning after getting it, but to no avail. After a year or so I tried again....no dice:-/. Then finally after cleaning out my binder a year ago, I looked at it again and suddenly something clicked and I finally understood the card. I traded it to my friend afterwards, since he enjoyed things with a random element to it, and the games were never the same once it got out:rolleyes:. But that card was the first card to mentally stump me in all the years I have played magic, so finally getting its meaning had an awesome feeling to it.
Epic Sig by: Myself
Mindsplicer of [House Dimir]
To answer the first question,the best pack I ever opened was a Planar Chaos pack. I pulled a Damnation,Extirpate and a Foil Calciderm. Finished both my Damnation and Extirpate play sets,and traded the Calciderm for 3 Stupors to finish that playset,so I was extremely happy.
To the second question,any Pro Player cards I give to a guy at my local shop,who collects them. I think he has at least one of every card.
R.I.P. Anthony Burkey
2 of the greatest friends I've ever had and in a better place now.
My H/W List
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=249009
Free Stuff?
http://www.points2shop.com/?ref=Dooby12
I must have snafud while editing and I apologize. I have uploaded a FIXED version for you to enjoy, again I apologize. Every once in a while i don't pre-listen to the show, and this is what happens. :^)
Cheers,
Tom
MTGCast Facebook Group
MTGCast Twitter Feed
A few years ago, I was playing in Minneosta State Champs. It was Mirrodin-era standard and I was playing a mon-red deck featuring Arc-Sloggers, Pulse of the Forge and Beacon of Destruction. It was definitely a sub-standard deck in a room full of Ravager/Affinity and Tooth 'N Nail decks. I was destined to bat .500 that day and finish about half-way down the list.
I was very new to tournaments and wasn't bothered by my finish in the slightest. I was actually really happy with winning half my games.
I got my favorite pack before the tourney even started.
During deck registration, I wrote down my deck like usual and turned it in. After they collected all the lists and addressed a myriad of registration errors, the tourney organizer got on the microphone and listed off about 6 names, mine included. I thought I had done something wrong, but he went on to say that these six people should come forward and collect a prize for being the only easily readable decklists in the whole room. They thanked us profusely and handed each of us a shiny booster pack. I couldn't believe I had won a prize without even playing one match.
I couldn't tell you what rare I got, or if it was foil, I just know I'll never forget how I got that pack.
-doc
A few years ago, I was playing in Minneosta State Champs. It was Mirrodin-era standard and I was playing a mon-red deck featuring Arc-Sloggers, Pulse of the Forge and Beacon of Destruction. It was definitely a sub-standard deck in a room full of Ravager/Affinity and Tooth 'N Nail decks. I was destined to bat .500 that day and finish about half-way down the list.
I was very new to tournaments and wasn't bothered by my finish in the slightest. I was actually really happy with winning half my games.
I got my favorite pack before the tourney even started.
During deck registration, I wrote down my deck like usual and turned it in. After they collected all the lists and addressed a myriad of registration errors, the tourney organizer got on the microphone and listed off about 6 names, mine included. I thought I had done something wrong, but he went on to say that these six people should come forward and collect a prize for being the only easily readable decklists in the whole room. They thanked us profusely and handed each of us a shiny booster pack. I couldn't believe I had won a prize without even playing one match.
I couldn't tell you what rare I got, or if it was foil, I just know I'll never forget how I got that pack.
-doc
Drizzs
Sig By Zaphod
Anyway, my most memorable pack of all time actually involves a bizarre coincidence that spans 2 separate drafts.
Shortly before the release of Shadowmoor, we were drafting Lorwyn/Lorwyn/Morningtide at my local FNM. I don't remember what I took out of the first pack I opened, but the first pack passed to me was a Foil Jace Beleren. Now, I happen to really like Jace in draft, plus, you know, foil! I took him happily and played him in my final draft deck. Now here's where the weird coincidence comes into it. The very next week, we're drafting L/L/M again and I'm drafting U/B faeries. I open my second Lorwyn pack, pick a card and pass, then I look at the next pack, and lo and behold there's a foil Jace Beleren neatly passed to me. Since I was in blue, I took it and played it. Now I have 2 foil Jace Belerens.
I found out later that the first person to pass me a foil Jace took a Liliana Vess over him as the first pick from the pack. The second person took a Mirror Entity over Jace and he was in white.
As for the pro player cards, mostly we just use them for cross-store card-throwing battles (that we clean up when we're done).
Oh man, if you & I are ever in the same tournament sometime - it's on!
I could give Chris Ferguson a run for his money.
My favorite pack was actually quite recent. I had lost in the finals of an LLM draft, but we had split the packs before hand. The TO put the packs in two piles and told the winner to pick a pile. He picked his and started busting them. He busted Chameleon Colossus and I said, "Well I guess I'm getting the crap rares." After he busted all of his packs, everyone in the store turned to me to see if I would bust mine. I usually don't just bust packs (I prefer to play some type of limited with them), but the Shadowmoor prerelease was the following weekend, so I wasn't planning on too much more Lorwyn limited. I started busting them. Crap, Crap, semi-Crap, nothing very good. I open the last pack and slowly slide the last card sideways. It's a foil (probably some crappy common).....It's colorless (could it really be?).........OH MY GAWD it's a foil Mutavault!!! Even though I lost in the finals I felt like the winner driving home.
As for player cards, I use them as proxy backings for constructed decks (and sometimes as proxy EDH generals...I still don't have a Reaper King yet).
"Knowing is half the battle," wasn't that G.I. Joe and not Transformers (granted both had PSAs at the end of the shows)? BTW, if you haven't seen the edited G.I. Joe PSAs on Youtube, you are missing out.
I missed the combo of the week.
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet it is the most precious thing we have.” - Albert Einstein