Went to City Champs Top 8 and won an interesting promo item.
It's a mana symbol Rubik Cube.
Tried googling it, but couldn't find anything out about it. Anybody seen these?
The 6th side is just the MTG logo, the other sides are the 5 mana symbols. The shop owner said these were Distributor promos, if that means anything to anybody.
I don't have any hard numbers on this, but I'm targeted more often than a black guy driving a beat-up sedan with a broken tail-light and no license plate, and Cy's well aware of that.
On a side note, I HATE RUBIK'S CUBES. But that's only because are a bunch of people at my school who like to spend all their time twiddling the darn things during class.
Wow... Amazing. I never thought I'd see THAT on a Rubik's cube. Thank you very much for the pics, Traz.
By the way, anybody else know the "trick" to these things? Most you can take apart by turning one side an eighth turn, so it's exactly diagonal, and prying upward (I think a butter knife works best the first time, but other than that you can use your thumb) on one of the middle side pieces. Once you get one out, you can take the whole thing apart, since each "square" is a separate piece built into a frame, and put it back together the way that you want it. If you ever get one that you can't get back to normal, that's an easy way to do it. I used to do it all the time to mine, if I got frustrated or maybe just bored with it and couldn't solve it. Makes a hilarious bet, too - "I bet you I can have this thing back to normal in under five minutes".
*Note - I don't endorse this for normal solving, and please don't try this if you are afraid of breaking something. I've never known one to break doing this, but there's always a first*
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On a side note, I HATE RUBIK'S CUBES. But that's only because are a bunch of people at my school who like to spend all their time twiddling the darn things during class.
My friend had one last friday, I twiddled with it for a while Its way way easier than most rubiks cubes, because the mana symbols (except white) all have exactly one correct facing, and that aligns with the rest, so you can tell when three lined up colors is still incorrect, because one of the symbols will be rotated.
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Wow... Amazing. I never thought I'd see THAT on a Rubik's cube. Thank you very much for the pics, Traz.
By the way, anybody else know the "trick" to these things? Most you can take apart by turning one side an eighth turn, so it's exactly diagonal, and prying upward (I think a butter knife works best the first time, but other than that you can use your thumb) on one of the middle side pieces. Once you get one out, you can take the whole thing apart, since each "square" is a separate piece built into a frame, and put it back together the way that you want it. If you ever get one that you can't get back to normal, that's an easy way to do it. I used to do it all the time to mine, if I got frustrated or maybe just bored with it and couldn't solve it. Makes a hilarious bet, too - "I bet you I can have this thing back to normal in under five minutes".
*Note - I don't endorse this for normal solving, and please don't try this if you are afraid of breaking something. I've never known one to break doing this, but there's always a first*
When I was a kid, I found an old magazine (from 1980), which described how to solve Rubik's cube. Somehow I memorized the system well enough to consistently solve a scrambled cube under 3 minutes without cheating.
Later, I managed times under 20 minutes on 5x5x5 cube
Of course, this version is marginally harder than normal cube, as you have to take care with orientation of the center pieces.
Wow... Amazing. I never thought I'd see THAT on a Rubik's cube. Thank you very much for the pics, Traz.
By the way, anybody else know the "trick" to these things? Most you can take apart by turning one side an eighth turn, so it's exactly diagonal, and prying upward (I think a butter knife works best the first time, but other than that you can use your thumb) on one of the middle side pieces. Once you get one out, you can take the whole thing apart, since each "square" is a separate piece built into a frame, and put it back together the way that you want it. If you ever get one that you can't get back to normal, that's an easy way to do it. I used to do it all the time to mine, if I got frustrated or maybe just bored with it and couldn't solve it. Makes a hilarious bet, too - "I bet you I can have this thing back to normal in under five minutes".
*Note - I don't endorse this for normal solving, and please don't try this if you are afraid of breaking something. I've never known one to break doing this, but there's always a first*
Easier to solve it the normal way :D. This is marginally harder than normal due to the centre bits being able to spin.
When solving a rubics cube, it's best to remember that the center piece of each side represents the "true" answer to that side, and only the edges rotate.
That's why the "challenge" rubics cubes have the center piece missing on each side
Hasbro doesn't make these as far as I know. I can confirm that these are in fact a distributor item. Either GTS Hobby or Magazine Exchange, I can't recall exactly since I just browsed through it quickly. We did receive an email this week about these. These are given out for free to retailers who order a certain about of product from the distributor. Please note that unless you have a business ID, you cannot contact these distributors and try buying stuff from them, they won't even talk to you if you're just the general public.
my local store has one of these, its pretty cool. I play with it every once in a while when im bored :P, I can do about 1-2ish minutes on one (never actually timed myself).
as for magic-opoly... that would actually be pretty cool, I would buy that the instant it came out
I know of a small shop which has one of these for sale--I was tempted to snag it, but it's never my pay-day when I visit that place, so I refrain from spending.
Either way, I'm pretty sure it's a non-Wizards product, but it's loads of nifty.
Or more seriously...Magic D&D (this must have happened already, right? Especially with the new 'weak' planeswalkers)
It's been very strongly stated by multiple people writing on the Magic website that they're very keen on keeping the Magic and D&D brands as completely independent IPs. They fear (not without reason) a weakening of either brand if they were to do do crossovers. WotC's had D&D for a decade and it hasn't happened yet, including the entire life cycle of D&D 3rd Edition.
I don't remember the exact articles, but they said that the farthest it might ever go would be a "Monster Manual" product. (Themed creature books are a dime a dozen, as it is.)
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It's a mana symbol Rubik Cube.
Tried googling it, but couldn't find anything out about it. Anybody seen these?
The 6th side is just the MTG logo, the other sides are the 5 mana symbols. The shop owner said these were Distributor promos, if that means anything to anybody.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1988614295/worlds-finest-mtg-pewter-life-spinner-is-about-to?ref=category
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=16581
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH_UXXKRzlM
I won my City Champs store final as well but didn't receive any promo item; just packs.
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On a side note, I HATE RUBIK'S CUBES. But that's only because are a bunch of people at my school who like to spend all their time twiddling the darn things during class.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1988614295/worlds-finest-mtg-pewter-life-spinner-is-about-to?ref=category
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=16581
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH_UXXKRzlM
By the way, anybody else know the "trick" to these things? Most you can take apart by turning one side an eighth turn, so it's exactly diagonal, and prying upward (I think a butter knife works best the first time, but other than that you can use your thumb) on one of the middle side pieces. Once you get one out, you can take the whole thing apart, since each "square" is a separate piece built into a frame, and put it back together the way that you want it. If you ever get one that you can't get back to normal, that's an easy way to do it. I used to do it all the time to mine, if I got frustrated or maybe just bored with it and couldn't solve it. Makes a hilarious bet, too - "I bet you I can have this thing back to normal in under five minutes".
*Note - I don't endorse this for normal solving, and please don't try this if you are afraid of breaking something. I've never known one to break doing this, but there's always a first*
I want one.
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Same here. By any chance do you live in NYC?
the OP said it was the MTG logo
He's obviously lieing...IT MUST BE PURPLE!
*cough*
Would be cool though, nye?
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When I was a kid, I found an old magazine (from 1980), which described how to solve Rubik's cube. Somehow I memorized the system well enough to consistently solve a scrambled cube under 3 minutes without cheating.
Later, I managed times under 20 minutes on 5x5x5 cube
Of course, this version is marginally harder than normal cube, as you have to take care with orientation of the center pieces.
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Easier to solve it the normal way :D. This is marginally harder than normal due to the centre bits being able to spin.
I want one
That's why the "challenge" rubics cubes have the center piece missing on each side
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as for magic-opoly... that would actually be pretty cool, I would buy that the instant it came out
Either way, I'm pretty sure it's a non-Wizards product, but it's loads of nifty.
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It's been very strongly stated by multiple people writing on the Magic website that they're very keen on keeping the Magic and D&D brands as completely independent IPs. They fear (not without reason) a weakening of either brand if they were to do do crossovers. WotC's had D&D for a decade and it hasn't happened yet, including the entire life cycle of D&D 3rd Edition.
I don't remember the exact articles, but they said that the farthest it might ever go would be a "Monster Manual" product. (Themed creature books are a dime a dozen, as it is.)