alexgndl

Yeah, basically. Standard is a rotating format-sets go in and out of legality with it. Right now, Theros block (which includes Theros, Born of the Gods, and Journey into Nyx), Magic 2015 Core Set, and Khans of Tarkir are legal in Standard. Modern is a non-rotating format, so once a set becomes legal in it, it doesn't rotate out. Any set from Eighth Edition onwards, including everything in Standard, are legal. So the card pool is enormous in Modern when compared to Standard. Even so, Modern only encompasses a fraction of the total amount of cards printed. After Modern, you have Vintage and Legacy, which are called "eternal" formats, because with a few bans and exceptions (UN-sets, etc), every card ever printed is legal in the format. The same's true with Commander, which a lot of us play here. But Commander is more of a casual format, so I'm not sure if it really counts-it's not technically an official format like the other four are.

It's things like that that make me love EDH so much. I haven't played 60-card in almost a year.

I have approximately a 1 in 3 chance of pulling a mythic/money rare whenever I buy a booster. I know that's not the actual probability, but that's just how I roll. I'm that good.

Played my first "mirror" match against an Erebos deck today...I somehow managed to convince him to donate me his Crypt Ghast (the Athreos player brought out Endless Whispers-whenever a creature dies, its controller donates it to someone else) and then hit everyone with a 14-life Exsanguinate. Sadly, I couldn't gain any life, but I did take two people down with that and the following Drana attack. The false Erebos player, at 2 life, decided to take the honorable way out and Pestilence Demon'ed himself to death.

For some reason, the general consensus on r/magictcg is that "it's really strong, but it's juuuuuuust barely not strong enough to merit a ban". Not sure if I agree, but it seems that it's not coming anytime soon.

Yeah, Aetherling's basically the only reason Prog Sphinx hasn't seen much play yet. Now that it's out of standard, it's kinda slowly making its way in.

I'd say 2 to 3 booster boxes worth of cards still in their packs, plus probably 1000 loose ones in my desk drawer, along with my Fatpack Box O' Uncommons and my Christmas Tin of Commons. This also doesn't take into account the stuff I have here at school with me-most of my rares, 3 full EDH decks and many more loose cards. It's fairly bad.

Decided to call my mom today. She answers the phone with "So I found your Magic collection in your room today..."

Your opponent wasn't playing the white deck right then...my buddy regularly wins 3v1s with his. It seems like all the C14 decks are very, very powerful.

Yeah, my one friend has the green and white decks and another has the black one. I'm hopefully getting the red deck for Christmas. Not sure if I'm going to keep Daretti at the helm or if I'm going to rip it apart and give it to Jaya Ballard, since I've been trying to build her a deck for about a year now.

Modern Masters 2015 confirmed, it's going to be a limited print run (albeit higher than the original Modern Masters) with an MSRP of $10 per pack. Also this is one of the spoilers, along with Etched Champion:

Started watching TCW, it's pretty good-I remember a lot of it from when it originally aired. I'm liking it. But holy shit Obi Wan and Ventress...just fuck already, will you?

Drop the divination and one of the Hornet's Nests, I'd say. You don't want more than 2 Thassas, I'd even say that you could do okay with just dropping the divination for a single copy.

Honestly, not really. MAYBE Nissa, but she's ridiculously expensive and not really worth it. Not really sure if any of the other gods would work either. Xenagod, maybe? Although he kinda cares about more creatures. I'd say Thassa's definitely your best bet here. She's fairly cheap right now, too.

One or two copies of Thassa, God of the Sea will stupidly help you. Gives you everything you want-free scry and unblockability. It doesn't matter if you don't get your devotion up, her just being there will be enough. Great synergy with Flamespeaker adept, as well.

Any of you guys ever use Pucatrade? It seems like a decent way to get new cards-they start you off with a shitload of free points, so you can get some relatively cheap cards for free. I kinda like it.

Huh. They don't say anything about blumpkins.

well they had damn well better like Thrawn I've got some bad news for you, friend. Even if they do like him, the movie's taking place like...three decades after he died. Trust me, I wish they were doing him. I mean...my avatar is Hugo Weaving as him. Don't think it could happen now though, everyone's too old. The trilogy happened 5 years after RotJ.

Apparently there was a huge plot leak on 4chan today. If it's true, then this is shaping up to be a hell of a movie. Is it December 2015 yet? Possible spoilers obviously, read at your own risk.

It's like a 9hour long South Park episode that you're the star of. If you like the sound of that you'll like it.