I went to my LGS to pick up a box to store my excess commons in, and I bought 5 Mirrodin Besieged packs on a whim, praying for a foil {Mox Opal}. Needless to say, I was surprised in the first two packs!
P1: {Sword of Body and Mind} Figured I wouldn't pull anything good now that I had gotten one "money" card
P2: {Mox Opal} Well then.... Not foil, but I sure made my money back.
P3: {Memoricide}
P4: {Kemba, Kha Regent}
P5: {Engulfing Slagwurm} and a foil {Glimmerpost} (nice!)
The last three were not great, but I did get another {Kemba, Kha Regent}. Don't really know why I like that card so much, but I do! I was excited that not only did my luck turn around a little bit, but I made a nice profit! Just thought I'd share :P
If you aren't planning on playing the Opal any time soon, I'd get rid of it around mid July when the new ruling takes effect. Affinity is pretty damn broken in modern with that ruling, Opal is going to go up pretty quick. And then it's gonna get hit with a ban hammer. If I didn't need more money for Modern Masters I'd be holding on to mine until right about then myself.
I had planned on keeping it for a while. I'm not going to use it, but I do see it going up. I've already accepted the fact that I'm not getting any MM, so I'm fine with not selling lol
I'm not so sure they would ban opal... I mean by reprint all the affinity staples in MM only to ban a critical card.
It's very unusual for me to get more than 1 opal out in a game (especially early on) wizards bans when decks can consistently kill T3 or sooner, eg eggs & storm. Maybe if affinity picks up and dominates the format like bloodbraid jund did pre banning. I dunno, they do love banning
Ban Hammer will make it drop, so of you're looking for value don't wait too long.
Something I've actually been wondering about is the swords. In a few years, will they pick up in price to mirror the old ones?
Quote from: Silent1236 on June 02, 2013, 05:17:47 PM
Something I've actually been wondering about is the swords. In a few years, will they pick up in price to mirror the old ones?
It's definitely possible. Feast and Famine still has a decent price tag. Body and Mind isn't all that great to begin with though. Also Light and Shadow and Fire and Ice have some pretty insane abilities and very relevant colors
Quote from: Silent1236 on June 02, 2013, 05:17:47 PM
Something I've actually been wondering about is the swords. In a few years, will they pick up in price to mirror the old ones?
Hard to tell. {Sword of Feast and Famine} is really good, but the original ones are still marginally better. Nothing really tops {Sword of Fire and Ice}, but I can see the Mirrodin swords getting close.
Quote from: InfinitiveDivinity on June 02, 2013, 05:33:28 PM
Quote from: Silent1236 on June 02, 2013, 05:17:47 PM
Something I've actually been wondering about is the swords. In a few years, will they pick up in price to mirror the old ones?
It's definitely possible. Feast and Famine still has a decent price tag. Body and Mind isn't all that great to begin with though. Also Light and Shadow and Fire and Ice have some pretty insane abilities and very relevant colors
Lol that's why I've always thought it was weird that B&M was the one printed in FTV:R. Why not F&F or at least W&P?
Quote from: Silent1236 on June 02, 2013, 06:20:01 PM
Quote from: InfinitiveDivinity on June 02, 2013, 05:33:28 PM
Quote from: Silent1236 on June 02, 2013, 05:17:47 PM
Something I've actually been wondering about is the swords. In a few years, will they pick up in price to mirror the old ones?
It's definitely possible. Feast and Famine still has a decent price tag. Body and Mind isn't all that great to begin with though. Also Light and Shadow and Fire and Ice have some pretty insane abilities and very relevant colors
Lol that's why I've always thought it was weird that B&M was the one printed in FTV:R. Why not F&F or at least W&P?
Idk, it made for a cheap foil for me though 😝
B&M has really relevant colors in EDH though. (currently running the FTV foil in isamaru :D) the wolf tokes make good chump blockers too lol
Quote from: Silent1236 on June 02, 2013, 06:20:01 PM
Quote from: InfinitiveDivinity on June 02, 2013, 05:33:28 PM
Quote from: Silent1236 on June 02, 2013, 05:17:47 PM
Something I've actually been wondering about is the swords. In a few years, will they pick up in price to mirror the old ones?
It's definitely possible. Feast and Famine still has a decent price tag. Body and Mind isn't all that great to begin with though. Also Light and Shadow and Fire and Ice have some pretty insane abilities and very relevant colors
Lol that's why I've always thought it was weird that B&M was the one printed in FTV:R. Why not F&F or at least W&P?
It was printed to get more people to buy FtV relics. It also was used as a spoiler for scars of mirrodin.
I am lovin Scars! Got 13 packs for my birthday and got:
{Elspeth Tirel}
{Venser, the Sojourner}
Foil {Venser, the Sojourner}
My third {Wurmcoil Engine}
{Copperline Gorge}
{Kemba, Kha Regent}
Ok, Kemba's not great, but I still love that card!
You lucky liitle 💩 lol. Im jelly
Happy birthday lol :)
Lol thanks!
That seems like a nice birthday present.
My birthday is coming up soon too.
Only if my family knew anything about Magic 😒
Sadly my birthday is not until october 😡😢
But it is worth it (i think) because my mother from another mother is getting me a box of theros and i think some sweet singles. The story was like "hey mom can i get a booster box for my birthday?" I said. "Only if you have no one come over." She said. "Oh..... That is a definite deal right there!!" I said. So im exited but hate that i have to wait for so long 😢😪😥
Ha! We do t ever really do much for birthdays. My parents bought me 7 boosters, an I bought the other 6 :P.
Lol. My mom lets me get anything as long as i dont invite anyone. My friends would be like "hey ben you having a party this year?" "Ahaha parties?!?! What are those?"
Quote from: All-Mana Mania on June 06, 2013, 12:46:23 PM
Lol. My mom lets me get anything as long as i dont invite anyone. My friends would be like "hey ben you having a party this year?" "Ahaha parties?!?! What are those?"
your moms nice :P for my b-my family got me a box except it wasn't a box cuz my lgs was all out of innistrad (what I had asked for) so my dad just got me 33 packs bc they didn't have any more I was still happy till I opend them 3 mythics and not ONE was very good no snappies either. 😡 Sigh hope maybe next b-day but im not sure there gonna be able to spend that much on my b-day again...
Woo! Got a {Vendilion Clique} from my MM draft! Along with some sweet uncommons!
Bought 7 Scars packs and 2 New Ohyrexia packs today. Man am I glad I bought the two NPH packs! The most expensive card in the scars packs was {Lux Cannon}, then one of the two whim NPH packs netted a {Karn Liberated}! 😊 I needed another Karn for my Tron deck and really didn't want to shell out that much on one card.
Quote from: Silent1236 on July 28, 2013, 07:52:21 PM
Bought 7 Scars packs and 2 New Ohyrexia packs today. Man am I glad I bought the two NPH packs! The most expensive card in the scars packs was {Lux Cannon}, then one of the two whim NPH packs netted a {Karn Liberated}! 😊 I needed another Karn for my Tron deck and really didn't want to shell out that much on one card.
Not as good ad the original bit still, sweet!
Heh, no kidding 😒