M-15 GAME DAY

     

         This weekend (8-9-14 to 8-10-2014) the m-15 game day weekend, which also marks when the new core set has been out for about a month.  LGS usually do an event to celebrate its one month, some would only do it for one day and some would do it for 2 days. The one I’m going to is on a Saturday just because there are more prizes to win (by any given chance I actually get enough wins to get anything). I’ve never really had much luck at winning anything but I’ll take it as a learning experience and also see what other people have to play with.

The hardest part about going into game day is what deck do I want to use, and what are the pros and cons of using that type of deck. For me I am torn between my sliver deck and my human heroic soldier deck. It seems like my sliver deck might be the way to go considering how nutty it can get and how quickly it can do so. My heroic human soldier deck has it’s up and down with it. The deck seems to been having problems with mana lately and it was never like that before. But I think I’ll try various decks and see which one seems to fit better for playing at game day.


I will wish everyone good luck with their game day event if they are going, in my next blog I will say what my results was as far as not losing (or not winning).

What deck will you go with for game day?

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COUNTERFEIT MAGIC IS A THING?

Words are floating around about a Chinese company counterfeiting magic cards. Words are also floating around that there’s a few places in the United States are under investigation for making counterfeit cards. Whatever is going on with the counterfeiters, they need to stop. Because if people buy these counterfeit cards and try to play at an event host by wizards, they could be banned and or just have the cards taken away (not 100% on that part but from what I’ve read, it’s a possibility).

Here are just a few ways you can test out the cards for it being fake or not. One of the cool ways you can find out is using a black light. The real card would appear luminescent as part of the property of the card-stock they are printed on, where the fake one would not luminate. This probably doesn’t work every time because the counterfeiters have gotten better with making it look like the real thing even under a black light.

Another neat way of checking for fakes is the light test. It’s where you take the card and hold it near a strong bright light bulb. If the card is easily readable from the back then it’s a fake, where the real one has a blue filament in the middle of the card that would only allow so much light through the card. So this could go either way.

There are a number of other ways to tall if its fake but in order to do those test, you got to have a lot of guts to do it. Such as the bend test to see if it will crease easily, and tear the card in half to see if there’s the blue filament in the middle of the card. Me for one will not do the tear test because if it’s the real thing, then I screwed myself out of having or owing that card.

One more thing to find out if the card is a fake is he artwork on the card. Because if it looks like cartoon characters or video game characters, its definitely a fake, Especially if it has ridiculous abilities in the flavor box.

What would you do with counterfeit cards if you ever come across one?

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WHAT A PAIN IN MY LAND

With the new release of the core set m-15 for magic the gathering from wizard of the coast they reprinted a lot of old cards. Within those reprints they reprinted the “pain lands” as they are called.  For some people, they really like these kinds of cards, but for me? I’m not a big fan of them.

        My personal opinion? I like shock lands better, only because you get hit for 2 if you want to untap the land card right away, and that’s the only time you will get hit with the damage. The pain lands you get hit with one damage each time you use the land cards for one of the colors that are listed on the card. If you don’t use one of the colors listed on the card you won’t be hit with 1 damage each time, you can get a colorless mana. That can be helpful at times, but not really.

How do you feel about the pain lands?

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TRADING GUIDELINE (ideas to go by)

Trading has been around for a long time. Kind of hard to pin point when it exactly first started, but it’s been going on way beyond our lifetimes.  Trading magic cards is something I’ve started doing recently this past year. Due to the community on google+ and how awesome the people are on in it, I started trading and making my decks better.

As the trading was going on I learned how to do it the right way and make it fair for everyone. I’m not the one who wants to try and rip other people off or base it off of strictly value of the card instead of just wanting the card, there’s only certain people I know that would just trade for the sake of wanting the card, not base on values. So I came up with a guideline to follow (you don’t have to follow the guideline exactly) below.

1. Make sure it’s the right cards you are trading away. Sometimes the other trader wants specific artist or card they’re looking for.

2. There are times where they don’t state exactly what they want but the card name; there are cards that were reprinted from old sets in newer sets. So be sure to have the right card and confirm, confirm 15 times if you have to make sure it’s exactly what they want.

3. Conditions, be sure that you are trading what you stated the card condition is in. if you say your card is near mint, be sure it’s that condition; not damaged, heavily played, or taped back together. Don’t lie about your cards condition.

4. When trading through mail from websites (deckbox.org, pucatrade, etc) send your cards in an envelope with a hard top loader sleeve with the card sleeved in it. Tape the top so the card doesn’t slide out. Also get a piece of cardboard cut out to the size of the card and tape the hard card sleeve with the card in it. If trading from pucatrade be sure to write the pucatrade number on the cardboard and on the outside of the envelope.

5. Be sure the envelope is sealed shut so it doesn’t open during shipment. That would suck if the card got out while being shipped and you get the empty envelope.

        It’s not much of a guideline if you already know how to do trading, and I'm sure there are more to the list but this is all i can think of so far. But it can be helpful for newer people who are just getting into the game of magic the gathering. If you are not sure of what to do ask someone and I’m sure they would be more than gladly to help out a fellow magic player.

What card trading technique do you have?

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