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Mike_Oxenfyre said:
Question on fakes: how good are the ones on Ali Express?
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Depending on who you get them from they are okay if you double sleeve them but out of sleeves they feel super waxy (like playing cards kinda) and if they have the seal on them it scratches right off.
 
VerdantBuckle34 said:
Don't even bother with high-end. With so few of those pieces, especially once you start going for P9, everyone and their grandma is gonna want tests and verifications out the ass; if you get caught, good luck, because the ultra-high end group will know and stay away.

Nah, he should make Commander 'proxies', including alternate arts (with permission.) There's a decent market for folks who can't afford the big stuff, weebs can get their favorite piece of fap bait on a card, it's all secondary market, and most of us who play don't play competitive, so almost no one will care.
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Definitely concur on this one. If you can actually start printing out WotC-quality (ha!) cards, "proxies" with "alternate art" are the way to go. You have plausible deniability if someone gets caught at a tourney with them, and people will pay through the nose for alters. You're probably not going to get all of that money, since these are proxies instead of strict alters, but you'd probably make it up on volume. Even moreso if you can figure out how to foil them. Commander staples would probably be best, since it's the most organized eternal, casual format (Commander tournament play exists, but it is fucking exceptional even by the standards of MtG.) Stuff like Scroll Rack, Chains of Mephistopheles, Nether Void, Sylvan Library, Gaea's Cradle, all the original dual lands...

Hell, this might not even be illegal.
 
So Hasbro won’t stop trying to get into the singles business (see: nexus of fate) is trying its hand at direct distribution.

Only from the Hasbro corporate store you can buy a $250 box of the latest set which includes 16 normal packs and 8 special packs with a full art planeswalker (most popular card type).

Huge slap in the face to local game stores, directly after a “price adjustment” (raising distributor prices while leaving the MSRP).

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Also, I don’t think it was discussed in this thread, but there are “country locked” standard decks now, with unique cards. So there are cards that are legal only in China. Which is such a fucking backwards facing development for a game that had always been international.
 
Boss Bass said:
So Hasbro won’t stop trying to get into the singles business (see: nexus of fate) is trying its hand at direct distribution.

Only from the Hasbro corporate store you can buy a $250 box of the latest set which includes 16 normal packs and 8 special packs with a full art planeswalker (most popular card type).

Huge slap in the face to local game stores, directly after a “price adjustment” (raising distributor prices while leaving the MSRP).

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Also, I don’t think it was discussed in this thread, but there are “country locked” standard decks now, with unique cards. So there are cards that are legal only in China. Which is such a fucking backwards facing development for a game that had always been international.
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Yeah that shit is straight up retarded, they took the concept of "Masterpieces" and are just letting you buy them outright.

Though I'd argue a bit on Planeswalkers being the most popular type of card. I mean they are to the casual crowd but the casual crowd isn't going to be dropping $250 on a 16 boosters and a bunch of foil cards most likely. Only people that would probably be interested in those things are the speculators.
 
So some.... Interesting developments over Hamblyburger and our old friend Matt Fantastic:


For those not willing to tolerate Jeremy's flapping waggle-head, I'll break it down for you:

GenCon finally responded to Jeremy getting assaulted.... By banning him from all future events, citing nonspecified "targetted harassment" that they've provided, thus far, no evidence of. Perhaps it's because of people digging into Gencon basically financially-supporting Matt at the time he thought the best idea ever was to sucker-punch a bearded Autist. Whatever the reason, Matt Fantastic has also been banned from all future events.

While this is, admittedly, fucking hilarious (and probably is giving @KillThemCrackasBabies a damn solid chuckle), it also is where we take a turn right into the realm of "are you fucking serious," as part of the letter goes on to give an ultimatum, stipulating that Hamblyburger not discuss the contents of the letter with anyone. Fittingly, raging weal of Autism that he is, Jeremy immediately shared it on his channel, which for me, at least, begged the question: What the fuck did they think was going to happen?

It doesn't look good for GenCon, at any rate, and while there's no doubt going to be an upswell in some tickets sold due to the absence of my favorite Autistic bearded wonder, I can't imagine that this will do much for GenCon's popularity now that it's apparent that someone can assault someone while attending GenCon and get away with it if they're well-connected enough.
 
Jaimas said:
So some.... Interesting developments over Hamblyburger and our old friend Matt Fantastic:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=id=3O2wUJ-WTgk;t=323
For those not willing to tolerate Jeremy's flapping waggle-head, I'll break it down for you:

GenCon finally responded to Jeremy getting assaulted.... By banning him from all future events, citing nonspecified "targetted harassment" that they've provided, thus far, no evidence of. Perhaps it's because of people digging into Gencon basically financially-supporting Matt at the time he thought the best idea ever was to sucker-punch a bearded Autist. Whatever the reason, Matt Fantastic has also been banned from all future events.

While this is, admittedly, fucking hilarious (and probably is giving @KillThemCrackasBabies a damn solid chuckle), it also is where we take a turn right into the realm of "are you fucking serious," as part of the letter goes on to give an ultimatum, stipulating that Hamblyburger not discuss the contents of the letter with anyone. Fittingly, raging weal of Autism that he is, Jeremy immediately shared it on his channel, which for me, at least, begged the question: What the fuck did they think was going to happen?

It doesn't look good for GenCon, at any rate, and while there's no doubt going to be an upswell in some tickets sold due to the absence of my favorite Autistic bearded wonder, I can't imagine that this will do much for GenCon's popularity now that it's apparent that someone can assault someone while attending GenCon and get away with it if they're well-connected enough.
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I can't agree, my autistic rage aside it seemed like everyone stopped giving a shit about the incident like a week or so after it happened. People barely gave it fuck when it happened, much less will next year.

People on the Gencon staff were pulling him aside letting him know how they totally support him, but can't ever have that known? Like all those industry insiders he knows, and lawyers who told him he totally could have sued Hasbro if he had wanted to spend the time to do so? He sure gets a lot of support from rouge elements in whatever thing he happens to be at war with at any given time, that sure is strange. I'd be shocked to find that this effects the convention in any way.
 
KillThemCrackasBabies said:
I can't agree, my autistic rage aside it seemed like everyone stopped giving a shit about the incident like a week or so after it happened. People barely gave it fuck when it happened, much less will next year.

People on the Gencon staff were pulling him aside letting him know how they totally support him, but can't ever have that known? Like all those industry insiders he knows, and lawyers who told him he totally could have sued Hasbro if he had wanted to spend the time to do so? He sure gets a lot of support from rouge elements in whatever thing he happens to be at war with at any given time, that sure is strange. I'd be shocked to find that this effects the convention in any way.
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Obviously they're right up there with his top secret ninja lawyers. I understand they're related to Brianna Wu's Twitter handler.
 
Jaimas said:
GenCon finally responded to Jeremy getting assaulted.... By banning him from all future events, citing nonspecified "targetted harassment" that they've provided, thus far, no evidence of. Perhaps it's because of people digging into Gencon basically financially-supporting Matt at the time he thought the best idea ever was to sucker-punch a bearded Autist. Whatever the reason, Matt Fantastic has also been banned from all future events.
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So basically they decided to cut their losses and ban both autists?

Shockingly competent imo.

EDIT: Lately I've been thinking that we indeed should be making a thread on Jeremy Hambly. Nigga somehow managed to get banned despite theoretically having all the moral right in the world. That is genuinely Chris-tier. :story:
 
Just some updates on what's making the MTG Youtube community sperg.

- WOTC decided to stop their direct to retailer distribution model. This means that all local retailers need to go through distributors.

- WOTC raised the price to distributors but kept the MSRP the same. Now the average retailer is paying around $82 a booster box and sells them for $95-$110 per box.

- WOTC announced a partnership with amazon where amazon fulfills WOTC sales direct to the consumer for $89.99 a booster box.

All this happened over the course of 3 months, so it's obvious this was planned. I've never seen a company more intent on shutting down their retailers. It's really obvious they either want to cut out the middle man or move to digital. MTG Arena, Magic's digital game is going open beta next week and there's a huge marketing push right now to get people to use Arena.
 
Liquid Cool said:
Just some updates on what's making the MTG Youtube community sperg.

- WOTC decided to stop their direct to retailer distribution model. This means that all local retailers need to go through distributors.

- WOTC raised the price to distributors but kept the MSRP the same. Now the average retailer is paying around $82 a booster box and sells them for $95-$110 per box.

- WOTC announced a partnership with amazon where amazon fulfills WOTC sales direct to the consumer for $89.99 a booster box.

All this happened over the course of 3 months, so it's obvious this was planned. I've never seen a company more intent on shutting down their retailers. It's really obvious they either want to cut out the middle man or move to digital. MTG Arena, Magic's digital game is going open beta next week and there's a huge marketing push right now to get people to use Arena.
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Nice to see WOTC is continuing forward the way it always has: with a brick on the accelerator and a hose on the exhaust pipe.
 
Liquid Cool said:
Just some updates on what's making the MTG Youtube community sperg.

- WOTC decided to stop their direct to retailer distribution model. This means that all local retailers need to go through distributors.

- WOTC raised the price to distributors but kept the MSRP the same. Now the average retailer is paying around $82 a booster box and sells them for $95-$110 per box.

- WOTC announced a partnership with amazon where amazon fulfills WOTC sales direct to the consumer for $89.99 a booster box.

All this happened over the course of 3 months, so it's obvious this was planned. I've never seen a company more intent on shutting down their retailers. It's really obvious they either want to cut out the middle man or move to digital. MTG Arena, Magic's digital game is going open beta next week and there's a huge marketing push right now to get people to use Arena.
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So basically a store owner is expected to research, order, and sell a product for a 7.95 profit margin per box, which comes out to 9.6%. Because once there's a fixed Amazon price, good luck selling the product for one penny more.
 
With the Jeremy situation , is it possible He got banned banned because he is suing GenCon and they may have a policy of not letting someone that us bringing legal action against them into a event they are running?

Since the incident happened outside the con, I hope Jeremy is smart enough not to blame them and go after the people running Gen Con for what happened.

Go after them for not taking action after it happened sure, but I don't think they can be held responsible for it since it was outside con grounds.
 
Pretty sure he isn't suing Gen Con. I think at the time he was only going after punch stick man and was saying on twitter that people shouldn't give Gen Con grief about it. Of course now that's probably no longer the case.
 
anti SJW said:
Since the incident happened outside the con, I hope Jeremy is smart enough not to blame them and go after the people running Gen Con for what happened.
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That's exactly what he did.

I don't know if he ever threatened to sue them, but he had spent weeks after the incident repeating variations of "I have irrefutable evidence one of your staff attacked me, and yet you've done nothing?! Outrageous!". He may not have outright said "Gencon staff sought me out to beat me up", but he spent long enough very heavily implying it to anyone who would listen. Add to the fact one of his latest videos has him telling people he was approached by other staff in private who think he's a very important and cool dude who they totally like, but would face serious repercussions if anyone knew that. Employees would face repercussions if they knew some of their own associated with internet badass The Quartering? Well that certainly sounds like they're aware of his infamy, and maybe would even go so far as to do something about it... He might have done the "Ah gee fellas, don't go making this a big deal, I just want to go through the proper channels and get all this hashed out without making it a bigger deal..." shit immediately afterwards, but it's obvious to everyone what the endgame was.
 
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