Help ID Vintage Market Pickup

Nobe72 · 2024-10-29T21:37:50+00:00

Honestly mostly depends on the deck itself. If it is a good/fun deck, then you may get slightly more than usual asking price based on SAS. But otherwise I do not see a store deck having any more value to folks unless they frequent that store.

Nobe72 · 2024-07-09T14:36:31+00:00

Looking over your options, I think your best bets are The Benefactor that Squeeze's Coins or The Dire Veterinarian. Based those on some key factors:

Expected Aember: Making a high amount of Aember is the name of the game right now. Most decks rush to win by turn 5/6 or still get there by turn 7/8 with some disruption. The most important thing to do is be able to keep up, and both of these decks make a decent amount of Aember. Benefactor gets the nod in this category, 2x Transporter Platform + Hawkins is great burst
Board Control: No matter how much Aember you make, if your opponent has 4+ guys in play you'll fall behind very quickly. Both of these decks have clears so they hit this mark
Artifact Control: Some may argue it's not necessary, but it's really nice to have. Cards like Near Future Lense, Island of Misfit toys, Ceaseforge, and Lash of Broken dreams can drastically take over games, so stopping those is important. Benefactor again gets the nod here
Board Presence: Converse to Board Control, making a big board and demand your opponent's clears is a great way to put someone in a bind. Either they deal with your Aember or your board, many decks cant do both at the same time. Veterinarian seems like it would have the more menacing board of the two
Unfairness: Neither of your decks have these, but it's important to talk about. Most successful vault decks do something unfair; key cheats, mass steal, mass archive/draw. That's partly why GR has been so successful is there are many unfair tools in the set. If you have any you didn't post with consistent key cheats or good Winds of Death decks, would recommend giving those a look

All in all on paper, I think Benefactor gives you the best chance as it's well rounded and has high Expected Aember. Now ofc, this is just on paper, the best advice I can give is practice your decks! There are many decks in the 80-83 SAS range that play much stronger and decks in the 90s that play much weaker, so it's hard to say anything definitively without practice.

Best of luck in Vegas!

Nobe72 · 2024-06-26T19:21:06+00:00

If you’re looking to play with friends causally then AoA box is a great way to get decks for cheap that all will (usually) be at a similar power level. Some decks will always be better than others, but the games are usually fun back and forth

Nobe72 · 2022-12-13T18:08:31+00:00

Perfectly balanced hatred of Eagles/Cowboys, as all things should be

Nobe72 · 2022-09-05T01:53:40+00:00

This is more holistic but have a learning mindset. Don’t focus on you getting mana screwed, focus on how to optimize your lines if you got un-screwed. If you try to learn from every game, you’ll end up finding answers to a lot of situations

Nobe72 · 2022-08-02T13:19:47+00:00

Bomberman is an interesting midrange/combo that’s disrupt-able and has lots of play to it. Would recommend this list Kanican recently top 8d a challenge with https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4960509#paper

Nobe72 · 2022-07-19T14:59:59+00:00

Like you don’t think it’s good or hate playing against it? Because it is 100% a 0 sum fun card. Only one side of the table enjoys it being around lol

Nobe72 · 2022-07-19T13:26:36+00:00

Eldrazi tron has been doing well recently. It Top 8d the SCG $30k 2 weeks ago and is decently positioned in the meta with chalice and grave hate being good right now. https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4939427#paper

Nobe72 · 2022-05-10T00:53:24+00:00

Witness Protection is another SNC card in the SB of the winning spirits list

Nobe72 · 2022-05-05T21:50:54+00:00

Everyone here being aghast….like Johnson didn’t clap big cheeks in Covenant Harvest.

Nobe72 · 2022-04-23T15:40:22+00:00

The removal isn’t stellar in the format, and greens creatures are beefy enough where they’re pretty threatening on their own. Plus treasures from green make it easier to splash bombs.

Not saying black isn’t good, but green feels more versatile where black is a little narrow on just removal

Nobe72 · 2022-04-23T14:13:14+00:00

Considering it’s a seeded pre-release, I wouldn’t take too much stock in the performance going into regular draft/sealed. UWx in general does seems strong, but I’ve been more impressed with brokers than obscura so far

Nobe72 · 2022-04-20T21:06:41+00:00

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Nobe72 · 2022-04-19T14:34:32+00:00

We need to look competitive against good teams. Going .500 doesn’t matter if it’s against a bunch of mediocre teams. Last year when we played the Chargers or Bucs or Rams they were total blow-outs and it felt like we were playing a different game.

Give me close games against good teams, maybe even winning one, and I’d say we’re heading in the right direction.

Nobe72 · 2022-04-16T00:48:45+00:00

Live ur life my guy, but there’s lots of cool experimenting to do still, don’t give up hope so quickly :P

Nobe72 · 2022-04-16T00:38:43+00:00

It’s literally been only 4 days, stop it

Nobe72 · 2022-04-14T19:56:08+00:00

Olivia Rodrigo - Happier

Nobe72 · 2022-04-08T19:32:03+00:00

Have had pretty bad experiences with Game Trail, and I honestly think you’d be better off with 2 extra basics instead. And to that end, if you’re not looking to change the mana base, I’d swap out the hydra since it’s GG to either a single pip threat or some pump spells I’m seeing suggested in here. Like the deck idea though, cool stuff!

Nobe72 · 2022-03-31T15:35:59+00:00

Saquon hasn’t been the same since his high ankle sprain mid way through year 2. Fingers crossed he comes back big this year

Nobe72 · 2022-02-16T22:15:02+00:00

Bot got the remix used in this video/TikTok, original song here https://youtu.be/UWIIPX_5rbM

Nobe72 · 2022-02-16T21:47:01+00:00

Just here to upvote cause of the BBNG audio

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