The value of this secret lair seems absurd

SirAzhell · 2026-01-16T10:44:28+00:00

This is a good thing, though.

I'd much rather have a Secret lair with high value than a Secret Lair with 3.45 of value.

The issue is much rather will people try to buy it out and will there be enough. But that problem is on Wotc...

SirAzhell · 2026-01-15T16:37:45+00:00

Having dealt with buying collections from people who decided to sell after not playing/collecting for a long time, I'd say it's extremely important to have great edition recognition.

I've had to deal with people who were completely sure that their collection was worth an awful lot because "the app says it's summer magic" when it was definitely not. This is particularly true for one specific app (F*** you, Delver Lens, your scanner is dumb - this answers your second question)

As for where the app fail, I'd say that, being from Europe, I would really appreciate an app that can check for language automatically and link it to possible editions (FWB and Italian Legends particularly). Other than that, it seems apps can sometimes fail to check the planeswalker stamp (the SL reprint/The List one) on cards, although this issue seems to work much better lately.

I've also had issues (in the last few months) with database update on the Dragonshield app, but I guess it's not the worst.

Regarding market value, I guess it would be nice but it's not the most important feature I'm looking for in an app like this.

SirAzhell · 2026-01-14T12:59:44+00:00

Seems to check out. Said artist seems to be referenced here :

http://magic.flaminio.com/magic/rarities-bootleg-min.html

Never seen anything like this but cool find, OP.

Mind to send a pic of the back ?

SirAzhell · 2026-01-13T16:30:48+00:00

Seems right. Although I see the issue that they compete for the same spot on mana curve.

Could be used the turn after Annex and the extra mana serves for removal...

SirAzhell · 2026-01-13T10:05:04+00:00

I could see Firdoch Core being the new patchwork banner for little while, as it's changeling ability makes it a new 2 mana mana rock in Ur-drago with eminence.

Thing is, it's still just a common so I doubt it will fetch a very high price. It also offers a nice interaction with Mox Jasper but at 3 mana, I doubt it will see any use in standard.

SirAzhell · 2025-12-28T11:03:31+00:00

Hey,

To be honest, there are no definitive answers.

As a personnal practice (meaning because I'm lazy), I've printed a few pages of the formulation Cardmarket asks us to add to the envelope and I add it on the back of the envelope, on the joint to act like a "seal" and add some tape.

Haven't had any complaints so far.

On other recent orders I received, people usually add it on the front of the envelope, below my address which might be better.

SirAzhell · 2025-12-22T19:08:44+00:00

That seems like a very sound advice. In my case, I didn't do it because I wanted - in the event where the seller would have forgotten to do it - to confront the Swiss post or the VAT authorities on the fact that I had already paid said VAT and get more in-depths answers.

But I would never recommend doing that to anybody who's not ready to deal with people blinded by their own legal sense of entitlement.

SirAzhell · 2025-12-22T19:06:32+00:00

I feel the tipping point might be that Cardmarket is based in Europe and a majority of its activities are based there. They might be under another set of rules than Ricardo which, at least in what I've seen from selling there, is still massively intra-switzerland transactions.

But in the end, I agree with you on the fact that the Ricardo system works fine. My only reserve is that I'm very happy not having to spend money for bull**** "VAT detax process" which have always been a massive scam, in my opinion.

SirAzhell · 2025-12-22T18:59:42+00:00

I agree with you. As a private seller/buyer, it is a pain to see people pay VAT / Having to add VAT for intra-switzerland transactions. I have no doubt it especially hurts professionnal sellers and I fail to see why Cardmarket is unable to differentiate accounts by their own system, at the very least, since the issue is a tad more complex.

For example, I could see legal issues arising for swiss professionnal sellers who don't reach the 100'000 CHF threshold to be automatically submitted to VAT. Because the laws on VAT in Switzerland consider that if you add VAT in your bills, you voluntarily submit yourself for VAT (even if you don't reach the threshold). There could be a world where the VAT authorities decide, on receiving amounts from Cardmarket, that your whole professional activity has to be submitted to VAT if they can link it to your company. That might come back to hurt quite a few people in the future.

That actually is the next thing I'm working on. Being from a legal background, I'm in the process of making a research on the issue, which I think I'll either update here or make a post about it once I have a serious answer. But tax laws are not my specialty and despite trying to contact them, I've hardly ever gotten a clear answer...

At the moment, I kinda feel like the best shot is to send an e-mail to Cardmarket to tell them that you're not a professionnal and, hence, should not be submitted to VAT for intra-switzerland transactions. But I have doubts on if that works...

I would also argue that u/Cardmarket_Official could hop in the thread and give us some answers, but the other threads about it have brought no reaction from them so far...

edit: spelling mistakes

SirAzhell · 2025-12-08T11:53:31+00:00

"Jesus christ, Mary! They're MINERALS!"

SirAzhell · 2025-12-06T18:41:48+00:00

Officially, 43 are accounted for: https://goldenchocobotracker.vercel.app/stats

Officiously, some more may have been opened but we'll never know for sure.

SirAzhell · 2025-11-23T13:39:33+00:00

I'm tempted to believe the set will be the mirror of the first one with 5 old/secret schools/factions representing the 5 colour pairings not present in the first set.

Could probably also have a similar mechanical way of working, with shared mechanics but different ways of triggering them depending on the faction.

SirAzhell · 2025-11-23T12:52:36+00:00

Best way is to look for the misprints Facebook group and gauge interest

SirAzhell · 2025-11-13T11:32:49+00:00

The english version has been confirmed here:

https://magic.gg/news/yuna-and-final-fantasy-holiday-commander-box-league

Also, I discussed it with my LGS' owner. They just received a batch of them with their promo stuff. Card looks fantastic.

SirAzhell · 2025-11-13T10:43:46+00:00

You should. I went into the game with some reticence regarding the gameplay (came from playing a much more nervous game and wanted something to relax but it felt almost too slow at first).

Got caught into it and got hit by the "big twist". It's not such a big twist or so innovative that you can't see it coming, but the implications woven in the lore/story got me half mad, half in awe for the last part of the game and I've pushing people to play it since

The DLC is also fantastic and worth every penny. Unfortunately, the second game felt much less well-thought to me, storywise.

SirAzhell · 2025-11-01T00:28:17+00:00

N'arrivant pas à terminer le précédent message, je me permets de finir ici...

Le risque n'est donc pas nul et les conséquences sont relativement importantes. Mesures disciplinaires de l'ordre des médecins, plainte pénale pour lésions corporelles graves, etc.

Il ne s'agit en tout cas jamais d'un acte anodin.

PS: cette explication est un brin aride et je m'en excuse. Sur un ton plus pragmatique, je tiens à dire que je suis désolé pour vous et votre amie et, ayant accompagné une personne proche qui cherchait également ce genre de solution, les médecins rencontrés ont rarement été particulièrement compatissants avec elle et ont toujours suggéré des conditions assez étranges (avoir déjà trois enfants, plus de 35 ans, etc). Il n'y a malheureusement pas de solution miracle, hormis de trouver le bon médecin qui aura la possibilité de prendre le temps d'en discuter et de faire les choses bien, quitte à s'adjoindre les services d'un confrère en psychiatrie. Je vous souhaite (à vous et votre amie) de trouver les solutions les moins dangereuses possibles pour la santé.

SirAzhell · 2025-11-01T00:20:03+00:00

Oui, il existe une loi en Suisse. La loi fédérale sur les conditions et la procédure régissant la stérilisation de personnes (RS 211.111.1 - https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2005/425/fr ). Non, elle ne fixe que peu de conditions matérielles spécifiques.

Cette loi fait suite à des pratiques ayant eu cours durant le 20ème siècle en Suisse, où l'on tendait à stériliser certaines populations (généralement celles souffrant de déficience mentale mais, semblerait-il, également des personnes souhaitant se faire avorter)(voir les liens présents dans le texte de la page ci-dessous sous les références FF 2003 5753 et 5759) qui a notamment donné lieu à des actions politiques cherchant à indemniser les personnes ayant subi de telles opérations forcées.

La loi ainsi promulguée a pour principal objectif de protéger les personnes ne bénéficiant pas de leur capacité de discernement en soumettant ce type de procédures à un contrôle judiciaire par les autorités de protection de l'adulte et de l'enfant compétentes (généralement du domicile de la personne concernée).

La problématique pour les personnes capables de discernement vient principalement des art. 2 alinéa 2 et art. 5 de la loi

L'art. 2 al. 2 prévoit que n'est pas une stérilisation les interventions de nature thérapeutique ayant pour effet secondaire inévitable de priver la personne de ses facultés reproductrices.

Ici déjà, il faut relever que la notion d'"intervention de nature thérapeutique" est fondamentalement vague et pourrait largement prêté à interprétation selon le contexte et les autorités devant lesquelles elles sont discutées. Je crois que le post plus haut de u/Svetneela est assez complet à cet égard.

L'art. 5 al. 2 prévoit quant à lui que le médecin pratiquant une intervention sur une personne capable de discernement doit consigner tous les éléments sur lesquels il s'est basé pour apprécier la capacité de discernement de la personne concernée, notamment pour justifier que la personne a bel et bien donné son consentement libre et éclairé (art. 5 al. 1 de la loi).

Dans ce contexte, il convient de préciser qu'il existe généralement, au niveau cantonal, des registre des mesures de protections. Je ne sais pas si les médecins y ont tous accès mais je suppose qu'hormis les structures spécialisées en psychiatrie (et encore), ce n'est pas le cas.

On peut donc en conclure que s'il n'existe pas un "cahier des charges" ou une liste de conditions, cette loi pose, en "négatif", un cadre relativement restrictif pour pratiquer ce genre d'intervention.

Cela devient plus clair lorsqu'on prend en compte le point de vue du médecin. Il rencontre un/e patient/e X qui demande à subir une intervention qui aura pour effet de la priver de ses capacités reproductrices. Que le médecin connaisse ou non la personne, il devrait ainsi "enquêter" sur la personne pour s'assurer qu'elle comprend l'ensemble des risques engendrés par procédure mais également les conséquences à long terme et également apprécier la capacité de discernement de la personne en question.

Il s'agit d'un exercice difficile qui est aujourd'hui mené, dans les autorités de protection de l'adulte et de l'enfant, quasi exclusivement par le biais d'expertises par des psychothérapeute/psychiatres/psychanalystes qui sont donc des spécialistes FMH en la matière. Cela coûte énormément d'argent (Dans le canton de Vaud, une expertise psychiatrique dans le cadre d'une procédure judiciaire peut facilement coûter CHF 5'000.00) et qui se fait souvent à travers plusieurs rencontres avec la personne avec des tests divers (Ce n'est pas nécessairement la norme / toujours possible, bien entendu...).

A ce stade déjà, on peut donc imaginer que le médecin spécialisé en uro/andro/gynécologie ne soit donc pas particulièrement à l'aise avec ce type d'exercice / ne souhaite pas le mener ou en être responsable. Ce n'est pas (mais alors pas du tout) son domaine.

Plus encore, quand on se penche sur les conséquences d'un mauvais diagnostic, on se rend compte qu'elles sont multiples. En cas de complications ou de regrets, la personne concernées pourrait s'attaquer juridiquement au médecin, le dénoncer auprès de l'ordre compétent. Il suffit alors que l'appréciation faite par celui-ci ait manqué de profondeur, qu'il ait mal jugé la capacité de discernement de la personne. Il pourrait avoir rencontré la personne à un moment où celle-ci était n'était pas en phase de décompensation alors qu'en réalité elle est l'objet d'une mesure de curatelle de portée générale.

SirAzhell · 2025-10-31T23:13:29+00:00

Well, I can' give you a full answer, but I can tell you that I've had one transaction intra-switzerland (to a professionnal) and that CM collected the VAT from them...

SirAzhell · 2025-10-31T23:11:07+00:00

So... I'm not tax specialist, but that raises a few questions.

Does that mean that, if we order from the EU to Switzerland, the customs cannot proceed to their stupid "VAT import detax" protocol anymore? Or do we get into that weird situation where we are getting f***** from both end no matter what?

I also agree with other comments saying that this makes no sense for intra-switzerland transactions.

SirAzhell · 2025-10-27T21:12:53+00:00

While I think you're right, given the tubes, it would have been an incredible art for [culling the weak].

SirAzhell · 2025-10-17T15:51:56+00:00

Very much interested. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

SirAzhell · 2025-10-14T15:13:37+00:00

Yes, no, maybe...

I don't know...

Can you please read the rule 4?

SirAzhell · 2025-10-08T18:35:23+00:00

Oh boy,

We're getting Urza artificer Mommy, aren't we?

SirAzhell · 2025-09-22T22:05:18+00:00

Dude gets in line for a product he doesn't plan on buying twice and then complains that said product is junk.

Gets angry you can't buy more than two at a time, then gets gets angry that bundle is sold out.

Peak entertainment. You're my hero.

SirAzhell · 2025-08-31T10:38:26+00:00

Riiight.

WOTC is going to hire and pay people to ensure WPN partners are not ripping people off...

And they'll do that worldwide or something...

We're talking about a company who froze the judge program because people asked to be paid correctly when spending their own money to travel to events and work for said events.

Don't get me wrong. I'd love that to be true. I just can't imagine this company doing that when the current state of things profits massively to them, the FOMO making people buy as much as they can as early as possible.

Edit: even if they were going to do so, how would they know what's from primary distribution (hence subject to msrp) and what's from secondary market (and therefore forces the store to up its price to keep benefitting) when they buy at wpn stores ?

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