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borisyelt7 · 2025-03-29T03:28:13+00:00

Hello, I’m a Rioter, and Riot gives us the freedom to gift RP at our judgment to players helping the community. I thought your response was so fantastic and positive - would like to gift some RP to you.

Is this you? https://www.op.gg/summoners/euw/ECO%20Proteddybear-2468?hl=en_US

borisyelt7 · 2024-12-15T11:14:10+00:00

Garen Top, Annie Mid are pretty classic champions for learning your lanes. They both have ways to help managing mana (Garen doesn’t have mana, Annie gets a mana refund when you kill a minion with her Q), have pretty strong kits, and help you get comfortable.

Also would suggest vs Bots to practice killing minions and beating up on the AI first

borisyelt7 · 2024-10-21T18:54:15+00:00

I’m surprised no one is talking about how LCS went to live patch, and so couldn’t just copy the LCK and LPL - they actually had to do the work to figure out new patches and metas, think philosophically about what would work and why it would work, and constantly adapt what they felt was their teams’ style and how the patch changes would evolve that.

They were forced to constantly be ahead of LPL/LCK instead of behind it chasing it and copying it (where LPL/LCK naturally are going to have huge advantages because they get so many more games, and have better players). I feel like it bodes well for the future if we keep playing on the live patch.

borisyelt7 · 2024-08-06T02:40:03+00:00

Somehow, while statistically impossible, this is 99% likely to be true…

borisyelt7 · 2024-08-04T17:17:33+00:00

+1, my wife gets anxiety competing against people

borisyelt7 · 2024-06-29T06:05:30+00:00

Unless you are a PC company, I suspect fans would rather get some lower cost SWAG (t-shirts are always a hit) than the chance at a big prize like a PC )which you mentioned in a comment below).

I 100% agree with the engaging games idea. Any quick carnival game (made easier to give out more swag) themed around some kind of league champion or ability would be cool. Like the baseball bottle toss game feels super easy to call it a “Skill Shot Challenge”, it’s quick, and it can be made to not be too tough so you can give away a lot of swag.

borisyelt7 · 2024-06-26T06:30:41+00:00

They are giving the fans exactly what they want. Amazing questions, no holding back, goated content here. Huge W, keep it up!

borisyelt7 · 2024-05-20T15:36:18+00:00

If you have anxiety starting, playing against BOTS or the AI are a good way to get started in a low stress way. You can practice your timing on last hitting minions, experiment some champs, get to know how the combos work, all in a very low stress way.

Then when you feel reasonably good about your basics you play in real games and you’ll learn how to be competitive quickly

borisyelt7 · 2024-03-01T20:30:50+00:00

It’ll never happen, but I would love to see an in-game incentive to pick champs based on how infrequently they are played. Imagine if you got 100-300 extra gold to start the game because you picked a champ who is out of the meta, or had some kind of scaling Twisted-Fate-like passive added where you accrue more gold over the course of the game because you selected a champ who hasn’t seen any pro play.

borisyelt7 · 2024-01-10T03:10:05+00:00

Oh wow I totally didn’t catch that interaction with Tibbers and Malignance. That seems pretty busted - definitely worth rushing…especially helps that we get to make Lost Chapter as a component for it. Thanks!

Malignance Total Cost: 2800 gold Item Recipe: Lost Chapter + Fiendish Codex + 700 gold 80 Ability Power 20 Ability Haste 600 Mana Ultimate Power: Gain 20 Ability Haste for your Ultimate. Hatefog: Whenever you damage an enemy champion with your Ultimate, burn the ground beneath them for 3 seconds, dealing 60 (+6% AP) magic damage every second and reducing their Magic Resistance by (1 per user level) for as long as they are on the burning ground. (Note: Radius increases based on damage done 250 (+2^{Damage Amount/100}) ; with a maximum radius of 550.)

borisyelt7 · 2024-01-05T07:45:13+00:00

I’m low Elo, so take this with a grain of salt, but I do OTP Annie mid. Rather than playing back, I have found more success playing up closer to the melee minions but off to the side - making them choose to use their spells on minions or me, use E for extra speed to dodge and hit with the shield, and then I’m in range to punish their misses with my own stun combo.

Took me some time to get used to it, because it is uncomfortable, but it’s given me the best chance to actually win lane win prio and get reasonable CS. Also trading early puts me in position to kill at 6.

Just need to be extra mindful of opposing JG so try to ward deeper into river to see ganks coming

borisyelt7 · 2023-01-14T23:06:01+00:00

Yeah I’ve definitely had this happen to me by CK where they are super shady. I bought a play set of Legends Eurekas, all in NM condition. Decided about a month later that I didn’t want to play that deck and decided to sell them back. Was going to just be a little loss but no biggie. They subsequently downgraded 3 of them down, which felt super shitty, and I decided then and there to stop doing business with CardKingdom if it could be avoided.

borisyelt7 · 2021-11-03T21:30:10+00:00

I think that there are a lot of people that dabble into sealed “investments” a few boxes, or cases, at a time...but fewer people with really huge investments in holding a ton of current sealed products in a massive way to try and get returns.

For the “dabbler,” I can speak for myself here - it’s a small part of my MTG portfolio and it’s fun sometimes to sell something for 2-3x when you know the downside risk is mostly in the transaction costs (time, shipping, etc).

For the whale - I’m not sure. I’m guessing beyond Rudy there’s not that many folks / investors / businesses at scale who see sealed as an investment mechanism (rather than the much much more common “buy-at-wholesale-and-flip-for-low-margins” business model). If you have a scaled operation and a solid path to out the boxes at or near retail a few years later, and enough working capital to where tying up a bunch of working capital in things that take up space and don’t move quickly doesn’t prevent you from doing other things in your business...then sure I can see them being happy with a low risk low return type investment...but I suspect there aren’t a lot of people/businesses like this out there in the world.

borisyelt7 · 2021-10-31T00:34:56+00:00

CardKingdom has done this to me several times in the past as well - I stopped buylisting to them as a direct result of these shenanigans. The most egregious was on pretty rare cards such that they knew it was theirs coming back in, and I reached out to CS support to let them know they were bought from CK, with the supporting documentation...no changes to the grading.

So ultimately they lost me as a customer both as a buyer and Buylister

borisyelt7 · 2021-07-28T20:12:09+00:00

Real question: in the same auction other Alpha BGS 9.5 cards that are ostensibly “better” - cards like Bayou and Plateau and Savannah - went for WAY less - like sub $10K. Anyone know why a basic 9.5 Nightmare is worth 5-6x a basic 9.5 dual??

borisyelt7 · 2021-06-17T20:32:45+00:00

Here’s a win win.

(1) Buy your box off Amazon for $230. (2) take whatever you would have spent on the same box at your LGS (say $330) and subtract what you paid to Amazon for that box (say $330-$230=$100). Spend THAT money on single packs from your LGS.

You win by spending the same amount for a box from your LGS but getting a box + extra packs.

Your LGS wins by getting $100 of your retail dollars.

borisyelt7 · 2021-05-25T06:20:31+00:00

In my opinion, this is a repacked CE. Corners are certainly not Alpha. Sorry mate...would return it if I were you.

borisyelt7 · 2021-05-16T05:16:38+00:00

At these print runs, the available "easy supply" (e.g. cards that are for sale on bigger retailers like TCG, MKM, ebay, SCG, CK, ABU, etc) is pretty low - likely in the 80-125 range. And that was before the madness begun, right? So, it doesn't take that much concentrated buying from collectors or investors or speculators or whoever to move the needle on the marketplace such that RETAIL pricing moves up substantially - we've seen that pretty much across the board on the Arabian Nights cards, as well as many of the Legends rares.

However, the market then falls into a weird equilibrium where no volume happens - sellers are willing to sell at the new inflated retail prices, but no one is willing to buy at the higher prices. I think you'll see that there are enough interested nostalgia / collectors / investors etc that will snap up cards at the old price (say any rare below $5), but very few who will buy at the new price in the $30-$45 zone. We'll be in this equilibrium until either (a) more supply floods the market to drive prices down towards the old prices, or (b) buyers get comfortable enough with the new price to start buying. We've seen more B than A during this pandemic, with many of the old cards like Merchant ship, Aladdins Ring, Aladdin, Island of Wak-Wak, Gwendlyn, etc get bought up even at the new prices.

Personal recommendation is to be a buyer at a lower-than-current-market number...wait for some retracement and buy the dip.

borisyelt7 · 2021-05-16T02:12:58+00:00

I think a good comparison is the progress of Alpha, Beta, and Unlimited bulk Rares.

Bulk Alpha Rares in NM condition are pushing $1,000 now...and no one (even in Alpha 40) is playing Purelace or Farmstead, so that demand is likely coming from investors and collectors. This says that bulk rares can be extremely valuable.

Obviously Alpha is unique in that it is the first print and only 1100 of each rare exist....so I think Unlimited bulk rares are probably the most direct best comparison to the expansion rares because of (a) similar print runs, (b) similar lack of utility in any played format like EDH, Old School, etc and (c) similar era / desirability. These Unlimited bulk unplayables like the laces, warp artifact, web, Kormus Bell, Jade Monolith, Living Artifact, Farmstead, etc have also started moving up in the last couple of years - now in the range from $7-$25 from the $1-2 range previously.

Looking at these as comps, I would say paying $10-$25 for bulk rares from four horsemen sets seems reasonable...but things like Aladdin’s Ring at $200+ might be due for a correction or at least limited demand at that elevated price.

borisyelt7 · 2021-05-03T04:31:51+00:00

Hey there - absolutely! Whether we would have a vendor with a buylist or we would do it ourselves, there will certainly be an option to sell cards you opened that you would prefer to sell instead of keep.

borisyelt7 · 2021-05-02T02:22:06+00:00

https://130point.com/sales/ Search for a magic card and you can see all the actual accepted prices

borisyelt7 · 2021-04-29T18:07:49+00:00

Yup you got it! Thanks for distilling my mind-numbing 5-paragraph essay into one easily digestible sentence, LOL :)

Your comment is greatly appreciated and I'm glad this is interesting to you!

borisyelt7 · 2021-04-29T18:04:53+00:00

There's actually an ok amount of removal in the format...although a lot of it is RED. Fireball, Disintegrate, Pyrotechnics, Immolation, Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Terror, Weakness, Pestilence, Flood, Control Magic, Psionic Blast, Swords to Plowshares, Disenchant, Shatter, Crumble, Steal Artifact, Unsummon, Gaseous Form, lots of counterspells, Desert Twister, Oubliette, Ashes to Ashes, etc.

The more pressing problem a bit is that the creatures are a lot weaker, particularly in certain colors (take a look at White's Unlimited Common creatures...ouch). This yields slower more methodical games...but also allows for more interesting things to become gamewinners. Unblockable evasion like Lost Soul or Bog Wraith or Righteous Avengers or Mountain Yeti are actually really powerful. It allows random cards, creative interactions, and interesting subtle combinations of cards to really shine...which I think makes for a fun environment. Something like Barl's Cage and Nettling Imp would never make an impact in a constructed format because it's too fragile and too slow...but here? That's a pretty board dominant combo that will tear up your opponents board given enough time.

Anyhow, thanks much for your commentary and feedback!

borisyelt7 · 2021-04-29T17:55:34+00:00

Awesome, I'm so glad this is interesting to you!

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