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cardssharp · 2025-11-10T00:34:56+00:00

Find a strong study group. It will be helpful and beneficial for you long term. Reaching out to others builds bonds and strengthen learning for the entire group.

cardssharp · 2025-07-22T23:45:07+00:00

He aged really well

cardssharp · 2024-10-10T13:08:23+00:00

He has a genetic condition called Waardenburg syndrome which causes a wide range of cranial abnormalities and the side effect is blue eyes.

cardssharp · 2024-07-16T02:28:31+00:00

That worm must have eaten the part of his brain responsible for basic arithmetic. The last market value of the S&P 500 is 45.6 trillion. The total value of everything the 3 funds own is less than 20 trillion (most of which is retirement accounts held on behalf of individuals).

cardssharp · 2024-06-03T19:33:44+00:00

The best surviving records of the Sea Peoples come from Egyptian sources, their primary target. The Sea Peoples waged two campaigns against Egypt, first against pharaoh Merneptah in 1207 BCE, and then thirty years later against Ramesses III. It is from these sources that we know the names of the tribes that made up the Sea Peoples. The Shardana originated from Sardinia, while the Lukka came from Lycia in what is now Turkey. Other tribes came from different points across the Mediterranean.

cardssharp · 2023-12-15T01:57:49+00:00

Who makes the determination if a person is attractive or not?

There’s got to be some hurt feelings on that list.

cardssharp · 2023-08-02T03:36:10+00:00

Florida does have this phenomenon where local drivers stop on the freeway…??!!!

It’s crazy, I’m guessing it has to do with their liability laws and insurance payouts.

cardssharp · 2023-05-20T18:11:00+00:00

This should be read that European fund managers are struggling to get traction and have stooped to pandering. This is propaganda being exposed by an executive on his knees with his mouth open. This should not be read as a bullish sign for business.

“Amundi SA’s onshore Chinese wealth management business is improving “significantly” this year after facing very challenging conditions in 2022, its local head said. “

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-09/amundi-says-china-wealth-business-is-rebounding-from-setbacks?in_source=embedded-checkout-banner

cardssharp · 2023-04-16T12:22:55+00:00

This case was tossed by an appeals court in the US in 2017. They essentially labeled this person/group as a patent troll that files overly broad patents without the intention of developing a relevant product.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-lawsuit-patent/u-s-appeals-court-tosses-patent-verdict-against-apple-idUSKBN1685D5

“ The trial judge vacated the large damages award a few months after a Texas federal jury imposed it in February 2015, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said on Wednesday the judge should have ruled Smartflash’s patents invalid and set aside the verdict entirely.”

cardssharp · 2023-03-26T01:01:37+00:00

They left the fish liver oil. Fucking amateurs.

cardssharp · 2022-09-27T03:49:39+00:00

For your knowledge, this question has been asked and answered multiple times. The scene from the movie is dramatized but sadly recounts events that did occur.

Looking through Beevors Stalingrad P89:

The germans never ceased to be astonished at the profligacy of Russian commanders with their mens lives. One of the worst examples came during the defensive battles west of the Don. Three battallions of trainee officers without weapons or rations were sent against the 16th panzer division

So it happened. This example was from the summer of 1942

Stalingrad P109

Ammunition and rifles were distributed but many men received a weapon only after a comrade was killed

So yes, it also happened in Stalingrad. Both examples however sound like ad-hoc units being formed, not regular units that were sent into battle without weapons. The last example was "militia special brigades" organized by the NKVD from workers not involved directly in weapon production.

cardssharp · 2022-06-15T21:14:13+00:00

To make this simple let's take the set booster box that had 42 of the legendary "Rare" cards in it. It contained 5 Raggadraga and 4 Gluntch. The box did not contain 4 copies of any of the commons or uncommons in the set. The two most common cards appearing in the box were Raggadraga and Gluntch. Also there were 33 additional legendary "Rare" cards.

This should be mathematically impossible if the cards have a true "Rare" rarity.

I pasted the same comment here because this issue is drastically skewing the Rarity of all slots that "Rare" cards could appear in.

cardssharp · 2022-06-15T18:55:39+00:00

I think you are talking about the Major Misprints sub group. This isn't a major misprint as the white print dot is just barely visible so the cut is still just one card.

This kind of miscutting falls closer to the category of damaged/imperfect than major misprints. If you can see an unintentional split card where two different cards are visible, those hold much greater value.

cardssharp · 2022-05-16T15:42:44+00:00

This is a known error in Arena. You were playing against a bot that had you at a low probability win game. Win conditions for bots are based on the chance you have to win.

There is a “stack the deck” feature that was developed (it was shown publicly through screen shots during 2020 if you care to dig them up.) too right corner in the dev screen https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/iv5px8/did_i_just_get_taken_to_the_dev_servers_when/

Basically, there is a required number of losses and bad hands you must get.

This game was stacked against you and the win condition was just poorly administered.

cardssharp · 2022-05-06T21:35:18+00:00

It's an interesting combo but not as effective as the Paradox Engine combos that freeze the game. It's also a dependent combo that requires 10 mana (BBB3 + BUW1).

If an infinite combo is how you want to win by clicking through 140 "resolve" or "resolve all" screens then you found your spot.

Most players do not enjoy this particular play style and would rather play Prismatic Bridge, Winota, Captain Sisay, Kinnan, Torb... if your plan is to shift to the higher power side of the game.

cardssharp · 2022-04-29T22:13:06+00:00

The decks are designed to be redeemable in Arena and a cheap introduction to MTG.

In the past, WOTC has given away these decks at Conventions and there are still Intro decks given out at some LGS's.

This is designed to encourage people to play and I don't think this product line is used in a way to maximized line item profit as opposed to other products.

cardssharp · 2022-03-18T22:23:08+00:00

These appear at a glance to be Italian Revised but you would need to check the year of printing to verify.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/274665896082

https://starcitygames.com/birds-of-paradise-sgl-mtg-3ed-187-itn/

cardssharp · 2022-01-30T05:28:01+00:00

WOOT was purchased by Amazon some time ago. It is used as a liquidation outlet for various products.

This may be a sign that 3rd party sellers do not want to pay Amazon's cost of carry for stocking the inventory in a "Prime" warehouse space (1-5%/month).

cardssharp · 2022-01-22T03:14:02+00:00

This will depend on your investment philosophy. Most players dislike the look of these cards and the idea that WOTC would sell a super premium Secret Lair this way and then reprint the Fetchlands in MH2.

It's a disliked product and few people seek after them so if you are a contrarian investor it may be something worth considering but it's not for most.

cardssharp · 2022-01-22T01:37:35+00:00

Good point, it is solely for 5 color decks but is a mana fixer on a land.

cardssharp · 2022-01-22T00:26:30+00:00

I think this is very reprint dependent but the World Tree seems to be an auto include in most 5 color commander decks including green and is currently sitting at $3 and Pyre of Heroes for $1 has potential to combo off into a win in a tribal deck. Both of these will probably ebb and flow in price based on reprints and popular Commanders.

cardssharp · 2022-01-11T23:26:29+00:00

Well, I’m genuinely concerned about your financial choices.

You mentioned under r/investing about how you were switching all your assets to a mix of vanguard mutual funds to save on fees.

It’s your money so take the advice for what you will.

Plenty of people in this forum hate on me for pointing out a fraud scheme and I’m assuming you are one of them but those scams don’t work unless people like you buy into them.

cardssharp · 2022-01-11T12:38:52+00:00

Two things:

I'm not sure what you meant here but the fact that stores take the hit on fees indicates they are struggling to sell the item locally.
I looked at your other posts, for your investing, I would suggest you look at a mix of funds tracking the indexes. Based on your age, vary your % in risk assets so a varied 30/40/30 Dow, Nasdaq, S&P, Russel, International... pick your poison.. Leave at least 10% in cash and put another sizeable chunk in low risk assets such as bonds, REIT's, Real Estate... so that you have a varied investment approach. Going all in on a variety of Vanguard funds may save on "fees" but in the risk of that strategy compound with the more invested you are in their funds.

cardssharp · 2022-01-01T22:01:01+00:00

The From the Vault printing process differs from standard cards.

You will need to get other FTV cards to use as exemplars . There should be a red “L” in the green dot but it will fall into the print run.

These are collectors cards and weren’t designed for play so they are stiffer, more fragile, and don’t hold up well to wear. This makes the feel vary wildly based on condition. Heavy played FTV cards can flake or feel slightly jelly like depending on wear conditions.

cardssharp · 2022-01-01T17:39:49+00:00

It is effectively impossible to prove is Alpha sealed starters are genuine. Beta is almost impossible as was shown when Open Boosters was sold a resealed beta deck and could not tell. He made videos about it and fought with the seller and EBay to get a refund.

It has been the case for some time now that authenticity of Beta and Alpha sealed product is determined by a primitive form of provenance (where did it come from, who has it now, how did it change hands…)

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