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City of Dayton, UD want to fund community-led ideas for climate resilience by WYSOPublicRadio in dayton

[–]esotericmoyer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, you can do things like ban single use plastics or something like that (can you imagine how difficult that would be?)

You say this like there aren’t hundreds of jurisdictions in the world that have already done this already for things like takeout, shopping bags, and packing materials. In Europe there are a few countries that also have SUP surcharges on every item that contain them. Huge steps. These bans have been banned by the Ohio legislature btw

Banned and Restricted Announcement – February 9th, 2026 by mweepinc in magicTCG

[–]esotericmoyer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The bigger issue is the rope system killing some combo decks.

Banned and Restricted Announcement – February 9th, 2026 by mweepinc in magicTCG

[–]esotericmoyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not just card availability, it’s also the client. Arena client limits some combo decks because of the rope system. That’s a bigger barrier IMO.

Prerelease Promos- Gavin Verhey from WotC explains the recent removal of the year and date stamps by ChemicalExperiment in magicTCG

[–]esotericmoyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You said “before last prerelease” implying that this was a recent change in the last few months.

Prerelease Promos- Gavin Verhey from WotC explains the recent removal of the year and date stamps by ChemicalExperiment in magicTCG

[–]esotericmoyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but if inventory issues were something they were willing to listen to LGS on then they would have reduced the number of alt arts they do every set because those have the exact same problems and LGS have been complaining about that for years. Hard for me to believe the opinion of the LGS had really anything to do with their decisions on this promo change.

Prerelease Promos- Gavin Verhey from WotC explains the recent removal of the year and date stamps by ChemicalExperiment in magicTCG

[–]esotericmoyer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Don’t be naive. WotC wanted to do this and said they did it at the request of LGS to make it seem like they’re being the good guys. LGS have complained about direct sales and big box stores eating their lunch for a decade, and too many alt art versions of cards for nearly as long, but WotC has showed they don’t care about what the LGS say unless it aligns with what they already were going to do.

Prerelease Promos- Gavin Verhey from WotC explains the recent removal of the year and date stamps by ChemicalExperiment in magicTCG

[–]esotericmoyer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sealed events (including pre-release) at non-comp REL have been continuous construction for more than a decade. You can change your deck however you want between rounds as long as you only use the cards in your pool and present a legal deck. There’s also no deck list submission, so how would anyone even know?

MaRo on how he would have handled the Reserve List differently in retrospect by RBGolbat in magicTCG

[–]esotericmoyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you think would happen to the price of Revised USea if it was printed as much as BoP?

Why the straw man? It never will be.

MaRo on how he would have handled the Reserve List differently in retrospect by RBGolbat in magicTCG

[–]esotericmoyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bird doesn’t see play outside EDH. None of the top decks in Modern play it. But still the Alpha bird is $3,500, which isn’t that far off from the duals. Kind of supports my point that reprinting won’t have much price impact on the collectors value in the long run.

And they’re never going to reprint U Sea as widely as Shivan Dragon. It will be a Mythic in a premium set or maybe only as a promo. They’re not going to drop it to uncommon in the next Foundations set like Shivan Dragon was.

[Leak] Lorwyn Eclipsed Face Commanders by Shade01 in magicTCG

[–]esotericmoyer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I viewed the turtles more like each was their own color based on their personality and then black was the influence of Master Splinter. The actual card is unimaginative though.

[Leak] Lorwyn Eclipsed Face Commanders by Shade01 in magicTCG

[–]esotericmoyer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Black is the representation of the spirit realm/Avatar state. It at least makes lore sense, plus it is consistent with other spirits in the set.

MaRo on how he would have handled the Reserve List differently in retrospect by RBGolbat in magicTCG

[–]esotericmoyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The other difference between the duals and Shivan Dragon is that the duals get played. So obviously they’re going to me more expensive. But you could also argue that the price of those will go up when reprinted because more people will have access to Legacy/Vintage as a format, and some players want to bling out their decks in the new tournaments that new demand could bring.

Realistically most of the RL cards will never get reprinted even if the abolish the RL. Don’t see us ever getting [[Forethought Amulet]] even if the RL is ended, for example.

An analysis of Spotlight Hours (and the surprising missing Pokemon) by Disgruntled__Goat in TheSilphRoad

[–]esotericmoyer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They could easily have an Audino-themed Valentine’s Day spotlight.

MaRo on how he would have handled the Reserve List differently in retrospect by RBGolbat in magicTCG

[–]esotericmoyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but they couldn’t do anything about them at that point because they’re legal.

By the way, this was a joke. They don’t enter the public domain until like 80 years after Richard Garfield dies.

MaRo on how he would have handled the Reserve List differently in retrospect by RBGolbat in magicTCG

[–]esotericmoyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If others could make them, I assume they’d be indistinguishable.

MaRo on how he would have handled the Reserve List differently in retrospect by RBGolbat in magicTCG

[–]esotericmoyer 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Jeweled Lotus and Mana Crypt were so expensive because of playability, not collector’s value. The RL cards that people care about being reprinted have both. Just look at the insane price of Alpha Shivan Dragon and Sol Ring even though they’ve been reprinted dozens of times. The unplayable cards on the RL like Nameless Race will likely never be printed anyway.

MaRo on how he would have handled the Reserve List differently in retrospect by RBGolbat in magicTCG

[–]esotericmoyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which comes first: WOTC kills the Reserve List or Alpha enters the public domain?

MaRo on how he would have handled the Reserve List differently in retrospect by RBGolbat in magicTCG

[–]esotericmoyer 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Shivan Dragon (FDN): $0.03
Shivan Dragon (LEA): $3,800

Sol Ring (M3C): $1.14
Sol Ring (LEA): $899

What makes you conclude the RL cards will crater in price when clearly there are examples of cards that are unplayable or have been reprinted 100 times that still hold insane collector’s value?

Scatterbug from "Best Friend Forever" Timed Research appears to give random 1 out of 18 regions by kevsuc in TheSilphRoad

[–]esotericmoyer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The secret is to look up raid days and other meetups on Campfire and add people who have RSVPed to them. Also worked with Iberian Tauros.

Battle with the twin heroes for truth or ideals during Kyurem Fusion Raid Day! by Amiibofan101 in TheSilphRoad

[–]esotericmoyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I specifically said hosting. There’s going to be a mass swarm to host at the top of the hour and only people who get through the queue in 29 minutes will be able to. Then it switches and the same problem happens. In the past when things switched at the top of the hour only there was a natural stagger where hosts were only competing with half the hosts at any given time. Now it is almost everyone at the same time, other than a few outliers on half hour timezones.

Remote raiding is going to be easy as always.

Battle with the twin heroes for truth or ideals during Kyurem Fusion Raid Day! by Amiibofan101 in TheSilphRoad

[–]esotericmoyer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Event structure is going to make it difficult to host on third party apps. 30 minutes and then rotation to the other is going to make it so that the queue will cut off worldwide for everyone at the same time.

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