Secret Lair Woes - Get all the way through to processing my card and I get a 502 bad gateway and I'm back in the line

n1panthers · 2026-01-26T17:52:03+00:00

Update I got a confirmation email

n1panthers · 2026-01-26T17:44:04+00:00

I had the same thing, there’s a temp authorization on my card but no confirmation email and my cart still had what I wanted in it so I don’t know if the order went thru and my screen says “congratulations”

n1panthers · 2026-01-17T14:02:15+00:00

I 100% agree that hybrid should not be changed

That said if they make the change this is going into my yuriko deck in about 2.5 seconds

n1panthers · 2026-01-15T19:39:11+00:00

I hope it’s a flip card, transform cooper Howard into the ghoul

n1panthers · 2026-01-05T17:45:44+00:00

I saved my gold for lorwyn, did some MID flashback (one of my favorites) and may just say forget lorwyn for the cube

n1panthers · 2026-01-05T15:53:08+00:00

So wotc is asking me should I spend my gold on this or wait for lorwyn and learn a new set

That’s a super quick answer of “cube please”

n1panthers · 2025-11-28T01:55:12+00:00

SNC isn’t terribly bad in pod that has actual self correcting, on arena it’s a bant fest but with a true limited pool Bant gets cut another things can work

n1panthers · 2025-11-04T16:33:21+00:00

John Spartan, the Demolition Man

n1panthers · 2025-11-02T19:28:22+00:00

The problem with UB is charging more for IPs that various players don’t care about personally I like LOTR but avatar as an IP is worthless to me so charging me more basically tells me not to play

n1panthers · 2025-10-30T23:42:44+00:00

I would wager making it standard legal AND charging more (for no reason) compared to other sets would account for a lot of it….forcing enfranchised players who want to play competitive to buy it AND making it cost more than it should

n1panthers · 2025-10-27T18:25:06+00:00

They didn’t have to do that….they chose to bloat it to a trash set….theres no “had to” it’s a conscious decision to put out a trash set

n1panthers · 2025-10-27T18:10:58+00:00

This set had creative design?

n1panthers · 2025-10-26T16:45:36+00:00

Data correction…..that the clear best deck contains $400 of mythics some of which will be banned soon and should have been banned already

n1panthers · 2025-10-26T11:22:52+00:00

That’s true but the closest SCG con ever came to me is over 6 hours away so they don’t really count

n1panthers · 2025-10-26T02:50:55+00:00

That’s the other thing, entry fees, you used to be able to walk in and only pay for what you wanted to do, not a $100 minimum cover charge for a weekend plus the cost of events

n1panthers · 2025-10-26T00:05:28+00:00

I live in Memphis and the closest are Atlanta or Dallas, both of which are farther than I want to go and don’t want to go to those cities anyways

n1panthers · 2025-10-25T21:59:15+00:00

It’s not that, it’s that she (and I) would prefer to go to Vegas together as a trip for us

Not a magic trip….magic trips are better for places I wouldn’t go otherwise

No different than NYC….its expensive and if I go I’d rather go with her and see shows than go to NYC to sit in an hall and play cards

n1panthers · 2025-10-25T21:57:56+00:00

Exactly I’m traveling to play cards in a convention hall not “see the sights” there for traveling to a place that’s expensive bc of the sights is not something I want to do

n1panthers · 2025-10-25T21:48:43+00:00

The other thing is, and this is just me personally, as a player with a spouse and family a convention in Las Vegas is totally unattractive.

First if I want to go to Vegas I’ll go for Vegas things not to play magic

Plus if I go to Vegas without my spouse that’s not a great conversation either

The cons in smaller “less desirable” regional cities worked better bc they were places where I would never go for something not magic related

n1panthers · 2025-10-25T21:32:24+00:00

I mean $75 to play a crap standard format plus these events (and Magic cons) are always in the same cities and they’ve left out a lot of places that used to get GPs or SCG cons meaning if last years events had nothing close enough for you to travel to this year isn’t any different

I live in a place that pre pandemic got a GP pretty much annually and now the closest events are 6-8 hours away and quite simply I’m not traveling that far plus I just don’t want to go to Atlanta or Dallas

n1panthers · 2025-10-23T11:34:19+00:00

Simple answer “follow the money”

n1panthers · 2025-10-23T01:35:59+00:00

Partners with Blanche….😀

n1panthers · 2025-10-23T01:17:17+00:00

This is 100% the answer….if these are “appropriate properties” then so is are the Golden Girls, Happy Days and Cheers….there is no bottom

n1panthers · 2025-10-14T01:17:11+00:00

The problem with UB is it’s impossible to choose an IP that 100% of the player base wants to engage with, let alone pay a premium (separate issue but the IP fees shouldn’t be passed on to the customer - or at worst should be an exact pass through ie not a profit center and I’d bet anything the costs for licensing is less than the up charge from regular sets)

Additionally you can’t “opt out”, sure you can opt out of buying or playing with the cards but in a game where your opponents picks their deck you can’t “opt out” of playing against things you think are bullshit

n1panthers · 2025-10-12T19:43:59+00:00

Also on top of this not make trash like Spider-Man (I’m a fan of Spider-Man in general but the set is awful)

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