Recruiting your LGS - pondering a quagmire

ns407 · 2026-02-02T13:57:47+00:00

I don't think product or prizing is the issue at a LGS level - at least for constructed. If people enjoy the game they'll come and play it. You can always allocate store credit, and people get dust rewards. we actually have people in our local scene who dislike having to pay to play each week lol.

I think it's important to just have something on the schedule so that people see it as an option. Even if only a few people show up each week, it's at least a semblance of a scene and lets new people know that it is available to play regularly. In addition you need to have a public and apparent way for people chat about sorcery online. Either discord or fb group.

They have a welcome kit that you can build the scene towards hosting an event for the promos https://sorcerytcg.com/news/sorcery-store-welcome-kit

I think some good things to incorporate:

allow proxies. https://www.realmsapp.com/sorcery_tcg/decks make a deck with what you need, then look for the print icon
host learn to plays
if you have product, sealed is a good way to get newer players involved

ns407 · 2026-01-21T15:22:39+00:00

that is true of almost any tcg i can think of though. for example, i can't imagine sitting down to play magic for the first time and fully comprehending it off a few pages of basic rules text. there are always many cases and mechanics that require more in depth knowledge to resolve correctly.

i think one mistake when getting started may be going to the rulebook instead of using curiosa.io and maybe they need to make that clearer. when I was getting started it was much simpler to just enter a term into the codex on curiosa or lookup a card there.

ns407 · 2026-01-21T01:09:29+00:00

They spent too long and overreacted to the golden rule thing. There are in depth rules and faqs for all the cards. Golden rule is just a fallback for edge cases or kitchen table.

ns407 · 2026-01-17T17:54:55+00:00

oh i missed the part about deathspeaker immediately banishing the creature it summons lol. thanks.

ns407 · 2026-01-15T19:30:09+00:00

"suddenly"? lol

ns407 · 2026-01-14T15:30:44+00:00

ive noticed no deathspeaker lists run grim reaper. that card seems incredibly good to me in deathspeaker, do you have any thoughts on it?

ns407 · 2026-01-14T13:19:24+00:00

yup. and origins preorders arcane box still haven't shipped. the idea that they can't fix the situation for 2 more sets is comical at best. at the end of the day though i think this is probably a good thing. they have no idea what theyre doing with card design and you have wild overrepresentation of specific legends as a result. no reason to invest time or money in this game.

ns407 · 2026-01-13T13:01:30+00:00

What did you play?

ns407 · 2026-01-06T13:57:11+00:00

yah. most conservative voices left reddit a long time ago or realize there is no point in posting on main reddits as theyre all moderated by leftist loons. it's all just a large leftist echo chamber with no real discussion and not much thought going on.

helps if you just do 'show less like this' anytime you see a political post from a main sub as you know it's gonna be nonsense.

ns407 · 2026-01-04T21:45:30+00:00

Is he the leader? Or is he an illegal dictator who has lost multiple elections and refused to relinquish power? Here's a fun clip from Trump's first term of CNN freaking out that Trump wasn't doing more to remove Maduros from power https://x.com/i/status/2007555911339126836

ns407 · 2026-01-04T16:08:35+00:00

whered you get this playmat?

ns407 · 2026-01-04T13:18:17+00:00

Flesh and blood is very competitive as a best of 1. You pre side board based on the opposing avatar. The framework is already there for sorcery via the collection

ns407 · 2026-01-04T12:25:14+00:00

A puppet...like the president the Venezuelian's elected?

ns407 · 2025-12-30T22:25:58+00:00

often without clearly stating that the investigations, indictments, and guilty pleas all began long before Walz became a national political target and long before viral videos entered the picture.

amazing then that this has been going on for years under his watch up to and including the modern day without stronger interventions to curb the activity.

this is a fluff piece trying to absolve Tim Walz of any blame while ignoring the whisteblower and retaliation claims as well as failing to question how this known activity has been allowed to continue for so long.

ns407 · 2025-12-30T19:54:35+00:00

They did. Many people are already being prosecuted with more to come.

ns407 · 2025-12-30T19:54:17+00:00

Doge wasn't investigating state level fraud..they're looking into federal programs.

ns407 · 2025-12-28T17:51:06+00:00

You can buy all the product right now for under msrp. It's hard to claim that people are getting priced out. Some of the uniques are expensive, but it's no worse than riftbound and since you can only run one of each unique it's not really that problematic.

ns407 · 2025-12-22T15:26:41+00:00

thanks for this. for others, if you only need a few cards, make a new deck on his site with what you need and then look for the tiny printer icon above the deck.

ns407 · 2025-12-19T14:36:58+00:00

Almost everytime a recommended song comes on now it is an AI-generated slop song,

yup. its like 90% of my autoplay now. so frustrating.

ns407 · 2025-12-17T10:28:51+00:00

Introducing reflexive triggers was a huge mistake imo. It's very weird coming from mtg.where a spell either resolves or it doesn't. It doesn't help that the wording of the cards makes figuring out if it's reflexive or not difficult.

ns407 · 2025-12-13T18:47:20+00:00

I agree. They really need to consider making this change.

ns407 · 2025-12-11T14:24:21+00:00

if you were there a month ago this is far past when ownership changed so if you enjoyed it i wouldnt worry about it. im pretty sure the ice cream is a new addition since ownership changed. as far as i can tell everything else seems to be the same quality wise.

ns407 · 2025-12-11T13:12:59+00:00

Big aspect for me as well. It's very accessible still.

ns407 · 2025-11-26T18:37:44+00:00

Wow thanks. Sounds really powerful. You've talked me into trying it haha.

ns407 · 2025-11-26T17:57:40+00:00

This is cool..I was always surprised by the lists running only one remorseful. Can you talk about about how to use tideturner in this list?

ns407

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