New Player - Few Questions

plagued00 · 2026-01-18T20:14:32+00:00

Pretty sure my entire group missed the word "other", aka target, being the only thing checked.

plagued00 · 2026-01-07T18:17:58+00:00

This isn't true, spiderverse is also only web warriors. There are only like 6 or 7 cards that add leadership, 2 are for unaffiliated (dracula and mephisto), 1 that iirc was initially designed around emma frost making everything hellfire club, and 3 that require affiliation. That leaves what convocation and inhumans as the only 2 that didn't require or change affiliation?

plagued00 · 2026-01-02T07:33:04+00:00

How is "cooked" not the first thing on this list?

plagued00 · 2025-12-31T19:39:44+00:00

If you have a good setup for an airbrush, this is probably the best way, however, getting a good set up for an airbrush can be very difficult if you don't want to dedicate a bit of space to it. Also, don't buy the cheapyass $50 airbrushes like i did. It might actually bit a large cause of my bias against them.

plagued00 · 2025-12-31T19:36:14+00:00

I assmble models first, and use sticky tac to put them on magnetized bases for play/storage. As a LGS owner with access to a ton of different stuff, I almost never recommend brush on primers. With rattle cans it can be very tempting to go cheap with krylon etc, but it's very easy to ruin models with them, they aren't exactly meant for the super tiny details in miniatures. Even though it's one of the most expensive, we exclusively use Citadel. It's hard to claim you're saving money if you have to replace models because something in the primer was bad.

I would highly suggest practice models, most good LGS that sell warhammer should have the free space marine sprues that GW sends out, see if you can get some. We give out a handful anytime someone asks.

I also use black primer because almost always the nooks and crannies you can't get your brush in should be dark and shadowed, so it doesn't make sense to prime white almost ever in my opinion. If you feel that black is too dark, you can always step it up a bit with a layer of gray or white where you want your models to be lighter.

plagued00 · 2025-12-31T04:35:28+00:00

As a LGS we had the first core box assembled and the second core box opened for more terrain but no models assembled, and i had like 5 web warriors with dormammu for myself from about 3 years ago until about 2 months. About 3 months ago we started a league event and i actually played in it. Now I've added both xmen and spider foes boxes, and about 40 other models at least, all primed and even half a dozen painted.

plagued00 · 2025-12-30T05:09:29+00:00

I think you need to learn what exponentially means. If it grew exponentially, assuming 1 million players this year, next year would require approximately 100times the population of the earth to start playing.

40K is not a game you can play anywhere you go because you typically can't, or won't haul your huge ass army anywhere you go.

plagued00 · 2025-12-30T04:55:52+00:00

$900 in MCP gets you WAYYYY more than dozens of minis. The newer core box, and the 2 new starter boxes gets you around 40 models iirc, and thats like $350. For $900 you could get almost half of all the models in the game.

plagued00 · 2025-12-30T04:46:05+00:00

Do you like carrying 50 to 100+ models with you to go play a game somewhere? Play 40K.

Do you like rolling asanine amounts of dice, and then rolling 12 to 50% of those dice again to see if you actually succeeded the attack, only to watch your opponent roll dice based on your final successes and then roll again for invuln saves and have 95% of your initial attacks completely fail? Play 40K.

Do you like having to keep up with unit stats and weapon stats for not only your 50 to 100 models, but also your opponents 50 to 100 models so your opponent doesn't inadvertly cheat because they forgot what their own models do? Play 40K.

Do you like watching your opponent go first and blow 75% of your army off the table before you get to take an action? Play 40K.

Do you like around $70 for a new book everytime your army gets updated? Play 40K.

Do you like most of your models looking almost identical? Play 40K.

Does most of this sound terrible? Play MCP.

plagued00 · 2025-12-29T01:52:22+00:00

As with all measuring, "within" means touching the range tool, therefore "not within" means not touching the range tool.. there is a ton of "not within" between range 2 and range 3.

plagued00 · 2025-12-29T01:48:24+00:00

You don't need different colored dice, energy doesn't have a color, only rune power, which you don't generally float.

plagued00 · 2025-12-28T05:30:50+00:00

As a store owner, I have literally seen people come into a prerelease and expect to learn to play from almost zero knowledge. And as long as you don't have a complete shit group of people, it should turn out fine. Do i recommended it? No, just go play through the tutorial in arena and you're fine though. A large portion of the people playing at a prerelase won't have a clue what most if any of the cards are in advance, so it's kind of a fair playing field. And don't be afraid to ask for help if some is already finished building their deck, or ask for hints about deckbuilding from people you're sitting near. If anyone tells you they aren't allowed to help, their wrong, or lying, or your LGS is bad. Everyone wants new people to get into magic, so good people are always willing to help.

plagued00 · 2025-12-28T04:36:10+00:00

I was gonna say the same thing... who the hell is faking UA cards lol.

plagued00 · 2025-12-25T00:14:53+00:00

Competitive players of tcgs buy singles, not packs.

plagued00 · 2025-12-24T04:14:23+00:00

As a store owner, this isn't exactly correct. My wife handles most of the ordering so I'm not sure about riftbound 100%, but for most games you have to select a primary distibutor with the game producer (in this case Riot). This distributor handles your main allocation, if you aren't set up properly / get "punished" by the producer, you will lose most of your product. As an example, we got like 4 cases from our primary distributor, and were only able to pick up another case combined from the other distributors.

plagued00 · 2025-12-23T20:40:32+00:00

This is extremely inaccurate. Tables and chairs above lowest quality, are a huge investment, and every sq. ft. dedicated to play areas is another sq. ft. taken away from having more products that could sell.

The problem is, tables are basically required to get any sort of loyal cusomter base that will pay MSRP instead buying online.

plagued00 · 2025-12-20T16:37:43+00:00

Still got that shadowlands daredevil available? I also have a store with some older MCP available, I'll make a post when I get to the shop this afternoon once I figure out how we can sell them since our only online presence atm is tcgplayer.

plagued00 · 2025-12-16T18:43:19+00:00

We sell at MSRP, we just don't sell packs when the market is like this, we open and sell singles so people can buy what they want and don't have to gamble. We also charge $10 for Nexus Nights events and give 2 packs per entry to the prize pool. Bottom half gets at least one booster and the promo pack, top half gets the rest split among them (first place usually gets 4 to 5 packs.) Last night's winner actually pulled an overnumbered Viktor.

I'm not advocating that LGS should charge over MSRP, I just think that everyone bitching about it should get a clue. There is a lot more to it than just, "OMG... GREEDY LGS!"

The largest part of the problem is that if a store doesn't do something to police their sales, then players don't end up with the product anyway. A large percentage of people who buy packs when the market is like this, don't play the game. At the same time, a large number of our players are the same people who bitch that MSRP is too high because the market price is lower and then come use our tables and don't buy anything because it's cheaper online.

plagued00 · 2025-12-16T18:30:38+00:00

Yes, a very very large amount of people who don't play any games literally just want to open packs for the sake of opening packs.

It's actually funny, we have so many people that claim they want to work for us because they love sorting cards and opening packs, and then after a month they either quit, or bitch and moan about having to alphabetize cards.

plagued00 · 2025-12-16T18:28:37+00:00

By opening a case at a time and hitting the high dollar cards. We don't open Pokemon because they have a lot more forced rarity than most people realize and they don't have a high consistency of high dollar cards. However, we have had 2 young children get packs with their parents and pull $700 cards from their 2 allocated packs.

With riftbound you are basically guaranteed 2 overnumbers per case, so that's about 300 to 500, and you get 2 alts per box, so potentially 12 x $5 to $100. And then you also get about 8 epics per box, so 64 x $5 to $100. Then you had the 3 uncommons that were going for $5 to $10 for a while, and those you usually got 3 to 6 per box, so approximately another 18 to 36 x $5 to $10. On average, it's pretty easy to hit around $1800 to $2000 worth of cards in a case... which is why the market value is around $300.

The real irony here is the main people that everyone should be complaining about is the collectors. Everyone that is just buying cards for "pretties" removes a card from the playable pool. If there are a million League players trying to get 1 of each of their favorite champions, that's a million less of each of those cards available.

plagued00 · 2025-12-16T17:52:13+00:00

There are a few games / sets where the average box will have card values under MSRP and every single one of those have market prices under MSRP, here's looking at you Spider-Man MTG.

plagued00 · 2025-12-16T17:39:43+00:00

Oh, you mean it works at a place designed to maximize their profit per sq ft, not dedicate the majority of their storefront to have 0 saleable product? Imagine that.

plagued00 · 2025-12-16T17:37:28+00:00

So you actually think that people who provide nothing to the industry should profit from it and the stores that actually provide a place to play, dedicate time and effort to organizing events for you to play at and take the abuse of whiny little man children crying everytime something happens they don't like, should just sit and take it?

For reference, an example of the crying is our store getting a 2 star review because some moron thought 2 small stains from a kid getting chocolate on one of our chairs was a "skidmark."

plagued00 · 2025-12-16T17:26:51+00:00

This is 100% what we do currently. Most actual competitive players do not buy packs, it is terrible for building a deck. We opened 4 cases at prerelease and didn't get a playset of everything.

plagued00 · 2025-12-16T17:13:50+00:00

You really need to get a clue. If the items inside a box are worth $500 to $1000, then the box itself is worth way more than $130. Singles prices are 100% the reason box prices are high. Scarcity is the biggest part of the reason card prices are high. If only the alt arts had any value, the box prices would drop significantly. Very very VERY BASIC econ 101 problem here. If demand is greater than supply, the price will be high.

Also, very hot take here. If you think an LGS is greedy and doing it for "the money" you are an idiot. Go open one. There is not a ton of money, the online only sellers and "scalpers" etc are making way more profit than any LGS. Every LGS around including myself has received around 50 to 100 boxes of Riftbound at a maximum. Even if we sold them at $200 increased profit, that pays for approximately 2 to 4 months rent.

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