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Judge from Melbourne.
First played 1994 Playing constantly since Mirrodin Prerelease (2003) Judging since 2005? L2 since 2008? Judged some international GPs, PTs, and Worlds. (NZ, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, USA)
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@morphballganon @Evu does it? They always ban after a deck is turning people off the format. So there is downside to being slow to act.
Does a broken deck drive enough people to crack packs to find the broken card to play it? That is questionable.
@MysticKetchup hopefully this is a small scale trial.
@MysticKetchup myster boosters show up at conventions that aren't strongly linked to WotC, the OP may have hope.
@f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4 @MysticKetchup so everywhere ;)
NB: sealed events also exist.
MB1 events are very popular. Very fun to play, very fun to judge.
@f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4 @MysticKetchup be patient, MB1 is very available at conventions currently, the same is probably going to be true here.
Or at least it is in Australia, hopefully that is true elsewhere.
@MysticKetchup I've always cracked into one pool and built from there. But then the bulk I've done were pre prerelease kits.
@MysticKetchup um, 2hg is one card pool for the team, you don't really on open cards individually.
@MysticKetchup @Semjaza 2HG is awesome, but random partner is definitely a mixed bag, you never know how it is going to go.
Hopefully not paired up with someone that is anal about ending the day with perfectly equal value split of the cards that were opened.
@prodigalsorcerer LGS will use them as prize packs to have cheaper events. It's shit but it will happen
@prodigalsorcerer @ech Except WotC keep replacing the empty booster slot with more new types of booster, so the less SKUs aspect is failing.
@HexadecimalSky @morphballganon Aesthetic choices can be expensive. Sorry, that's capitalism.
@ech @Fluid some of the 50% is that most places had kept prices flat for too long, the jump in pack prices from draft to play boosters came at the same time they needed to reset prices anyway.
That then gets conflated with drafts (and especially sealed) now be in ng a less good experience.
So the numbers are much worse, it still might be worth it, but I can't see anyone doing the 4 drafts a week I did in my 20's and I'm sad for today's kids in that situation.
@morphballganon @meant2live218 Standard has had way too many cards compared to standard of old. Remember when Standard was Block + Core + 1 Large set after rotation?
That is 3 large sets + 2 small sets.
@meant2live218 and they don't have to acknowledge the secondary market to acknowledge that packs need to be similar value.
@meant2live218 my head is still regular = draft. So ~ a third of a play booster, price should match.
@meant2live218 @mike aren't the essentially half of a regular pack? So half the price would be reasonable.
@mike and it's too big to be brough by anyone who would act noticbly better.
Unlessit has already 'died'
@readthemessage undoutably, they can't admit that MH3 was a mistake too quickly