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Post by Toshi » 2 years ago

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I want to thank all our awesome users who made the site what it is. Y'all seriously rock.
Pfff, how selfish of you to point out yourself that shamelessly! :P

For real though, as sad as it is to see you go, i wish you nothing but the best for your upcoming and future endeavours!
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Post by tstorm823 » 2 years ago

Hermes_ wrote:
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Great, now who I am gonna try to get the RC to ban? :P
If my experience is anything to go by, a card almost never being played won't stop people from wanting to ban it, so you can probably just stick with Cryogen.
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Post by TheAmericanSpirit » 2 years ago

@cryogen

Don't feel alone in selling out; I recently sold all but my legacy deck myself. Thankfully I have friends with loads of extra cards to borrow if the desire for edh ever strikes me again, but I was also feeling pretty burnt out on having six grand tied up in cardboard I was using less and less frequently. Sometimes you just gotta let superfluous stuff go in order to better appreciate what you choose to keep.
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Post by RxPhantom » 2 years ago

@cryogen: I'm very sad to see you go, too. Your departure is a definite loss for this community. Good luck to you.
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Post by Hermes_ » 2 years ago

Honestly, the only thing keeping me in the game right now is that i'm too lazy to deal with pricing everything
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Post by Legend » 2 years ago

cryogen wrote:
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soul searching ... perspective ... focus ... priorities ... friends ... sell my entire collection ... my Magic days are behind me
I'm once again destined to disagree with you. According to Webster's, the colon punctuation symbol is used to let the reader know that what follows it has been described by what precedes it. Hence, the "magic" is in "the gathering", not the cards. So it sounds to me like your most magical days are ahead of you.
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Post by RxPhantom » 2 years ago

Hermes_ wrote:
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Honestly, the only thing keeping me in the game right now is that i'm too lazy to deal with pricing everything
I hear you. Cryogen's post hit close to home because I've been feeling similarly, but I'm going to cut back my spending and try to ride the pandemic out before I reevaluate the game and my place in it. I played last week and still loved it.
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Post by benjameenbear » 2 years ago

cryogen wrote:
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After a lot of soul searching (for lack of a better phrase), I've decided that my Magic days are behind me. I've been trying to tell myself that I wasn't just losing interest and it was merely the pandemic keeping me from playing, but really the pandemic just gave me the necessary perspective to focus on my priorities. So with the exception of a few decks which I'll keep in case I'm hanging with friends and they want to play or I change my mind down the road, I'm going to sell my entire collection.

It's been a wild ride this last decade and I've definitely made some good friends (as well as an enemy or two) in the process. I want to thank all my fellow mods and especially Feyd for all their hard work here and back in the Sally days. But most importantly, I want to thank all our awesome users who made the site what it is. Y'all seriously rock.

Take care and be safe everyone!
I want you to envision a 21-gun salute @cryogen. You've been a great contributor to this site and helping me learn the ropes for moderating when this lovely experiment started up is great.

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Post by Jemolk » 2 years ago

@cryogen -- I've only been around the periphery of this community for most of my time occasionally lurking here and at Sally before it, but I'm still plenty familiar with your contributions, and I want to thank you for them all. Sad to see you go, but I wish you the best going forward!
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Post by cryogen » 2 years ago

benjameenbear wrote:
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P.S. How did you make enemies from this game? I'd love to hear that story!
Mostly from the old official forums, where moderation was nearly nonexistent and users were allowed to be more... colorful.

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Post by TheAmericanSpirit » 2 years ago

cryogen wrote:
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benjameenbear wrote:
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P.S. How did you make enemies from this game? I'd love to hear that story!
Mostly from the old official forums, where moderation was nearly nonexistent and users were allowed to be more... colorful.

Fattyluvboat will always be the Joker to my Batman and they hated me with the burning passion of a thousand suns. Good times.
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Post by BeneTleilax » 2 years ago

Good luck in your endeavors, Cryo. It was nice having someone proximate to the RC here regularly. Also, it's wild hearing y'all reminisce about the forum era, it really was a different time on the internet.

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Post by Lifeless » 2 years ago

Hermes_ wrote:
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Honestly, the only thing keeping me in the game right now is that i'm too lazy to deal with pricing everything
I feel this in my very soul. Most of my collection feels more and more like a burden every day.

Cheers Cryo, another old MTG man bites the dust.

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Post by pokken » 2 years ago

I have been weirdly having a lot of fun with the game. I took a 6 month ish break and now I'm brewing like a madman again :)

It's crazy how fast all the metas shift when you're out for a bit, and it's like a whole new game.

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Post by Dunharrow » 2 years ago

@cryogen Really sorry to see you go.

Part of me wonders if in 50 years I will still be playing. And will MTGNexus still be running? I feel like the answers are yes, and that maybe one day you will get a magic craving and find that the community is still here to welcome you back.

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Post by Diz » 2 years ago

cryogen wrote:
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After a lot of soul searching (for lack of a better phrase), I've decided that my Magic days are behind me. I've been trying to tell myself that I wasn't just losing interest and it was merely the pandemic keeping me from playing, but really the pandemic just gave me the necessary perspective to focus on my priorities. So with the exception of a few decks which I'll keep in case I'm hanging with friends and they want to play or I change my mind down the road, I'm going to sell my entire collection.

It's been a wild ride this last decade and I've definitely made some good friends (as well as an enemy or two) in the process. I want to thank all my fellow mods and especially Feyd for all their hard work here and back in the Sally days. But most importantly, I want to thank all our awesome users who made the site what it is. Y'all seriously rock.

Take care and be safe everyone!
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Post by Sanity_Eclipse » 2 years ago

Best of luck and fortune in life, Cryo!
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Post by TheAmericanSpirit » 2 years ago

So I had an interesting experience last night. I went to my lgs to pick up Ingot chewers for my legacy sideboard (screw you, chalice) and on a whim purchased an Aura of Courage precon and ~$15 worth of singles to upgrade it. I figure since I'm sitting on all this cash from selling out of edh, what's 55 bucks back to catch a few games, right? And wow, did I have a good time. I won 1/3 of my games, only losing the other two to some rotten luck and a bit of fear held over from my first big win. Somehow, stripping myself of everything valuable has left me more able to enjoy edh as the frivolous thing that it is. Huh. Funny how that works out.
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Post by toctheyounger » 2 years ago

TheAmericanSpirit wrote:
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So I had an interesting experience last night. I went to my lgs to pick up Ingot chewers for my legacy sideboard (screw you, chalice) and on a whim purchased an Aura of Courage precon and ~$15 worth of singles to upgrade it. I figure since I'm sitting on all this cash from selling out of edh, what's 55 bucks back to catch a few games, right? And wow, did I have a good time. I won 1/3 of my games, only losing the other two to some rotten luck and a bit of fear held over from my first big win. Somehow, stripping myself of everything valuable has left me more able to enjoy edh as the frivolous thing that it is. Huh. Funny how that works out.
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Post by ISBPathfinder » 2 years ago

Lol @cryogen I remember you hunting down Fatty gimmicks left and right. He really was good at hiding when he wanted to but it was like every new account you saw you checked the IP addresses to see if it was Fatty lol. I get you on the whole reassessing priorities thing. Since having a kid myself I questioned it a bit as well as my wife works nights and I often go months between play but I still really enjoy deckbuilding and testing out new decks. It sucks that in the last two months I have gotten to play multiplayer commander like.... once.
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Post by Dunharrow » 2 years ago

TheAmericanSpirit wrote:
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So I had an interesting experience last night. I went to my lgs to pick up Ingot chewers for my legacy sideboard (screw you, chalice) and on a whim purchased an Aura of Courage precon and ~$15 worth of singles to upgrade it. I figure since I'm sitting on all this cash from selling out of edh, what's 55 bucks back to catch a few games, right? And wow, did I have a good time. I won 1/3 of my games, only losing the other two to some rotten luck and a bit of fear held over from my first big win. Somehow, stripping myself of everything valuable has left me more able to enjoy edh as the frivolous thing that it is. Huh. Funny how that works out.
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Post by Lifeless » 2 years ago

Every couple years I pick a Commander pre-con and deck it out with a handful of cards from my collection. It's a refreshing exercise when you otherwise feel like you've made all the decks the format has to offer. Most recently it was the morph deck and I enjoyed it as my primary deck for at least 6 months.

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Post by Ulka » 2 years ago

Lifeless wrote:
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Every couple years I pick a Commander pre-con and deck it out with a handful of cards from my collection. It's a refreshing exercise when you otherwise feel like you've made all the decks the format has to offer. Most recently it was the morph deck and I enjoyed it as my primary deck for at least 6 months.
My play group does this once a year where we all just play precons and then upgrade the decks by 2 spells and 1 land after each game. its been a fun way to keep lower powerlevel while slowly building the decks into really fun to play thematic decks.
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Post by Lifeless » 2 years ago

That's a great idea, I should suggest a precon league to the guys now that our game night is back on schedule.

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Post by Yatsufusa » 2 years ago

Nine months ago we had a hearty discussion about premiers and the state of the forum format. That got me to finally buckle down and start writing guides for my decks (before that I did attempt to, but they were often written a quarter through before being thrown out the window).

Today, I present the overarching thread for my suite of decks. My intention going forward is to start a new thread every friday/weekend (subject to my schedule) for each of my decks (under decklists of course, the main thread had no real place to belong so I just chucked it in the main section) for each of my decks, then spend the week after sprucing it up, which, if going as planned, will end along with the year.

The good news is, the text content for each and every thread is already effectively done, so it's unlikely the schedule is thrown off because it can't be thrown off because I didn't write the content. The bad news is I have no coding background/experience and I'm the type of the person who can't just copy the template because I must know how the screws work in a system bottom-up, so I'm literally reading/referencing the BBCode guide slowly. Every thread is going to be a hot mess visually (you can visit the overarching thread for a sample now) when it comes out. I'm subject to my own free time to meddle with all the coding, which is why I'm giving each thread the generous one week to make themselves look presentable-enough-to-leave-alone. If I botch something up and have no time to fix it, a thread might look worse halfway through.

Also, I'm only doing this for fun, to inflate my own ego. I'm adopting the tools and the styles of premier guides because they look great, but I've zero interest in actually making a premier. I can't guarantee the update frequencies and I've literally haven't actually played any games in over a year (although I guess that gave me the time to write all these), any experience I've written is essentially based on years past and those aren't exactly crystal-clear (and if anything I'm not motivated enough to update every time I have crystal-clear memories right after a session anyway).

My EDH decks are my vanity projects and this series of guides is just an extension of it. They may look like premiers, but you're not getting an comprehensive-expert-guide, you're getting an unupdated-vanity-project that looks like a premier on the surface, because I'm good at writing-walls-of-texts-that-mean-the-exact-same-thing-in-the-end (you'll probably find the exact same thing here worded differently somewhere else) and I want the thread to be visually pretty like a premier. There are entire sections that are literally copy-pasted across all 8 guides (I'm not explaining how card draw is good with 8 different words-of-the-same-meaning, draw is good everywhere) and I minimized individual card discussion because it's going to be a nightmare if/when I update my decks (and I tend to update them all at the same time since I time my LGS trips periodically now).

Half me is already excited of how "pretty" it looks (or rather, it can be) looking at the overarching thread, another half is like "Why are you doing this?" (it was already questioning me when I spent the past months writing the content). The duality indeed. Either way, expect endless edits in the next two months.
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