MTG thread
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Mist
Eeyore Enthusiast
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60% returns over 3 days is pretty good. Too bad I only had 400 tix to do it with. :/
This was a good PT for me. I studied the last few Standard PTs from the perspective of MTGO finance and realized all you have to do is avoid the top 3 highest priced cards in the new set on MTGO, and put your tickets into anything else that looks remotely playable, and you can expect a huge return. The overvalued cards are always way overvalued, and everything else playable is always undervalued.
The timing of the MTGO set release being so close to the PT always helps.
This was a good PT for me. I studied the last few Standard PTs from the perspective of MTGO finance and realized all you have to do is avoid the top 3 highest priced cards in the new set on MTGO, and put your tickets into anything else that looks remotely playable, and you can expect a huge return. The overvalued cards are always way overvalued, and everything else playable is always undervalued.
The timing of the MTGO set release being so close to the PT always helps.
Xalara
Golden Squire
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I'm glad Efro didn't get Player of the Year after LSV conceded to him. At lower levels of play I do agree that policing match fixing isn't the most feasible. However at the Pro Tour, that kind of blatant match fixing should not be happening, especially in a close race like this year's Player of the Year.
Sterling
El Presidente
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Especially in context of pairings of people with different records concessions happen sometimes. If you get paired down against someone that can't top8 or whatever they'll often just concede to let you in. That doesn't always happen but it certainly does happen. Also IDs happen all the time. It's something that's allowed to happen because you can't reasonably enforce any rules against it.
Sterling
El Presidente
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This was pretty strange. Kind of makes me wonder how they ended up coming to that decision. I've never had too many issue with various Legion events.
drtyrm
Lord Nagafen Raider
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It's entirely possible that this 17 year old kid I know from our store went nuts with GR Devotion at GP Providence, went deep on day 2, conceded to A. Hayne and possibly was compensated in some fashion. I'm not saying it happened, I'm saying it's possible.
You can't stop the illegal stuff so why worry about the legal concessions?
You can't stop the illegal stuff so why worry about the legal concessions?
Xalara
Golden Squire
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Just because you can't stop it all the time doesn't mean you shouldn't try. Especially at a high level event like the Pro Tour that wants to be taken seriously. Yes, you're not going to stop it at every GP or SCG Open, but that's not the point. The Olympics can't and don't stop every incidence of match fixing but they at least try (see: Badminton at the 2012 summer games).
Sterling
El Presidente
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There is no reasonable way to enforce it. What's to stop LSV from just mulliganing to 3 2 straight games?
