If not, what would it take (if anything) to get you to invest in one?
event deck cost more than booster or precons. that's why i prefer to buy booster so i can get more rare cards…
building on budget… 🙂
No but I am planning to, I have been off magic for a couple years and I recently got pulled back in.
If so, what are your thoughts?
If not, what would it take (if anything) to get you to invest in one?
They seem fun to play and a good place to start playing catch up.
]]>To my chagrin, as time went on they started seeing more and more play, to the point of being one of the best creatures in Extended and Legacy. When the event deck came out, I decided to just bite the bullet and buy one because it seems unlikely Stoneforges will ever fall below $8-10 again, even when they rotate.
Don't really have much thoughts on the deck itself since I just picked it apart for singles and don't really play standard. On looks alone though, it seems fairly underpowered for a supposedly competitive standard deck. It really doesn't have many good targets for Stoneforge (+1 Batterskull, +2 Swords would greatly improve the deck), and it has virtually no reach for when the opponent inevitably stabilizes. While the idea behind these event decks is nice, it just doesn't seem feasible for precon decks with no mythics and only a few rares to actually be competitive against real standard decks.
]]>Honestly I can’t think of much that would get me to buy one, other than them lowering the price to be competitive with the regular theme decks, but since that would go against their trying to portray these decks as “elite”, it’s almost certain that will never happen.
]]>Honestly, if I could find the mono green infect deck at a discount, I'd take the plunge. It's the deck out of the two that will be priced lower, (below msrp in some cases) but yet is not as inept as infect and defile was. I'm monitoring prices, and may take the plunge depending on how the deck finishes it's review.
]]>Another would be it includes cards that are soon to be rotated. I am a new player and i do not own a stoneforge mystic. Though the card is great and i could have fun with it, i feel it not being worth the bang for my buck as i am a new player and the only format i am currently comfortable with is Standard.
The easiest way, and simple way out for WIzards would be able to attract buyers would to include some good mythics in it. For example, infect and defile would have sold well had they thrown in a Skithryx.
Another suggestion, which i feel is pretty bold and risky move, is to include rares that are pretty good that will be featured from future sets ( Preferably, the next set). Yes, i know, this will bring a bit of unrest but please do listen. Event decks are usually announced after players had gotten the cards that they had wanted from the sets, thus rendering the decks welcoming only to new players. If wizards could try to do so, they will no doubt attract a lot of attention as this had never been done before and would of course win a whole new set of sales.
Anyhow, this is my few bits of opinion, and may or may not be too much worth listening to( I only stated playing since the scars)
]]>Looking forward to the next few event decks.
]]>If not, what would it take (if anything) to get you to invest in one?
I would buy one if I get a better job and maybe I would make the effort to buy a goblin themed deck.
I'll quite happily buy one if the theme looks like it is really fun to play.
]]>To buy one, there would need to be a great card/cards that I didn't have that totally offset the cost of the deck or it would just have to be such great value to be stupid.
…but given that if that happens they get sold at higher than MSRP or the cards themselves totally plummet in price, that seems highly unlikely all around.
]]>No. I play competitive standard, and already owned all the cards, should I want to play them.
If so, what are your thoughts?
My thoughts from playing against the Kuldotha style event deck was that it was a blast. It could nutdraw me out, or fizzle completely. Either way, I got to have short rounds and a nice play break.
If not, what would it take (if anything) to get you to invest in one?
More money rares that aren't in jeopardy of being banned. :p
]]>Having bought them, I have them sleeved up, and have tried them against my current Legacy decks. As embarrassing as it may be, sometimes, the event decks do win pre-board. I haven't tried games post-board, as I wanted to get a feel for the decks before I attempted to sideboard properly.
I'm on deck with everyone who says the sideboarding information is insufficient; it really is. Even though I wouldn't be likely to use it, it'd be nice to see if they'd thought of something I didn't.
Since future event decks do seem to be on the agenda, I'm not sure about my continued interest in them. To me, it's obvious that NPH wasn't really underway when these were sent to the printers; note how there's only a combined total of 3 NPH cards in Rot from Within, and 4 in War of Attrition (as opposed to the high numbers from Zendikar and Worldwake). I understand that the cards from Zen block are powerful, but for "event decks" released as NPH decks, it would make more sense to me to have a greater quantity of cards from NPH.
If the EvDs continue to behave this way, I might wait past several EvDs for one that strikes my fancy rather than snatch a copy of each up. If they don't, and begin to feature more cards from the set they claim to hail from, while still retaining pseudo-competitive playability, I'll probably buy a few more.