A guy named Vinlock was trolling the casual rooms with his Madness deck tonight and I was the unlucky sap to be playing against him. Whenever I see a first turn careful study followed by a Basking Rootwalla I always groan. It is a favorite in the casual room because the deck basically builds itself and is full of cheap uncommons and commons. I don’t mind getting my ass handed to me by 6/6 flying worms that cost 4 mana just not 10 times a week.
The most infuriating thing about this character was not because his deck is lame and boring but because afterwards we started up a trade and asked if I would trade my Polluted Delta’s. He said I could take anything I wanted out of his 1077 commons and uncommons… ORLY? MORE CROSSBOW INFANTRIE’S!?!
MTGO cards aren’t like currency. Even though you can buy commons for 3 cents a pop doesn’t mean they are worth 3 cents. Commons, to me anyway, are worth other commons. If they are hard to find commons then they actually become worth something. This is because I’m willing to pay mtgotraders.com 3 cents a pop to just go out and buy them rather than wade through the trading binder.
