Comments on: Rags to Riches: Week Twenty – Fun With the Green Sun

By: milegyenanevem

milegyenanevem — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:59:39 +0000

Now I read through all these articles (yeah, this downtime helped a lot). Fascinating. If you get the Force of Will, I think you should continue till a playset

By: milegyenanevem

milegyenanevem — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:19:26 +0000

This is awesome! As a new player who doesn’t want to spend money on MTGO, I will have to read all the articles!

By: Neros

Neros — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:46:17 +0000

@Plejades
NOOOO!!! I would be sad to see this series end so suddenly. Like I said before theres still things I would love to know thats not on MTGO. I would love to learn more since I’m doing pretty much the same thing as this series. I haven’t added any money into my account since I created it and hope to one day be playing standard and doing drafts and anything else on there for “free” so missing out on important information like this series has provided would be a real bummer.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:08:29 +0000

I was a little harsh. I like the site and the series, and even this week there is clearly instructive material as you explained your speculative position on GSZ. The problem is not free, but whether the processes can be replicated. I endorse your use of free bots. You’re right that it doesn’t really convey market insight, but I like the repetition hammering the point home. I think that is fantastic advice precisely because it is something every new player can and should do every month.

The problem was I saw your screenshot where you were using your main account and then the person who gave you the cards commented on your article, and it just seemed reminiscent of Medina’s Pack to Power where his practice of shout outs, softening up traders by explain the project to illicit pseudo charity, and his reputation had people lining up to be ripped off. It undermined the point, which I took to be (1) a challenge to people complaining about the high price of cards, and then to (2) provide the best type of instruction for new players/traders — advice coupled with a practical demonstration.

You’ve said it was entirely random, and that is good enough for me. However, you might actually want to consider refusing those opportunities. Take the cards, obviously, but just don’t count it under the project. It’s subject to discretion. I don’t think there is a problem if you include a few random freebies every few months. I just felt you like you scored a few too many random (and the key word is random, as opposed to the regularity of a bot) free cards this week, because I don’t believe an average player could replicate it.

By: Plejades

Plejades — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:07:08 +0000

@Peter @Zage: I agree with you that there is not to much you can learn from me getting a lot of commons for free but on the other hand you have to see that it helps me to achieve my goal. Should I refuse those opportunities? I will try to make the next session the last one and will hopefully have plenty of useful trades going on.
Thanks for your thoughts.

By: Veon

Veon — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:43:53 +0000

That day of judgment thing was sweet, i never find things like that, foilbot has alwais high prices when i check.

On the other hand I made a great deal with swords, found a bot that was buying them for 20 when other bots were selling them at 20, so I checked de classifieds and bought like 12 swords at 16-18 tix and then sold them for 20.

By: Zage

Zage — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:38:41 +0000

@Plejades: I didn’t suggest you got them because of your reputation or name or anything, that was just Peter (to clarify). I do agree with him that bundles of free random cards don’t really teach us a lot, though.

@Neros: You know what: you’re right, there’s still plenty of stuff to learn from a trade/MTGO master like Plejades =)