ML BOT 4.95 is out!

The new version of ML Bot, 4.95, is out now and supports the new set Avacyn Restored (AVR)

Beginner's bot settings

Just got started with ML Bot and want some quick-and-easy settings to bootstrap and grow your collection? I prepared for you the right settings: you can download them here (user.data) and here (buyerSetting.data).

Instructions:
- stop the bot
- download the files
- copy the files in the bot folder, overwriting the old ones
- launch the bot and set again your bot name, mtgo password and mtgolibrary.com password

These settings are safe and will work well in the majority of the cases. You can of course play with them and change them at your needs.

If you need help or have any question, just ask me at staff@mtgolibrary.com

Avacyn Restored - MtGO

The third set from Innistrad block comes to the Magic Online.

Avacyn Restored will be available in the Magic Online Store on Monday, May 21 at 9:00 AM.

Release Events begin after the downtime Wednesday, May 23.

Avacyn Restored becomes legal in ALL constructed formats following the May 16 scheduled downtime. Although it's the third set of the Innistrad block, the Avacyn Restored set will be a large set. This means that Innistrad Block Constructed will be composed of all three sets, but Avacyn Restored will be drafted by itself. Sealed events will use six Avacyn Restored booster packs. All appropriate Daily Events, Scheduled Events, and Queues will have Avacyn Restored added to their prize structures after the scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, May 23.

Good luck!

What about an investment bank

The "idea of today" is a provocation, especially after the huge credit crunch and all the issues connected with the banks.

What if Magic Online had a "Bank", a place where you can deposit your tixs and get a profit at the end of year / at the end of the month? It would operate more or less like a normal Bank (save for it won't borrow money) and would invest in Magic Online or in the real world Magic to get a return.

You could pay everything in Magic Online without having to host the tixs on your account, because the Bank would automatically guarantee for you and eventually transfer the funds.
A kind of "electronic money" in an already virtual world

Customer's care

You have just set up your bot at best, fine tuned the prices and build a ram of workstations to run your 8 bots family at best. Still, you are probably understimating the importance of a good customer care. Luckly this is pretty easy to achieve in Magic Online. 


First of all remember to insert your email address in the welcome messages and in the final confirm messages. If someone has a problem, will most likely contact you. 
Then, daily check your inbox in Magic Online for new messages. The bot closes the inbox automatically, so you have open it manually once a while. 


Then, support your customers at best, and they will return. Someone is angry? Well, that's the scenario I prefer: be extra friendly and helpful with him and he will change his mood and shop at your bot again. Mysteries of the human beings, but this is 100% guarantee. An angry customer is just a customer that need "attention", willing to shop with you again BUT with an issue to be solved

Weekly Card Review (WCR8)

This is a new series of articles where I will review a card from the latest set every week and its influences in constructed Standard, from the top mythic down to common cards that people might be ignoring their full potential. Between each review I will show a example of a deck where that card could fit. Please feel free to add more ideas and discuss the cards on each week!

 Primal Surge

What if?... yes we all though of it. Can we build a deck around Primal Surge and drop the whole deck into the battlefield in one turn and just win? That's what we're going to find out this week. 

Mana Ramping in standard is not the greatest without zen block and sorceries/instants but we can still get it done with Sphere of suns/solemn simulacrum/primeval titan and so on.

With this sorcery going through there are countless ways to win, from ETB (enter the battlefield) trigger creatures such as Massacre wurm, to a horde of creatures including Urabrask the Hidden and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite or simply a Laboratory Maniac, a Spellskite and a draw card mechanism on a creature or planeswalker such as jace/garruk to get that precious win!

Be tuned to see what we can make of it on part 2!

Weekly Card Review (WCR7 part2)

This is a new series of articles where I will review a card from the latest set Every week and its influences in constructed Standard, from the top mythic down to common cards that people might be ignoring their full potential. Between each review I will show a example of a deck where that card could fit. Please feel free to add more ideas and discuss the cards on each week!

             Aggro Pod

4 Seachrome Coast 2 Copperline Gorge

4 Razorverge Thicket 2 Island 2 Plains 2 Mountain

7 Forest 1 Gavony Township

4 Birds of Paradise 2 Avacyn's Pilgrim

1 Spellskite 2 Phantasmal Image

1 Strangleroot Geist 1 Suture Priest

2 Viridian Emissary 1 Sylvok Replica

1 Blade Splicer 1 Deceiver Exarch 1 Fiend Hunter 1 Solemn Simulacrum 1 Phyrexian Metamorph

2 Huntmaster of the Fells 1 Stonehorn Dignitary

1 Acidic Slime 1 Archon of justice

1 Geist-Honored Monk 1 Razor Hippogriff

1 Wurmcoil Engine 1 Brutalizer Exarch 1 Sun Titan 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

4 Birthing Pod 1 Venser, the Sojourner 1 Green Sun's Zenith

This was a exciting deck to play with and with a very high win rate, shame that wasn't one of the cheapest...

On our following Review we will guide you through Avacyn's Restored new gems. See you there!