We should start an ILG thread where we play against each other using SCANNERS.
― nickalicious, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
i only played magic for the first time a few weeks ago, how weird is that? i was intimidated by the kids who played it in high school, but it's not half as complicated as i thought.
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
you should have been more intimidated by their allowances
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
and/or dedication to blowing every dollar earned at the drive-thru window sunday 5am-1:30pm on crazy junk instead of like cigarettes and cds
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
that is correct i am calling you bustas out
what are you talking about, i pinched a franklin from my dad's wallet to buy a mox jet
― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
haha, i think i was most intimidated by their cliquish aspie superiority complexes.
i think it's really fun now though.
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:03 (5 years ago) Permalink
ok http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/ProjectEBAY/MagicCards.html these prices are so retarded omg
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:06 (5 years ago) Permalink
people should all be blown up
in my middle school the biggest fight i got into was between pog players and m:tg players
― max, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
i was obviously a magic player
green & white deck, in case anyone is wondering
― max, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
omg pog
― deeznuts, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
if i remember those years correctly i was more worried about the shame my seminoles starter jacket would bring me after danny wuerrfle's gators pounced on them in the orange bowl than anything having to do with those fucking things
― deeznuts, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
I used to play magic back in the mid-nineties, I still have a hundreds and hundreds of those cards in some box around here. I never paid much for them though, because I stole most of them from bookstores. I wonder if that stuff is worth something these days, the oldest cards I have are from Revised Edition or whatever it was called.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
god, my nerd days were spent playing Avalon Hill wargames. and banging chicks of course
― brownie, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
my best nerd days are ahead of me still.
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
mine did not look quite as good as this one but I got pretty good
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
i had a revised shivan dragon worth $50
― max, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
and my color selections were more noise
haha shivan dragon. back in 1995 my friend's proudest accomplishment was owning 4 shivan dragons. I wonder if those cards are worth anything today.
― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
blue + black deck, my sengir vampires and royal assassins were so so gangster.
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
i had two revised royal assassins
maybe more, hell if i remember
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:11 (5 years ago) Permalink
at my 10th bday party i beat the rich kid in magic even tho i had no allowance, i had birthday money and was a HUSTLER with trades
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
i think sometimes i threw in some green too, but only if u could throw all mana down first turn and i would use it solely for my force of nature
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
8/8
i have a shivan dragon signed by the lady what painted it ;_;
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
haha i think i some signed by artists too :-/
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
yeah i kept that shivan solely because it was worth money since i played green/white almost exclusively, i shoulda sold it off
― max, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
I saw this stuff mostly when I was in college - 94 - 98. I was too busy playing (then) horrible blues rock, drinking and trying to get laid. Trying being the WAY operative word there.
― B.L.A.M., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
I sold a revised "Fork" for about 50 pounds.
― Ronan, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
reading a thread for the first time and then realising you posted to it four years ago c/d
― webber, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 23:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
Okay guys how similar is Pokemon the card game to Magic: the Gathering? Bcz I am getting stupidly good @ Pokemon (which did eat up all my spare $$$ this summer...sheesh Abbott).
― Abbott, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 01:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
Y'all heard about The Eye of Judgment?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhlq_GhYGsM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_of_Judgment
It's a Magic type game for PS3 that uses real cards and a camera, just came out. The camera scans the cards as you put them into play and then the monsters on the cards battle it out on your TV. The game keeps track of all the stats and shit too, of course. I haven't played it but it's getting decent reviews.
― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 01:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
I probably spent twenty bucks on it total, maybe thirty. It was one summer, a fun thing, a moment in time, a nice little cultural artifact.
This is me w/ M:TG btw, but I've also done the "use Portal decks and ignore most of the rules" thing.
― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 01:31 (5 years ago) Permalink
I found a coffee table on the streets of Madison once whose top was a glass plate covering a tiling of just a single magic card. I don't recall what it was, but it must have been the "unwanted" card.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 02:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
there was originally some card that involved ripping one of your opponents cards that got "banned" under the sanctioned rules...have no idea what it was called.
I had a mox sapphire! and sold basically everything i had owned at some point in '98 (when i was 19) probably for like 450 on ebay...
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 02:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
spent several hours on saturday night playing Magic with ian and was pretty consistently beaten by his blue & black deck.
― elmo argonaut, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
people used to call blue and black decks "bruise" decks.
― Ronan, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
apparently people play creatures in type 2 nowadays? I am sort of suspicious of this, it's not pokemon. I wish I hadn't lost all my cards.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
i am so mad i couldn't find my old white/green deck when i was home this weekend.
― ian, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
my favorite is the red & white deck.
― bell_labs, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
-- Ronan, Monday, October 29, 2007 9:16 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
fuck yeah
― deej, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
red & white is a hard deck to play!
― max, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
there were good all red or all green decks around the time the "mirages" (was that its name) edition of cards came out.
― Ronan, Monday, 29 October 2007 18:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
Lightweights. I suspect Gravel may be hardcore, if he's referring to the fact that Morphling used to be the only playable creature.
Creatures are for Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh. Magic is a game of technique.
― s. morris, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
I can only say all this after spending way too much time sniping cards on eBay in order to play something like 3 times in the last year.
The fortunate thing is that Magic card prices seem to be way more stable than the dollar, so that's money in the bank folks.
― s. morris, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
I did Magic waaay early on. By the time I was too cool for it I gave everything to some neighborhood kid, if only I had sold it for $$$ ;_;
― Jordan, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
Was not at all impressed by Wizards Of The Coast's headquarters. It's like a mile from Ikea in Renton and looks like any other corporate headquarters. I at least expected animatronic dragons or constant fireworks displays or something other than reflective glass and a fucking fountain.
― s. morris, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
i really like the 4c reanimator deck on principle but haven't actually tried playing it
― ciderpress, Monday, 17 June 2013 09:53 (3 days ago) Permalink
my burn at the stake friends think that the m14 spoiled card Young Pyromancer is going to make the deck actually good in standard and not just a second-rate gimmick deck like it's been
obviously take that with grain of salt etc but i will be putting in some work on this one next month
― ciderpress, Monday, 17 June 2013 15:25 (3 days ago) Permalink
really hate that art, it's like borderline anime
― iatee, Monday, 17 June 2013 15:35 (3 days ago) Permalink
tonight:
(foil) aetherlingboros battleshaperhypersonic dragonassemble the legionthoughtflareholy mantledetention sphereturn/burn2 skynight legionnaireskyjekbomber corpssteeple rocmaze gliderpursuit of flight tower drake sunspire gatekeeperssage's row denizendoorkeeperswift justiceboros cluestone
sacred foundrysteam ventsazorius guildgate2 izzet guildgateboros guildgate
2-0, 2-0, 2-0...never played aetherling :(
― iatee, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 02:08 (Yesterday) Permalink
just had another aetherling failure, the card just will not do anything for me in limited. it gets stuck in my hand or i have to play it on 6 to block and it gets killed. i officially retract anything i said about it being as good as pack rat
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 02:18 (Yesterday) Permalink
have you been drafting mma at all?
― Lamp, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:04 (Yesterday) Permalink
nope, haven't touched it yet
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 05:26 (Yesterday) Permalink
it's kind of pricey and i'm still having fun with DGR so i don't know if i will, even though it seems to have a good chunk of my favorite cards from MD5/kamigawa/TSP limited
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 05:30 (Yesterday) Permalink
i thought it was fun, i've done a fair number now and the interest is starting to wane but i'm glad i did a few. might do a few more of the 64-mans but otherwise i think i'm over it. i get kinda tired of cube when its available as well and am happy to have not lost tickets on it. i think dgm is the more interesting format tbh
― Lamp, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 06:09 (Yesterday) Permalink
Incidentally I dunno if you guys speculate at all but DGM/GTC/RTR boosters online have all fallen by 10%+ in the rush to sell for MMA, feel like picking up RTR now is very close to a sure thing considering prize structures and how good/enduring the DGR format is.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 08:21 (Yesterday) Permalink
yeah DGM boosters are down to something ridiculous like 2 tix, even with the new redemption fees it'd be unprecedented for a set with a $40 card to stay that low
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 13:04 (Yesterday) Permalink
modern masters looks kind of like eating candy or whatever, it grabs a bunch of the weird fringe archetypes that gave those old formats their depth and replay value and pushes them all front and center so they'll stop being something special you can only do once every 10 drafts
this is my main issue with it i guess, i don't want to be enabled to draft spider spawning or dampen thought every time because they'll lose their novelty fast and once the novelty is gone they're not actually that rewarding to play
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 13:19 (Yesterday) Permalink
otoh I don't think Modern Masters was meant to be drafted more than a few times. I'd love to do a draft at the game store but don't have much of an inclanation to do it on MTGO.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 13:23 (Yesterday) Permalink
gp vegas having well over 3000 people preregistered already is pretty nuts
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:54 (Yesterday) Permalink
also makes the prize structure look embarrassing but they can't really do anything about that due to gambling laws etc
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 15:55 (Yesterday) Permalink
I was wondering if this would be the first GP where they would run out of product. At Charlotte, they had to send someone on a run to the SCG physical store the night before to get more product, which isn't that short a drive - they must have needed a lot. And MM is probably is shorter supply.
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 16:07 (Yesterday) Permalink
the TO already said that he's got product for 6000 players and a backup plan to get more if it breaks 6000 which won't happen
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 16:40 (Yesterday) Permalink
6000 person gp seems awful
― Lamp, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 17:42 (Yesterday) Permalink
its gonna be like 3600 probably i think
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 18:00 (Yesterday) Permalink
did you guys end up playing in gp providence?
Nice to know they've got it covered. I did play in Providence, my account of it is somewhere in this maze of a thread.
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 20:23 (Yesterday) Permalink