omg pog
― deeznuts, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
god, my nerd days were spent playing Avalon Hill wargames. and banging chicks of course
― brownie, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
my best nerd days are ahead of me still.
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
http://images.boardgamegeek.com/images/pic93875_t.jpg
mine did not look quite as good as this one but I got pretty good
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i had a revised shivan dragon worth $50
― max, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
blue + black deck, my sengir vampires and royal assassins were so so gangster.
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i had two revised royal assassins
maybe more, hell if i remember
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:11 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
haha i think i some signed by artists too :-/
― deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
I sold a revised "Fork" for about 50 pounds.
― Ronan, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
people used to call blue and black decks "bruise" decks.
― Ronan, Monday, 29 October 2007 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
my favorite is the red & white deck.
― bell_labs, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Ronan, Monday, October 29, 2007 9:16 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
fuck yeah
― deej, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
red & white is a hard deck to play!
― max, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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, October 29, 2007 2:25 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
i did this too ;_;
― deej, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link
jordan is leading my parallel life i think
type I was all about DUAL LANDS right? my best deck was mostly blue, counterspells, those djinns that only cost 3 that were misprinted green; then red & white & green sprinkled in also...black was fairly worthless. i miss my magic cards!@!!
― johnny crunch, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
black can be great if you play it right, especially with red or blue!
― max, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
i had a black/red deck for a long time but all my best cards were green/white so i tended to stick to that
my best deck was mostly blue, counterspells, those djinns that only cost 3 that were misprinted green
Now we're talking. Your mox sapphire alone would go for like $400 on eBay.
― s. morris, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
i know! damn my 19 yr old self!!
cant remember what else was in it. maybe JUGGERNAUTS? the (actual) green djinn that was 4/5 and only cost 4 to cast? dunno...
― johnny crunch, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
this dude, so bad ass:
http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=1221
― johnny crunch, Monday, 29 October 2007 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
MAGIC CARDS.
so we have three decks now.
blue/black: all counterspell, hymm to tourach, serendib efreet, dark ritual, sengir vampire, demonic tutor etc. brainstorms & frantic search.
green/white: standard ernham djinn/serra angel/armageddon deck with sol ring, dual lands, savannahs, giant growth, savannah lions & llanowar elves.
red/green: needs taigas. blood lust/giant growth/kird ape. plus fireballs & 'bolts, assorted creatures and creature enhancers with an eye towards quick playability. i think the red/green deck has the maze of ith. there are also lots of coin-flipping cards in this one, like bottle of suleiman, mana clash and mijae djinn.
― ian, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 05:35 (sixteen years ago) link
the blue/black deck also has some other kind of efreet that costs only 3 for a 4/4 flier, but the downside is that it lets the opponent draw three cards!!
― ian, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 05:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Use that to cycle their deck
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 05:44 (sixteen years ago) link
-- ian, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:37 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Probably not worth it. If the main strategy of the deck is control through counters and discard it doesn't do a lot of good to give your opponent three cards to regain tempo/replenish their hand. Do you already have force spikes in there?
I need to sell my cards. Dual lands go for mad cash on eBay.
― s. morris, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link
real kill or be killed vibe to this set. you either have to get a bunch of insane rares or build a tight aggro deck that constantly applies pressure. all the durdley proliferate stuff is okay but a lot of times these games just end with you getting trucked by a really stupid planeswalker. seriously I feel like 2/3rds of the decks in this set have one, it's absurd.
― frogbs, Monday, 6 March 2023 22:03 (one year ago) link
There's several PW in the rare slots this set, which might explain that. I'm guessing there's a story reason for it. I was only able to make proliferate matter in poison decks, where obv it helps. In a lot of RG decks, adding a counter to your permanents really doesn't matter (eg the game is usually over before Lattice Blade Mantis makes its third hit).
I think I've had my fill of the format for the reason you mentioned. Too focused on aggro, too punishing to fall behind, in spite of being fun to play for a few weeks or so
― Vinnie, Monday, 6 March 2023 22:19 (one year ago) link
ILX magic players, how do you feel about WotC sending literal Pinkertons to harass somebody at their home because they accidentally received cards before release date and made a youtube about it?
https://kotaku.com/mtg-aftermath-leaks-pinkertons-wotc-magic-the-gathering-1850368923
― ian, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 22:33 (eleven months ago) link
yeah its pretty fucked up
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 23:07 (eleven months ago) link
insanely fucked up and the details are like… pinkertons?! for fucking magic the gathering?!
― mh, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 00:55 (eleven months ago) link
they've been weird about spoilers for a while. I remember back in like 2002-2004 this dude on a forum named "rancored_elf" would post spoilers as apparently he had an inside man. WoTC wound up suing him into oblivion and basically ruining his life. I remember him being like "they could've just asked me to stop"
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 April 2023 20:25 (eleven months ago) link
iirc it ended ok for him but apparently they really brought out the heavy artilery
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 April 2023 20:26 (eleven months ago) link
i was just astounded that Pinkerton still existed
― H in Addis, Thursday, 27 April 2023 20:45 (eleven months ago) link
I really know nothing about this game, except now this
Post Malone pays fan $2m for Magic: The Gathering 'One Ring' card
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66399865
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 3 August 2023 18:40 (eight months ago) link