Lately I have had the urge to play not Magic: The Gathering but other, less popular trading card games of the nineteen nineties.

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ian if I am ever in NYC I will bring a couple of decks! I will be in the Hudson Valley area for a coupla days over Thanksgiving week but not in the city, alas. also let me know if you need xerox copies of rules or maps or shit. I don't think I ever played with the region cards, that was an optional thing but I still have a lot of them because they came with the expansion sets.

When I first got those cards ('96 I think) I would set up opposing sets and play a game by myself to study the interactions. My girlfriend at the time came home one day...

her: "You know how I can tell you're really into this?

me: "Uh.. no."

her: "Because you don't have any music on"

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sleeve, Saturday, 13 October 2007 02:48 (sixteen years ago) link

i played magic: the gathering for like five hours yesterday :/

bell_labs, Monday, 15 October 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link

it was not for like five hours it was really only like three cuz we didn't get back from brunch until at least 2.

i totally upgraded the blue/black deck and the green deck last night.

ian, Monday, 15 October 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link

jesus...this takes me back. I played Magic fucking constantly from age 14 or so till I was around 18. In the end I sold loads of my cards and recouped a certain amount of the money I'd spent over the years.

I remember we used to have huge "melees" that would go on till 4 or 5 in the morning.

how embarassing. it was a good game though!

Ronan, Monday, 15 October 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link

how embarassing

oh please.

bell_labs, Monday, 15 October 2007 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link

sorry, I don't mean to distance myself...I should be proud

Ronan, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 00:09 (sixteen years ago) link

oh man... if I could get my hands on some of the Illuminati: New World Order CCG I would be all over that shit

elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link

seems pretty cheap on ebay

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link

i will get this and enlist peej to duel

elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link

elmo, i will be around this weekend.

ian, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link

sweeeeet, call me up!

elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link

think saturday night or late thursday night, maybe. i think friday is taken up with family stuff in Bristol. i will have ms. labs with me.

ian, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link

I am going to ITHACA this weekend

Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link

i want to play cthulhu mythos while in rhode island!

bell_labs, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link

thursday i think i will be carving a pumpykins and drinking a beerz.

elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link

we'll probably get in late on thursday anyway.
do you wanna talk to peej and see if he's busy saturday night? i will also try to get in touch wif that boy.

ian, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link

and yes, we can all play
http://www.spillsjefen.no/catalog/images/product_mythos_cthulhurising_booster.JPG

ian, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link

I remember we used to have huge "melees" that would go on till 4 or 5 in the morning.

-- Ronan, Monday, October 15, 2007 3:50 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

irish orgy

deej, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link

to be sure

Ronan, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 23:07 (sixteen years ago) link

my dad made 25 grand on Magic cards (he bought 100 Black Lotus expansion sets). serious!

sleeve, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 01:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Somewhere in my apartment is a set of old 80s Heavy Metal Superstar trading cards that I found in a box at my Dad's house.. spectacular.

Finefinemusic, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link

Netrunner was amazing

Gravel Puzzleworth, Thursday, 1 November 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link

we (me & mike c) just got our two boxes of MYTHOS: LEGENDS OF THE NECRONOMICON boosters in the mail. ebay is a goldmine for dead CCGs.

ian, Monday, 5 November 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

mythos is pretty fun!

bell_labs, Monday, 19 November 2007 23:39 (sixteen years ago) link

maybe in 2010 i will get into pokemon

bell_labs, Monday, 19 November 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link

I LIKE MYTHOS.
i need to rework the two New England-based decks, though. There are some extraneous cards, since i took out the Seeking Everlasting Life II adventure.

ian, Monday, 19 November 2007 23:41 (sixteen years ago) link

i kind of want to play DOOMTOWN, but i haven't found a good entry point yet.

ian, Monday, 19 November 2007 23:41 (sixteen years ago) link

http://cgi.ebay.com/Doomtown-13-Starters-and-35-boosters-unopened_W0QQitemZ140181083982QQihZ004QQcategoryZ2535QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

^^undead cowboy game where u play poker to resolve combat

ian, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link

have u found the "entry point"?

bell_labs, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link

that would be a decent one, but it will be expensive by the time it ends.

ian, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 18:24 (sixteen years ago) link

ian will you be in town for thanksgiving y/n?

elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link

leaving tonight if the rain isn't bad.

ian, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link

(bringing magic cards, mythos cards.)

ian, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link

(also bringing my kitty cat)

ian, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link

yayayaa

elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link

Item # Item Title Qty. Price
150184755641 UNOPENED BOX OF CTHULHU RISING CARDS 1 US $0.99
150184754494 unopened box of miskatonic university cards 1 US $0.99


Subtotal: US $1.98

Shipping and handling via US Postal Service First Class Mail:
US $12.00

Total: US

ian, Sunday, 25 November 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link

ian, bro:

mythos was fun, would play again.

elmo argonaut, Monday, 26 November 2007 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link

with all the cheap cards i will now have, i will make you two decks and send them to you via post in exchange for something of equal value (i.e. nearly worthless.)

ian, Monday, 26 November 2007 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link

i promised lindz to make her a CTHULHU deck tonight.
when cthulhu is in play, no investigator may gain sanity!

ian, Monday, 26 November 2007 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link

ohhhhh shiiiiit

elmo argonaut, Monday, 26 November 2007 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link

i want a deck with red hook locations

bell_labs, Monday, 26 November 2007 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link

there are only one or two red hook locations. lol lovecraft is teh racist

ian, Monday, 26 November 2007 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link

i hope one of them is the fairway!

bell_labs, Monday, 26 November 2007 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://dughi.com/heather/images/munchkin_cards.jpg

Lamp, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link

ENBB was just talking about Munchkin Cthulhu the other day!

ian, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link

have u played it ian? its really dope - less fussy and intricate then magic better for larger groups of ppl

Lamp, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link

yo ian if u ever want to play one of these hit me up im always down for some ccg aksh

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link

or coolest. or whatever. im so excited about legend of the five rings that i cant spell.

― max, Monday, October 8, 2007 1:34 PM

*speaks through time*

max did you ever play this? this is one of only 2 ILX references to legend of the five rings. a friend of mine is about to start up a L5R campaign and invited me to join. i'm trying to figure out whether it will be fun enough to outweigh the hassle/detachment of playing with them remotely.

Karl Malone, Monday, 28 November 2016 23:19 (seven years ago) link


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