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[Zora]

Originally posted by Chern Ann

Originally posted by ipaintminis
well lets see, i have 2 full 5000 card boxes of the dowery and another 5000 cards i use...and thats just me....stefen has more, and mom and papa have a collection as well

about 30,000 or more all told.

... Must ... have ... you....:drool:

Yes, Chern, I\'m sure it\'s the MAGIC CARDS that tipped the scale for you, isn\'t it?

@EricJ: Yeah, that\'s the only type of tournament I liked. The \"who can spend the most to get the best cards\" tournaments did NOTHING for me. Sealed deck format I LOVED. It was always funny to watch people\'s expressions as you played something they never would have. They\'ve got their slimmed-down 60 card deck from the starter and 2 boosters, while I\'m using 75+ of the 90 or so total cards I got. And still doing pretty well in the tournament...

I feel so old as I realize I\'m about to type \"Man, those were the good \'ol days!\" and know that I mean about 6-8 years ago.

Yeesh.

 

[doomsayer]

how funny, i played magic from about late 1994 to mid 2000, havent played since then, i too have aseveral 5000 card boxes, and a friend of mine found his cards a couple weeks ago, told me to dig mine out, i made the mistake of actually doing it, we played some games, and now ive made 3 trips to the hobby shop to purchase packs of the sets ive missed, which i totalled to be 10 or 12, mercadian masques was my last set. I have quite an impressive collection of dragons, every dragon up through Mercadian Masques, including a rare promo dragon, and thanks to ebay i now own many of the newer dragons as well. *sigh*

 

[EricJ]

Zora, yeah, I see it the same way. It\'s funny, SO many cards are NEVER used because they\'re a fraction underpowered, and it\'s SO much fun to be beating someone down, or saving your life, or generally changing the whole game, with a card that would otherwise never see play.

It\'s the way the designers thought the game would be played at the start...although they were QUITE happy to have it go the other way and have people spending $1000\'s per deck. Just not for me.

The other fun thing I did, once we had enough cards, and didn\'t want to buy more for sealed deck play, was almost like Magic scrabble. Put all the cards out on the floor, face down, mix them all up, choose your 100 cards at random, then make decks from that. I know all you card purists gasp at the thought of bent corners, but for me it was about fun!

 

[sniffles]

Originally posted by Zora

Originally posted by ipaintminis
well lets see, i have 2 full 5000 card boxes of the dowery and another 5000 cards i use...and thats just me....stefen has more, and mom and papa have a collection as well

about 30,000 or more all told.

Yeah, I would say I had close to that all by my lonesome. It got pretty bad, and then we stopped playing.

I think at the end there I had 350+ Serra Angels alone...

I kept a couple of decks I used to play, but that\'s for sentimental reasons mostly.

What, you\'re not going to introduce Ethan to the joys of obsessive collecting? Start him out on Yu-Gi-Oh and then move him up to MtG?

Someone might want to check with DMofDoom and TAB about that dowry, though. I\'d expect her dowry to be minis, anyway, not MtG cards!

 

[Zora]

Now I bet you\'d have been FUN to play Magic with!

One of my favorite games was between my best friend and I, he with a control/recycling theme to it; mine with a life-giving theme to it.

Mine actually did NO damage whatsoever. We played \'til about 2:00 in the morning, me winning by literally ONE card. He couldn\'t draw anymore, and I had one card left in my 250+ card deck. I believe my life total was still around 240 or something...

Good times, good times.

I LOVED theme decks. I had a \"token squirrel\" deck, which brought out several things to turn into squirrels. That\'s the only thing I regret about quitting...there were more squirrel stuff out there. Hee hee!

One of my favorite quotes from a M:TG game against somebody: \"I\'m getting beat by a #*$@(*! Samite Healer!\":twisted:

 

[Zora]

Originally posted by sniffles

Originally posted by Zora

Yeah, I would say I had close to that all by my lonesome. It got pretty bad, and then we stopped playing.

I think at the end there I had 350+ Serra Angels alone...

I kept a couple of decks I used to play, but that\'s for sentimental reasons mostly.

What, you\'re not going to introduce Ethan to the joys of obsessive collecting? Start him out on Yu-Gi-Oh and then move him up to MtG?

Someone might want to check with DMofDoom and TAB about that dowry, though. I\'d expect her dowry to be minis, anyway, not MtG cards!

No, just last night he was saying \"I wish I had some Pokemon cards\" and I couldn\'t tell if my vehement \"NO\" was because I wanted him to stick to ONE addicting game, or because I couldn\'t stand that game.lol

He\'s into Yu-gi-oh, but doesn\'t know how to actually play yet. He imitates the show.... I don\'t need him to get into the \"collectible\" part of it.

It\'s pretty sad when I catch myself telling him to not give any of his cards away, because that one right there is a \"special, ultra-rare foil\" that daddy got him.

 

[Drake Farstrider]

Originally posted by ipaintminis
yep, and they better take it too! it took forever to sort!

I am sure that they will happily take it.

 

[sniffles]

Zora\'s son is doomed - he lives in a household of obsessive-compulsives. He\'s either going to grow up a compulsive collector or a compulsive organizer. If he does both his head will explode!
lol

 

[Duende]

Originally posted by EricJ
The other fun thing I did, once we had enough cards, and didn\'t want to buy more for sealed deck play, was almost like Magic scrabble. Put all the cards out on the floor, face down, mix them all up, choose your 100 cards at random, then make decks from that. I know all you card purists gasp at the thought of bent corners, but for me it was about fun!

Maybe you should try an Ironman Tournament. There are no graveyards in the game. Instead, if a card is sent to the graveyard, it\'s ripped up into little bits and tossed into the pile in the middle of the table.

That\'s enough to make any purist faint! :]


*EDIT* Can any thread get hijacked?

....it must be MAGIC !!!

 

[EricJ]

haha, remember the \"confettee of doom\" card? or some name like that? Old card that upon playing it, the instruction was to rip it up, and from above the table, sprinkle the pieces onto the table, and any card a piece touched was removed from play...as was the confettee of doom card...that was an awesome card.

 

[Zora]

YES! That was in that twisted Magic set that was done for humor...that had some great cards in it.

There was \"Elvish Impersonator\" or something like that. I actually got a couple of friends of mine to do a sealed deck tournament with 2 boosters of those cards mixed in.

We\'re at the store, and I got one of the impersonators. It says \"roll a six-sided dice to determine the power and toughness of Impersonator\". I pulled out a Backgammon doubling cube and rolled it. Got a 32/32 Elvish Impersonator. My opponent cried foul, but when the store owner/judge of the tournament read the card, he smiled big and allowed it.

During the first break, the store sold out of their doubling cubes in their dice racks!lol:flip:lol

 

[Ritual]

This thread went off-topic remarkably quickly!

I guess guys here rather discuss Magic cards than women! ???

 

[james sequeira]

ill take women thanks :drunk:

 

[darthfoley]

Having met IPM, I would have to say that the dowry would be a mere afterthought.

 

[vincegamer]

Originally posted by Zora
It\'s pretty sad when I catch myself telling him to not give any of his cards away, because that one right there is a \"special, ultra-rare foil\" that daddy got him.

Ever see that episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where Raymond trades away his daughter\'s \"pokemon\" card then finds out it\'s rare and valuable when she desperately wants it back? He goes to all sorts of effort and spends hundreds of dollars to get her a mint replacement card which she promptly folds in half and sticks in her pocket. She just wanted it because it was cute!

 

[Zora]

Originally posted by Ritual
This thread went off-topic remarkably quickly!

I guess guys here rather discuss Magic cards than women! ???

lolEvery time I discuss women, I get called a perv.

Besides, who would\'ve thought that women and Magic cards would ever be talked about in the same topic?

\'Sides, what am I supposed to say? \"Where were you when I was playing Magic?\":innocent:

 

[Zora]

Originally posted by vincegamer

Originally posted by Zora
It\'s pretty sad when I catch myself telling him to not give any of his cards away, because that one right there is a \"special, ultra-rare foil\" that daddy got him.

Ever see that episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where Raymond trades away his daughter\'s \"pokemon\" card then finds out it\'s rare and valuable when she desperately wants it back? He goes to all sorts of effort and spends hundreds of dollars to get her a mint replacement card which she promptly folds in half and sticks in her pocket. She just wanted it because it was cute!

Well, I have to say I started it with my son after picking him up from school, where a bigger kid was coaxing a card or two from him as I arrived. Having been in a TON of trading arenas, I DESPISE people who take advantage of others due to their age, inexperience, or gullibility.

I\'ve always felt you trade for what you want. The minute you quote me what the card magazine says, you can go now. I\'ve always been overly generous in those kinds of situations, but have seen kids get taken horribly by adults who know what they\'re doing.

So when that happened to my son, I went out and bought him a package with 3 different booster packs in it plus an \"ULTRA RARE CARD\".

 

[Dragon Forge Design]

Originally posted by ipaintminis

about 30,000 or more all told.

Thats got to be at least a tree worth just right there...

Hey hold it.. how did a topic about hooking up the fair LP and IPM turn into magic cards.. grt back on track people.. get your minds back into the gutter

 

[No Such Agency]

Originally posted by Zora
Every time I discuss women, I get called a perv.

\"I can\'t sing songs about young girls anymore,
People\'ll think I\'m some kind of pervert!\"
- The Pursuit of Happiness, \"I\'m An Adult Now\" (aka my 30\'s theme song)

 

[Trevor]

I met my 2nd girlfriend playing magic. I spent a LOT of money making her a white angel deck for xmas.