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Topic	Just spent the last few hours sorting through a box of Magic the Gathering cards
ParanoidObsessive 11/07/21 10:50:43 AM #8:	Sulugnaz posted... I sold my collection of like 3000 cards for over $1300 years ago. Was glad to finally get rid of them. I started selling off some of my cards like 20 years ago, and then a bunch of my friends decided they wanted to play again. It was pretty annoying. I haven't played for a really long time at this point, maybe I should consider selling them again. But as soon as I do my friends will probably all decide they want to start playing again, and I'll have to kill them. Mead posted... I used to do a green and black deck that never fucking worked lol A friend of mine started playing with a white/blue deck pretty much made entirely out of shitty commons, because it was given to him by another one of our friends. He hated it so much (because he literally could not win, ever) he wound up hating the game as a whole. He bought his own new deck like 8 years later (and I gave him some advice for evil combos he could use), and wound up loving it (because now not only could he win, he was actually fairly dominant). Sulugnaz posted... When I used to play (like over 20 years ago), I was part of a group were two of them were in tournaments all the time, and the third had a lot more money than me. So the three would pretty much destroy me first every game. It got really frustrating. My group is sort of the inverse of that. We had one friend who played tournaments, and owned most of the Power Nine, used all dual lands (at a time when they were really rare and there weren't a ton of new ones, etc), and generally triggered powerful unstoppable combos (his favorite deck was an All Hallows Eve deck that would flood the board with giant creatures coming out of his graveyard en masse). My other two friends were more or less casual players, and weren't great at deck building or setting up combos. And I mostly played a hardcore burn deck (usually black/red, though occasionally red/white with creature destruction), without any creatures at all. Almost every game we played consists of me and the power player gunning for each other right out of the gate. In the end, one of us usually takes the other one out, but waste so much resources that we wind up too weak to fend off the other two (who've spent most of their time either turtling up or setting up minor combos). So most of our games end with one of the two more casual players winning. Part of why I kind of like changing things up by playing variants like Archenemy or Commander. It changes the dynamic enough to make things interesting. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:959774980] in Just spent... [t:79747490]...</cite> <quote><cite>Sulugnaz posted...</cite> <quote>I sold my collection of like 3000 cards for over $1300 years ago. Was glad to finally get rid of them. </quote> I started selling off some of my cards like 20 years ago, and then a bunch of my friends decided they wanted to play again. It was pretty annoying. I haven't played for a really long time at this point, maybe I should consider selling them again. But as soon as I do my friends will probably all decide they want to start playing again, and I'll have to kill them. <cite>Mead posted...</cite> <quote>I used to do a green and black deck that never fucking worked lol</quote> A friend of mine started playing with a white/blue deck pretty much made entirely out of shitty commons, because it was given to him by another one of our friends. He hated it so much (because he literally could not win, ever) he wound up hating the game as a whole. He bought his own new deck like 8 years later (and I gave him some advice for evil combos he could use), and wound up loving it (because now not only could he win, he was actually fairly dominant). <cite>Sulugnaz posted...</cite> <quote>When I used to play (like over 20 years ago), I was part of a group were two of them were in tournaments all the time, and the third had a lot more money than me. So the three would pretty much destroy me first every game. It got really frustrating.</quote> My group is sort of the inverse of that. We had one friend who played tournaments, and owned most of the Power Nine, used all dual lands (at a time when they were really rare and there weren't a ton of new ones, etc), and generally triggered powerful unstoppable combos (his favorite deck was an All Hallows Eve deck that would flood the board with giant creatures coming out of his graveyard en masse). My other two friends were more or less casual players, and weren't great at deck building or setting up combos. And I mostly played a hardcore burn deck (usually black/red, though occasionally red/white with creature destruction), without any creatures at all. Almost every game we played consists of me and the power player gunning for each other right out of the gate. In the end, one of us usually takes the other one out, but waste so much resources that we wind up too weak to fend off the other two (who've spent most of their time either turtling up or setting up minor combos). So most of our games end with one of the two more casual players winning. Part of why I kind of like changing things up by playing variants like Archenemy or Commander. It changes the dynamic enough to make things interesting. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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