Poll of the Day > Just spent the last few hours sorting through a box of Magic the Gathering cards

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Saw it at a thrift store for NZ$4. Total of 543 regular cards, and 10 cards I was told are Tokens(I assumed they were some event thing). So paid less than 1 cent per card. Not too bad. Now to let them gather dust until I find someone to give them to. :P

https://imgur.com/C55DRyB
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I love finding mtg cards at the thrift store, shame it's so rare.

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I used to do a green and black deck that never fucking worked lol

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Mead posted...

I used to do a green and black deck that never fucking worked lol

Magic is the most fun when people play what they think is cool, rather than what's strongest. That way you can play what's strongest and crush their dreams. :D

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H367O_T4DU

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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.
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I'd play Standard Magic all the time if I could afford 4 of every card. I'd probably spend most of my time ripping off decks I saw online, but whatever. >_> Unfortunately, I have nowhere near enough money for that, so I just look at the cards online and read some articles about them.

OmegaM posted...

I'd play Standard Magic all the time if I could afford 4 of every card. I'd probably spend most of my time ripping off decks I saw online, but whatever. >_> Unfortunately, I have nowhere near enough money for that, so I just look at the cards online and read some articles about them.

Have you considered MTGA? While you won't be running top tier decks it is actually playable F2P. There is also a pretty sizeable list of promo codes for free cards.

https://draftsim.com/mtg-arena-codes/

looks like you found your new collecting spot that isn't steam

Now you have to get every magic card and not just every steam game!

I wish I'd find something like that on the cheap.

I don't recognize most of those cards (although I recognize "Akroan" as being a clan from a set I didn't play) so I'm guessing it's more recent stuff.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

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.

I never like selling anything. Or getting rid of anything. Particularly not things for CCGs I've played. Maybe I'd part with some of the other stuff i picked up on a whim.

undefined posted...

I used to do a green and black deck that never fucking worked lol

That guy running BG is the first agreeable thing he's ever said.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

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.

tbh, I liked group play, but the power imbalances made it tough at times. And it wound up taking forever when we had large groups.

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ReggieTheReckless posted...

looks like you found your new collecting spot that isn't steam

Now you have to get every magic card and not just every steam game!

Nah. I have never even known anyone who plays, why spend money on such?
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rjsilverthorn posted...

Have you considered MTGA? While you won't be running top tier decks it is actually playable F2P. There is also a pretty sizeable list of promo codes for free cards.

https://draftsim.com/mtg-arena-codes/

I actually play Arena F2P(I bought the new player thing for 10 bucks, but that was it) and I've had multiple tier decks through rotations. It's just a matter of knowing what to spend gold and crystals on.
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Looks like Battle for Zendikar block draft leftovers.

Arena is expensive to get into but its easier to keep up with standard after you build your collection a bit. Or just play A LOT and save your wildcards.

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Zeus posted...

tbh, I liked group play, but the power imbalances made it tough at times. And it wound up taking forever when we had large groups.

Back in the 90s, I once played in an 8 person melee game. Two of us were playing massive decks (like 120 cards each instead of 60), and they were both designed to turtle to some degree (I was playing white/green with tons of healing and a bunch of Circles of Protection). Worse, we both had cards that would reshuffle our graveyards into our libraries (I had a Feldon's Cane and some other stuff).

By the end of the game, we were the only two players left and we'd both turtled up hard - and we were both gaining life faster than the other person could knock it down (we were both over 100 or so). It basically got to the point where the only hope of the game ending was to see which one of us ran out of cards first... and again, we were playing huge decks that could "reset" to full.

After about an hour of turn after turn of pretty much nothing happening, the other players all forced us to end the game in a draw. Which annoyed us both because we were both more than ready to play for as long as it took for one of us to win. Even if it took all night. Or most of the rest day.

The funny thing is, that player was the same person I had my only ever other "draw" game with - it ended with him Channel/Fireballing me, killing me but dying in the process.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Back in the 90s, I once played in an 8 person melee game. Two of us were playing massive decks (like 120 cards each instead of 60), and they were both designed to turtle to some degree (I was playing white/green with tons of healing and a bunch of Circles of Protection). Worse, we both had cards that would reshuffle our graveyards into our libraries (I had a Feldon's Cane and some other stuff).

By the end of the game, we were the only two players left and we'd both turtled up hard - and we were both gaining life faster than the other person could knock it down (we were both over 100 or so). It basically got to the point where the only hope of the game ending was to see which one of us ran out of cards first... and again, we were playing huge decks that could "reset" to full.

After about an hour of turn after turn of pretty much nothing happening, the other players all forced us to end the game in a draw. Which annoyed us both because we were both more than ready to play for as long as it took for one of us to win. Even if it took all night. Or most of the rest day.

The funny thing is, that player was the same person I had my only ever other "draw" game with - it ended with him Channel/Fireballing me, killing me but dying in the process.

That couldn't have ended in a draw. He would've died by Channel's ability before he could Fireball you. The pay 1 life is a cost, so he'd lose the life before he got the mana.(even if it wasn't a cost, he'd still die before he could pump that into Fireball's mana cost)
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