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I was cleaning out my closet today and found my old deck of Magic cards from...well about a decade ago. Apparently the game is alive and well. Was wondering if anyone here played and could clue me in on how the game has changed. Back then I ran an all Black deck, not sure if that's considered viable or whatever.

I can't believe I had these things collecting dust in a box for that long.

I sold my Underworld Dream, Jhizom Djinn, Rack/Black Vice Hypno toting black/artifact deck all betas and alphas for 1300 dollars last year. Was the only deck from magic i had left. It included my 15 card sideboard. I played multiple tourneys back in the early to mid 90ies. Was alot of fun. Won quite a bit as well.

Wow, well I hadn't planned on getting that serious with it. Just something to play around with. I honestly haven't even thought about the game in years, was almost surprised it was still around.

I did the same thing recently. Well I moved about a month ago, found a stash of old M:TG cards I've been hauling around ever since highschool when I used to play. I have a little north of 7k non-land cards from Beta to 5th edition and some of the expansions.

The other day I decided to reserve a table in the house to separating them all into editions and seeing if I have anything worth something. 

I don't think I'm going to bother ever playing again, I probably will just throw up the lot on ebay. I took a look at where the game was now...and ya know, it got kind of varied after the expansions started to outnumber the editions.

Originally posted by sepher

I did the same thing recently. Well I moved about a month ago, found a stash of old M:TG cards I've been hauling around ever since highschool when I used to play. I have a little north of 7k non-land cards from Beta to 5th edition and some of the expansions.

The other day I decided to reserve a table in the house to separating them all into editions and seeing if I have anything worth something. 

I don't think I'm going to bother ever playing again, I probably will just throw up the lot on ebay. I took a look at where the game was now...and ya know, it got kind of varied after the expansions started to outnumber the editions.

I have good memories of playing M:TG back in the old days with my school friends. It was when trading card games (M:TG, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and the less popular DBZ one) were all the rage. I gave a whole box full of Ice Age edition M:TG cards to a friend of mine a long time ago, I hope they weren't worth a lot! I remember I even went to a M:TG tournament at my local Comic World, before they packed up and left the mall. There were some fierce competitors there, I didn't participate but I watched the *ss beating that this old guy was giving everyone! I did participate in a Pokemon tournament though, I got 2nd place because some bastard kid cheated... (He scratched the back of his card-protector so he could know when to stop while shuffling to get the good cards. ) What a jerk!

   I started playing when 3rd edition came out and stopped playing when Visions was released. I lost my entire 3000+ card collection to a flooded garage. I played again for a few months when Ravnica came out and I currently don't play as the local comic shops around here smell of body odor and are full of 9 year olds and Man Babies.

   Not saying this is the pinnacle of the community as i used to live near a shop that was classy and had normal people in it.

    I used to run a blue/white deck that was near impossible to beat. The combo was Bazzar of Wonders, Millstone's, helm's of Obedience, Counterspells, Wrath of Gods, Armageddon's, Swords to Plowshares, meekstones, Moat, Icy Manipulators, Vexing Arcanix,,,,you get the idea. Basically the only way you could win is to destroy my Bazzar of Wonders or have a sidebar with graveyard removal cards. if the oppenet could not remove his graveyard I won.

   Then they banned Bazzar of Wonders from my normal game type and that when I started to lose interst in the game. My reign had come to an end.

Originally posted by XImpalerX

Wow, I think I saw someone who had that card a long time ago. His name was John and he was my sister's boyfriend, he had a lot of cool collectibles. The art in the M:TG cards was so strange when it first came out, all of the art looks like Picasso was the influence. That really sucks your garage got flooded, you'd probably be rolling in some money if you got the cards sold on Ebay. There was a new comic shop that opened 2 months after my local Comic World left but by then my interest was fading and this place smelled funny and the clerk was not friendly and cool like the guys at Comic World.

I like how you say it was "near impossible to beat," I used to have a deck like that. It took me a long time to construct, just in general it was to pulverize anyone with quick creature attacks w/trample and defensive plays. I let too many people watch me play I guess and people were constructing decks to beat mine, man those were the golden days. I wish I could just walk to KB Toys in the mall and pick up a few booster packs but it just wouldn't be the same. BTW That deck does sound near impossible to beat, I think Armageddons and WoGs were banned a while ago, along with Swords to Plowshares.

I really enjoyed Magic. Played for about 7 years starting from Revised. Most of my cards were either stolen or destroyed while moving from place to place. From what I have seen, all of the new content is much different than the old days. I don't think I could ever get back into the game though.

played for a while... playing the game is fun collecting isn't, I want to explore lots and lots of strats without needing to buy every last card.

magic the gathering online would be bloody perfect if it was monthly fee instead of buy boosters,  granted each card would need a value rating to keep decks power levels under control(ie 500 power value deck limit).