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Vigo:

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--- Quote from: Mikezilla on April 26, 2011, 06:18:51 pm ---People still play MTG? damn, I used to play that ish in middle school. had some good decks. I think the last expansion that I played with was Ice Age, er, Homelands (which was god awful) I think. Or chronicles. I dunno, fun game though.

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Same here....I remember I kept thinking as well that the latest editions blew serious chunks and couldn't wait to move on to the next edition....I wasn't patient enough and just gave up on MTG.

A few years ago, they were giving away free starter decks so I got a couple of those, thinking I could casually play....then I realized that I had nobody to play the game with. Oh well. :dunno

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Thats cool. But there are so many new abilities and other things that I have NO idea about, so I gave up. There is a comic store that opened up down the street that held tournaments etc so I thought I would go down there with a buddy of mine and check it out. Je-SUS. Might as well have labeled it the Virgin Brigade. OR, the "Ill be a virgin forever squad". You know the crowd, guys that havent showered in 5 days, greasy ---daisies--- with dreadlocks and glasses that smell like a head shop, and the poor nerdy ginger kids with freckles AND glasses.

A friend of mine recently found his cards in the attic, and I found mine too, so we started making some decks from the OG cards that we had. Luckily I had a manual, so we relearned how to play. After a few beers we got in arguments and threw the cards down and fired up the cab  :lol

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Haha! I had a similar experience when I went to a comic book shop with a friend last summer. We were looking at getting a new board game, and got talking to the shop owner. He started talking about some secret group that  met in the upstairs of his store. I remember they were called something extremely nerdy like "The Dark Clan of Shah' Glonhalhth" and the guy actually brought us upstairs to see them (Through a cheesy "secret passage"...an incredibly obvious door with a picture frames covering up the edges). Upstairs, there were about 40 sickly pale nerds, many dressed like they were camping out for a Lord of the Rings movie premiere, you know, crappy elf costumes made from felt. They were sitting around endless hand-made models of Orc armies and villages and stuff. It must have been Warhammer or something they were playing. Way too nerdy for me. Oh, and there was one modestly hot chick in the sea of nerds. Go figure.

Anyway, the air stunk of unwashed tights and virginity. We bolted for the door pretty quickly.

pinballwizard79:
gay

Donkbaca:
I think its awesome that he showed you his secret nerd collection.

Vigo:

--- Quote from: Donkbaca on April 27, 2011, 01:21:16 pm ---I think its awesome that he showed you his secret nerd collection.


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 :laugh2: That's pretty accurate. The guy actually started his shop mostly for sports card memorabilia, but as a businessman he quickly swayed to the demands of the area. The whole "nerds in the attic" thing was his business strategy to both get the nerds to shop at his place and get them out of the way since a shop stuffed with uber nerds can keep the general public skiddish about shopping at his store. I had no clue I was in such close proximity to a herd of nerds until he showed me. And the nerds like it because they can dress like Gandalf with their friends and not have to be so self conscientious in a public place.

leapinlew:
I started MTG at the end of Legends. You could still buy Antiquities packs. The hard part was finding a place that had more than a few booster packs. I had all the big cards except I never got a black lotus. Back then, you could call Wizard to find out how cards worked (since they could be interpreted a number of different ways).

I went to a tournament for the opening of Ice Age. The demographic changed quite a bit. It was a nerdfest and the room stunk. After that, I sold all my cards. I had a full set of dual lands (can't believe how expensive those got), moxes, timewalk, etc.

I remember how much Chronicles pissed me off. I was making a decent amount of side money selling/trading for card and when Chronicles came out it devalued a lot of cards.

Recently I met up with some people who still played. After trying to play a game with them, and having to read every single card because of all the new abilities and stuff I realized I was done. I pulled the remainder of my cards from the basement and sold them as 1 big lot.

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