Hooker  - 2012-10-24
Why Revised and 7th? That's missing three different eras, I believe.
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Waugh - 2012-10-24
haha jesus christ
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Old_Zircon - 2012-10-24
If anyone can find the original M:TG commercial from '94 or so (right around when 4th edition came out), with the Beck song, I've been looking for it but no luck.
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garcet71283 - 2012-10-25
I was never into magic, too big of a nerd for that.
The Star Trek CCG....now there was a good nerd hobby.
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BHWW - 2012-10-25
I've known a few people who were seriously into M:TG and other collectable card games and yikes. "Back in da day" there was this one guy in high school, Evan, who would go around to various games held at different venues and locations and, wearing his trenchcoat and mirror-shades, had this squat, squash-nosed kid for a sidekick who'd follow him around carrying his briefcase filled with cards and stuff like Evan's fingerless black leather gloves that he'd pull out and put on dramatically before sitting down to play.
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Screwtape - 2012-10-25
Some of that seemed like English, but only vaguely. I don't know how to rate this.
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StanleyPain - 2012-10-25
The only card game I ever really "got into" was Netrunner which was a very clever strategy game and was well designed enough that it avoided the overpowered card bullshit of MTG. Unfortunately, it failed pretty bad for WotC.
However, I just learned the other day that Fantasy Flight Games is resurrecting the Netrunner game, though I have no idea if it will be the same as the original.
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Old_Zircon - 2012-10-25 The overpowered card bullshit is what made M:TG fun back in the day. When they started trying to balance it out around 4th or 5th edition is when I got out of it. That was around the same time that it started being overrun by 8th graders who would do stuff like SMASHING ANOTHER KID'S FACE INTO THE FLOOR REPEATEDLY DURING A DISPUTE OVER ANTE. When I first heard about M:TG it was just at the end of being the domain of college-aged computer nerds but wasn't really a game for kids yet, either.
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garcet71283 - 2012-10-26 I actually have the FFG Netrunner game.
Its good, has alot of depth, but I never played the original so I cannot say what changed. (other than it is now part of the "Android" universe)
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StanleyPain - 2012-10-26 Well, the original card game was asymmetrical. One player was the "runner" and dealt with programs and hardware, and the other player was the Corporation, who uses ICE to protect resources. The two sides played very differently.
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chumbucket - 2012-10-25
He's speaking a language I do not understand nor do I care to find out.
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exy - 2012-10-25
Sure, I played Magic. But ICE's Middle-Earth CCG was the Cadillac of card games. In fact, I still consider it quite a high-water mark of game design.
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TheSupafly - 2012-10-25
I don't get it, is this funny or amazing? Are we interested in the guy, his collection, or the cards themselves?
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Old_Zircon - 2012-10-25 If you were a little too old for pogs and not quite nerdy enough for AD&D in the mid 90s this video should speak to you.
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oncewhite - 2012-10-25
magic is actually more popular right now than at any point in the past.
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garcet71283 - 2012-10-26 Probably because all the competition dried up.
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endlesschris - 2012-10-25
As someone who runs a website about Magic cards, this is a pretty mundane video.
Basically he's showing off his collection, much of which is worthless. The few times he apologizes for a card, it's because its a proxy of a thousand dollar tournament card (most tournaments which allow these ancient cards also allow people to use a few fakes, as not everybody can afford a ,000 deck of cards).
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Caminante Nocturno - 2012-10-25
I miss my black-green poison counter deck. It rarely won, but it was always sweet when it did.
Also, Ice Age is still the best expansion.
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exy - 2012-10-26 Ice Age was pretty great. My friend had a quixotic dream of building a 5-suit deck that could stand against any 1-suit deck. I adopted that dream as my own. Only dual land could make it happen. Actually, only dual land + all the old unbalanced mana-generating spells could make it happen. It didn't happen.
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