Magic: the Gathering vol. Nerds, Where You At?

[jd214]

Originally Posted by BlitzenDunking

This is my best card

*DEAD*

Originally Posted by Tupac Jordan

Lets post cool pics of ourselves playing

 

[gameover2]

Mojodmonky1 wrote:

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sweet jesus... bringing back the memories.

this hype behind this card grew to mythological proportions.  i remember making color copies and trying to play em off as the real deal.  the only place i came across a legit black lotus was at a card show.
The only time I cheated with color photocopies was for Dual Lands.

 that was until I had enough money to complete a set of 4 Badlands, 4 Taigas and 4 Bayous.

Not sure if any of you older heads remember, but there was a trick to screening packs prior to opening them.  I was heavy into Magic when they had Revised base set and the Legends and Dark expansions.  In the old revised packs, since the uncommon/rare card was always the 4th (i think?) card in the pack and the border of the wrapper was white plastic, you could slide down to the 4th card and read the name through the white plastic.
Yep! You'd see heaps of packs with scratch marks from sliding down the first three cards. Once you see that, you'd know the packs have been sorted and cleaned out already.

 

[badmoonrison]

Originally Posted by DJprestige21

Had my whole neighborhood jealous of this.

I remember looking at price magazines at the comic shop and marveling at this card being worth $400

The most expensive card which was in regular print (as opposed to being a promotional or special printing) is Black Lotus,with average prices as of 2009 above $700 and high-quality "graded"copies rising above $3,000 — in 2005, a "Pristine 10 grade" BeckettGrading Services graded Beta Black Lotus was bought by Darren Adams,owner of West Coast Sports Cards & Gaming Distributors in FederalWay, Washington, for a record $20,000.[sup][58][/sup] A small number of cards of similar age, rarity, and playability —chiefly among them the other cards in the so-called "Power Nine"— routinely reach high prices as well.

I played from the mid-90's to about 2000... last expansion set I remember is Urza's block. I quit when I was consistently getting beaten by kids that paid more for their deck than I did

 

[mrsneakerman]

Yu Gi Oh got boring to me so I traded my whole stash for Magic cards, even gave up a complete Exodia set. Then I got into Magic OD and got almost the entire Onslaught set in a binder. I was a beast but then I hit HS an that was it.