Photos Knives & Magic cards

I enjoy the challenge of the multi-player Commander format, building decks around different mechanics.

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Considering Magic I am a Black Wizard. So here are black cards with a fully blacked out knife. I own these cards way longer than twenty years, still love them.

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Btw the Manix is my favourite Spyderco. The ergonomics are outstanding, just a bit too much jimping.
 
feuerizer said:
Commander is not my world. I prefer two wizards dueling each other.
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Manix is a favorite as well. Mine is CTS-XHP with Ironwood handles.

I like the commander format even with just two people. I forgot about Pox, gonna buy one for my Elf/discard deck.
 
I have a 1600 count box full of mainly Ice Age and 4th edition with some Revised and Legends sprinkled throughout. Haven’t looked at them in over 20 years. Just been sitting in the closet. My dad sold antique sports memorabilia for a living (post war to late 70’s stuff) from the mid-80’s to around 2008’ish, so I was always at the baseball card shows around the mid-Atlantic region for years and would pick up Magic cards.
 
My Magic days are long behind me (I play all sorts of other games, though), but I held onto this Millstone. Millstone is my favorite M:TG card, and it's emblematic of the decks I tended to play: deeply annoying to play against, when they worked. 😁

Richard Garfield was a guest lecturer in a game theory course I took in college, and at the end of the class he offered to sign M:TG cards for anyone who was interested. The handful of us who knew who he was had planned for this, and I asked him to alter my Millstone for me.

It's not especially valuable; he's signed, and altered, tons of cards over the years. But its sentimental value is off the charts. :)

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Dadpool said:
My Magic days are long behind me (I play all sorts of other games, though), but I held onto this Millstone. Millstone is my favorite M:TG card, and it's emblematic of the decks I tended to play: deeply annoying to play against, when they worked. 😁

Richard Garfield was a guest lecturer in a game theory course I took in college, and at the end of the class he offered to sign M:TG cards for anyone who was interested. The handful of us who knew who he was had planned for this, and I asked him to alter my Millstone for me.

It's not especially valuable; he's signed, and altered, tons of cards over the years. But its sentimental value is off the charts. :)

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Man that is truly cool. Sol Ring was my go-to artifact in any deck.


As an aside, Jolie Holland did a (probably half-drunk) cover of Enjoy Yourself that sticks out in my brain.
 
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Dadpool said:
My Magic days are long behind me (I play all sorts of other games, though), but I held onto this Millstone. Millstone is my favorite M:TG card, and it's emblematic of the decks I tended to play: deeply annoying to play against, when they worked. 😁

Richard Garfield was a guest lecturer in a game theory course I took in college, and at the end of the class he offered to sign M:TG cards for anyone who was interested. The handful of us who knew who he was had planned for this, and I asked him to alter my Millstone for me.

It's not especially valuable; he's signed, and altered, tons of cards over the years. But its sentimental value is off the charts. :)

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Just freaking YEAAH! Congratulations.

I love it. That is plain beautiful. I guess you will never part with that card and that is how it should be.
 
7east said:
I have a 1600 count box full of mainly Ice Age and 4th edition with some Revised and Legends sprinkled throughout. Haven’t looked at them in over 20 years. Just been sitting in the closet. My dad sold antique sports memorabilia for a living (post war to late 70’s stuff) from the mid-80’s to around 2008’ish, so I was always at the baseball card shows around the mid-Atlantic region for years and would pick up Magic cards.
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Cards from the legend set have become really expensive.
See "The Abyss" above in my picture? That costs you about 1300€. Insane.
 
feuerizer said:
Cards from the legend set have become really expensive.
See "The Abyss" above in my picture? That costs you about 1300€. Insane.
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To this day I recall that the “ye old rare-and-desirable” card was a Black Lotus. Imagine my disappointment when I found out it wasn’t strategically all that impressive.
 
EngrSorenson said:
To this day I recall that the “ye old rare-and-desirable” card was a Black Lotus. Imagine my disappointment when I found out it wasn’t strategically all that impressive.
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Yeah but they are going for a cool $1 million on the bay.

I was also into sports memorabilia. I still have a Ken Griffey Jr rookie card, a football autographed by Walter Payton (personally signed to me, with my name on it, it was a gift while I was in the hospital in 6th grade, he was a classmates neighbor). I have to baseballs signed by late 80's Chicago Cubs teams, including Ryne Sandberg and Greg Maddux.

I'm also into other games as well. My cousin got me into Scythe. He has bought all the custom pieces and is in the process of painting them. I play Civilization with him as well. We try to do a monthly game night with friends. I play Colt Express with my nephews.

For whatever reason (probably because I'm a dick) I enjoy making commander decks that piss everyone off. I have one that makes people discard (Nath of the Gilt Leaf), one that damages opponents when they draw cards (Necuzar the Mind razer), and one that damages opponents when I draw cards (Niv-Mizzet the firemind).

My Nath deck is my best deck, and the most hated. Why? There are so many wheels and mechanics built in to it that it's hilarious. I love playing old school stuff like land destruction.

Basically, in my discard deck, I have Tergrid, God of Fright, which sends all creature cards that die or are discarded on to the battlefield under my control. Add in Megrim, which deals 2 damage whenever an opponent discards. It's an evil, evil deck.
 
EngrSorenson said:
To this day I recall that the “ye old rare-and-desirable” card was a Black Lotus. Imagine my disappointment when I found out it wasn’t strategically all that impressive.
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It can pretty much seal a game in turn one! Swamp + Black Lotus + Dark Ritual + Juzam Djinn = a 5/5 creature before your opponent has even played a land. The well of Lotus shenanigans is deep. :)
 
Dadpool said:
It can pretty much seal a game in turn one! Swamp + Black Lotus + Dark Ritual + Juzam Djinn = a 5/5 creature before your opponent has even played a land. The well of Lotus shenanigans is deep. :)
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You could win on turn one with it. I used to know a bunch of ways to do it in different decks, but now I can barely remember why I walked into the kitchen.

Magic was fun, but the Lord of the Rings CCG (The Wizards) was really where it was at. I used to play that like an addict, and just sit there and flip through my decks and daydream.
 
LimpCroissant said:
A friend of mine growing up used to play Magic with his 2 brothers when I was a kid. I always thought the cards looked really cool and always kind of wanted to learn how to play but it never happened. I still never did learn how to play but still feel nostalgia when I see the cards because of this.
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I had a bunch of old ones but could never figure out how to play either. Still sitting in a box in my parent's house
 
unwisefool said:
I had a bunch of old ones but could never figure out how to play either. Still sitting in a box in my parent's house
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Dadpool said:
That could easily be a box full of good money, if you're so inclined.
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Yeah they've always intrigued me. There's a store down the street where they play games at, I think mainly Magic and Dungeons and Dragons. Someday it'd be cool to try.

That's true, unwisefool unwisefool you might have some valuable cards sitting around in that box.
 
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