Magic: The Gathering

[naomikritzer]

I mentioned Magic: The Gathering to Molly yesterday and she was curious about it. I spent far, far, far too many hours playing M:TG during my senior year of college, mostly with probably_lost and my other housemates. Curtis had a ton of cards, and I frequently borrowed from him, but I did have some of my own. Never enough to play blue, but I had an acceptable if unimpressive selection of the other colors.

I found my cards, picked off the remains of rubber bands that had melted to them since 1995, and looked through them. Then I looked up the rules on Wikipedia. I totally do not remember how to play this game.

Comments

[jiawen]

They change the rules fairly frequently, requiring you to spend more money to keep up. Same deal as D&D, pretty much.

quadong (Matt) is a compendium of rules knowledge for M:tG, if you should want to get back into it.

[swords-and-pens.livejournal.com]

Yup. When we sat down to play again a few years ago, the mechanics had changed quite a bit.

I may have some of the orignal rules in with my old cards, but I'm not sure. Of course, I think I still have some unopened boosters from 12 years ago as well. :)

[jmartin2.livejournal.com]

Wow, that brings back memories. I would send Molly my ancient cards, but I think I may have given them to my husband's geeky little cousin. Hope she has fun with it. :)

[littleclaypig.livejournal.com]

Aren't we supposed to steer kids _away_ from addictive substances?

[malachitefer.livejournal.com]

If she really gets into that sort of thing, let me know. I think I've still got Mec's On the Edge cards in my basement somewhere...

[slystick.livejournal.com]

I still have four cases of On The Edge(tm) cards stuffed in the closet off my parlor.

The math tells me that this is ten cards a pack, times sixty a box, times ten boxes a case, times four cases -- equalling, um, 24k cards. (Assuming the math between starters and boosters in a box remains equal -- which I'm pretty sure it does. They haven't manufactured these for a decade.. Anyway..)

It's _really_ too bad that vintage OTN cards have miniscule value compared to the same-period Magic cards. But assuming Molly's interest in such card games is less a function of their EBay value and more about the rules of the given game, I could set both of you up with a display box of the Standard Game and Each Expansion -- at minimal cost, of course. (And by minimal, I mean zero, or their worth.)