Convenient rule hack
(midwest.social)
toomanypancakes
196The problem is I wanted a set of eight of these and I only have five so far. Anyone want to donate to the cause?
Sure, boring artwork on that anyway. Probably AI-generated.
I love this kinda rage bait lol. It's a good 'shop too (even if the wood grain is ever so slightly misaligned in the hole
I don't play magic much but I remember this meme: that card is exceptionally rare and worth a ridiculous amount of money
I don't play magic so I still don't understand how a card can be expensive. Or rather, why would anyone play a "pay to win" game?
Either funsies or winning tournaments
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I played MTG many moons ago. Was fun for awhile but quickly turned into this excessively competitive game. If you played you basically had to build certain decks to complete. I didn't like the lack of freedom to experiment.
The internet ruined TCG.
Once you could go online, look up the meta and order the cards you need it became P2W.
I watched yugioh as a kid on tv. It was part of the story that the rich sephiroth guy was clearly p2w. Very hot take: Anybody who goes out of their way to follow metas in games is a tool.
I really wonder how balanced MTG is with all those cards from multiple decades floating around.
I had a shadow deck loosely based on that method. There was:
- an artifact that decreased cycling costs by 2
- an artifact that let mana be played untapped
- a bunch of monsters with a cycle cost of 2 where the cycle benefit was adding a mana
- a spell to search your deck for mana for each creature in your grave
- and one dealing X/X damage per shadow/clear mana tapped.
It was about the only thing I found that could reliably beat a sliver deck, but if you didn't get the artifacts you were screwed.
For some context, it's part of the first ever Magic cards printed. However, players quickly figured out you can win on your first turn before your opponent even plays if you stuff your deck with them, so it was banned and removed from print.
An old card with a small amount printed due to being accidentally OP makes for a huge price today.
Correct! An ungraded version is worth about $50k and a PSA 10 ("perfect" condition) can go for more than $2M.
What happened in feb 2022?
About 10 years ago a card shop I went to had one that was in bad condition (mild creases) with an actual tear in the card in the top corner. The owner had it in the display case with a price tag of $4,000 on it just to attract attention with no intentions of actually selling it. Apparently someone at a point later came in an bought it for the $4k price he had it listed for.
When I was a kid, the local game store had a framed Black Lotus. I have no idea what PSA it was, but they wanted $400 for it, and my thinking was, geez, I would never pay $400 for a card.
And to be fair, that is still true. I would never pay $400 for a card, but also if the me back then knew that one day it would be worth $50,000, I might have thought differently about it.
Some people are stupid with money, or they just have too much.
I used to work in a whisky bar and we were going to host a Yamazaki tasting. We bought a bottle of the 25yo for like $3000. I put it on the menu for $10k as a joke, some guy came in said "what's your most expensive whisky" and I mentioned that bottle. He bought it, had one shot out of it and left. Never came back. I let that bottle sit on the shelf for two years (we normally only give people six months to finish the bottles, not legally allowed to take them out of the bar) before just taking it home and drinking it myself.
Had to buy a new bottle for the tasting and the supplier was shocked he sold even one of them at the $3k price lol. It's now $14,000 retail for a bottle.
