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5 years ago ::
Mar 27, 2008 - 11:36AM
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This thread is for discussion of this week's The Week That Was, which goes live Friday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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5 years ago ::
Mar 27, 2008 - 9:30PM
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I started playing in the summer after sixth grade. This was after the release of Apocalypse. I went to this summer day camp sort of thing, and one of the people who were our mentors was one of the top Magic players in the state, his name was Marty. I remember that by the end of the Summer nearly everyone at the camp played Magic. It was fantastic fun, especially occasionally playing games against Marty. He would pull out his well-tuned, Wrath of God-wielding, Standard decks and beat up on what were essentially Invasion block sealed decks. After that period, I fell out of Magic again, though, just because my friend and I got tired of playing the same decks against each other over and over (we didn't really buy new cards ever). I didn't get back into it until freshman year of high school, when a few friends and I attended a Saviors of Kamigawa release event (our first DCI event). Somehow, I managed to go undefeated and pull out first place, even though I had never played limited in my life. From that point on, I was obsessed. On a random note, of which I was reminded by the mention of nicknames, I have a somewhat funny story. In the summer after Dissension's release, I had gotten pretty serious about Magic, and considered myself a 'good player.' I was playing one of those W/B/G Control decks that were popular at the time, and I felt flawless. Round one of Friday Night Magic, I got paired against a little kid. I assumed I pretty much had a free win, since the kid was like ten, and was playing with no sleeves. I won the die roll, and here is how the rest of the game went: Me: Godless Shrine, go Him: Island go Me: Bounceland, go Him: Island, Boomerang your land, go Me: ...Godless Shrine again, go Him: Island, Temporal Adept, go Me:  ...about twenty turns later... Him: Vizzerdrix beat down After that game I was called Vizzerdrix for about two months, because I had lost to perhaps the most humiliating finisher in Magic.
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5 years ago ::
Mar 27, 2008 - 9:37PM
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I was in third grade, at the height of pokemon fever. I had returned some Toys I didnt want to my local Target, and was browsing the card rack for Pokemon boosters when I saw the VI edition basic game. hte promo Rhox on the box suckered me into buying it. I dont think I bought any other cards untill the sixth grade, when a bunch of people in my class brought their cards in. People thought mine were fake because of the frame old card frame.
Kneel before the lord Drgon, or you shall be knelt
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5 years ago ::
Mar 27, 2008 - 9:51PM
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- Quantum Leap
- Staunch Defender
Date Joined:
Nov 13, 2003
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I started with the demo version of the Microprose Shandalar computer game. I'd seen a few f the cards previously s my cousin had a few, but in terms of actually playing, online all the way. I imported the expansions to Shandalar as they weren't available in the UK, and later progressed to M:tG Interactive Encyclopaedia. Once that stopped being updated, I took a break, returning at about the time of Legions, via M:TG Online.
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5 years ago ::
Mar 27, 2008 - 10:04PM
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Date Joined:
Mar 27, 2008
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I woke up Christmas morning to find a Magic precon deck in my stocking. My parents had gotten it for me because it looked interesting. They did not know the rules however, so I had all these cool cards with all this interesting art and flavor text and I needed to know more. If any of you are thinking that my parents' behavior was odd then you should know that my dad was an accomplished Dungeon Master in College and my mom is fan of fantasy novels (especially Tolkien) and also played a character in my dad's group. Swear to God.
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5 years ago ::
Mar 27, 2008 - 10:12PM
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Date Joined:
Feb 22, 2001
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My condolences to Barron's family. I just lost a family member of my own today, and us gamers will remember your hard work designing WWE Raw Deal. We may disagree with how you ran your ship, but your level of commitment to your creation was nearly impossible to surpass.
Rest in peace.
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5 years ago ::
Mar 27, 2008 - 10:36PM
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Date Joined:
Mar 19, 2008
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I didn't start playing MTG until 7th ed. I had friends who played it when we were at university, but I was more into table-top miniatures and CRPGs. I just happened to see the starter package at my local games store while wandering around one afternoon and thought it looked pretty cool- all 7th ed. cards if I recall rightly. Brought it home and my son and wife started playing too. Since we were all having a lot of fun, I went out and picked up some 7th ed. themes to mess around with. A few months after starting paper Magic, we managed to jump into the beta of MTGO and had a blast. Met some awsome people online and IRL as well via MTGO and MTG respectively, and have some fond memories of multiplayer, drafts, leagues and just plain old casual fun. Recently we've all come back to MTGO, and, yes, paper too, recapturing a lot of good memories. 
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5 years ago ::
Mar 27, 2008 - 10:44PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 27, 2005
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I started in grade 2. My mother bought me a bunch of 4th edition cards (she had no idea what they were), many of which I still have. I would divide the pile of cards into two and play with my brother - whoever got the Drudge Skeletons and the Disintegrate always won. In grade three, someone in my class got their hands on an ice age deck and ruined me with it. At that point I stopped playing until grade 7, when I changed schools and found that at least 10 other people in my class played magic - real urza block monstrosities, and I played for hours after school through grades 7 and 8. In high school I gave it up again, only to arrive at university and find all these people who played magic. Again, magic was an instant in with new friends at a new school, and soon I had played in my first PTQ.
But for me, magic was always something I did with my school friends and never in a store. I attended Kamigawa block constructed play test sessions and a PTQ more than a year before I played at FNM. I drafted with 7 friends in an empty classroom before I ever attended a sanctioned draft, and to this day I have never drafted in a store – all my sanctioned drafts are on campus through a friend who lugs out a mac mini and monitor to run DCI reporter for us, or at tournaments. I draft once a week and have played in limited and constructed PTQs but I have only every played in a store once, and I probably play Elder Dragon Highlander more than anything. For me, magic is a game that flourishes without a store in a group of friends.
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5 years ago ::
Mar 27, 2008 - 10:56PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 11, 2007
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I started playing at home with friends. I tried playing in a store once... it was lame. I had to make polite and uninteresting chit chat, there was no music, no easy access to snacks or hot drinks, the pace was a lot slower (had to wait ages between games). No, home games are definitely the way to play.
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5 years ago ::
Mar 27, 2008 - 11:11PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 15, 2007
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When I was small we were going to Germany to visit friends. My brother decided to buy a Portal starter set while we were going through Belgium. We played that for a while, then stopped I think, then a few years later me and a friend started to buy Planeshift. I forget exactly why we got back into it, but we did. We quit for a few years after Onslaught (Onslaught was fairly dull and Mirrodin didn't appeal), and started again when Ravnica came out.
I've never seen a card shop in the UK, though. There was one game shop, but it was mainly for such things as RPGs and didn't run tournaments or any such thing. Aside from that, the only places I've found that sell cards are generally bookshops. I expect there are card shops in the cities. I don't live in those places.
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