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mk  ·  4637 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: What have you sold or given up that you wished you hadn't
My collection of Magic the Gathering cards. I started playing early, and had a number of cards that have since skyrocketed in price. As no one was playing at the time, and as the game had become less interesting, I gave my collection to a friend. He later sold them with the rest of his collection. At the time it was probably worth $300. Now it would probably be worth $2000. But it's not the money. The game got better again, and I get together with a few pals of mine play sometimes. I'd just like to have the cards.

I also sold an amp. I moved back from Cambridge MA to Michigan, but didn't have room for my bass amp. I went back to visit, and to pick up my amp. One Thursday each month, you can't park over night because of street cleaning. That was the Thursday I arrived. My car got towed, and I had to sell my amp to get it back. Plus I had to walk about 5 miles to my car. :/





thundara  ·  4637 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I still have all of mine sitting in a box back home, haven't touched them in years if you want them.
mk  ·  4637 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Oh wow, thank you sincerely, but no. With Hubski and a baby on the way, I'll have next to no time to play soon. :)

Sell them at a shop someday. You might have a new laptop there or trip to Barcelona sitting there!

thundara  ·  4637 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I'll see about that, was under the impression they'd lost all value/people had moved on past that card game/the specific versions of the card game mine came from. Would be nice if they could finance me a new bike though!
mk  ·  4637 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Very likely a bike. I don't know when you were playing, but when I did, dual lands were going for $5.

http://compare.ebay.com/like/400280122921?var=lv&ltyp=Al...

thundara  ·  4637 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Well shit, makes me feel dumb for not bothering to buy plastic cases for the flimsy things
iamfight  ·  4636 days ago  ·  link  ·  
i played from beta to alliances, and id like to have my collection back as well.
mk  ·  4636 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Damn, I'll bet.

I started with The Dark, and exited after Ice Age. Fallen Empires and Homelands were just awful. The game is so much better now IMO. Every once in a while we buy a bunch of boosters and play a little closed tourney with 40 card decks.

iamfight  ·  4636 days ago  ·  link  ·  
do you remember "the deck"? 60 cards, only two of which dealt damage, one serra angel and one fireball timetwisted/regrowthed repeatedly? the last tournament i won was in north new jersey, i cant remember the name of the town..new carrollton? a necropotence deck. my final hand was swamp, 3x dark ritual, necro, hyppy, 2 knights, and contagion.

lately, i just have to enjoy reading all the cards in the decks i get lent to play against my friends new decks.

i myself am much happier in skyrim.

edit: i would me totally into those closed deck games. anyone in tokyo/yokohama wanna play?

iamfight  ·  4636 days ago  ·  link  ·  
sorry, great momories. i got a lich in ante once against a dude that swore his assassin/icy deck was the end. millstone/howling mine! woohoo! i also once played against a guy who threw his meteor when a fan was blowing across the table... good times wow, thanks for awakening the memories!
mk  ·  4636 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Ha! A favorite of mine was a first turn ritual/hymn, and a second turn animate dead on a kid's discarded craw wurm. The look on his face was so great.
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iamfight  ·  4636 days ago  ·  link  ·  
ok ok ok must not play magic. whew. as i said, just chess, go, and (lately) skyrim for me.
mk  ·  4636 days ago  ·  link  ·  
LOL. Sorry. I know it's like a recovered junkie staring at a bag of coke.
mk  ·  4636 days ago  ·  link  ·  
    my final hand was swamp, 3x dark ritual, necro, hyppy, 2 knights, and contagion.

LOL That's a good feeling.

I had a ridiculous discard deck back in the day. All black, and all the regular suspects (racks, hyppies, hymns, underworld dreams, drain life's, rituals, etc.), except for 4 scrublands a Mox Pearl, a couple of disenchants, and two rocket launchers. Everyone always laughed at my rocket launchers, but they won so many games for me. Colorless damage that could be divided was so often a clincher. I was known as Mr. Tourach where we used to play. -Good times. :)

EDIT: There was a guy there with a version of 'the deck' that just had jade statues. I was his nemesis. It used to drive him nuts to play me.

thenewgreen  ·  4637 days ago  ·  link  ·  
The amp/car story is a bummer. I think it's good to struggle a bit when you are young. Having to make decisions like that help you to appreciate the things you have later in life. I will buy another Les Paul someday and I will buy a vintage Fender Super Reverb amp. I'm going to appreciate them all the more for having lost them once.