So this year was the second year that my girlfriend and I have been to San Diego Comic Con. We had a great time exploring the floor, and trying to squeeze into the very overbooked panels. Next to the convention center, at the Marriott hotel, there were two very big rooms that were dedicated to Magic, and I can honestly say that is where I spent the rest of the day when I wasn't on the main floor of the convention center. Although there were many people there playing in one of the many tournaments they were holding every 30 minutes, I never found the courage to enter them; it could be because I do not have a Standard nor a Legacy deck.

I decided that I wanted to do some trading. Unfortunately, many of the people there were to busy with either the tournament or just playing to want to do trades. You see, I was really trying to find someone that would be kind enough to trade me a Jace, Memory Adept. After about 30 minutes of trying, I just decided, whether it was stupid or not, to write on a scrap piece of paper: "Looking to trade for a Jace, Memory Adept. Have rares from Scars-M13", and I attached it to my lanyard.

After no success nor attention gained, I decided just to head back into the convention floor to see if there was anything I wanted to buy, and or if my girlfriend wanted to buy. About 15 minutes later of walking around, I hear someone passing by me saying "Which Memory Adept are you looking for". I stopped and turned around to say that I was looking for either the M12 or M13 version- I wasn't picky. I told him that I had rares with me, and I was willing to trade for them. He proceeded to tell me that he had them back at his hotel. However, he then said this:

"You know what man, I had such a good weekend here, I'll just mail them to you when I get home tomorrow". I wasn't expecting anything from him, and I kept restating that I had no problems trading for them. He then gave me his email address, and told me to email him later that night.

When I got back to my hotel, I sent him an email stating who I was, and that we previously talked, and I was willing to trade for his Memory Adepts. He sent an email back saying that it wasn't the first time he has made an offer like his to someone, but I was the first person to email him about it. He then asked what my address was, and I gave it to him- still not expecting anything free, and telling him I didn't want to make him do anything he didn't want to do. Iunno, I just never have felt like getting something for nothing.

Anyway, I didn't hear anything from him at all since then.

I got home from work today, and my girlfriend said that a package was delivered to us- me thinking that it was from a trade I made on here. I opened it up, and there it was

Two Jace, Memory Adepts.

He wasn't kidding, and I cannot even being to say how excited and grateful I am. Part of me still feels bad about not giving him something for these, but yeah.

I do not know if he uses MOTL, but if he did, and somehow found and read this, I would like him to know how grateful I am, and I cannot even being to thank him for his kindness and generosity.

+10 Humanity.

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Originally posted by AlmostGrown:
Why don't you just email him expressing how grateful and thankful you are?

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Originally posted by AlmostGrown:
Why don't you just email him expressing how grateful and thankful you are?

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-10 humanity for that being an emotionally touching story.

God, it's kind of sad when giving someone meaningless **** restores faith in the human race. Come back when theres someone who calls an ambulance for you when they see you get hit by a runaway car or something.

Dont get me wrong, it was nice of him to send you the cards, but for gods sake, they're cards, not chemo treatment.

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Originally posted by Bugger:
+10 humanity for what, a couple of pieces of cardboard that will mean jack **** to anyone anywhere in five years time?

-10 humanity for that being an emotionally touching story.

God, it's kind of sad when giving someone meaningless **** restores faith in the human race. Come back when theres someone who calls an ambulance for you when they see you get hit by a runaway car or something.

Dont get me wrong, it was nice of him to send you the cards, but for gods sake, they're cards, not chemo treatment.

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Whoa there, someone's touchy.

And you know what, yeah- they are just pieces of cardboard, sure I get that. But it's pieces of cardboard that someone went out of their way to give them to someone they didn't know, and didn't even need to because there was no reason too. Will I still have them in the near future? Maybe, maybe not- but it's the fact that someone showed actual kindness to another person when they didn't owe them anything at all.

And like you said, it's not like they saved my life, but then again, who needs to blow it out of proportion when there was absolutely no reason too?

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Originally posted by Bugger:
+10 humanity for what, a couple of pieces of cardboard that will mean jack **** to anyone anywhere in five years time?

-10 humanity for that being an emotionally touching story.

God, it's kind of sad when giving someone meaningless **** restores faith in the human race. Come back when theres someone who calls an ambulance for you when they see you get hit by a runaway car or something.

Dont get me wrong, it was nice of him to send you the cards, but for gods sake, they're cards, not chemo treatment.

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Originally posted by Bugger:
+10 humanity for what, a couple of pieces of cardboard that will mean jack **** to anyone anywhere in five years time?

-10 humanity for that being an emotionally touching story.

God, it's kind of sad when giving someone meaningless **** restores faith in the human race. Come back when theres someone who calls an ambulance for you when they see you get hit by a runaway car or something.

Dont get me wrong, it was nice of him to send you the cards, but for gods sake, they're cards, not chemo treatment.

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Originally posted by Bugger:
+10 humanity for what, a couple of pieces of cardboard that will mean jack **** to anyone anywhere in five years time?

-10 humanity for that being an emotionally touching story.

God, it's kind of sad when giving someone meaningless **** restores faith in the human race. Come back when theres someone who calls an ambulance for you when they see you get hit by a runaway car or something.

Dont get me wrong, it was nice of him to send you the cards, but for gods sake, they're cards, not chemo treatment.

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You're one of those players.

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Damn dude what's up your ass?

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He just finished his freshmen year of college. He is super mature now.

Because everything is in strictly black and white on the internet, and people like to read what they want to hear instead of what's actually been written.

There's a difference between a thoughtful gesture and something that 'restores faith in humanity' for me. I see a guy save a child from a collapsing structure putting himself at risk, that's faith in humanity boosted.

I see a guy give somebody else a pair of cards with no expectation of return, sure, that's thoughtful gesture, and it's certainly worth noting because it's uncommonly selfless. But for me, eh, I dunno, it's still a pair of pieces of cardboard bound together with resin. It boosts my spirits, but I wouldn't take it so far as to say it's restoring faith in humanity. I'd save that for something like this.
I'm not trying to say anyone who disagrees is bad and should feel bad, I'm just saying that for me this is a great story to put a bit of spring in your step (and maybe inspire us each to do a good turn ourselves tomorrow, and put more good into the world that way), but something that boosts an opinion of our species as a whole? Nah.

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He just finished his freshmen year of college. He is super mature now.

+1 to good guy greg for playing magic, did not know that prior to this story.

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Originally posted by Bugger:

Still butthurt about the PfS; got it.

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Not butthurt over anything at all. Genuinely happy this guy got two Jace's after the guy gave him his word. Your negativity and immaturity aren't going to ruin most people's days aside your own.

Edit: I guess you truly don't get it then, and you aren't trying to be a troll but you don't understand that the small nice actions often inspire the big ones. That's the key. Not many people save 160 people from suicide without having started out with small act of kindness bestowed onto somebody else or himself.

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Originally posted by Bugger:
lol.

Because everything is in strictly black and white on the internet, and people like to read what they want to hear instead of what's actually been written.

There's a difference between a thoughtful gesture and something that 'restores faith in humanity' for me. I see a guy save a child from a collapsing structure putting himself at risk, that's faith in humanity boosted.

I see a guy give somebody else a pair of cards with no expectation of return, sure, that's thoughtful gesture, and it's certainly worth noting because it's uncommonly selfless. But for me, eh, I dunno, it's still a pair of pieces of cardboard bound together with resin. It boosts my spirits, but I wouldn't take it so far as to say it's restoring faith in humanity. I'd save that for something like this.
I'm not trying to say anyone who disagrees is bad and should feel bad, I'm just saying that for me this is a great story to put a bit of spring in your step (and maybe inspire us each to do a good turn ourselves tomorrow, and put more good into the world that way), but something that boosts an opinion of our species as a whole? Nah.

Still butthurt about the PfS; got it.

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Okay. I pretty much understand your whole arguement, and I will level with you. My one experience with a person of kindness may not be something that changes the outlook of humanity, but in the end- we are in a Magic forum talking about Magic. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Originally posted by oneofchaos:
Not butthurt over anything at all. Genuinely happy this guy got two Jace's after the guy gave him his word.

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Originally posted by Bugger:
lol.

Because everything is in strictly black and white on the internet, and people like to read what they want to hear instead of what's actually been written.

There's a difference between a thoughtful gesture and something that 'restores faith in humanity' for me. I see a guy save a child from a collapsing structure putting himself at risk, that's faith in humanity boosted.

I see a guy give somebody else a pair of cards with no expectation of return, sure, that's thoughtful gesture, and it's certainly worth noting because it's uncommonly selfless. But for me, eh, I dunno, it's still a pair of pieces of cardboard bound together with resin. It boosts my spirits, but I wouldn't take it so far as to say it's restoring faith in humanity. I'd save that for something like this.
I'm not trying to say anyone who disagrees is bad and should feel bad, I'm just saying that for me this is a great story to put a bit of spring in your step (and maybe inspire us each to do a good turn ourselves tomorrow, and put more good into the world that way), but something that boosts an opinion of our species as a whole? Nah.

Still butthurt about the PfS; got it.

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Nothing wrong with that.

@ Bugger...

Meh, what's the big deal?

Can't a guy have his opinions?

I wish i wasn't as selfish as i am sometimes.

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Edit: I guess you truly don't get it then, and you aren't trying to be a troll but you don't understand that the small nice actions often inspire the big ones. That's the key. Not many people save 160 people from suicide without having started out with small act of kindness bestowed onto somebody else or himself.

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I thought this was implied by the "inspiring folks to do a good turn of their own" observation, but alright.

It's really just a matter of where the line drawn in my head is on these things, I think. Looking back, my first post was an unnecessarily confrontational way to express that. I have no idea why I did that, but I'm glad this was cleared up (well, relatively).

Edit: actually ...my whole beef being that overblowing this can skew perspectives... I just realized its possible for this to put things in perspective! You see it and stop and think "hey, in the grand scheme it really is a piece of cardboard...why do we always get so hung up on the value of these things? Why can't I be less attached to them, like this guy who gave away cards was?" in other words, rather than perpetuate a materialistic mindset, it challenges it. I like that idea
But I guess part of the point is everybody sees their own lesson in it.

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Originally posted by Bugger:
+10 humanity for what, a couple of pieces of cardboard that will mean jack **** to anyone anywhere in five years time?

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