I remember when our Craw Wurms were trumped when one of us discovered Scaled Wurm.

I remember trading Fireballs at $1.

I remember not knowing what card was the rare in a pack.

I remember the first time seeing Phyrexian Walker I was convinced it was good because it was free to cast.

I remember my first most valuable card - Desertion...ironically worth about the same today.

I remember buying my first 2 Dual Lands - Tropical Island and Plateau for about $12 each. Then realizing how bad they were and traded them away.

I remember keeping every card I owned and not in a deck in my trade binder.

I remember trading a Cursed Scroll and vampiric Tutor for some chronicles elder dragons, cause a guy said colorless mana was mana of any color making them bombs!

I remember Wrath of God being one of the hardest to get cards, and having even one meant you were pro!

I remember thinking Sol Ring was part of the P9, and how excited I was to get one (I collect them now)

I remember thinking after High School I'd quit magic, sold off 3x Playsets of Duals, 4x Mana Drain, 2x Moat, and a LOAD of other things that have since increased 5-10x in value, and swearing I'd never do it again. (200+ Sol RIngs were lost that day)

I remember Aculumlated Knowledge was the best Draw Spell ever, even greater then Brainstorm!

I remember collecting Masticores cause I liked the art before they exploded in price (Had over 200, and ~20 foils)

I remember was the Rock was born.

I remember Sligh being a deck!

I remember Combo Winter!

I remember when Duals rotated from extended.

I remember when Legacy was the bastard child of Vintage and they were called 1.5 and type 1 respectively.

I remember when Japanese Foil Goblin Welders were on of the most expensive cards in magic.

I too remember Inquest and Scrye and Topdeck, and am still sad they are gone.

quote:

---

Originally posted by MAB_Rapper:
I remember when people didn't post to buy a card for less than they will sell it on this site.

---

Did that ever actually happen?
For MOTL, I remember when it made economic sense to regularly buy cards on here.

I remember when we played with the rule: put all your lands you have in hand in one turn onto battlefield

I remember my first rare: Trained Orgg, I was beeing told not to trade it, its 6/6.

I remember my friends dragon deck, which with he put a dragon onto battlefield every 15 turns.

I remember trading my Rares for 3-4 commons or 1-2 uncommons, and rare for rare.

I remember my first magic cards were from 7th edition.

I remember buying 19 starter decks of Unlimited and seeing 7 boxes of antiquities that I passed on because I HATED antiquities. Tried to go back a few days later...all gone.

I remember going to Portland Oregon around the day of the Legends release date and calling shops to see if they got them in. I went in and asked for 2 and the guy said 2 cases, sure. I had to correct him...2 boxes (doh).

I remember using my Candelabra of Tawnos to untap my Mishra's Factory to make him big enough so he wouldn't die.

I remember playing 4 Black Vises in a Deck and it was legal.

I remember when trading was so much easier and people weren't nickle and diming you to death.

I remember when Scrye was finally published and happy to have a price guide.

I remember when I could buy a Juzam Djinn for $5.

I remember when I bought a God Box (4 rares per pack). It was Legends.

I remember paying $15 for a Beta pack at Origins in San Jose and saying how expensive it was.

I remember buying Alpha Moxen at $40, Beta at $30 and UL at $20.

I remember buying a collector's edition set for $100 (twice retail) and then found out, squared corners couldn't be played. LOL

I remember a store owner warning me not to buy Fallen Empire cause they were going to print to order and it was at 400 Million cards (I heeded his warning, thank god).

I remember trading star trek (Horgan) for a Library of Alexandria (both at $15) - thank you Scrye.

I remember playing until 3 or 4 am and going out for warm donuts at that time.

I remember seeing my friends play for Ante and one losing a Mox Pearl. Later on, the winner traded it back for a Bronze Tablet cause he needed it for a set (yikes).

Learning to play with my best friend, who is still my best friend 17 years later.

Buying my first pack (revised) and getting a Demonic Hordes. I still have it, only now it sits next to a Summer one in my Demonic Hordes collection.

Seeing packs of Unlimited for 4$ next to Revised for 2.50$ and choosing Revised. In my defense, we had no idea what the difference was between the two sets and by the time we learned, they were gone.

Since sleeves were unheard of, we used proxies in our decks. However you had to pull out the actual card and put it on the table (usually in a toploader) when you played the card. I was so sad when I returned to magic to find out you can proxy cards you don't even own.

Winning a 36 person tournament on the back of Mirror Universe and getting a pack of Legends as the prize... and being ****ed that everyone paid 10$ to enter and first place was a 15$ pack.

Hoarding duals once 4th edition came out. I was the only one in my area who had realized these rare lands weren't crap. Had at least two playsets plus extras. Never paid/traded more than 5$ for one.

Passing on a 100$ Mint Alpha Lotus but trading the guy a Revised Shivan and Royal Assassin for a Sapphire.

Playing a control deck with Berserk/Shivan as the primary win condition.

Only using 2 Mana Drains in said deck because I would often die from Mana Burn.

When GenCon was in Milwaukee.

Quitting when I could no longer play power in standard and Fallen Empires/4th edition/Ice Age all sucked.

quote:

---

Originally posted by Volcanon:

I remember pwning with Trained Orgg because nobody at the table could deal with a massive 6/6.

---

I remember when Fat Packs were reasonably priced and came with books.

I remember getting my first deck (starter 2000 Goblin Assault) and falling in love with Raging Goblin.

I remember people refusing to let me use said deck because the cards were white bordered, and thus somehow inferior.

I remember giving up Magic for Pokemon because I had more people to play with and Charizards obviously had nowhere to go but up....

I remember passing up Beta boosters for an Exodus Precon (Dominator, which for the record I still love dearly) because I could get 60 cards from a new set for the same price as 30 cards from an old set people probably didn't even like anymore...

I remember passing up a $100 Beta Lotus...

I remember passing up a $250 Beta Lotus...

I remember not comprehending what was so good about Sensei's Divining Top.

I remember refusing to add cards to my deck unless it came from the same cycle for some odd reason.

I remember buying a booster box of Ravnica, not getting a single shock land, and being so disappointed that I quit magic till the 2011 Core Set.

I remember trading away my Mox Diamond for three gold bordered cards.

I remember playing a mono black deck with Royal Assassin, Icy Manipulator, Infernal Medusa, and Rag Man.

I remember playing a G/W deck with Mother of Runes, Pouncing Jaguar, Simian Grunts, and Cradle Guard.

I remember winning a Type 1 tournament with Burn.

I remember playing 9 land Stompy, Food Chain Goblins, Fluctuator, Worldgorger Dragon, and Kobold Clamp in my (mostly) unpowered Vintage meta.

I remember when Vintage was called Type 1.

I remember buying some of the World Championship decks and thinking they were tournament legal.

I remember when Portal and Starter cards were not tournament legal.

I remember buying Underground Seas for $15 and a bunch of non-Underground Sea duals for $12.

I remember when Jester's Cap and Grinning Totem and Relentless Assault and Balduvian Horde and Cranial Extraction and Pithing Needle were chase cards.

I remember 7/10 split and buying a bunch of Transmute Artifacts for cheap before they spiked to $15+.

I remember Transmute Artifact being errata'd.

I remember Control Slaver being the best deck in Vintage.

I remember losing to mana burn with Control Slaver in a mirror match when my Su-Chi kept getting welded in and out of play.

I remember Thirst for Knowledge and Brainstorm being unrestricted.

I remember Meandeck Tendrils and Burning Long.

I remember Burning Wish being errata'd.

I remember Burning Wish and Lion's Eye Diamond being unrestricted.

I remember Darksteel Colossus being the best creature to Tinker for.

I remember winning an FNM with Tooth and Nail Tron.

Thinking Crawl Wurm is the best ever free card (1998, my friend gifted me many of those)

1) Thinking a girl is crazy when she paid $1625 for a NM set of Beta P9 (1999)....thought $1625 is as high as 9 cards will ever go......

2) Cannot understand why my friend said a $30 Alpha NM Armageddon is cheap (1999)

3) Paying $70 for a EX UNL Mox Pearl in 1999. Could not afford the $200 EX UNL Black Lotus. (My pocket money was $75 per month).

4) Sold 100 packs of APAC lands for $6.5 each in 1999

5) Very sad when white-weenie deck with 1 UNL Mox Pearl and 4 Cursed Scroll was stolen in 1999 as the deck cost over 2 months of my pocket money.

6) I pass the "trick test" in end 1998 when I correctly identify a Mox (P9) as very strong....At first I thought it was just a land, until I thought of the possibility of casting a 5 mana creature on the first turn if you have a land and 4 mox in your hand.

I remember writing a letter to wizards of the coast about how Enduring Renewal was overpowered. Still have the reply.

I remember taking my Enduring Renewal deck to a tournament and losing against a deck with 4 Mindtwists in it, because the organizer didn't follow the banned list.

I remember trading for every dual land I could get my hands on.

I remember trading away extra dual lands for crap legends cards at my first big event, because I had never seen gold cards before.

I remember casting Blood Lust on Ball Lightning and wishing I could afford Berserk too.

I remember $100 foil Ring of Gix.

I remember driving other people to the PT because I couldn't Q myself.

I remember winning money at PT Philly, and being lonely there because all of my friends had stopped playing.

I remember being so disappointed after floor judging Gencon for multiple 12 hour shifts, that they only paid us in a few boxes of Saviors of Kamigawa instead of cash like they promised. That was my last convention as a judge.

I remember DCI reporter crashing over and over.

I remember going to the official wizards judge site, ready to submit tons of article and questions, only for the site to go down and lose all my work. Twice. I never ended up submitting anything.

I remember paying my rent one month by selling Priests of Titania on eBay.

I remember signing up for Magic Online using my beta test invite and thinking "what a crappy program... but it's still magic".

I remember selling a foil apocalypse llanowar waste in the MTGO auction channel for 63 tickets.

I remember redeeming my first group of sets, and thinking "Maybe MTGO might be worth it, after all."

I remember Chuck's Virtual Party.

I remember being banned from a physical store for winning too much, because the owner's best friend got sore I beat him in the finals (1st prize was a box of new set, 2nd place = junk).

I remember breaking 2000 on DCI rating and feeling a profound sense of accomplishment.

I remember being made fun of because I was now 'a level 42 battlemage'.

I remember my horrified disgust at the mythic rarity.

I remember dying to Untamed Might off a poision critter at the 2nd version of Mirrordin and thinking "I'll skip this block, common X spells are stupid."

I remember when every post I made on the MTGO wizards forum wasn't moderated for being critical of management.

quote:

---

Originally posted by nylarotep:
I remember playing a mono black deck with Royal Assassin, Icy Manipulator, Infernal Medusa, and Rag Man.

---

Yep, I think everyone that I knew had some variant on the Royal Assassin / Icy Manipulator deck at some point in time.

Wow, I LOVE this thread. It brings back a lot of truly great memories for me. I lived in a tiny apartment in the early-mid 1990's and we had two local channels on the TV (Star Treg TNG marathons occasionally!), a SEGA Geneis, and Magic. That was how we entertained ourselves.

I also remember Lord of the Pit / Breeding Pit combo

I remember Prodigal Sorcerer Decks with Tims, Norrits and Zuran Spellcasters when Ice age was released

I remember my first true labor of love deck which I named "Recycler" that ran on Hells Caretakers, Rukh Eggs and Nether Shadows.

I also remember being VERY excited when I finally acquired my playset of Khabal Ghouls for that deck.

I remember a friend of mine who ran a Karma / Magical Hack deck.

I remember Wall of Blossoms / Stampeding Wildebeests

I remember Ernham Djiin / Armageddon decks

I remember buying packs of Legends with my paychecks and being slightly dissapointed when pulling anything but a Mirror Universe.

quote:

---

Originally posted by Nyarlathotep333:

I remember Wall of Blossoms / Stampeding Wildebeests

---

I remember Stampeding Wildebeests / Deranged Hermit

I remember a battle against my friend with his Gang of Elk vs. my Ancient Silverback that resulted in two 15+ P/T creatures getting created, only for both to get regenerated.

I remember collecting Visions (I know RIGHT) and having every card except Talruum Piper!!!

I remember Rathi Dragon being a house.

I remember when my favorite creature was Lhurgoyf.

I remember when Urza's Rage became like a $20 card.

I remember when Rebel, Metalworker, Fires, etc. were popular and FUN decks.

I remember when Masticore was THE creature to compare other creatures to.

http://classic.magictraders.com/ubb/Archives/Archive-000001/HTML/20070723-1-022723.html

Thanks,
Jazaray

__________________
A Plastered Dragon Original Limerick:
There was a nice lassie named Jaz
Many wished to have what she has,
A delicate face,
A soft warm embrace,
And a whole lot of bedroom pizzazz.

WeedIan: Jazaray is like MOTL's Mom.

Stasis was a thing and it was scary.

Equipose + Sands of Time + Ovinomancer = Sheepmaster's Revenge.

Opening a pack of 4th edition with all rares including the amazing Shivan Dragon and Royal Assassin.

Force of Will, who the hell would want to get rid of a card and lose a life?

Cornering the market on COP: Red then playing burn.

Selling said COP: Red then playing Stasis with Serra's.

PTQs at the King of Prussia event center which barely filled a room.

Trading Lightning Bolts for Moxen. Then trading Moxen for Serras.

The thing known as the black summer.

quote:

---

Originally posted by Jazaray:
I remember when I thought that the box of Stronghold I bought didn't have any rares... oh wait, that wasn't me!

http://classic.magictraders.com/ubb/Archives/Archive-000001/HTML/20070723-1-022723.html

Thanks,
Jazaray

---

Classic!

__________________
My 2008 Nationals

The Official Tower Magic Facebook Page

If no one in your area had the cards you wanted (birds of paradise, shivan dragon) you had to wait for a comic convention to come to town where you might have a shot of finding a dealer with them.

Including:
Foil 7th Birds of Paradise
Foil 7th Wrath of God
2x Foil Sword of Fire and Ice
Foil Vedalken Shackles
Foil Arcbound Ravager
Foil Psionic Blast
Foil Japanese Chrome Mox
4x Foil Kokusho
4x Foil Cranial Extraction
4x Ravnica block duals + foil versions of Temple Garden/Blood Crypt
2x Foil Wooded Foothills
2x Foil Polluted Delta
Foil Windswept Heath
Foil Stroke of Genius
Foil Intuition
Foil Lightning Bolt (4th edition Art)
Plus lots of other ridiculous cards from that timeframe and my T8 pins
...for ready...

$450 cash