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Originally posted by majicman:
My major project is to downsize my collection by 35K more cards by year end, lol!

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Originally posted by gaeacradle:
Haha you can do it! I donated a ton of bulk commons/uncommons to my LGS. That helped out a ton.

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Heh you can donate to me. I'm trying to complete sets! :-P

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Originally posted by LandDestroyer:
Heh you can donate to me. I'm trying to complete sets! :-P

Edit: Btw, I'll probably be coming to San Antonio for a few days in early December :-P

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Bring a Vintage deck, a Legacy deck, and a Modern deck. We can jam somewhere for a few hours.

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Originally posted by gaeacradle:
Bring a Vintage deck, a Legacy deck, and a Modern deck. We can jam somewhere for a few hours.

Do you know where you are staying yet?

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Originally posted by gaeacradle:
Bring a Vintage deck, a Legacy deck, and a Modern deck. We can jam somewhere for a few hours.

Do you know where you are staying yet?

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Heh, well my wife has a medical conference and we'd be flying there. I don't know where we'd be staying yet. Heh, we'll see if I really want to bring $20,000 worth - Vintage - of cards on a flight haha. Knowing my luck I'd get a TSA agent who has been really wanting to get into vintage and waiting for the right sucker to go through security.

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Originally posted by aethertech:
Nowhere that people aren't playing EDH.
Plebs.

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Originally posted by aethertech:
Nowhere that people aren't playing EDH.
Plebs.

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Haha. I don't have enough time/patience to play EDH. But sometimes I do play with friends if they have an extra deck.

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Originally posted by LandDestroyer:
Heh, well my wife has a medical conference and we'd be flying there. I don't know where we'd be staying yet. Heh, we'll see if I really want to bring $20,000 worth - Vintage - of cards on a flight haha. Knowing my luck I'd get a TSA agent who has been really wanting to get into vintage and waiting for the right sucker to go through security.

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My Legacy deck was foiled going to Eternal Weekend and back and it wasn't a problem.

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Originally posted by coasterdude84:
Building/have built 10x (1 of each 2-color combo) decks of Unlimited-only cards. The idea of the decks is:
1. Imagine what starter decks would have looked like back then.
2. Showcase as many "back in the day" cards as possible (Mahamoti, Vesuvan, Sengir, Serra, Force of Nature, etc.).
3. Provide nostalgia for the older players and show newer players what Magic used to be like.
4. Have the decks be as balanced as possible relative to each other. They need to each be good and have fun and powerful cards, but nothing over the top.

Each deck has 2x of its corresponding dual, and as there are 10 unique walls in Unlimited, each deck has at least 1 copy of an assigned Wall, because, Walls. And most importantly, we don't play with sleeves, because we didn't back then. Shuffle up those Seas, boy!

I have 8 of the 10 decks complete, just short a Tundra, Trop, and Braingeyser. Since quitting Standard again, I take them to FNM, and get a group of 4-8 together to play these. They're hugely popular and everyone has an awesome time with them. One guy double Dark-Ritted Turn 1 into a Sengir Vampire, only to have to it Control Magic'd away a few turns later. In another game, everyone yelled at a guy for not using his Icy Manipulator to turn off his Howling Mine. Apparently, he forgot how artifacts use to work. At least he used the Royal Assassin to good effect. Good times...

A few guys at the shop are trying to get me back into Vintage, so I suppose if one can casually look for A/B Power, I'm doing that.

Long term, trying to collect every old-frame foil. Have most of the pretty expensive ones: Gaea's Cradle, Grim Monolith, Onslaught fetches, Brainstorm, etc, though missing one rather scary one: Port.

Having 2 kids in daycare though kinda puts a damper on Magic spending money though.

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This is GREAT!! Reminds me of when I first started to play back in 1993. I've been in and out of the game a few times and sad to say that I have sold off nearly everything each time but I did manage to hang onto my "Famous Movie Monster" deck. It's red and black and features Sengir Vampire, Vampire Bats, Lesser Werewolf, Frankenstein's Monster, Cyclopean Mummy and Scathe Zombies. It also has Lightning Bolts, Chain Lightning, Darkness and Terror to set the mood. I really love playing this deck and it's actually pretty good with Dark Rituals, Sol Ring and with Baron Sengir, Greater Werewolf, Krovikan Vampire and Arrogant Vampire as supporting characters. All old school!

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Originally posted by Serows1:

This is GREAT!! Reminds me of when I first started to play back in 1993. I've been in and out of the game a few times and sad to say that I have sold off nearly everything each time but I did manage to hang onto my "Famous Movie Monster" deck. It's red and black and features Sengir Vampire, Vampire Bats, Lesser Werewolf, Frankenstein's Monster and Scathe Zombies. It also has Lightning Bolts, Chain Lightning, Darkness and Terror to set the mood. I really love playing this deck and it's actually pretty good with Dark Rituals, Sol Ring and with Baron Sengir, Greater Werewolf, Krovikan Vampire and Arrogant Vampire as supporting characters. All old school!

Paul

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I've picked up some sweet stuff recently. Just bought 4 japanese foil torment grim lavamancers. have decided to go for a global playset (both foil and non foil). have tons of english. tracking down foreign now.

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Originally posted by coasterdude84:
I'll chime back in that I have completed all 10 Unlimited decks, woot! I'm sure I'll spend the next 10 years tweaking the power balance among them, but right now super happy with them. If anyone's in the area and wants to throw down like it's 1994, just let me know.

With that, I'm going to take a break from Magic projects for a bit. They have a tendency to get expensive.

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Lmk if you come through Bloomington. In July I'm moving to Milwaukee for a year tho so I'll be closer :-p

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Originally posted by LandDestroyer:
Lmk if you come through Bloomington. In July I'm moving to Milwaukee for a year tho so I'll be closer :-p

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uhhhgh.... Milwaukee....so many fake hipsters....

Check out the Polaris restaurant, on top of the Hyatt hotel in the downtown area. Last time I was there in like ...2008, they had excellent ribeye, and these awesome little salt-dishes with (6-8) types of salt, sea salt, black salt, hiawan sea salt (pink, it's pink! Bolton would approve,) and a few others! But that was 7 years ago, and they closed and reopnened, so I don't know whats going on there now.

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Originally posted by aethertech:
uhhhgh.... Milwaukee....so many fake hipsters....

Check out the Polaris restaurant, on top of the Hyatt hotel in the downtown area. Last time I was there in like ...2008, they had excellent ribeye, and these awesome little salt-dishes with (6-8) types of salt, sea salt, black salt, hiawan sea salt (pink, it's pink! Bolton would approve,) and a few others! But that was 7 years ago, and they closed and reopnened, so I don't know whats going on there now.

But Milwaukee sucks.

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Haha well I actually have always enjoyed Milwaukee. I go there 1-2x a year. It's where I proposed to Stacie last year. I even have it on video

unedited
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEpYFhqNISk

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEgitRyv9j8

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Originally posted by jellyfishfanatic:
Hey, not all of us in Milwaukee are hipsters.

Some of us are just normal, closeted nerds that live just outside the city limits.

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Originally posted by LandDestroyer:
Haha well I actually have always enjoyed Milwaukee. I go there 1-2x a year. It's where I proposed to Stacie last year. I even have it on video

unedited
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEpYFhqNISk

edited
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEgitRyv9j8

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Originally posted by inferno41:
Just trying to get a good modern database so I can pretty much play whatever deck I want to play that day. Prognosis- not good, can't bring myself to get zen fetches yet, although I bit the bullet to get my playset of catacombs to build loampox

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Ya, I'd been doing that but some cards I've been unwilling to pick up in case of a ban:
goryo's vengeance/shoal stuff
amulet of vigor/hivemind stuff

and some cards just b/c they are redic high:
jace, v