Being Particular About Your Cards: What Are Your Quirks?

[Cavius The Great]

I like starting threads that resemble community 'social experiments' just to get to know people a little bit better. To start off this thread, I assume that alot of people are particular on how their cards look, from being white bordered, black bordered, in a certain language, played or unplayed, all the way to a certain combination of white bordered and black bordered card setup preferences. I assume everyone has their 'quirks'. Me for example, I want to build a Lich deck with Unlimited Liches and foreign black bordered duals. I actually prefer the combination of white bordered Liches over Alpha or Beta, with the foreign black bordered dual lands. Something about white bordered Liches and foreign black bordered duals that really tickles my fancy. I also like playing with 'played' fetches and keep my mint fetchlands inside my binder. That seems a little less weird but a quirk nevertheless. I have a ton of other preferences on card cosmetics that I can't think of at the moment but manifest in my brain regardless.

Now that you know a little about myself and my numerous quirks, let me know what's on your mind and what really 'floats your boat' so to speak. Let the discussion commence! Peace.

[nastynate]

Back in my crazy card pimping days I wouldn't even play decks (in a tournament setting) that weren't composed exclusively of simplified chinese foils, simplified chinese black borders (in sets prior to foils), or old school English black borders (Alpha-Antiquities). But I also had enough power cards and crazy expensive stuff, that I could sell or trade away extra pimp stuff to assemble the decks I wanted with little effort.

Then tough times hit, and I gradually sold my collection to help pay the mortgage, electric bill, etc. Now that I'm playing again, I have completely changed my tune. I'm not about to spend 20 grand to get my collection back, so I play with anything I can get for the least amount of money. It's all about playing the game now, and not how ridiculously expensive I can make my deck. White bordered? Beat to hell? Bad homemade proxies (when playing vintage)? Sign me up!

[Versus]

Near mint condition is something I'm very big on. It's also something I've found to be VERY relative as well. EVERY card I own from packs that I personally cracked are as mint as they were that day. I expect the cards I trade for to be equally as nice.

For instance the play set of "near mint" Chrome Moxes I purchased on ebay look like someone ran them down a belt sander for fucks sake. I don't know what people do to their cards, but I find half the time I go to do a trade as soon as I pull out what I want from their binder and take a closer look I've already changed my mind. I see kids eating pizza and spilling soda on their shit and it makes my ball hairs curl.

The Arabian Serendibs and FoW's in my FS deck are nicer than the majority of artifacts. That's what kills me most, the fact that people are sending/trading me shitty cards less than 3 years old!

Other than that, black border if at all possible. And Portal lands. Always Portal lands.

[Nightmare]

I play with foils?

As an example, here's the list of cards currently in my TEC deck (don't confuse this thread with the pimp decks thread, it's just a demostrative.):

4x Force of Will (German, except 1 which I am hoping to get this weekend - soon to be altered art)
4x Brainstorm (Foil Masques)
4x Counterbalance (Foil)
3x Meditate (Korean)
4x Swords to Plowshares (Foil, signed)
4x Tarmogoyf (foil)
3x Wrath of God (Textless Foil)
3x Sensei's Divining Top (Foil)
2x Jace Belaren (Foil)
2x Hoofprints of the Stag (foil)
3x Vedalken Shackles (foil, 1 JapFoil)
2x Engineered Explosives (foil)

4x Flooded Strand (foil)
3x Polluted Delta (foil)
4x Tundra (beta)
2x Tropical Island (1 alpha 1 beta)
2x Underground Sea (FBB :sadface:)
4x Island (Foil)
2x Plains (foil)
1x Academy Ruins (foil)

SIDE - Everything that can be foil, is. Gotta keep something secret!

[Peter_Rotten]

As long as all my cards face the same way in my deck, I'm fine. I was never big on pimping. If I need to show off, I'll win. Hell, I put shitty drawings on my cards and quotes from great lit.

My favs:

Lightning Bolt that says, "Murder most foul."
"Thank you eBay" Kird Ape
Blacked out Brainstorm
"Seems that ony children weep" Warchief
"To the grill" Bolt.

Hell, I'm sorta bored, maybe I'll deface more of my Goyf Sligh deck.

[Afro]

]"Seems that only children weep" Warchief

This is my favorite 'alteration' of yours besides the Mox Pearl Necklace proxie. I used to be huge into foils but since I sold my collection I am trying to get stuff for the cheapest possible. I actually don't mind white bordered cards in decks. I really like to get signed cards though, especially hard to get signatures (read not: rk post, fischer, t. nielson, spencer, tedin, or anyone else who always signs through the mail.)

[Shtriga]

near mint > not foil> black bordered > as cheap as I can get

I hate foils, because I like my deck to look "uniform" and "homogeneous", and some scattered foils would ruin that. and to make it all foil, it would go against the 4th principle which is "as cheap as I can get" :P

[Pinder]

I have this really weird quirk where, when I'm building or playing a deck, I only put in and use cards that are in that deck. I pretty much only play decks with the cards that are in them.

Other than that, though, I'm not too picky.

[Xenocide]

My biggest pet peeve is when the cards aren't all facing the same direction-I HATE it. When I watch other people play, if they shuffle their deck so they are all facing different directions, I feel like slapping them, taking their deck, reorganizing it, then giving it back. I also hate non-nm/mint cards, but as I am a poor college student, I don't have a choice most of the time.

[Nightmare]

You should take their deck and make sure they all face the same way. It's one of the easiest ways to cheat - having all of your lands face the opposite way from your other spells.

[Zach Tartell]

You should take their deck and make sure they all face the same way. It's one of the easiest ways to cheat - having all of your lands face the opposite way from your other spells.

In my old SWCCG days when we were shuffling opponent's decks I'd take half his deck (just at random), turn it upside down (relative to the direction the top is, not like face-up), and keep shuffling. That way, when my opponent would draw his hand he'd have to go through the whole thing and turn it right again. Also, since there is little tutoring or "fetching" in ol' SWCCG, every time he'd draw or anything he'd have to flip like every other card around.

Mind Games FTW.

[Nihil Credo]

Mind Games FTW.
Pointless jerkitude FTL.

[Cavius The Great]

Another quirk that I have is that I can't combine white bordered and black bordered cards with the same name. I Either have to have all white bordered or all black bordered cards that share the same name. I can't have three white bordered and one black or two white bordered and two black, for example, I need my cards to be symmetrical.

[Bovinious]

Im kind of the same way as Cavius, I need all of my cards to be symmetrical, as in all MM Brainstorms not 2 MM, 1 IA, 1 5E, that would just bug the hell out of me. Also I try to get everything in blackborder withing reason, WB duals and City of Brass are fine as long as theyre the same edition. Also I usually dont play with foils unless I can have the whole deck or a majority of what can be foil foiled, and definitely not if I dont have a playset of the foils (no singleton foils). My teammates all basically couldnt care less about black/white border, different editions, foil/not, but it non-unity in a deck REALLY bothers me, so I always get shit for my particularity but its cool :wink:

[bigbear102]

All of the cards in my burn deck have to be black bordered... except for Mogg Fanatic. Beatdown for the win.

If anybody has any WB Mogg Fanatics let me know, I want more.

[Versus]

I'll echo both of those quirks as well. THe only exception I make are Hymns. I have one of each art work.

[Finn]

I am the same about these quirks, but I don't see them as quirks. Card recognition is part of the game. If they are not all the same in every detail, it detracts from my gameplay at some level. And I can't afford it! :tongue:

[xsockmonkeyx]

I prefer English, non-foil, and black bordered if the price is reasonable. Whatever, is the most practical really with a slight preference for BB and not beat to hell.

[MattH]

I like foreign cards but not foils, not at all, except for casual decks. BB > WB. FBB duals look nice but not as nice as "a Revised dual and several $20s". I do have one FWB Savannah though.

I do use FBB REBs and BEBs though. :D

One quirk I have though is that every deck I have has to be sleeved. I've even taken to sleeving my draft decks. No glove no love.

[Pinder]

One quirk I have though is that every deck I have has to be sleeved. I've even taken to sleeving my draft decks. No glove no love.

QFT. I cannot play limited without sleeves.

[raharu]

I can't play anything with nicked/ frayed corners/ edges. I just can't do it. A while back I had a casual BW agro deck, and I set it aside for 2 months because a corner on one of my Terrors [Mirodin] was split from bad cases. I won't buy cards outside of playsets (even stuff I can't use more than one or two of in a deck), so I had to wait 3 months for my Force of Wills (mint baby!!) even though I had 80 dollars. I generally don't play cards that aren't from the same set, or at least they have to have the same art. The only exceptions are my StPs because I need 2 more of the Coldsnap reprints to finish the set, but I don't want to have 6 lying around (they are all "from" Ice Age, but the first two I got were the reprints [for 1 dollar and a half-eaten biscut, both of which were given to me]), and then my Counterspells because the odd card out was my first control-oriented card (one 6th edition and 3 Ice Age).

[KillemallCFH]

I'll play with any cards, regardless of condition, border, set, or language. The only thing I really like is foil pre-8th frames basic lands.

[sadface]

Every time I play a card with a post-8th border I die a little inside.

[Cavius The Great]

I play with foils?

As an example, here's the list of cards currently in my TEC deck (don't confuse this thread with the pimp decks thread, it's just a demostrative.):

4x Force of Will (German, except 1 which I am hoping to get this weekend - soon to be altered art)
4x Brainstorm (Foil Masques)
4x Counterbalance (Foil)
3x Meditate (Korean)
4x Swords to Plowshares (Foil, signed)
4x Tarmogoyf (foil)
3x Wrath of God (Textless Foil)
3x Sensei's Divining Top (Foil)
2x Jace Belaren (Foil)
2x Hoofprints of the Stag (foil)
3x Vedalken Shackles (foil, 1 JapFoil)
2x Engineered Explosives (foil)

4x Flooded Strand (foil)
3x Polluted Delta (foil)
4x Tundra (beta)
2x Tropical Island (1 alpha 1 beta)
2x Underground Sea (FBB :sadface:)
4x Island (Foil)
2x Plains (foil)
1x Academy Ruins (foil)

SIDE - Everything that can be foil, is. Gotta keep something secret!

Adam, do you even play with this deck? I couldn't even play Beta Tundras and Trops in sleeves. I would probably send them to get them graded by Beckett and whatnot before I'd even consider playing them and risk damaging them. Hell, I'm even skeptical about playing a Near Mint Alpha Lich. :tongue:

[Jak]

I like my cards in NM to Mint condition, English, and all BB. I won't spend the cash on duals to get them BB, but its fine. I really just like everything looking neat. Oh and if there are multiple pics of one card, I choose the one with most color. Stuff like that makes decks look sweet to me.

[dahcmai]

I can't stand not playing with the original whatever it might be. I just have the habit for some reason. Like in standard when Elves of Deep Shadow was around, I just had to break out the original one. I just hate the newer cards. Even in the case of overly expensive stuff, I still try to keep copies of the originals. Betas I usually have, though some obscure stuff like Serindibs, I slowly try to complete the sets so I'm not playing with some white bordered crap. I've traded off things like the new textless Damnations just because I like my foil ones from Planar Chaos better.

[Media314r8]

Adam, do you even play with this deck? I couldn't even play Beta Tundras and Trops in sleeves. I would probably send them to get them graded by Beckett and whatnot before I'd even consider playing them and risk damaging them. Hell, I'm even skeptical about playing a Near Mint Alpha Lich. :tongue:

I find it odd that some people are so anal about playing with/handeling expensive cards, while others might know that a foil cryptic command is worth $30, but they play it unsleeved in a casual deck just because thats the only one they have.

Me, I'm anal about USING sleeves, but Hell, I had my moxen in my cube before I decided to make it a legacy cube. I also used to be anal about all foil/all non-foil, but lazyness has taken over. I own four complete leacy decks, 12 chalices (4 foils) eight chrome moxen, (4 foil) and nine polluted deltas, (8 foil)
ect. ect. just because I picked up the cards in trade, and I'd rather not swap out deltas between whatever deck I'm playing, that way my deltas stay safe in their sleeves (and I can temp-loan full decks while I play another) I've never had qualms about playing with actual power, or $2500 legacy foiled decks, but seeing the cards handled outside of sleeves or riffle-shuffled makes me squeamish.

[Ebinsugewa]

One of the reasons I enjoy playing Magic is having quirky and original cards. They don't have to be foil or foreign, even though they often are, but instead distinctive to me in some way. That's why I like altered art so much, and especially using less-available languages like Spanish and Portuguese. Another quirk is that I will never play a Chinese or French card. Ever. They just look god-awful. Also, black bordered is an absolute must, but not necessarily from the original set, I will pick whatever art I like most, i.e. I like 9th Sleight of Hand over Portal.

[Tog]

I'm so on top of this one. For all my deck, homogeneity is a must. That means all my cards have to be black bordered and in near mint condition. I tried playing with a Excellent+ Genesis for a while but in the end I just ended up chucking it out the window and buying a new one. It's also another reason why I hate the whole pre-eight and post-eight edition border thing. It bothers me to no end! Half my deck looks like one thing and the other half another. Just gets me angry writing about it. I still wish Wizards didn't change the borders so my decks looked uniform.

My two cents.
~Tog

[Tacosnape]

I try to only play with the lowest value versions of cards available. I could care less about owning pimp cards and only require functionality. For example, when Pithing Needle was reprinted and it became apparent that a set of Saviors was being valued at 10-15 more (at least around here) than a set of 10th, I traded mine down for 10th.

However, I like my cards to be in good condition, and to all be from the same set whenever possible.

[Meekrab]

I try to only play with the lowest value versions of cards available. I could care less about owning pimp cards and only require functionality. For example, when Pithing Needle was reprinted and it became apparent that a set of Saviors was being valued at 10-15 more (at least around here) than a set of 10th, I traded mine down for 10th.

However, I like my cards to be in good condition, and to all be from the same set whenever possible.
This. Also I used to like to play one of each version of Hymn to Tourach. But then I stopped being an awful awful scrub and moved on to only being an awful scrub.

[Pale Moon FTW]

It surprises me that noone likes signed cards. I hardly have any pimp stuff but I'd get signed stuff if I had the money.

[Nightmare]

Adam, do you even play with this deck? I couldn't even play Beta Tundras and Trops in sleeves. I would probably send them to get them graded by Beckett and whatnot before I'd even consider playing them and risk damaging them. Hell, I'm even skeptical about playing a Near Mint Alpha Lich. :tongue:Yes, I play with them. And I riffle shuffle, too.

This weekend, someone Extirpated me, and asked, "How much money am I holding in my hands right now?"

A lot.
Mostly time, a bunch of bad rares from drafting, good trades, and a few hundred dollars got me to there.

[zulander]

I love foiled/pimped cards. Then I got engaged. Now I use the cheapest version and sell off the expensive ones.

Also, I sharpie my >$5 wbb cards to make them look fbb. I also draw with sharpies on random commons in the deck cause it's fun.

[Cavius The Great]

Yes, I play with them. And I riffle shuffle, too.

This weekend, someone Extirpated me, and asked, "How much money am I holding in my hands right now?"

A lot.
Mostly time, a bunch of bad rares from drafting, good trades, and a few hundred dollars got me to there.

That's exactly why a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle is worth so much. Hey you wanna ride bikes, buddy? Better yet, let's riffle shuffle our decks.

[Nightmare]

That's exactly why a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle is worth so much. Hey you wanna ride bikes, buddy?Modern card sleeves are well equipped to protect your Magic cards from the dangers of normal playwear. I'm not really worried about it.

[Zach Tartell]

I try to only play with the lowest value versions of cards available. I could care less about owning pimp cards and only require functionality.

Except for an ENTIRELY ZACH TARTELL SIGNED ENCHANTRESS DECK!!!.

BTW you should photograph it and toss it up in the pimp thread.

[TrialByFire]

I've traded off things like the new textless Damnations just because I like my foil ones from Planar Chaos better.

QFT. The real pimps have 4 FOIL Planar Chaos. Not cheap free Foil textless PR ones.

[Wallace]

My biggest pet peeve is when the cards aren't all facing the same direction-I HATE it. When I watch other people play, if they shuffle their deck so they are all facing different directions, I feel like slapping them, taking their deck, reorganizing it, then giving it back....

QFT

[TeenieBopper]

Yes, I play with them. And I riffle shuffle, too.

More than that, he's let me riffle shuffle his deck before.


My biggest pet peeve is when the cards aren't all facing the same direction-I HATE it. When I watch other people play, if they shuffle their deck so they are all facing different directions, I feel like slapping them, taking their deck, reorganizing it, then giving it back....

Thirded, btw.

Probably the only thing I'm particular about is black borders. And English. Nothing bugs me more than having to explain what a card does. Far, far too many times when I was playing 1.5 did I have someone ask, "Mana Drain, what's that do?" And then I had to say, "Aight, you're not going to believe me, but this is really what it does..." I find it much easier to say "fuck it" and give them the card to read.

I've also lost games (and subsequently, matches) because I was borrowing cards and they were in some sort of chink language and I"m all like "What the fuck does this do?" Which would have been quite easily avoided had I been able to, you know, read the fucking card.

[Giles]

One quirk I have though is that every deck I have has to be sleeved. I've even taken to sleeving my draft decks. No glove no love.

Same here. Since there has been a few times that I have seen that a cards was accidentally grabbed by the opponent.

[J.V.]

Cards absolutely have to be black bordered. I can't stand the gross looking WB cards. For this reason I will never play Aluren... god damned Imperial Recruiters. As for actually playing cards have to be facing the same direction, the deck has to be sideways, and I tap about 40 degrees to the left.

[Taurelin]

I'm not too keen on all black-bordered. Duals are expensive anyway, even white-bordered. And any kind of pimpness - bb or foil - doesn't make your decks run more smoothly at all.

The only personal touch I like to give my decks is via the basic lands. E.g., in my UW-Rifter I use all Onslaugth basics, or in my Solidarity build I use the Mirage Islands, each of the four different pictures 3 times.

[Nihil Credo]

each of the four different pictures 3 times.
Don't. You're giving away unnecessary information.

[Taurelin]

You mean if I'm duressed, reveal 2 Islands of design A and B, and then draw and play an Island in design C?

I doubt that this happens too often. Do opponents really register that? And does it make a difference regarding their playing strategy? Anyway, I can just play A or B first. :wink:

Either way, when playing Solidarity vs. discard, different Island designs are the smallest problem...

[Nihil Credo]

It's happened multiple times to me. Mostly it was a case of different lands altogether, but once (in a Limited game - I bring my own lands for that reason :) ) it involved basic lands with different art.

Since the cost is pretty much zero, I think there's no reason not to have uniform lands.

[husher]

Black-border > white-border; otherwise my only "quirk" is all English cards...no reason to have to debate what the cards mean. Like when I was playing in LA when Ravnica was new and one guy tried to play his non-English (Italian/German...I don't remember at this point) Life From the Loam as an instant. I called him on it, he disagreed, so I called a judge over to handle the situation. The other player ended up being given a game loss (and then got all pissy with me about it).

As I live and play in America, I just find that cards in English facilitate smoother game play. Obviously, if I were living/playing in Japan or wherever, then that would be a different story and I'd be playing with Japanese cards (or whatever).

[Ebinsugewa]

and I tap about 40 degrees to the left.

I think we can all agree that people who do this are just plain weird.

[Bardo]

My card quirks are pretty simple:

Black-bordered.
Non-foil.
English.

While I'd like my duals to be BB, I'm not willing to pay out the ass for them, and I like being able to find them easily when I crack a fetchland and go digging through my library, since they're the only white-bordered things in there.

My only real snobbishness comes around basic lands. It's pretty much Beta, Mirage and APAC for me, since I really dislike the big-ass mana symbols on the post-Urza's Saga basics. They just look corny. Unglued and Unhinged are fine though. And the occasional Portal Plains somehow fits with some of my Fish decks (just not P3K).

[from Cairo]

Pretty much agree with everything Bardo just posted...

Black bordered, English, non-foil. Reasoning, I think White bordered cards look scrubby/noob, since they are reprints. English for practicality. Being that it's the language I'm counting on both me and my opponent to understand, and having all my card's abilities easily read is advantageous. Non-foil cause I don't feel like spending an assload on it and given alot of staples are not available foil I would rather have my deck uniformly unfoil than half and half.

The big mana symbol lands to look stupid, unless the art is mindblowingly good, I stick with Pre-Mercadian Masques.

[Curby]

Most important to me are that cards be sleeved, near mint, English, non-foil, and with consistent art/edition.

For oldish cards, I generally prefer Revised edition because that's when I started. I know most people don't like the lighter inks. I also prefer using the first version of a card (usually in an expansion) rather than the reprints in the main sets (but not because of the borders).

I'm not very concerned with my lands. I'm using Unhinged Forests in 9 land stompy just because it's cheap to do there. Same with the 2ish basics that Meathooks runs. I figure I can spend the extra $3 on the $400 deck. Eventually I'd like to get all my lands to John Avon or Rob Alexander art where possible. :tongue:

I don't really care about borders. I think my first deliberately all black-border deck will be all-commons Affinity with old Atogs and Ornithopters.

Re: consistency: there is a slight tactical advantage too. If someone sees the top card of my library, or sees a card in my hand, etc., and I play another version of the same card, they might notice and know that I still have another copy in my hand. You can work around it by playing whatever they've seen, but I'd rather use my attention on other things. EDIT Dang, this thread is moving too quickly. Someone just said that.

[Cavius The Great]

Re: consistency: there is a slight tactical advantage too. If someone sees the top card of my library, or sees a card in my hand, etc., and I play another version of the same card, they might notice and know that I still have another copy in my hand. You can work around it by playing whatever they've seen, but I'd rather use my attention on other things. EDIT Dang, this thread is moving too quickly. Someone just said that.


I'm actually glad you posted and clarified this. I had no idea what Nihil was talking about until now. :tongue:

[Cavius The Great]

Cards absolutely have to be black bordered. I can't stand the gross looking WB cards. For this reason I will never play Aluren... god damned Imperial Recruiters. As for actually playing cards have to be facing the same direction, the deck has to be sideways, and I tap about 40 degrees to the left.

See, I'm weird. I like white-bordered cards but as long as they're expensive and hard to get. I also like white-bordered cards exclusive to a set, such as Unlimited, Revised, Portal:Three Kingdoms and Starter 99'.

[Dilettante]

For basic lands... I prefer Portal: 3 Kingdoms. They're white bordered, but I love the art, particularly the ginko trees in one of the Forests and the lush gorges on the Mountains. I prefer T-Chinese for my cards, being as I can somewhat read it... and the text does not appear as... overwhelming as the English. The inks tend to be lighter and the text more compact, putting more emphasis in the art. However, I avoid paying any more than a 10-25% premium for such. I have no real preference for foil or not in my collection. I am not someone crazy enough to spend $180 on a playset of foreign foil Dark Rituals (http://cgi.ebay.com/MTG-Magic-Cards-FOIL-Japanese-DARK-RITUAL-x-4-N-Mint_W0QQitemZ250225590025QQihZ015QQcategoryZ19115QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem). However, if I run foils, they go in the sideboard only if they are wishboard pieces unless I don't own enough non-foils. I avoid foils to avoid being accused of cheating.

[Cavius The Great]

I avoid foils to avoid being accused of cheating.

Evn told me about that. He said something along the lines of needing foil land in addition to any foil non-land cards. But as long as you have the proper ratio, you shouldn't have a problem.

[wmagzoo7]

My deck is no matter what going to be semi pimped. If i have 1 japanese Lotus Petal, I need 3 more japanese or I play 0. Deck Pet Peaves are I play with my Playmat, my deck is turned at a 90 degree angle so that the top of the sleave is facing right in front of me, my sleaves are always dragonshields. As far as trading, my friend handles that but our binder is always full of foils, half the time in a binder half the time in a box.

[Mijorre]

I adore white bordered cards in my Angel Stompy. I mean, it's just so fun to see someone with a totally pimped out deck staring down a white bordered savannah lion (!). Sure, you have foil Delta. I beat for 2. So what?
If a card is not available white-bordered, I'll use black borders. I pick Lions over Isamaru because they're white bordered. I am that die-hard.
Only lands can take me away. Urza plains have a special place in my heart, as do funky Mirage lands. Zebra, Lion...awesome inside jokes.
I give away foils to people. Foil Goyf? Nearly ripped it in two. Unplayable jank. Foils bend. I hate bent cards. Good thing I could pass it on to someone who needed it for a tourney. Never saw him again though...
Good thing I had traded it for my current playset of Exalted Angels on beforehand

[Michael Keller]

I absolutely love cards from Legends, Arabian Nights, and, especially, The Dark. I thought that set was especially creepy because of the gothic art and simplicity behind card names (i.e. Exorcist, Preacher, etc.). Whenever I get a chance, I always end up finding something to try and use out of those sets that crosses my narrow mind.

[calosso]

I don't have one. If the are tournament playable I will play them. It is stupid if you are picky about what language your cards are, or if they are foil, or if they are white bordered. It is completely pointless.

[Media314r8]

Since I've started doing alterations, I've starting to prefer altered cards to their foil compliments. I think I prefer my 8+ year old 4th ed mishra's factories which I altered with pictures of George Jetson, Barney Rubble, Fred Flintstone, and Homer Simpson (all 'assembly workers'... get it... no? ok, whatever...) to my judge promo factories. I've got a set of foil goyfs, but after picking up a non-foil in a trade tonight to finish a friend's playset, I find myself eyeing it, saying to myself "You know you want to paint goofy on that and make a text bubble reading: "ITS GOYFY TIME!"

If this continues, I have no idea what I'll do with my 8 foil deltas... not to mention the foil cube. (ALL ALTERED ART CUBE?!?!? Just literally over 9000 hours!)

[Cavius The Great]

Since I've started doing alterations, I've starting to prefer altered cards to their foil compliments. I think I prefer my 8+ year old 4th ed mishra's factories which I altered with pictures of George Jetson, Barney Rubble, Fred Flintstone, and Homer Simpson (all 'assembly workers'... get it... no? ok, whatever...) to my judge promo factories. I've got a set of foil goyfs, but after picking up a non-foil in a trade tonight to finish a friend's playset, I find myself eyeing it, saying to myself "You know you want to paint goofy on that and make a text bubble reading: "ITS GOYFY TIME!"

If this continues, I have no idea what I'll do with my 8 foil deltas... not to mention the foil cube. (ALL ALTERED ART CUBE?!?!? Just literally over 9000 hours!)

Are you a good artist? Cuz it takes alot of skill to do something like that. I also think that's pretty cool if you are.

[Media314r8]

I think so, but I'm also a broke ass artist, (with 8 foil deltas and foil goyfs, I know, I know.... thats WHY I'm broke...) so I just work with GOLDEN acrylics, and haven't bought the Prismacolor pen set I want/need to do more shading work. (ala extending fetches ect) It IS time consuming though...

[Cavius The Great]

I think so, but I'm also a broke ass artist, (with 8 foil deltas and foil goyfs, I know, I know.... thats WHY I'm broke...) so I just work with GOLDEN acrylics, and haven't bought the Prismacolor pen set I want/need to do more shading work. (ala extending fetches ect) It IS time consuming though...

I'm a decent artist myself and am thinking about getting some oil based pens and make myself a proxy of the Power 9. That's something I've been thinking of doing for a while but keep procrastinating.

[Bane of the Living]

As long as all my cards face the same way in my deck, I'm fine. I was never big on pimping. If I need to show off, I'll win. Hell, I put shitty drawings on my cards and quotes from great lit.

My favs:
Lightning Bolt that says, "Murder most foul."
"Thank you eBay" Kird Ape
Blacked out Brainstorm
"Seems that ony children weep" Warchief
"To the grill" Bolt.Hell, I'm sorta bored, maybe I'll deface more of my Goyf Sligh deck.

I have a kick ass Goblin Warcheif with a cheif's hat and spatula.

[Ebinsugewa]

was borrowing cards and they were in some sort of chink language

Dude, chink is not the preferred nomenclature.

[TeenieBopper]

Dude, chink is not the preferred nomenclature.

It's okay. I'm taking it back.

[Shriekmaw]

Anybody that played against me in Legacy knows that for the most part most of my decks are very shiny and pretty. The goblins deck I run isn't pimped, but its like that for a reason, seems like it preforms better with regular cards that most of the players are forced to use.

Honestly, has there been a shiny card that somebody doesn't like?

[Ebinsugewa]

It's okay. I'm taking it back.

I think you missed it.

[xsockmonkeyx]

I'm a decent artist myself and am thinking about getting some oil based pens and make myself a proxy of the Power 9. That's something I've been thinking of doing for a while but keep procrastinating.

Oil-based paint is pretty fail on cardboard. Stick to acrylics.

[Cavius The Great]

was borrowing cards and they were in some sort of chink language

That's horrible.

[Lego]

I have a kick ass Goblin Warcheif with a cheif's hat and spatula.

I hope they didn't misspell it on the card... that would be pretty tragic :frown:

[TeenieBopper]

That's horrible.

Hi, I'm TeenieBopper. I'm an obnoxious asshole. Have we met?

Christ, people, I wrote that like three months ago. Why all the panty-twisting now? Clean the sand out of your collective vaginas and go on your merry way.

[Thehunter820]

I perfer Black Bordered cards, and I like to get the oldest printed version, or the most expensive, foils are good too. Other than that, I just like my cards to all be facing the same way when I play, nothing upside down, even in the deck, its just annoying.

[mercenarybdu]

I always like to keep all of a certain play set of cards in one language and one specific print that way it is just easier for me to track them other than having to state each and every single version that tends to be annoying after a while when it comes down to specifying all of them different prints.

[Ebinsugewa]

Hi, I'm TeenieBopper. I'm an obnoxious asshole. Have we met?

Christ, people, I wrote that like three months ago. Why all the panty-twisting now? Clean the sand out of your collective vaginas and go on your merry way.

Sorry for making a Lebowski joke and hoping anyone would get it. This site really is as hopeless as I thought it was, right when you guys were showing a little bit of promise. Continue.