Are you part of a magic Team or Collection, I see them as a positive side of American Magic since all this talk that Americans don't trust each other and colaborate.
Gigantic Firebreathing Cycloptic Prairie Dogs: We have one, shared, collection.
Rhombus of Terror: Uses the GFCPD collection and another collection, with heavy borrowing. (And in case you're wondering, yes, we also considered Parabola of Mystery.)
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Every time I destroy an opponent's creature, I jump on the table, yell "Boo ya, you son of a *****!", rip the card in half, urinate on it, then forcefully shove it down my opponent's throat.
Needless to say, I don't have many players in my playgroup anymore.
well i dont share my collections w/ anyone else but me and my group of like 7 or so all let eachother borrow cards whenever cause were coool w/ it. I do have a couple friends that do share collections though.
I have a group of about 4-5 friends, one dosen't like to share (me) but we still usually do... 2 of us (including me) pretty much pwn everyone else skill wise but due to the recent shutting down of the local card shop proxy decks are running rampant so I am constantly facing decks full of paper power 9
I've been on the periphery of a large local playgroup that's had some serious problems recently with sharing the cardpool. Apparently last week one of the core members decided to get out of Magic. His friend offered to sell some of his cards for him. The exiting member agreed and gave his playable rares to the friend, who then sold most of them. Here's where it gets really tricky.
Friend had not only Exiting Player's cards, but also cards that Friend had borrowed from other members of the playgroup in that binder. Some of those got sold as well.
In addition, Exiting Player had borrowed some of those playable rares from other playgroup members at some point and never returned them. They were sold as well.
When Friend found out about this, he tried to recoup the losses to the other angry players by giving them a share of the money but as will happen, some of the money was already spent, and some of the players wanted their original cards back. A lot of money went towards getting copies of these cards back, more than came in, in fact. Meanwhile some of the players ended up playing crippled versions of their decks, or not playing at all, because of this. A month after the incident, and most of the players in the group are still struggling to get back even playsets of commons such as Wayfarer's Bauble and Molten Rain.
I've always been hesitant to share cards, even for a single tournament, because more often than not, the cards don't come back to me for months, even years. When they do, sometimes they're in such poor condition as to be untradeable once the block rotates out. More often, I don't ever see them again. I've worked hard to build a collection of playable staples and don't have the money to replace older cards that go missing. Even commons such as Brainstorm, Accumulated Knowledge, Counterspell, and Mana Leak are trading as rares in my area. I've been offered trades involving things I know someone borrowed from me: signed foils, foreign cards. I point it out, and they call me a liar, but then come around later and own up to it. In short, I've been burned and now won't share, even with my fiance.
I'm on Team Meandeck. I haven't particpated in many of the big tourneys yet, but I'm going to be getting power 9 in time for Origins and will be playing in at least 3, maybe 4, Vintage tourneys that weekend.
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As far as problems with sharing cards, that's not really a big issue with my teams. In GFCPD, I'm really the only one that is extremely active anymore. And the other guy said that if he ever really quits Magic I can just have it all, with the provision that we split the money if I ever sell everything off. And the other collection from Rhombus of Terror is catalogged card-for-card by its owner, so she knows exactly where every card she owns is.
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Every time I destroy an opponent's creature, I jump on the table, yell "Boo ya, you son of a *****!", rip the card in half, urinate on it, then forcefully shove it down my opponent's throat.
Needless to say, I don't have many players in my playgroup anymore.
I do not have my own team nor am I a member of one. Incidently, I am quite independent when it comes to my collection. I own all of my cards and do not generally lend or borrow cards. I either have the cards I need or I acquire them when I need them.
I'm on Team Meandeck. I haven't particpated in many of the big tourneys yet, but I'm going to be getting power 9 in time for Origins and will be playing in at least 3, maybe 4, Vintage tourneys that weekend.
Binary....Shame.
We are all naming teams we have with our friends that we lose in team sealed in and you go "Oh yeah, team Meandeck.". Well thanks for making us feel unimportant.
Anyway yes me and two other friends pool cards although I am much more serious than them.
I used to have a pool of sorts with my ex-girlfriend (girlfriend at the time) and best friend, but it didn't work out well. We freely traded commons and uncommons, since at least two of us would have playsets of the C/Uc of any given set, and we put colored paper slips in the backs of all of our rare sleeves so we could identify the rare's owner. Unfortunately, my girlfriend broke up with me after awhile (duh) and took most of the C/Uc collection with her - at least half, and she had contribuded about a tenth of it. Nowadays I'm fighting to recollect my Mogg Fanatics and most of a U/G Madness deck without paying $30 on commons.
In short, curently, I'm not part of a team, but I higly reccommend against it, or at least against putting all your cards in one.
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We don't use shared collections, but there are 3-4 of us who collaborate on decks and formats a lot, and we'll loan cards within that circle. I don't loan anything to people I don't know well.
I have a group of 3 others that I test with and share cards with, and I never have a problem with getting them back. I can see how in a bigger group problems could arise, and thats why I wouldn't feel comfortable if the group was like 7 or 8 people.
When a new set comes out, what we do is we assign each on of us in grabbing multiple sets of that cards we know are going to be played (my freind had the unlucky luck to be randomly called to grab 16 Needles, so he just bought them at ten bucks a piece and threw them into the pool). Sometimes it gets hard (like when I had to pick up 16 ShadowMage Infiltrators when they were like 25 a piece), but we all manage and do fine, and always seem to get the money back in winnings and/or selling the excess stuff we have. Between all 4 of us, at our local cardshop, we have over three thousand dollars in store credit. ;). When we need to grab multiple rare cards, we just have Rob (the store owner) pick them up offline and sell them to us.
Jace on the other hand gives you card advantage for no life cost. On the contrary, Jace can actually take some damage for you. I'd think that makes him better than Arena.
we in Team Pony have one giant cardpool everyone uses which is owned by one person. He keeps a notepad of everything borrowed from him, then we all have our own each seperate members cardpools. We share cards freely but always write down what we lend. We keep track of our cards by how many the team has. eg: I have 1 taiga, morgs has 2 tropical islands then ves has like 11 duals so we have 14 in our cardpool.
Team Pony owns, we never fight about anything.
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And we have one big team; Team Pony.
Gigantic Firebreathing Cycloptic Prairie Dogs: We have one, shared, collection.
Rhombus of Terror: Uses the GFCPD collection and another collection, with heavy borrowing. (And in case you're wondering, yes, we also considered Parabola of Mystery.)
Friend had not only Exiting Player's cards, but also cards that Friend had borrowed from other members of the playgroup in that binder. Some of those got sold as well.
In addition, Exiting Player had borrowed some of those playable rares from other playgroup members at some point and never returned them. They were sold as well.
When Friend found out about this, he tried to recoup the losses to the other angry players by giving them a share of the money but as will happen, some of the money was already spent, and some of the players wanted their original cards back. A lot of money went towards getting copies of these cards back, more than came in, in fact. Meanwhile some of the players ended up playing crippled versions of their decks, or not playing at all, because of this. A month after the incident, and most of the players in the group are still struggling to get back even playsets of commons such as Wayfarer's Bauble and Molten Rain.
I've always been hesitant to share cards, even for a single tournament, because more often than not, the cards don't come back to me for months, even years. When they do, sometimes they're in such poor condition as to be untradeable once the block rotates out. More often, I don't ever see them again. I've worked hard to build a collection of playable staples and don't have the money to replace older cards that go missing. Even commons such as Brainstorm, Accumulated Knowledge, Counterspell, and Mana Leak are trading as rares in my area. I've been offered trades involving things I know someone borrowed from me: signed foils, foreign cards. I point it out, and they call me a liar, but then come around later and own up to it. In short, I've been burned and now won't share, even with my fiance.
Currently offering 2 non-foil Kolighan's Command for a Date Stamped foil!
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Binary....Shame.
We are all naming teams we have with our friends that we lose in team sealed in and you go "Oh yeah, team Meandeck.". Well thanks for making us feel unimportant.
Anyway yes me and two other friends pool cards although I am much more serious than them.
In short, curently, I'm not part of a team, but I higly reccommend against it, or at least against putting all your cards in one.
I have no extendo-sig. Sorry, I'm just not vain enough to think someone will click on it.
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When a new set comes out, what we do is we assign each on of us in grabbing multiple sets of that cards we know are going to be played (my freind had the unlucky luck to be randomly called to grab 16 Needles, so he just bought them at ten bucks a piece and threw them into the pool). Sometimes it gets hard (like when I had to pick up 16 ShadowMage Infiltrators when they were like 25 a piece), but we all manage and do fine, and always seem to get the money back in winnings and/or selling the excess stuff we have. Between all 4 of us, at our local cardshop, we have over three thousand dollars in store credit. ;). When we need to grab multiple rare cards, we just have Rob (the store owner) pick them up offline and sell them to us.
Team Pony owns, we never fight about anything.