Several bad things have happened to cards I owned.
Over $500 worth of Extended and T2 stuff got stolen at the card shop one day...most of the value was an entire UW control deck complete with Mages, Chants, Wraths, and everything else expensive.
My two year old bent the CRAP out of one of my foil dragons when he grabbed the binder it was in when I wasn't looking. It's only a Jugan, but still...
He also, about a year ago, chewed the corner off of a Force of Will.
Moral of this story is, keep good Magic cards away from small children. I give him a binder full of crap commons to play with now.:D He messes with "his" cards, and knows that touching mine means dire things.
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Moral of this story is, keep good Magic cards away from small children. I give him a binder full of crap commons to play with now.:D He messes with "his" cards, and knows that touching mine means dire things.
Indeed. My son gets Mirrodin basic lands to play with. Everything else is kept on shelves that are out of his reach.
I guess it's remarkable that I've been playing off & on for ten years and have lost no cards to damage. But then again, I am the most anal person I know about my cards, and I mostly own crap. I can't imagine what I'd be like if most of my collection was actually worth something.
Keep cards away from small children, as they can't tell apart a black lotus from a teddy bear which they try to rip its head off.
I did'nt do any self inflicted damage to my cards in my ~10 years of magic. However seems that someone seems to be able to do that for me.
Another thing happened to a friend. We were playing magic and another of my friend who does'nt know anything about magic came over. He thought its some kind of poker cards, and took my friend's cards and started flicking them away like poker cards as a joke. My friend was'nt too impressed.
I feel like putting together a ruined set of p9s, and other vintage ruined stuff, maybe a casually playable set, if someone can sell/help me find find pieces, I'll appreciate it.
...I had a deck, a great deck. A fantastic deck back in the days of Oldschoolness since my dad owned a cardshop. It was Counterpost, it was signed with 4 of the oldschool dual lands and all signed. It was my star deck that I used in my dad's tournaments I aslo had an exquisite binder full of everything a Tier 1 deck would need at that time and the power of course. So much power that I could take a dump and find a Mox Ruby... So after my Dad closes shop I go to another tournament. I win of course and somewhat flaunting my cards. (I was like 6 >__>) I start walking home I get my ass kicked and mugged... Yep. I hate my life.
i had my whole file stolen at school with about 20 rares and 50 uncommons in it. but the people who stole it didnt collect magic (to the best of my knolage) a few of them poped up around school but i wonder wat happened to the rest? did they rip them up laughing? or sell them to people who knew they were my cards?
when i was a noob i also traded a chrome mox for a few commons? who wants to lose two cards for a land(thinking like a noob)?
Nothing too major for me, my wife wrote a phone message on my Mox Emerald about a year ago. I had it out of the sleeve to photograph it and I had to run out for a sec and when I got back she said I had a message and handed me a card. Side note I often write her phone messages on land just lying around so it wasnt without precident. Anyways, now my Emerald says "Andrew called from work, needs plan updates by Thurdsay." in sharpie on the front. I had no real intent to ever sell it so now it is just a fun thing that raises eyebrows in my binder.
My binder just got stolen... I'm still really upset about it, even to the point that I made an entire thread about it. Among the missing : A Foil Timeshifted Psionic Blast...ouch.
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One of my decks was stolen. I let someone hold it, who apparently was careless. He put down in our school lunchroom on the table and walked away for a moment and it disappeared like Houdini. My poor mono-black discard deck. I still miss those damn Megrims. And to make it worse, another player suddenly had a discard deck the next week very similiar to mine. But there was no way in hell I could prove his cards were mine, so I just shrugged and built another deck.
A couple weeks ago, I traded 4 Unlimited Moxes to an older gentleman who frequents our store in exchange for three Beta Moxen. I also traded quite heavily for a Beta Black Lotus. A friend of mine wanted to trade some fodder off for some power, but the gentleman didn't have anymore on him, so he got 2 Beta Underground Seas instead to trade for power later. 2 weekends ago we went to a decent sized Vintage event, and he tried to sell the Seas to the store. The store said they were fake. This called my power into question, and I soon discovered it was also fake. They were re-backed Collector's Edition cards, which passed the bend-test, passed the water-test, and did fairly well with the light-test. I was devastated, both for us as well as the gentleman who traded them to us, since I knew he didn't know they were fake either. Last weekend, we discussed it with him, and he undid our trades (mine will be finished up Saturday), and is investigating the rest of his stock of Beta cards. He's had them for years now, and has no way of knowing what's real and what isn't. He plans to travel to a more experienced dealer/storeowner and have them all inspected. I feel terrible for him, but at least I didn't end up ripped off by thousands of dollars.
Edit - At the guy whos house burned down, that's a tragedy, sorry. It's this paranoia that led me to buy a fireproof safe to put all my $$ and important documents in. If anyone else has some money invested in cards, you should consider the small investment, too. It's well worth feeling secure.
I don't want to comment what I feel about these people on this forum, it blocks offensive words... I haven't lost THAT much, but after all, it's stealing, against the law, punishable. You got to hate people who are willing to become criminals for some trading cards.
Rippers are a bane to trading forums. That reminded me that I got ripped off payment for a Beta Black Lotus and a Beta Forcefield a couple of years back too. Lost quite a bit of money there, what to do but to move on with life
Ok well short of my foiled out my Type 2 Elvish Piper Deck getting stolen at the very beginning of my magic career(4 Foil Elvish Pipers and Ravenous Baloths hurt :'(), I remember about two years ago was when this next event happened.
Me and my friends were going down a back country road about 60 mph ya know and my entire collections sitting in the back, no lids of course(Those white boxes, 5 rows). One box of uncommons and another full of commons). So we're going down the road and we had just heard(but hadn't seen) about the Diet Coke and Mentos thing. So my friend hands me some mentos and a bottle of vault. I stick'em in the bottle and have enough time to get the lid on the bottle, I throw it out the window it hits the windshield explodes; Pretty cool. Well, thinking that we'd have enough time like we did with the vault, my friend then hands me the 2 Liter of diet coke. I crack it open, stick about 5 mentos in there and then things go crazy. Instead of pointing it out the OPEN window, I instead point it forward at the windshield. It bounces off and everything in the car is soaked, including my 2 boxes of cards I'd collected from the past 3 years. Needless to say I was pretty pissed but all in all it was still pretty funny. We immediately pulled off to the side of the road and laughed for about 15 minutes.
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Full set of power, 40 Revised duals, basically playsets of everything good from Alpha to that time (Mirrodin had just been released), and 13 decks including a fully pimped and powered Vintage UW Control deck. My wallet, with my ID, bank card, and $3000 cash thanks to poker-playing morons, all gone.
Did it ruin my life? Yes.
Did I lose friends over it? Yes.
Did I deserve it? Yes.
I can't figure out the upside to it, other than now being stuck living with my parents at age 25 because I haven't managed to save up enough to get out, thanks to all that disappearing. But there has to be one, right?
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There was a fire at my apartment. Lost my sliver deck, and a buch of cards. Apparently my indestructible Darksteel Colussus wasnt so indestructible. But in pile of a whole bunch of wreckage I found my Akroma intact, protected by only the cheapest quality flimsy plastic.
Full set of power, 40 Revised duals, basically playsets of everything good from Alpha to that time (Mirrodin had just been released), and 13 decks including a fully pimped and powered Vintage UW Control deck. My wallet, with my ID, bank card, and $3000 cash thanks to poker-playing morons, all gone.
The worst to me? Personally, I couldn't find my mono-U control deck and had to use my WUR [EMAIL="K@osphere"]K@osphere[/EMAIL] in a tournament at a friends house(just between friends, playing for 3 boosters 1st place, 2 boosters 2nd, and 1 booster 3rd).
Now my firend on the other hand, his mono-B Hand of Death Deck went through the washer. Guess what was damaged? He lost his Avatar of Woe, Visara the Dreadfull, 4x Hand of Death, and Zombie Warcheif. Every other card was fine...
I sold my autographed (garfield and artist), errated (garfield wrote in, "and gain control of target creature." with a sharpie), beta, nm timewalk; autographed (by artist), nm library of alexandria; set of unlimited moxen, beta twister, abyss, playset of revised dual lands, playset of nm mana drain, 4 force of will, 4 wasteland, countless beta cards (such as demonic tutor etc) and a playset of every type two and extended card to the end of invasion block for $2000. Later, a very close old friend who I used to play with a lot came to visit from out of state and said he'd started playing again and wondered if I had any of my old cards. I told him I had the remains of two decks that were stripped of their rares. We found 8 force of wills and 4 wastelands. He asked if he could have them and I hadn't checked prices since I sold all of my cards so I assumed they were still $1-2 each and told him they were all his. A week later my roommate was looking on ebay and showed me $400 moxen and $20 FoW's... I was sad after that.
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im an idiot, one time on the way home from a local card store i put my cards on top of my car so i could open the door, i drove off without realizing it and they were gone by the time i thought to turn around, thats just the worst i did have a few cards left at home, nothing too good but i was able to slowly rebuild from there over the years
im an idiot, one time on the way home from a local card store i put my cards on top of my car so i could open the door, i drove off without realizing it and they were gone by the time i thought to turn around, thats just the worst i did have a few cards left at home, nothing too good but i was able to slowly rebuild from there over the years
Yeah.. that happened to a freind of mine. I was talking to him as he was getting into his car and he left his backpack ontop of it. I realized it, and i threw a rock at his car
He got so pissed at me and he almost tried to kill me then i told him about the cards and he was so happy.
Also on my account, i was at this sunday magic at a pizza place we have every week, and a newer player (small kid) Spilled soda all over my binder, ruining full playsets of foil shock lands and 5 Psy blasts (one foil, one beta)
I told him if he left this building i would kill him, then told him to give me his parents number. I then called his parents and told them i wanted the full price of the cards. I did get the money, but the cards were beyond it and money is less in my eyes then the cards themselves:-/
Oh well though, Stuff happens. just gotta keep pushing on
Yeah.. that happened to a freind of mine. I was talking to him as he was getting into his car and he left his backpack ontop of it. I realized it, and i threw a rock at his car
He got so pissed at me and he almost tried to kill me then i told him about the cards and he was so happy.
Also on my account, i was at this sunday magic at a pizza place we have every week, and a newer player (small kid) Spilled soda all over my binder, ruining full playsets of foil shock lands and 5 Psy blasts (one foil, one beta)
I told him if he left this building i would kill him, then told him to give me his parents number. I then called his parents and told them i wanted the full price of the cards. I did get the money, but the cards were beyond it and money is less in my eyes then the cards themselves:-/
Oh well though, Stuff happens. just gotta keep pushing on
Threatening a kid, very classy.
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Having thousands ruined by said kid is even classier. It's good that he got something back though.
1. The guy sounds like a bully. Think that poor kid still plays Magic? Not likely. Way to scare off the future of our game over a few cards.
2. How does one soda ruin a "full playset of foil shock lands and 5 Psy blasts (one foil, one beta)???" Did the kid open the binder up and pour a little bit on every page? Was nobody paying attention? The drink spills, people jump up, grab the binder, and wipe it off. I can see maybe a little soda getting into one or two pages and warping a few of the cards, but how does one spill destroy 45 cards so badly that they can no longer be played? I sense some exaggeration here.
3. The guy sounds like a bully. I know I already said this one, but anyone who literally threatens to kill a frightened child who made an honest mistake deserves to be called out twice. But hey, at least he extorted some cash out of the kid's parents, which surely resulted in him not only being terrified and threatened, but grounded as well. I bet the guy kept the "destroyed" cards too and plays with them to this day.
How does one spilled drink ruin 45 cards protected inside a binder???
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Over $500 worth of Extended and T2 stuff got stolen at the card shop one day...most of the value was an entire UW control deck complete with Mages, Chants, Wraths, and everything else expensive.
My two year old bent the CRAP out of one of my foil dragons when he grabbed the binder it was in when I wasn't looking. It's only a Jugan, but still...
He also, about a year ago, chewed the corner off of a Force of Will.
Moral of this story is, keep good Magic cards away from small children. I give him a binder full of crap commons to play with now.:D He messes with "his" cards, and knows that touching mine means dire things.
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I guess it's remarkable that I've been playing off & on for ten years and have lost no cards to damage. But then again, I am the most anal person I know about my cards, and I mostly own crap. I can't imagine what I'd be like if most of my collection was actually worth something.
I did'nt do any self inflicted damage to my cards in my ~10 years of magic. However seems that someone seems to be able to do that for me.
Another thing happened to a friend. We were playing magic and another of my friend who does'nt know anything about magic came over. He thought its some kind of poker cards, and took my friend's cards and started flicking them away like poker cards as a joke. My friend was'nt too impressed.
I feel like putting together a ruined set of p9s, and other vintage ruined stuff, maybe a casually playable set, if someone can sell/help me find find pieces, I'll appreciate it.
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A couple weeks ago, I traded 4 Unlimited Moxes to an older gentleman who frequents our store in exchange for three Beta Moxen. I also traded quite heavily for a Beta Black Lotus. A friend of mine wanted to trade some fodder off for some power, but the gentleman didn't have anymore on him, so he got 2 Beta Underground Seas instead to trade for power later. 2 weekends ago we went to a decent sized Vintage event, and he tried to sell the Seas to the store. The store said they were fake. This called my power into question, and I soon discovered it was also fake. They were re-backed Collector's Edition cards, which passed the bend-test, passed the water-test, and did fairly well with the light-test. I was devastated, both for us as well as the gentleman who traded them to us, since I knew he didn't know they were fake either. Last weekend, we discussed it with him, and he undid our trades (mine will be finished up Saturday), and is investigating the rest of his stock of Beta cards. He's had them for years now, and has no way of knowing what's real and what isn't. He plans to travel to a more experienced dealer/storeowner and have them all inspected. I feel terrible for him, but at least I didn't end up ripped off by thousands of dollars.
Edit - At the guy whos house burned down, that's a tragedy, sorry. It's this paranoia that led me to buy a fireproof safe to put all my $$ and important documents in. If anyone else has some money invested in cards, you should consider the small investment, too. It's well worth feeling secure.
I don't want to comment what I feel about these people on this forum, it blocks offensive words... I haven't lost THAT much, but after all, it's stealing, against the law, punishable. You got to hate people who are willing to become criminals for some trading cards.
Me and my friends were going down a back country road about 60 mph ya know and my entire collections sitting in the back, no lids of course(Those white boxes, 5 rows). One box of uncommons and another full of commons). So we're going down the road and we had just heard(but hadn't seen) about the Diet Coke and Mentos thing. So my friend hands me some mentos and a bottle of vault. I stick'em in the bottle and have enough time to get the lid on the bottle, I throw it out the window it hits the windshield explodes; Pretty cool. Well, thinking that we'd have enough time like we did with the vault, my friend then hands me the 2 Liter of diet coke. I crack it open, stick about 5 mentos in there and then things go crazy. Instead of pointing it out the OPEN window, I instead point it forward at the windshield. It bounces off and everything in the car is soaked, including my 2 boxes of cards I'd collected from the past 3 years. Needless to say I was pretty pissed but all in all it was still pretty funny. We immediately pulled off to the side of the road and laughed for about 15 minutes.
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Did it ruin my life? Yes.
Did I lose friends over it? Yes.
Did I deserve it? Yes.
I can't figure out the upside to it, other than now being stuck living with my parents at age 25 because I haven't managed to save up enough to get out, thanks to all that disappearing. But there has to be one, right?
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Now my firend on the other hand, his mono-B Hand of Death Deck went through the washer. Guess what was damaged? He lost his Avatar of Woe, Visara the Dreadfull, 4x Hand of Death, and Zombie Warcheif. Every other card was fine...
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Yeah.. that happened to a freind of mine. I was talking to him as he was getting into his car and he left his backpack ontop of it. I realized it, and i threw a rock at his car
He got so pissed at me and he almost tried to kill me then i told him about the cards and he was so happy.
Also on my account, i was at this sunday magic at a pizza place we have every week, and a newer player (small kid) Spilled soda all over my binder, ruining full playsets of foil shock lands and 5 Psy blasts (one foil, one beta)
I told him if he left this building i would kill him, then told him to give me his parents number. I then called his parents and told them i wanted the full price of the cards. I did get the money, but the cards were beyond it and money is less in my eyes then the cards themselves:-/
Oh well though, Stuff happens. just gotta keep pushing on
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1. The guy sounds like a bully. Think that poor kid still plays Magic? Not likely. Way to scare off the future of our game over a few cards.
2. How does one soda ruin a "full playset of foil shock lands and 5 Psy blasts (one foil, one beta)???" Did the kid open the binder up and pour a little bit on every page? Was nobody paying attention? The drink spills, people jump up, grab the binder, and wipe it off. I can see maybe a little soda getting into one or two pages and warping a few of the cards, but how does one spill destroy 45 cards so badly that they can no longer be played? I sense some exaggeration here.
3. The guy sounds like a bully. I know I already said this one, but anyone who literally threatens to kill a frightened child who made an honest mistake deserves to be called out twice. But hey, at least he extorted some cash out of the kid's parents, which surely resulted in him not only being terrified and threatened, but grounded as well. I bet the guy kept the "destroyed" cards too and plays with them to this day.
How does one spilled drink ruin 45 cards protected inside a binder???