Every single time I open a new pack of cards I have to smell them. I don't know what it is, but I LOVE that new card smell from a freshly opened booster. I feel kind of weird sitting at a draft table smelling my booster, but they just smell so good.
The problem with defining this format by what is "fun" is that everyone seems to define fun as what they don't lose to. If you keep losing to easily answered cards, that means you should improve your deck. If you don't want to improve your deck, then you should come to peace with the idea that you are going to lose because you chose to not interact with better strategies.
I do, and I don't care who's looking when I do it. I think I may have picked it up from my fourth-grade teacher who always loved to smell new books. Books were never my thing, but cards certainly are.
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Several years ago, WotC apparently surveyed Magic players across the globe. They found that people liked turning things sideways, and hated LD. This is the result:
Smell is nice until you get to the back of the pack and see you got a 12 cent rare...
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Nothing, the format Bores me! Legacy: RBurn (Made on the Cheap!)R RGBelcherRG WSoldier StompyW BReanimatorB EDH: BUGRWSliver OverlordWRGUB BGeth, Lord of the VaultB
Never have I once smelled a pack...... thought never crossed my mind. I now shall do it w/ every pack i crack at a pre release this weekend. I will make it obvious so that people see it and I will giggle inside.
Smelling packs...... you wierdos!!!
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I'm going on record right now and stating that before the end of 2012 we will see foil dual lands in booster packs (The real, Alpha dual lands). You can quote me on that.
Old cards smelled better. New packs smell too mainstream.
I'd agree about the old packs, but the new ones smell nice too. I love the smell of fresh cards. They should make an air freshener shaped like a magic card to give off that smell.
I'm going on record right now and stating that before the end of 2012 we will see foil dual lands in booster packs (The real, Alpha dual lands). You can quote me on that.
Ah the smell of a freshly cracked pack. I too also give those new packs a sniff. There's plenty of players at my LGS that do this. Kinda funny actually.
I'd agree about the old packs, but the new ones smell nice too. I love the smell of fresh cards. They should make an air freshener shaped like a magic card to give off that smell.
Crack a pack.
Punch holes in the tops of the cards.
Hand them in your car.
BAM,
HIRE ME WIZARDS.
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Several years ago, WotC apparently surveyed Magic players across the globe. They found that people liked turning things sideways, and hated LD. This is the result:
I swear if they made a perfume of it I would buy it immediately.
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this, a thousand times over. the smell of old books is really something too.
But if I crack open a large number of packs, I love to grab a large pile of cards and flip through them right next to my nose.
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Standard:
Nothing, the format Bores me!
Legacy:
RBurn (Made on the Cheap!)R
RGBelcherRG
WSoldier StompyW
BReanimatorB
EDH:
BUGRWSliver OverlordWRGUB
BGeth, Lord of the VaultB
Smelling packs...... you wierdos!!!
I huff my freshly opened cards too
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I'd agree about the old packs, but the new ones smell nice too. I love the smell of fresh cards. They should make an air freshener shaped like a magic card to give off that smell.
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so a fresh open beta pack has a different smell than a fresh open m12 pack? gonna have to test something like that one day.
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Crack a pack.
Punch holes in the tops of the cards.
Hand them in your car.
BAM,
HIRE ME WIZARDS.
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