Someone had asked about favorite cards. These pretty much represented everything I loved about Magic. I must have side-boarded them out of my deck(s) because they’re the only “decent” old cards I really have left.
Oh well, its not like dual lands are worth any money or anything now…..
I’m glad I traded away my Time Walk for a Keldon Warlord to an older kid at the time. lol let me know if you need an Alpha or Beta Earthbind. I still have em.
-I completely forgot Balduvian Horde! I was so pumped to get a playset of them. SO bad with first-turn Sol Ring, 2nd turn Horde.
-Similarly, I will always…always love Rathi Dragon. The art alone still makes me want to run them.
Had a pretty beefy dragon deck back in the day with Shivans…Hellkites and Sneak Attack. Think there was a Call of the Wild or something in there too haha
The good old days. One of my first “major scores” as a trader was fast talking the kid next to me into trading me his just opened Rock Hydra for my just opened Wrath of God. Yeah…
Balduvian Horde gets a bad rap because of how hyped it was and how badly it flopped in comparison to the hype, but it was really just a victim of the metagame at the time (a concept that hadn’t really been introduced to us players yet). Their have definitely been times over the last 15 years when it would have seen play (even if you discount threshold/madness environments).
I remember trading a beta Berzerk for a revised Frozen Shade and a few draft picks to be named later. I was a mono black player at the time, so it didn’t really bother me at the time. Not knowing the relative monetary values of things sure didn’t hurt, either.
But man, I sure did have a thing for those early legendaries. At the time, I would trade almost anything for the “good” legendary creatures. I built my first real control deck around Dakkon Blackblade as the finisher. That deck was beast in our play group for a while.
Dakkon HAD to be the coolest freaking guy ever in the day! I’ve never played much white haha…and I don’t think the thought ever occurred to me back then that it was possible to ‘splash’ for anything less than half the deck!
I really wish Lord of Tresserhorn was a bit more playable, cuz he was %100 badass lol
Well…I shipped off the Gauntlet and Beserk for trade credit. (ps I had NO idea that Karakas was worth $60+ dollars!? in trade) I scoured through my old cards and found random things like that…for example Natural Order and Vampric Tutor…well “Yee-haw” looks like I finally have a playset of Snapcasters coming my way.
It was kind of sad getting rid of cards that I vividly remember opening in packs as a teenager. Strangely, the Antiquities Urza Land bummed me out the most. The art on all the Towers was just SO great, and I remember the first time I made an all artifact deck (splashing red for fireballs of course)…I went out and bought a Colossus of Sardia for $20 bucks.
Anyway, it was a weird night of fond nostalgia but I came to the conclusion that I have no real chance of ever being able to build a decent legacy or vintage (whatever format I could actually use most of this stuff) deck, that I may as well turn the cards in to SOME value. I think ‘teenage nick’ would be happy with that anyway.
…now I’m off to copy Patrick Chapin’s Grixis deck!