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Originally posted by red5angel
Then the second set came out, or Legends, I can't remember if it was the second set or not, anyway, that day I couldn't win, playing against anyone who bought legends cards.
That was the point it occurred to me that it had got out of the realms of what I enjoyed, a small portable game, to collector status. now you can't walk into a freakin game store without hearing a bunch of kiddies screaming over their magic decks and the local mega-geeks talking about their ultimate combos.
Then people start spending a few hundred dollars on them and it really got sickening.
The gaming industry suffered for it too. For many years all I saw were magic tourneys and GW gamesdays. WOTC bought out my favorite fantasy game, stole the artists and then didn't do anything with it (Talislanta). I'd still like to kick someone in the nutz for that one....
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My girlfriend and I tried magic for a while and got bored with it. The gaming store thing still goes on here you have to crawl around the magic tables to get to the gaming stuff. I remember when i finally decieded I was done with magic when I saw a guy bring his