About ten years ago a friend from middle school got me hooked on it. First I just used his, then I started to buy my own. It was pretty raw at first, but then they started making higher quality stuff. It was getting stronger, more intense, more fun. I couldn’t stop, even if I wanted to. I got the guys in my neighborhood on it. some of them had it worse than I did. We’d drive for miles just to get the best prices on it. It only started there, as this was only a “gateway” addiction.
Magic: The Gathering
aka
Crack: The Addiction
I started playing around unlimited, but really started buying cards during Revised. I stopeed buying cards around Ice Age. I still have no fewer than 4 decks, ready to play. I also have some cards for Star Wars and Star Trek, but not enough to have made any kind of decent decks. I bought a fair amount of The Holy Grail game, which was ridiculous, but fun to play. Really, the cards were just fun to have. Then, recently, I bought some of the Harry Potter cards on ebay. I had bought a box of boosters a year or two ago for only 20 bucks, which is really good, considering there were 36 boosters that used to be $4 a pop. I bought a couple starter decks also so that I could get a rule book. Painfully simple for anyone that played Magic. There’s no banding, upkeep, tapping, or any of that Instant vs. Interrupt shit. You can play two cards a turn, and that’s that. If you have the Lessons in play, you’re good to go.
My brother Corey has bought a fair amount of cards, which, again, are dirt cheap, and we are going to throw down Friday morning. He and I have been talking a fair amount of smack about this game, even though we know very little about the other’s deck. He has a fair amount of cards, but the finer workings of these games is something that I have a lot of experience in. I’ll post how that goes. In the end, there is a certain amount of random “luck of the draw,” literally, involved, so I am not cocky. More like extremely confident. I mean, I’m leading with Ron for Pete’s sake. I’ve got Flitwick in my deck, along with Hagrid. You can bring your Harry Butthole Pussy Potter any day of the week. Weasley is our King.