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Yes, it wasn't hard to get that many people for a tourney. I went to New York City to play in one that had over 300 people. And multiple ones in Detroit with over 150.

And its wasn't hard to make money at it when you had really no bills. Food, Gas and fun. Me and a friend would travel from town to town and play at game stores. Back then we'd play the way it was meant to be... for ante. So I'd win a bunch of cards, trade those back for more cards... sell some... etc... throw in conventions where I'd make more $$$ selling and trading cards and it was a blast.

No money directly from playing in tourneys but enough from selling cards. Figure at one time or another I'd have at least 3 black lotus, and a couple dozen moxes... it wasn't hard.

Ah yes, if you were selling the cards, that's definitely believable. I didn't even think about the playing ante, that's way before my time. Losing a Mox or Lotus would suck.

We were mean.. we modified the rules to play what we called cut throat ante in multiplayer matches... no ante upfront...you'd lose a random card to everyone still alive when you lost. muhahaha...so some big 10-12 player multiplayer matches would mean I could walk out of one days work with 100 or more new cards won from ante.

Did any of you hear of EDH? It's elder dragon highlander, where you use a 100 card deck with only one of each card, and a legend card as a "general", who isn't shuffled into the deck but can be played from outside the game. It's my favorite format now, I don't want to play anything else.

Heard of it, haven't played it myself. It sounds fun though, I should give it a try.

Yeah, been about 10 years myself. Began with Invasion & have been playing ever since. Been to a few pro tours & nats in my day. I hit all the PTQs & Grand Prixs I can in range.

I remember the early days with ante and a card called "chaos orb". The idea behind that card was you flip it above the other players playing area and whatever cards it landed on would put in the graveyard. People would rip up the chaos orb into little pieces and draop them so they would land on more cards.

I heard once in a big tournament guys were taping thier cards to vertical boards so the chaos orb couldn't land on them, & then the chaos orb players countered by dipping the orb in glue so it could stick to walls.

Anyone playing this online? I have been getting an urge to play it, but am hesitant.

I do. Screen name is "swordchucks". Must warn you though, it isn't cheap or easy. Your rating on here will be at least 100 points lower than in real life as MTGO players on average are pretty good. On the other hand, if you're looking to get good, there's no better place to play as much as you want with top calibur competition. There's been several pro level tournament winners who trained solely on magic online, unlike the traditional pro with established playtesting groups.

I don't really have any experience. My only experience was as a kid. Getting swindled by people I played against and card shops. So, I gave up pretty quick. I am really interested in the pauper format. You mentioned people are really good--are they nice about it or am I going to get a lot of slamming on how my deck sucks and the like and I need to learn to play? It seems this would be a 'no' in pauper, but not sure. There seems to be so many themes or winning decks. I'm curious if many play just off whatever and build up on it as they play and learn their deck? Or is there no way going around any theme or winning deck? I'm not a competitive person. Not too interested in winning I just want to mess around and play around with decks of my own choosing. Thoughts?

Eh, there are people on the negative end of game playing no matter what you get into. As for building concepts/themes, they do quite well (depending on how you play it). There are mechanics and ratios you do have to take into consideration (primarily for tournament play). There is a way around anything in this game . . . however, how you build you deck determines the effectiveness. For example, mill decks (decks which put a decks cards into the graveyard/discard pile) are hard to beat, but they usually only rely on a few key cards to do it . . . everything else is support. In the end, its up to you to decide how the deck is supposed to function. There are some deck ideas online if you want some concept to start with, or find a group of cards that you are interested in and compare abilities for best results.

There's not a lot of slamming on MTGO. The worst that happens are sore losers. If you don't feel you're up to the high levels of play yet, you don't have to play in any tournaments. There's the casual play room that allows you to play as much as you want, in any format, for free. You don't win anything for winning, but don't lose anything for losing either.

OK, I think I'm going to sign up and try it out only $10 not too big a deal.

I didn't want to go on MTGO, because I already spend too much on paper cards. but there are more opportunities to play, and I could always just play draft or sealed, and then sell the cards. I heard about problems with MTGO, suck as people drawing 15 lands in a row or something.

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/ ... seid=74237

This amuses me.