Robot Claw

I bought some Magic cards online.

Specifically, 41 different boosters from 38 expansions, plus 2 premades.

To make the long story short – I like having cards from all the expansions, and there were gaps in my collection 🙂

The oldest cards bought were from Fallen Empires and the most recent were from 2010. Some of the packs were from expansions that I don’t remember ever seeing (Scourge, Prophecy), and some were expansions I already had cards from but couldn’t resist the $2.50 per pack price. In only one case did I pay more than $4 for a pack – and that was the $6 I paid for the single Chronicles pack I bought.

I only opened 4 packs yesterday, including one of the two Fallen Empires. I was hoping for a ‘Hymn To Tourach’ (they are common after all), instead I pulled these two cards from the 8 card pack:

Ah, you have to love the multiple-art approach in that expansion. I expect BS and AW are having fond flashbacks to opening boxes worth of FE boosters right now 🙂

Many of the older cards I bought will likely be unplayable. But a lot of the fun of the game is working out which are and which are not. Looking at a strange card and thinking “Can I use that…?”, and devising some deck that can utilize it. This is in some ways as much fun as actually playing the game!

I’m going to break down the decks I made for Australia and remake a bunch of decks more suited to solo play. I’ve already done that with the black deck, replacing it with a (a bit too) powerful Vampire deck. Next will come green and then I have an idea for a black/blue discard deck as well. Here’s hoping many of the cards in these as-yet-unopened packs will find a place in these as-yet-unmade decks.

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