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Fantastic Foreskin
Jan 6, 2013

A golden helix streaked skyward from the Helvault. A thunderous explosion shattered the silver monolith and Avacyn emerged, free from her prison at last.

Years ago. Idk anything about the ygo market though.

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Fantastic Foreskin
Jan 6, 2013

A golden helix streaked skyward from the Helvault. A thunderous explosion shattered the silver monolith and Avacyn emerged, free from her prison at last.

Toshimo posted:

The big bubble to burst them all was when SaffronOlive put out a cash bounty on a fake up-and-coming deck

When did that happen?

Fantastic Foreskin
Jan 6, 2013

A golden helix streaked skyward from the Helvault. A thunderous explosion shattered the silver monolith and Avacyn emerged, free from her prison at last.


Ah. Pirate Stompy was hilarious (if ethically dubious), didn't know about the bounty.

Fantastic Foreskin
Jan 6, 2013

A golden helix streaked skyward from the Helvault. A thunderous explosion shattered the silver monolith and Avacyn emerged, free from her prison at last.

It was, but people bought up terrible Masques pirates before they came clean. If someone had bought up the cards beforehand then it would be scummy, though I haven't heard that particular allegation before.

Fantastic Foreskin
Jan 6, 2013

A golden helix streaked skyward from the Helvault. A thunderous explosion shattered the silver monolith and Avacyn emerged, free from her prison at last.

Metazoo I have to believe was started just to try to sell as a collectable, because that layout is even worse than the 90s tcgs.

Fantastic Foreskin
Jan 6, 2013

A golden helix streaked skyward from the Helvault. A thunderous explosion shattered the silver monolith and Avacyn emerged, free from her prison at last.

HootTheOwl posted:

Marketing your game as filling to void in big prize wizard chess that magic left when it abandoned the pro tour and then not dropping the hammer on your champ straight up cheating is a bad look imo.

Nah that was part of growth of competitive magic too. Someone just needs to step up and be the Chris Pikula of F&B.

Fantastic Foreskin
Jan 6, 2013

A golden helix streaked skyward from the Helvault. A thunderous explosion shattered the silver monolith and Avacyn emerged, free from her prison at last.

Dr. Clockwork posted:

Did nerds on Usenet get upset when MTG Unlimited was only in print for a year back in ‘94?

Probably? As best I can tell 'getting upset' is what nerds on Usenet did, I don't think the event in question mattered.

Fantastic Foreskin
Jan 6, 2013

A golden helix streaked skyward from the Helvault. A thunderous explosion shattered the silver monolith and Avacyn emerged, free from her prison at last.

Lolin' at "we'll sell the good cards directly to you in an auction. Also we'll sell them without an auction somehow. We have no details on how any of this will work".

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Fantastic Foreskin
Jan 6, 2013

A golden helix streaked skyward from the Helvault. A thunderous explosion shattered the silver monolith and Avacyn emerged, free from her prison at last.

There were enough people who wanted to be one to support paywalled strategy articles and $100-200 Goyfs. It was by any metric a dumb aspiration, but there were plenty of 18-25 year old ubernerds who wanted to play Magic for a living badly enough to support the ecosystem.

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