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shit is weak
May 17, 2008

Slaw doggin' it
Hopefully, all that nerd poo poo is worthless in a few years.

Here are some pictures of the chinese fakes. They look exactly the same. Suck it dweebs.

http://imgur.com/a/yiHpf

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Un chien andalou
Oct 22, 2008

The pipe is leaking
living up to your name nicely i see

Lucky Guy
Jan 24, 2013

TY for no bm

那个男人在做他的肛门是什么?

Salt Fish
Sep 11, 2003

Cybernetic Crumb
It'd be funny to make a document about telling the difference between fake and real magic cards but use real ones for all the photos.

Thunder Moose
Mar 7, 2015

S.J.C.
From what I remember the older cards are made of different material and a card dealer allegedly knows the difference when trying to examine something like an alpha or beta power 9/dual land.

Or maybe not, IDK or care anymore.

Sold a Force of Will once for 15 bucks that I then turned into a delicious pizza; no ragrets.

David Copperfield
Mar 14, 2004


im david copperfield
as long as my collection of holographic pokemon cards is safe

Boinks
Nov 24, 2003



Thunder Moose posted:

From what I remember the older cards are made of different material and a card dealer allegedly knows the difference when trying to examine something like an alpha or beta power 9/dual land.

Or maybe not, IDK or care anymore.

Sold a Force of Will once for 15 bucks that I then turned into a delicious pizza; no ragrets.

When I quit playing, Force of Will was worth 75 cents, WTF.

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
If a picture is worth a thousand words that gallery is a novella of virginity.

Thunder Moose
Mar 7, 2015

S.J.C.

Boinks posted:

When I quit playing, Force of Will was worth 75 cents, WTF.

Yeah it's like the best counter and worth a bunch now.

edit: lmao http://shop.tcgplayer.com/magic/alliances/force-of-will

shit is weak
May 17, 2008

Slaw doggin' it

Thunder Moose posted:

From what I remember the older cards are made of different material and a card dealer allegedly knows the difference when trying to examine something like an alpha or beta power 9/dual land.

Or maybe not, IDK or care anymore.

Sold a Force of Will once for 15 bucks that I then turned into a delicious pizza; no ragrets.

Yea good thing the type of tree they used to make beta cards out of is extinct. That way idiots who invest in cardstock instead of real valuables are insured.

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
nah they cant print any more power 9, real collectors can call em out. which is good because too many nerds have them as their retirement fund and it'd be weird to have a bunch of suicide bombings with all the survivors covered in bloody stinky fat

casual shitmagic with friends is fun once or twice a year. anything competitive or serious is garbage

Amanda Huggensuck
Nov 8, 2012
not goatse voted one

I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004

poo poo is weak posted:

Hopefully, all that nerd poo poo is worthless in a few years.

Here are some pictures of the chinese fakes. They look exactly the same. Suck it dweebs.

http://imgur.com/a/yiHpf

I did some Google searching and apparently these can only be bought in a set of 54,000 cards for $800. What would be cool is if you could buy a whole set like you normally would from Wizards of the Coast but for a fraction of the cost because who gives a poo poo if the cards are fake or not.

babypolis
Nov 4, 2009

I said come in! posted:

I did some Google searching and apparently these can only be bought in a set of 54,000 cards for $800. What would be cool is if you could buy a whole set like you normally would from Wizards of the Coast but for a fraction of the cost because who gives a poo poo if the cards are fake or not.

yeah if i could just buy an entire set for like a 100 bucks this game might be worth playing again

Saalkin
Jun 29, 2008


babypolis posted:

yeah if i could just buy an entire set for like a 100 bucks this game might be worth playing again

same, i'd drop some money to have a bunch of this poo poo to play a draft cube or some poo poo, but not at loving $800.

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus
MTG related things have always been a sound investment.

Matey
Mar 28, 2008

eat food

one time i won $120 playing blackjack at a casino, and sometimes I play poker. That's about the extent of my adult card playing life

e: ya fuckin dorks

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

poo poo is weak posted:

Hopefully, all that nerd poo poo is worthless in a few years.

Here are some pictures of the chinese fakes. They look exactly the same. Suck it dweebs.

http://imgur.com/a/yiHpf

they are pretty easy to tell from real cards lol people are just dumb and lazy and mad that they got tricked

Hobohemian
Sep 30, 2005

by XyloJW
Magic is pokemon cards for "adults" right?

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

Jonny 290 posted:

nah they cant print any more power 9, real collectors can call em out. which is good because too many nerds have them as their retirement fund and it'd be weird to have a bunch of suicide bombings with all the survivors covered in bloody stinky fat

casual shitmagic with friends is fun once or twice a year. anything competitive or serious is garbage

no the restricted list is on its way out actually, i doubt it will last many more years. too much money in it for wizards

some of the nerds are talking about a class action lawsuit if they get rid of the restricted list lmao

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

Hobohemian posted:

Magic is pokemon cards for "adults" right?

its like fantasy poker mixed with a very complicated rock paper scissors setup

pretty soft girl
Oct 1, 2004

my dead grandfather fights better than you
the mtg computer game that came out in like 1997 where you could just make your deck be whatever you wanted it to be instead of blowing money on boosters made me realize how fuckin' dumb ccgs were and never wasted my money on that poo poo ever again

I was 10 years old at the time, too bad I didn't think back on that lesson 7 years later with MMOs and internet forums

penus penus penus
Nov 9, 2014

by piss__donald
incredibly, printing pictures onto thick pieces of paper isnt very hard to do

Mr. Pumroy
May 20, 2001

i would not have known those weren't real magic cards. but then i don't know what real magic cards look like.

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc
yeah lol chinese be making fake airplane parts and nerds surprised when they print out pieces of paper

pretty soft girl
Oct 1, 2004

my dead grandfather fights better than you
lol at chaos orb errata, can only imagine how many physical nerd slap fights that card caused

quote:

10/4/2004 You can arrange your cards any time before the Orb is put onto the battlefield, but not after. In general, you should not stack cards or put them in places where your opponent can't read the names of all of them or count them. This is recommended good gaming practice.
10/4/2004 It must flip 360 degrees (that's what "flip" means). And this flip must be in the air and not in your hand.
10/4/2004 This is a not a targeted ability.
10/4/2004 If you have sleeves on cards, they count as the cards.
10/4/2004 You can't interfere in any physical way with the casting of this card.

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

pretty soft girl posted:

the mtg computer game that came out in like 1997 where you could just make your deck be whatever you wanted it to be instead of blowing money on boosters made me realize how fuckin' dumb ccgs were and never wasted my money on that poo poo ever again

I was 10 years old at the time, too bad I didn't think back on that lesson 7 years later with MMOs and internet forums

you could also not be lovely at math and just do that but in real life and make money in addition to it

ive played for almost 15 years now and its laughably easy for a group of people to pool money and buy bulk pre-orders of singles for new sets and flip the good ones around. eventually you dont need to put money into it because you sell off the old stuff to buy the new stuff that you play tournaments with and then sell, rinse & repeat

its a really easy and pretty fun way to make money, mtgonline made it 10x easier, too. its a good time to not suck at math, in the mtg world

e: our last speculation was buying 100 of a card named den protector for $2.50. http://sales.starcitygames.com/cardsearch.php?singlesearch=Den+Protector you could say it went well, we sold them before they dropped below 10 though

Cursed Lumberjack fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Jun 30, 2015

Painful Dart Bomb
May 23, 2012

And he was talking 'fore I knew it, and as he grew he'd say "I'm gonna be like you, dad" "You know I'm gonna be like you".
If a person wasf smart they could print out their own cards....

oh well

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

chinese have mastered 2d printing

Happy Bear Suit
Jul 21, 2004

good

flood the market with black lotuses

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

Painful Dart Bomb posted:

If a person wasf smart they could print out their own cards....

oh well

haha they do this and get disqualified all the time for their lovely printed off cards and its loving hilarious

penus penus penus
Nov 9, 2014

by piss__donald
just because I jerk it to hot tranny porn doesnt mean im going to seriously discuss it in GBS

pretty soft girl
Oct 1, 2004

my dead grandfather fights better than you

Cursed Lumberjack posted:

you could also not be lovely at math and just do that but in real life and make money in addition to it

ive played for almost 15 years now and its laughably easy for a group of people to pool money and buy bulk pre-orders of singles for new sets and flip the good ones around. eventually you dont need to put money into it because you sell off the old stuff to buy the new stuff that you play tournaments with and then sell, rinse & repeat

its a really easy and pretty fun way to make money, mtgonline made it 10x easier, too. its a good time to not suck at math, in the mtg world

e: our last speculation was buying 100 of a card named den protector for $2.50. http://sales.starcitygames.com/cardsearch.php?singlesearch=Den+Protector you could say it went well, we sold them before they dropped below 10 though

yeah you could do that or you could have more gratifying hobbies, don't get me wrong bilking nerds out of their hard-earned cash must be pretty satisfying but the game must still be terribly unfun

granted I literally stopped playing as soon as you started so maybe they did something to it that made it entertaining

pretty soft girl fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Jun 30, 2015

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

Happy Bear Suit posted:

good

flood the market with black lotuses

theres no point, theres only a few hundred high quality black lotuses so if you put on up for sale it will get scrutinized by every sperg this side of the atlantic ocean

they print off massive sheets of hundreds of dual lands and stuff that are worth a few hundred each and sell them for 50-100 rather than their real price, people are so excited about a good deal they buy 4

there really is a lot of hubbub about these but the truth is they are very easy to spot if you are not a retarded kid using moms credit card to buy poo poo off ebay. its really a non-issue aside from the nerds who are sad they might get fleeced due to their stupidity/greed/lack of care

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

pretty soft girl posted:

yeah you could do that or you could have more gratifying hobbies, don't get me wrong bilking nerds out of their hard-earned cash must be pretty satisfying but the game must still be terribly unfun

i cant really find a game comparable than it other than maybe settlers of catan, which is a whole different thing. its easily the best game in the world, in my opinion, and i felt that way before i started making more money on it than i spend, so idk

its good for keeping your brain active, too, and its better than staying in the basement all day

i have some other hobbies i guess but none have lasted 15 years and none make me money

pretty soft girl
Oct 1, 2004

my dead grandfather fights better than you

Cursed Lumberjack posted:

theres no point, theres only a few hundred high quality black lotuses so if you put on up for sale it will get scrutinized by every sperg this side of the atlantic ocean

they print off massive sheets of hundreds of dual lands and stuff that are worth a few hundred each and sell them for 50-100 rather than their real price, people are so excited about a good deal they buy 4

there really is a lot of hubbub about these but the truth is they are very easy to spot if you are not a retarded kid using moms credit card to buy poo poo off ebay. its really a non-issue aside from the nerds who are sad they might get fleeced due to their stupidity/greed/lack of care

lmao

if I'm ever on the run from the law and have to escape to southeast asia this is how I'm going to pay rent

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.

pretty soft girl posted:

lmao

if I'm ever on the run from the law and have to escape to southeast asia this is how I'm going to pay rent

where are you going to get an inking factory and the millions of yuans in startup and bribe money though?

this isnt a dude printing these off in his home, this is a business model run by a group of guys who saw MTG and thought "hey making fake cards is pretty good money lets do that" and built a factory to do it exactly like wizards has here in the states

Cursed Lumberjack
Nov 14, 2006
A rather unfortunate logger indeed.
crap i just accidentally made 20 bucks selling some Breeding Pools i forgot i had on MTG:O

next rounds on me boys, i paid 83 cents for those fuckers

pretty soft girl
Oct 1, 2004

my dead grandfather fights better than you

Cursed Lumberjack posted:

where are you going to get an inking factory and the millions of yuans in startup and bribe money though?

this isnt a dude printing these off in his home, this is a business model run by a group of guys who saw MTG and thought "hey making fake cards is pretty good money lets do that" and built a factory to do it exactly like wizards has here in the states

I'm beginning to remember why I didn't like magic the gathering players in general, jeeeeeeeesus

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NecroMonster
Jan 4, 2009

are the fakes actually any good tho?

i mean, printing something that looks the same isn't hard, but everything else about magic cards is a loving bitch to get right

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