Misprints: Issue 8 - Why Do We Even Have 10,000 Magic Cards?!
We spent the weekend cleaning out one of the closets we were using to store computer parts and junk when I decided it was time to properly store all of our Magic and DBZ cards that were being kept in about three dozen little deck boxes and huge fifteen-year-old cardboard boxes. So twelve 2 inch binders and 700 card sheet sleeve things about 90% of them have now cataloged away. I'm waiting on more binder pages to get here to get the rest put up but the bulk of the nightmare is contained. I keep finding small decks worth of cards in the junk from the closet so not everything is exactly sorted in order in the binders but they are broken down into colors and other types.
There is another stack of these but dbz cards.
Not that we've ever actively played Magic the Gathering in years, but we did buy the odd expansion box here an there. Considering most of this stuff is either not tournament legal and if you don't keep up with the latest cards you can't really play competitively. We don't own any super crazy rare alpha or beta cards, I have some white border alphas and betas but they're commons and land which do look cool in a deck if you're playing some kids at your local Friday night Magic tourny. The bulk of this card mountain wasn't even Magic, it was the DBZ cards from high school. The game was very fun to play but was even worse about the expansions making the previous cards obsolete. You know how in the show when a new season starts the bad guy is a billion times stronger than the main characters? That's how the game worked too, so if you didn't buy starter decks with the stronger characters you would die super quick. They came out with a new DBZ card game recently to include the new blue hair Goku stuff but I have no plans of playing it as I'm not 16 years old anymore and online card games like Hearthstone are a better investment as the cards can be updated rather than banned.
I also managed to sell my CR-10 this past weekend so the SLA printer fund has started, and after going through so many of these old cards I might start throwing some up on ebay to get things rolling faster. Now, as far as writing goes I got only one chapter worked out this week but that's only due to all the card sorting. Seriously, it took about 2 hours on average to sort and load each binder's worth. Other than that, writing is still going smoothly despite having to take care of kids and afterschool/weekend things, which is the whole goal here.
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