As I was putting together the 2007 round up I was surprised to note how little modeling I got done towards the end of last year. I listed a number of reasons for my lack of modeling, bar one which I’ll confess to now: September last year I started playing Magic the Gathering, the original collectible card game.
Prior to starting a Magic collection I was strongly opposed to collectible games of any sort, simply because they create a totally artificial economy based on the false ‘rarity’ of mass produced cards or figures. However an old war gaming buddy of mine Griff (who’s featured here before) decided to take the plunge and at the same time managed to convince me to spend $20nz on an older Planar Chaos deck: Unraveling Mind.
That was a mere four months ago and in that time I’ve spent over $300nz building up a moderate collection of Magic cards. I’ve found it a surprisingly enjoyable game, with a reasonable amount of depth to it. I guess there’s a reason Magic is still in print after fifteen years. Magic is also ridiculously cheap compared to anything else I play regularly, despite the fact it’s collectible. Even my modest collection allows me to build decks in combinations of all five colors and have enjoyable games against my friends with smaller or larger (Griff, how much have you spent again?) collections. Although no doubt I’d get stomped on in any games store tourney.
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