Magic: the Gathering

[malicious]

A few denizens of the IRC chatroom have taken up using Magic Workstation (www.magicworkstation.com) to play M:tG online. Show up in IRC and people will play with you. Verbally abuse your opponent on Zap's temporary Ventrilo server - details are on IRC's topic.

[MuffinMan]

i used to play this card game...but it wasn't always fun for me and wasn't a wise way to spend my money...

[Rkhon]

Yeah used to play back in the day. Definately had some good times with it. But also some bad ones, some that ended with big mouth nerds getting beaten and threatened....because I'm the toughest nerd ever :P

The art on the cards is a major part of what got me into art, and talking for hours with Scott Fischer ( www.fischart.com ) at a tournament.

Good times, but don't care to go back to em...maybe someday, who knows.

The old wizards of the coast building HQ was awesome!!! Was in seattle, wish they didnt close it down. Place was wicked.

[Sok N. Wett]

Great game, made lots of money stealing them and selling at card vendors, ahhh good times. Always did love the art on them. Rkhon did they really close it down? Have people at my workplace that knows people who works at wizard of the Coast.

[Rkhon]

Wizards didnt close. But they had a huge building in seattle that was made for tournaments. Not only that but it was decked out with cool artwork and statues, had INSANE LAN setups on two floors, a resturaunt, crazy hi tech D&D tables. It was a gamers paradise. But no more....

sigh

Found a better description, no luck on pictures though, see if i still have the brouchure in a box of old crap anywhere.

"The Wizards of the Coast Game Center may be the coolest spectacle to blast onto the Ave in years. It's the first game center for the Renton-based company best known for creating the trading card game Magic: The Gathering. The two-story gaming palace includes a BattleTech virtual reality center with 12 interactive simulator pods, a cutting-edge video game and pinball arcade, a "War Room" designed for computer-network games and a huge tournament center."

[oracrest]

Yeah, I was a fan of this game way back in High School, but it ultimately worked out to be whoever had the most money to throw away on cards would have the best decks. Kind of ruins the whole strategy part for me, heh

[klinesmoker]

Wow, the memories. The real problem with the game are those idiots who play the same old easy win decks (channel/fireball, prosbloom) over and over. When I finally built a deck that owned everyone, they all quit. Still an inspirational game, if only for it's amazing artwork! :)