Thank you, iamthewalrus(:3=!!! I hadn’t realized we could run sanctioned events without a certified judge. That’s fantastic news!
How long does it usually take for them to process those applications? I think people would be thrilled if I could set it up in time for my Saviors of Kamigawa tournament on Friday, June 3rd.
I definitely am. I haven’t played in a while, but recently I’ve decided I want to get back into it… and that’s when I discovered that sometime during our last move, a whole loose-leaf folder full of green and white cards went missing. Fortunately, I had about 3 decks built with most of my best cards, and I found them okay, but I lost a looooot of lands and commons. Not to mention my Unglueds.
I will start a thread once my stuff is together and catalogued. Not sure if I should start a separate thread now, or when I get it catalogued. Probably call it the “Somewhat Great Magic Card Giveaway” (probably in MPSIMS) since I didn’t actively collect rare cards myself, just bought a few extra packs to broaden the Beginner Set packs. Is there a way to distinguish the 5th Edition cards from the Beginner Set cards? (I haven’t looked at them for about a year or two.)
I think I’ll get a separate email account or something to give out my mailing address once we agree on what card(s) you want and then you can mail a “Self Addressed Stamped Envelope” to me with your Doper Name and the card(s) we agreed on. We’ll see if that’s the best way.
Should I make this a contest? Naw, probably not. If I have multiples, I would rather distribute them to as many different Dopers as possible, especially the rare ones, IF I do indeed have any rare ones at all. For all I know, they could all be lame cards, not even worth sending the SASE for!
I’m a busy guy, but I do want to try to get this done soon. I might mention the new thread here once I get it started. Three kids, a wife, work, and coaching the kid’s baseball team will do their best to thwart my efforts, but I would hate to just dump these cards in the trash or have some hobbie shop hack capitalize on them with minimal effort. My Dopers are the most deserved!
Sorry for the hijack.
Nitpick- Several of you have said that there is no D&D CCG. There is. AFAIK It’s out of print, but it does exist- Spellfire. I doubt it’s what the OP saw. But, that’s not really the point is it.
Yeticus, if all you bought were starter decks and boosters you will have rares. Every booster comes with 1 rare and a few uncommons, and decks will always have at least one rare in them. You might not have anything worth much, or even that useful, but you will have those rarities.
To distinguish between the two sets–look in the area between the art and the description on the right-hand side. There should be an icon of some sort. The edition sets usually have a number of the edition it is in some fashion, so on 5th edition cards you would see a ‘5’ there. Beginner’s set has a star I think (Feel free to correct me on these). Anything else and it’s from one of the expansion sets.
For the rarity, look at that icon again. Black means it’s a common card, silver is uncommon and rares have gold icons. Simple, eh?
There’s also another CCG out there - the name escapes me - that resolves combat like the d20 RPG system, using a d20. And let us not forget Blood Wars, the Planescape based CCG.
I still have my Spellfire, Blood Wars, Star Wars (Original), Lord of the Rings (Original), Magic the Gathering, Ani-Mayhem, and Dragonball Z CCG cards; several non-collectible card games as well, like Chrononauts and Fluxx.
I did get rid of my Star Trek CCG cards a while back, though…
Not quite. I believe you’re right about the star. But for 5th edition there was no expansion symbol. They started putting expansion symbols on the core set with 6th edition. But here’s the 5th edition cardlist with rarities:
The convention of coloring in the set symbol is a relatively recent one. If you have old cards, the symbols are all black. In some sets, there is no symbol at all.
One easy way to be sure what set a card is from is to go to magicthegathering.com and do a card search. When you find the card, it will list all sets that card was released in. Click on each set symbol to see the actual artwork of the card, and compare with what you have.
Ah, OK, thanks guys. I only really got into it around 6th edition, so although I had noticed some cards around with no symbols, I’ve mostly played with the newer sets. Now I know 
Your best resource is probably the new “Gatherer” database put online by Wizards of the Coast. You can find it at gatherer.wizards.com. To use it just put in your cardname and if it appears in multiple sets there will be a listing of the various sets in a “versions” column on the results. Once you bring up a card the symbols for the various expansions are in the upper-right hand corner. Clicking on each set will show a different version of the card in the main window. Find the one which exactly matches the card and you’re good to go with a high degree of confidence(there are a small handful of cards which aren’t this simple, mainly special issue or promo cards, but you probably won’t have any of those). Gatherer has some bugs, but it is generally the best resource for identifying cards. Second would probably be www.FindMagicCards.com which also lets you search by a card name and has the versions listed as well as pictures of each card. It is primarially a database of cards various shops have for sale but it has the various images of the cards from different sets online as well.
Enjoy,
Steven
Thanks for the links. That will help. My only problem is that I spent about 45 minutes looking for them last night with no success. My wife said (this morning) that they were in my middle son’s closet, but I doubt it…but I will look anyways. The back of mind says that my older son got a hold of them and sold them at his high school so he can whine and dine with his chicky. Let’s hope not.
Heh, another M:tg player looking for cards. 
(What are cards 6-10 on that list? Snow-covered lands?)
There have been, to date, a total of 34 expansion sets, not counting reprinted main sets, chronicles, renaissance, portal, and starter. The first set to use coloring for set symbol was Exodus, which was the 14th expanion set. Thus, I wouldn’t really view it as all that recent.
Also, note that the expanion symbol for 6th edition (classic) is “VI”, whereas the expansion symbols for 7th and 8th edition are “7” and “8”.
Also, there have been a very small number of cards printed either missing their expansion symbol, or with the incorrect expansion symbol.
Also note that I’m a big geek.
Yes. They count as basic lands and are therefore exempt, but technically they are different cards since they have different names at the top.
Well that and there are some non-land cards that have effects that apply only to snow-covered lands (mostly Ice Ages cards if I recall correctly). Like “Snow-covered mountainwalk” and such.
And you can sign me up for cards Mmmmmm cards.
I’d happily take some cards off your hands, if you still have them, Yeticus.
I’d recently dug out my magic cards, and I’ve been sorting them and putting them in binders. Weirdly, in the waning days of playing Magic, I was still buying a lot of cards, opening the packs, and then never touching the cards again. So I have a lot of binderizing to do. I’m really liking the Gatherer web site – back when I was playing, you had to dig around on the web hoping you could find a list of cards with which to organize your collection. Now, it’s a snap.
Yea, that is a big change from the past. Way back when if someone put up images of M:tG cards on a website for people to use for reference they would get nastygrams from Wizards of the Coast legal for copyright infringement. Being a M:tG player and collector is much easier today than it has been in the past.
Enjoy,
Steven