Hi all,
As we all know, MTG has a large collectable aspect to it in addition to game play, and many of us take pleasure in the ownership of certain cards within our collections, either because of nostalgia, sentimentality, power or myriad reasons in between.
What card(s) are you most proud of in your collections? And why?
Also, what's a card that you've always wanted but have never quite been able to get your hands on?
Obviously, I'm sure we'd all like to own the Power 9 and be able to buy a house off the back of them, but I'm more interested in hearing about the less obvious cards. Maybe there's a certain promo version of a card you've always loved. A card that was an integral part of deck you always wanted to try. A card you've wanted to trade in to but have never been able to find it in stock.
For me, when it comes to collecting, I like to focus on iconic Black cards.
As such, my favourite card is probably my
Torment Cabal Coffers that I traded into aggressively (which then subsequently got reprinted and the price tanked, such is life).
My "white whale" is
Lake of the Dead. When I first looked into buying one, you could pick one up for around £10, but I had just gotten back in to Magic and didn't want to spend £10 on card board that I might very well lose interest in in a month or two. Now days, £10 for a card seems absolutely fine, but
Lake of the Dead now go for over £100 and I
wish I'd just bitten the bullet back then.
Around the same time, I also remember looking at buying a
badlands for about £10 and deciding against it because "it's just a land, doesn't seem worth that, and those coloured stripes in the text box are really ugly". What an idiot.
With the prices of old cards sky rocketing, I'm sure many of you have been in similar positions, so let's hear them.