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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 18 2009, 12:36 AM (587 Views) | |
| tchalla | Feb 18 2009, 12:36 AM Post #1 |
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Ok, so here is the deal: I have a few thousand commons, uncommons and rares boxed and eating up space in my apartment. My decks are all built and my son's decks are built and my girlfriend and her daughter's decks are built. So we have a bunch of extra cards just sitting around. Now, we have talked about ebaying them off, but that's just not much fun, really. And I've enjoyed VS for a long time, from opening packs to building decks to playing in events to teaching my son. So fun has been central to my VS experience, so giving my cards away HAS to be as much fun. So I'm going to have a contest or two. Entrants MuST be registered members of this site. That is rule number one. Entrants must post their entries here in this thread. But what is the contest? I want something posted that demonstrates what VS means to you. Essays, artwork, photographs, deck lists, anything you can come up with to post that shows the world what VS means to you. My household will look over the entries and discuss them and the winner will be notified and posted here. The prize? A 900 count box of VS cards. Totally random assortment, a mix of rarities and foils maybe some EAs and who knows what else! The winner will have 7 days to contact us with their mailing address so we can ship their prize out. This contest will end on Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 9:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. Thanks and have some fun! |
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| stubarnes | Feb 18 2009, 08:37 PM Post #2 |
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Curtis, I don't know if I will get the time to enter the contest properly but I would be glad to give away your closet cleanings as prizes in my Art class if that would suit you. I will even send you the money for postage. Send me a note at: fullbodytransplant@dadeschools.net and I will give you the snail mail.
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| kariggi | Feb 18 2009, 08:50 PM Post #3 |
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Watch out folks whatever you post you will be a winner, I saw this on nightline, its a scam to get your home address so T'challa can show up on your doorstep and debate statistics and string theory with you. |
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| Hank McCoy | Feb 18 2009, 10:38 PM Post #4 |
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So I suppose I will break the ice, so to speak. VS has meant a lot of things to my family and I, and in different ways to the whole clan. For my youngest, (who turns 7 today), I always think of the time DJ Midsouth came over to play some cards, and inbetween matches with me, built an X Men deck and played against my littlest boy. Teaching him about why you want to put the Blue and Green cards down, and bring out the Red and Grey cards, how to attack and compare the numbers to see who you hit. DJ even put the deck in a little orange (son's favorite color) deck box, to make it seem official, and my son won and spent the rest of the day talking about match. (And still brings it up from time to time). For my daughter (9), when DGL came out, we had a little tournament where 4 of us each took a team out of the box. (This was before we learned the joys of Draft). She took Green Lanterns (they had the most animals), and got such a kick out of Raining Acorns on her Daddy with Chp - the "Squirrel Lantern" as she called him. For my older boys (12 and 11), it has meant much more. I got to see how they went from just trying out some cards they liked to making decks and attending Hobby League with me. As children of a geek, they inherited the "uncool" traits that I possess (like enjoying being yourself and life without concern for what is "in"), and it was always a joy to see them in matches against older competition, holding their own and being accepted as equals. For my wife, it was the first collectible card game she pursued as recklessly as I did, for the love of her precious homeless (unaffiliated), there is a reason we have more DSM than anything, as she hunted for Imperiex. (I finally gave in and purchased them as singles.) For me, it has been a fun obsession, trying to beat the odds with mono team decks like New Gods, League of Assassins Plague Counters, Crime Lords (before the upgrade), Masters of Evil, etc. And as mentioned before it has given me a real friend, DJ Midsouth, who has become an adopted uncle to my children, and a fun nemesis for deckmaking and playing. Even something as simple as a sealed MSM box tournament, with pizza and soda, can be a blast for the whole family. I am currently working on a Fantasy set of Our Family, and when I get the pictures in, I will post those, which I think will be the ultimate version of what this game has meant to me and mine. Thanks for the chance to get these kind of stories out there! -Nathan
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| tchalla | Feb 19 2009, 08:53 AM Post #5 |
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I don't show up at people's doors to do anything any more. Besides, the people that want to argue math usually come looking for me long before I would even think to look for them. And then, when they are shown to be wrong, they try to change it up and work their hardest to prove that I'm wrong in some other way. Even if 1+1 can in fact = 3. But before THIS thread gets derailed... stu, email sent. Hank, your story is worth free cards just for posting it! I love that kind of stuff! A mix of playing at home and away and with the kids fully involved! Get me your mailing address and you sir will get some cards in the mail! |
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| scottkthompson | Feb 19 2009, 12:35 PM Post #6 |
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My situation is similar to Stu's. I'm a teacher who uses Vs. cards in his math class. Right now I'm working on the 100 Ideas, and trying to build them a ton of starter decks. If you wanted to send a donation towards that, I certainly would not complain! Otherwise I can write an essay too! Drop me a PM |
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| Hank McCoy | Feb 19 2009, 03:32 PM Post #7 |
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For those interested, I started posting some of the "Our Family" cards I was talking about over in Fan Creations. (Completely clueless about how to show them though - work in progress )
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| owenstar | Feb 19 2009, 10:18 PM Post #8 |
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Is pure greed enough of an answer? hahahah I have as of late been pouring lots of extra money into buying random ebay lots and boxes....My purpose is to stockpile cards for the future of VS... My best friend John and I have been playing this game for awhile now, we each recruit new members all the time...me from comic shops, him from work (they play cards on the clock between cars, they are mechanics) He just got 4 guys into the game and I dumped about 2 boxes worth of Xmen and spiderman stuff on to the to encourage them to play the best game ever made and spend some money on our dead game....having card stock is important John and myself keep together our group of about 15 players who love this game....his boys are 3 and almost 2...my daughter is almost 2 as well...we cant wait to teach them how to play vs as they grab our cards any time we pull them out....thankfully they are now past the sticking everything in the mouth stage!!! If you sent cards our way they would go to those folks we like to recruit to build decks and teach to play....John is much kinder as he will play magic with some....I refuse and mock them for playing with the smelly kids
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| cretin | Feb 22 2009, 01:59 PM Post #9 |
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Dear T'Challa, I really wanted to post something very selfish here for a while. Then I read some of the others entries (above) and now I hope that your spare cards go to one of the great projects mentioned above (e.g. like the 100-ideas) that will eventually bring new players into our folds. Good luck to all above! Cheerz, cretin |
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| SpecialsauceReid | Feb 22 2009, 07:29 PM Post #10 |
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I also hope that Curtis's project falls to those doing far more good than me. I do however want to let people know that I have been supporting VS out of my collection for 5+ different people over the last 3 years and if anyone is really serious about getting rid of extra cards or all their cards I have 4 new players in our Kansas area that I would love to donate cards to so they can build decks. Right now they are using MWS to build decks and then send me deck lists before events and the pain in flying home on friday, playing soccer at night, and building 5 decks for saturdays tournaments is a bit tiresome. Thanks |
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| Calvin Government | Feb 22 2009, 08:23 PM Post #11 |
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I'd never actually played a CCG when I went to college. Mostly, I just played video games and read - books, not comics. So, when I got to school, I was a Creative Writing major, which ended up being a pretty big mistake for the most part, but that's for another time - the key here is, that's when my roommate and I met perhaps the most obnoxious person on Earth. He was loud and unrepentantly, almost militantly geeky, the kind who firmly believes that nice guys finish last and that's why bad shit happens to them, even though they don't and he wasn't particularly nice a lot of the time. The kind of person, to be short, that I was making a conscious effort to try and avoid, largely because that was me in high school and I didn't want to slip back into that rather unhealthy mentality. So, my roommate and I tried to avoid him as best we could. But, the fact is, we had a lot of shared interests with this person, so it was tough - we'd see him at gaming every week for about 12 hours; at the comic shop; at the dining hall. There really wasn't any way to avoid him. So, over at the comic shop one day, we got to talking, and when he wasn't pissed off and sulky, he was actually a really cool guy. He was playing some game that I'd never heard of - you guessed it, VS. I was curious, so I sat down, and he showed me how to play. Ironically, he didn't actually know how to play, not fully - the best example of this was when we assumed that 'invulnerability' meant 'cannot be stunned', so we took a game to turn 19 while he had a progressively larger board and I had a single (not actually) unstunnable 3-drop reinforced in my support row, taking no damage at all. But, despite occasional lapses like that, we figured out how to play and decided to start a hobby league. Then more people started to join us - we pulled three guys away from Magic, and got another couple to start playing CCGs for the first time. Over the course of four years, the VS player base went from the two of us to a pretty reliable base of 7-9 players. Even when interest was petering out online due to no one saying telling us anything and tourney cuts and the WoW release, there was a core group who stuck around. Our comic shop burned down, and we started meeting in a coffee shop and ordering boxes online. We gave cards away freely to new players looking to get in, and we kept our group big. I went from having one friend to having a big group of great, reliable friends that I hung out with 2-3 times a week. In all likelihood, it was a group of guys that I probably never would've gotten to know otherwise, either because our paths never would have crossed or because I wouldn't have taken the time to get to know them. VS turned four years that could have been terribly lonely, insular years into the four best years of my life, meeting some of the coolest people I had the pleasure to know in college. Going to Megaweekend Chicago with those guys was great, even though I got my ass handed to me in just about every game and lost my playset of 4-drop DCL Wonder Woman, the only card I've ever spent more than 2$ on as a single. Organizing the weekly hobby leagues, or having a bunch of them come join me for about 5-6 hours of VS while I marathoned all of Freaks and Geeks in a single day, or when everyone else was gone for spring break. When I went to Japan with one of them, we went on an epic journey throughout Nagoya to try and find some VS cards - Heralds had just come out, and we wanted to get us some cards, no matter how lost we became! I've tried other games. They've been fun - Call of Cthulhu, A Game of Thrones, the Spoils - or less than fun - Magic, WoW - but none of them have ever really had the sense of community that VS did. I'm sure there are great people who play them, but I never really met them. VS, however, kept college fun, and introduced me to a group of awesome people. So, to put it as cheesily as possible, VS really does make me feel better, even just deckbuilding by myself, because so often, it was deckbuilding with my friends. Whew. Now, all that said, I definitely think that Scott and Stu deserve the cards, here - don't get me wrong, I love deck-building and giving away the decks, but how can you top getting kids addicted to them in school? You can't. Verily, but that is a worthy cause. Edited by Calvin Government, Feb 22 2009, 08:24 PM.
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| Zuranthium | Feb 22 2009, 10:22 PM Post #12 |
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Unfortunately I don't have time to do this because I'll be at an Oscar party all day today. If you want to extend the deadline a day I'll participate, though.
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| tchalla | Feb 24 2009, 01:16 AM Post #13 |
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I don't think I'm going to see a better entry than Calvin's. That's a great story that if it was shared with people in an interview about playing cards, this would give the norms a moment of pause for thought, I think. Great work, Cal! Send me a PM with your addy and I'll be sending you a box of cards :) |
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| kariggi | Feb 24 2009, 03:25 AM Post #14 |
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She does:![]() Are you going to be the man to tell her no? Just sayin' hey, giv'em where they give the most joy, hope you're having a great day. |
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