Poker Chess Magic The Gathering Baccarat

so now they have baccarat tournaments?

I'm going to bring a chessboard with pieces to a casino poker room...

It looks like the next Magic core set will have Shivan Dragon, Senir Vampire, Serra Angel, Mahamoti Djinn, just to name a few of the cards from 20 years ago...

Where can one play Magic? I miht be interested to learn the basics of the game.

Any card/comic book store...

I've never played baccarat, but the other three are my favorite games.

Another comparison: I always lose at all three.

I've never played Magic, but I have always wanted to try Tragic the Garnering.

Is there not some places where one might play the game online?

Magic players are always alone.

I play a fair amount of magic, mainly Legacy and Cube with some Modern.

I play MTG too. But I hate poker and all these card casino games. The are associated with brothels, mafia, casino, alcohol, cheaters, smoking, bandits, dirty money, illegal places, etc.

Never played Baccarat, but there are life lessons I have learned from the other three:

Chess: even in a bad position, you should set a realistic goal and do your best, since it is the only thing you can do. Applies very well to life too.

Poker: even if you did do what is right, you can have bad luck. Be content with knowledge that you played things the right way, even if things did not go your way.

Magic: Buying a mox for $100 appeared expensive back in those days. Just because something has gotten crazy expensive, it can still be worth buying.

lol I was a huge Magic nerd. I had a Zombie deck, with which I've never lost, because it was so overpowered :D

MTG is my other main obsession.  I gave up tourney and league chess for online mtg and no regrets.  My writing and tattoos are still predominantly chess and will be going on, although one poem was mtg.

Bongcloudftw: hard to compare the hardness of the games. It is different kind of hardness. Chess is hard thinking and focus, while poker and magic have more luck, and skill is often equal with experience.

What finally turned me off from magic was the publishing of deck listings. Tuning a novel deck could take months, and you play one tournament, and then you have copies of your deck against you.

And that you had to buy hordes of new cards every few months to stay competitive (type II back then allowed only the last three sets, and they started to rotate out sets quite quickly)

Is there a market anymore for old MTG cards in good condition? I have a few boxes of Ice Age, probably some Homelands cards mixed in as well.

I am not sure what you mean. I am just asking if these cards have any value, or should I just throw them in the recycling bin.

I am not sure what you mean. I am just asking if these cards have any value, or should I just throw them in the recycling bin.

I just sold about 2 dozen cards for over a thousand $$$ (and they were not even pre-3rd edition).  So, they can have value.

The scoop is this:  if you have certain cards that are desirable for decks, they will go for good money (up to $60-$70 apiece), but the vast majority of rare/uncommon cards are only worth 10 cents each and commons are only worth a quarter cent each.  Check ChannelFireball's buylist.

The most surprising part about digging these out of the garage to sell them was that my playing mat is more valuable than any cards I own...$200-$300 for it on Ebay if I decide to sell it.

Chess is surely the game where you need the most luck compared to the other games.

yes, btickler gave me a great link.