Posts by obiwein

We used to shuffle cards. It was not in the manner that happens today with splitting a sleeved deck into two parts and pushing them together. We truly shuffled. It was the same way that you would shuffle a fifty-two card poker deck. Riffling the cards, and then bridging the sides together to combine them…

Trading for collectible card games is so amazingly different than it was twenty years ago. The entire process of finding a worthwhile trade partner and putting the actual trade together is like being on another planet now. In the mid-to-late 1990s, the magazine Scrye included a monthly price guide for Magic: The Gathering. That was…

I think I may be a Boomer Gamer. Some background… I started playing Magic the Gathering in 1994 just as Unlimited was ending and Revised was starting its print run. I had dropped my first car off at a Jiffy Lube for an oil change and walked across the street to a Hobby Town USA…