Magic: The Gathering
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Also known as Magic: the Geekening, Magic: the Gathering is a narcotic card game for two or more people with a fantasy theme, originally adopted by the Saudi Arabian government and Hasbro as an attempt to gradually eliminate Westerners by rendering all their young males lifelong virgins.
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[edit] History
Magic was created by Richard Garfield (or maybe the Devil, see above) in 1993 as a cheap substitute for turkey sandwiches, which everyone knows geeks require to live. It was the first card game to use decks that geeks constructed themselves from a much larger puddle of cards, which were purchased in randomized lumps of either 15.3 or 61 1/2 that never contained the cards that you were looking for (but some contained useful vegetables that helped you grow, such as Magic mushrooms).
The original objective was to reduce your opponent's score from 20 to 0 by reciting formulas to summon soul eating demons, (each life point is a representation of 5% of your soul) however, because most people lack the integrity to slaughter sacrificial rams while speaking in sanscrit, loss of soul for losing the game has only occurred 50, 85 times tops. The cards were released in sets, of which there were two types: the "base set", of which there are ten editions, and which contain the cards that were required in order to play; and "expansion sets", of which there were too many, and which contained the really cool cards that were required in order to win. The cards themselves could be any one of five colors: purple, yellow, orange, pink, gray, brown, marron, octarine, lavander, gold, and another kind of brown, known as "weejy brown". These colors combine to form the Megazord. This is called Tasting the Rainbow, and requires that you catch 'em all. Because catching 'em all is impossible as the 'em all is an elusive beast only found 20,000 leaauges beneath the sea , none have been able to fully assemble the [megazord]. It is rumored that uppon assembly, the megazord embarrasses the assembler, calling him a no-life crum-bumb in front of all of his friends, thus securing his soul for our glorious lord satan (all hail satan) for All Time
There is an active tournament scene for Magic players. The way it works is that one person creates a deck that is copied by one thousand other players who have to spend close to the GNP of Rhode Island to actually construct their copied tournament deck. There are various levels of tournaments, from FNM (foolish nooby mortal) tournaments (played on almost any night of the week, depending on where you are) up to world tournaments (not played on Friday nights, except when they are). The person who wins the world tournament could actually live on their yearly winnings, while the rest live in their parents' basements to offset costs.
[edit] Rules
The rules are printed on the cards, making one card (Eager Cadet) simple to play with. The other cards all require errata, which you must print out and carry with you. The 1000-page rules, along with the 6000 pages of errata, make playing Magic slightly more arduous than, say, belly poking. Even with the rules and errata, rules debates often arise when someone is being an asshole and actually playing the game. Those require the intervention of a licensed judge who requires payment in rare Magic cards like 'Minatour! Minatour!'. This was clearly a plot of the devil to make the lives of would be slaves crappy and annoying before they transfer to hell.
Disputes are typically solved with a "DQ", short for "DeQapitation". This is an intentionel mispeling of decapitation (decap < Old English dekaf, short for dekaffenated, "coffee with none of the properties anyone drinks coffee for" + itation < Ancient Greek itationosos, "junk stuck onto the end of a word to make it look longer and thus make you look more intelligent"), used as jargon to scare away newbies.
[edit] The Jackson Five
5 cards comprise the Jackson Five, which are the most powerful cards in the game - which when used with sugar will actually produce nuclear fission.
[edit] The Goggles
The most pricey card in the game is The Goggles. A recent estimate of the value of this card put it at around 837,500¥. There are only 5.9 million in the world- an extremely low amount. Recently, an updated version of this card was printed in the Fallen Lands expansion, called Anaba Grunt. Lovingly nicknamed 'Aunt Gruntie' by its fans, the special rules concerning this card have led to a majority of players building their decks around it in an effort to maximize their winning potential. Today's metagame sees players constantly trying to maneuver themselves into a position where they have "Minotaur Advantage" over their opponent.
[edit] Mox Bling
This card is notable in that it is almost strictly better than land as a mana source. In fact, in the days before their restriction to one card per deck, it wasn't uncommon for players to forego running basic land cards altogether in exchange for sets of "Jewelry," the reason being that they do not have the "play only one per turn" restriction that land cards have. The most valued effect of this card is in its ability to "bring in the bitches".
[edit] Moonwalk
Text with errata states: Take an extra turn after this one. As with the other Jackson Five, the power of Moonwalk greatly exceeds its cost, especially in the early game. It is mostly certain that a person with Moonwalk in his deck will win in any game. But in the case that all players in a game have Moonwalk in their deck, the win is determined by the means of a coin flip.
[edit] Black Lotus
Text with errata states: Creature Card, Cost: 0, Power/Toughness: 4/4, Trample, Haste, Vigilance, Flying, Fear, First Strike, Double Strike, Flanking, Shadow, Provoke, Storm, Indestructble, Replicate, Flash, Spit-Second, Invincible Protection from colourless, protection from red, protection from black, protection from blue, protection from green, protection from white, protection from pink. This card is banned from any game play. Magic states that they banned this card not due to it's edge over gameplay but because it wasn't politically correct. Magic has reprinted a new time-shifted version of this card called African Lotus. Fo Shizzle.
[edit] Phage the Untouchable
This card became popular in the Legions set. This card was discontinued when Marvel noticed the distinct similarities of Phage with Rogue from the X-men.
At some point during the Legions saga, Phage grew close to a boy named Cody Robbins. During their flirtation, she impulsively kissed Cody, at which point her latent mutant power to absorb the life energy of others with skin-to-skin contact emerged. Phage was traumatized by the experience, and Cody was left dead.
[edit] Necropotence
This card allowed you to trade your soul for more cards. If you didn't have a soul, you were allowed to borrow a friend's instead. This led to the infamous “Black Summer" of 1995 and the eventual banning of Necropotence from all legal and illegal formats, including Vintage, Block, Ante, Russian Roulette, and Strip Magic.
This card is different from the similarly named Necroimpotence. After being played, erectile dysfunction occurred in the caster. Pro Tour Player and former Mafia crime lord John "The Fink" Finkel had this to say about the card: "You might as well wear a suit and tie, cause if you're gonna be impotent, you might as well look impotent." The card still sees heavy play, because Magic players won't ever have sex anyway.
[edit] Foil Cards
It is a commonly known fact that all "foil" cards are 42% better than all non-foil versions of the cards. And, if all the foil cards are owned by a single human being, he will have accomplished nothing.
Many players prefer to have all the cards in their deck foil. This technique, known as the "FOIL" (Standing for: First, Outer, Inner, and Last) Is a complex algebra formula for deriving the opposite of green. Players alternate playing foil cards similar to the rules for the game War, and if two cards are equally worthless, the players compete in a tense nerd battle of who can name the most magic cards in one breath.
While "foil" cards are often 42% better than non-foil versions, some are significantly better. All cards from the newest sets, Mime Spiral, which involves intense miming and hand signals, Planar Gloss, which involves doing odd things with lip gloss and model planes, and Future Fight, which involves fighting with random things, award a 50% bonus instead.
Due to their physical shape, foil cards can also be used as telescopes, joints, micro-penises, (magic-sized), syringes and darts.
Plus, they're shiny!
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