Satoshi Shima is running for elected office in Japan and for some fantastic reason, has featured a beautiful white cat in some of his campaign posters. His posters seem to follow the common-uncommon-rare format found in Magic The Gathering and other collectible card games. The normal, common poster shows Mr. Shimo without a cat. Then, … Continue Reading “Japanese man has cat in campaign posters”
Tag: Magic: the Gathering
The Game Hub: ‘odors tend to linger’
There has to be a better way of telling nerds not to smell bad.
Convicted rapist banned from ‘Magic: the Gathering’ play
Wizards of the Coast suspended a player of Magic: the Gathering from competitive play until the year 2049. His Magic Online account, the online version of Magic: the Gathering played with digital cards, has been frozen and flagged for deletion. The reason? He’s a convicted rapist listed on the Virginia sex offender website. Zachary Jesse finished … Continue Reading “Convicted rapist banned from ‘Magic: the Gathering’ play”
Sports Card Radio: ‘Nothing against the Magic people, but most of them are not the most spendy, big-wallet type of people’
On the February 13 episode of Sports Card Radio, my new favorite podcast, host Colin Tedards interviewed Ryan Kent Jr. from BallCardsRadio.com. Ryan is a 14-years-old high school freshman who’s been collecting sports cards for ten years, and he now has his own podcast that Colin has been listening to. During the interview, the discussion … Continue Reading “Sports Card Radio: ‘Nothing against the Magic people, but most of them are not the most spendy, big-wallet type of people’”
Magic: The Counterfeiting
I don’t see how a normal human being is supposed to be able to distinguish a fake card from a real card, especially if they can’t physically look at the card with a magnifying glass or a jeweler’s loupe.