It Still Counts

 Over the holidays - yes, the Christmas holidays, 401games had a sale on foil cards at 15% off, which, coupled with the sales tax holiday in Canada, meant a good deal, so I went a bit overboard on picking up some foil MTG cards. I also happened to get a $5 Paypal voucher, which, given I rarely ever use Paypal, I had to find something to spend it on, so I picked up the first card in this lot for basically nothing.

Sure, it may not be a true Mox, the original of which are all expensive artifacts from the early days, but a nice Jack-in-the-Mox is a fun pick up I've eyed for a while. A rare from the Unglued set, it pokes fun at the original Mox cards and their ability, while bringing in a bit of the D&D type roll for ability flair that came into MTG in some sets, in real force, with the D&D crossover not too long ago.

You may need to take my word for it that these are all foil cards, but they are. I went through my needs from TCDB and matched up for anything under $1, so nothing too expensive as I went for quantity over quality here.

Also yes, there are duplicates in cards as I do collect one from each set, so if it was in 10 sets, I may end up with 10 of them....or more...Meteorite is a good example of a reprinted card I do have a few of.

Pilgrim of the Fires is a solid big guy with good abilities, and though the casting cost is high, for an artifact deck that can spew out mana, that wouldn't be much of an issue.

Regardless of the abilities or down side - I remember back in the early days of Magic, a 10/10 creature would be insane. In my early decks, the Colossus of Sardia was a 9/9 for 9 casting cost and didn't untap unless you paid 9 - and I ran a deck with three of them. They had trample, and were fun to run people over with, but now, a 9/9 seems like standard fair with some of the bigger guys they have come out with.

I guess it is the foiling which makes some of the text look way worse scanned as the cards look perfectly fine in hand. Though - the worn look does do well to feed into the "artifact" aspect of the cards I guess. To think this is only about half the cards I picked up - so more to share tomorrow!