I started MTGO with a $9.99 account. Playing with commons, free cards from bots was harsh for me - just sold my paper MTG collection for several hundreds on ebay, I had been a veteran casual player for almost 10 years, I am not a serious player but I know how to win games, at least I believed so. To prove that, I put in some money, played one Master Edition drafts and one Tempest Block sealed. I had drafted twice in real life before starting MTGO. That day, I doubled my draft/sealed playing experience but, of course, I let all the $30 I spent turned into a digital pile of 0.05 cards.
My heart sank in agony, my eyes wells with hot tears. I crawled to my laptop browsing the classified for hours aimlessly, hopelessly. After a few days, I started to notice some people at that time posting selling and buying posts which remain active for hours. I wanted to join them but my collection was not sufficiently worth over 1 tix. Then, a miracle happened.
I spotted a post from a player who must lose in some sort of game, I guess. The post was like this: I m a loser, to be punished I will buy a pack to anyone who pm me.
I think my reflex nervous were once so well that I clicked the post with absolutely no delay to my brain. He/She really bought me a pack as I chose! I picked an Urza's Saga, the highest priced pack in store at that time.
Staring that frisky shinning digital item, I was confronted with a tough choice: open it or sell it?
(This is the end of part 1)
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