The Strange 1st Anniversary Playing Card Set

It seemed like I-and anyone like me-would be the ideal target for 30th Anniversary Edition, like a comic book collector getting a chance to own a pristine Amazing Fantasy #15 decades after '62. I knew all about Magic’s beginnings, but had never had the opportunity to experience the excitement of the original, now-fabled Magic sets. An Ice Age booster I opened while on vacation, having taken the small stash of ‘vacation money’ that was meant to be for buying souvenirs on a long walk in search of a hobby store I’d looked up in a phonebook is a particular favorite memory, even though my rare was really bad.īut I was too young to have a chance to open Magic’s earliest sets. Given my fervor for collecting Magic, getting a booster pack to open was a huge moment, and I still remember many of those booster cracks with shocking clarity. It was rare that I’d have any money of my own, usually because my grandpa would do this weird thing where he shook my hand with a $20 in it-passing it to me like it was some kind of covert drug deal. When I was a kid, I didn’t get an allowance from my parents, nor did I have a way of making money. (Image credit: Wizards of the Coast/Anson Maddocks)

The Strange 1st Anniversary Playing Card Set