Magic The Gathering
Got into MTG in a really big way in the mid-nineties. I have literally thousands of cards still sitting in indexed folders (big, fuck-off A4 colour-coded folders) on the bookshelf as I type this.

Despite the fact that I only played competitively for less than six months, I conservatively borked somewhere north of three grand on my card-playing hobby between 1995 and 1998.

Highlight? Twenty quid on ONE card (Jester's Cap) which I played in only one league game - a game in which I was utterly annihilated by a spotty youth playing a cheap red destruction deck (I know, I know. The term 'geek' doesn't even begin to come close.)

Fortunately, not long after that I turned my attention to women and beer. Far be it from me to carry on with pursuits that waste my time and hard-earned...
(Billy The Fish wants to gargle with Lucy Pinder's bath water, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 11:34, 6 replies)

Oh yes, I sympathise
I played a lot in the early 2000s, and then pretty much forgot about it for the next four or five years. Then I started getting intrigued by the website, the stories, the new planes. I had to get more cards. I bought quantum fuckloads on eBay, and then sold them all (pretty much) two years later, for a dramatically reduced price.

So I share your pain.
( Pretender, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 11:39, closed)

Ah well.....at least it wasn't Yu-gi Oh!
*summons Blue Eyes White Dragon*

*attacks*
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 11:55, closed)

Um....
Don't suppose your interested in selling your cards?

*runs and hides*
(Meganinja, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 12:25, closed)

This!

( Bob Todd whee, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 13:16, closed)

What did Jester's Cap do?
I can't remember. I know they banned the channel/fireball trick from competitions at one point, and I liked hiding behind a giant wall of cheap green creatures.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 13:12, closed)

Jester's Cap
It let you look through your opponent's library and remove three of his cards from the game. It also meant that you got to see the sort of deck and game he'd be playing against you. Mean, yet fun!
(Billy The Fish wants to gargle with Lucy Pinder's bath water, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 15:04, closed)

Replace MTG with Spellfire and thats my story. All nicely filed away in special card folders. I hate to think how much I actually paid out for that game
(ladraven, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 20:54, closed)

Spellfire
LOL
(kitescreech still here, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 21:09, closed)