Three photographs, one classic cartoon character meets modern spy agency illustration and a minimalist interpretation of a Blue Rogue Air Pirate.
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Old School Magic
Old School Magic the Gathering: Fourth Edition and the Changing of the Guard
An Introduction to Fourth Edition Released in April 1995, Fourth Edition was a changing of the the guard for base or core sets in Magic: the Gathering. It was comprised of 378 cards, 72 more than Revised Edition, but it wasn’t straight up addition. It was the addition of 120 cards from Antiquities (23 cards), Arabian Nights (10 cards), Legends (55 cards) and The Dark (32 cards), two cards that returned from the base set that were not printed in…
Declassify >“The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins” by Leonard Nimoy a.k.a. Mr. Spock will Live Long and Prosper
“In the middle of the earth in the land of the Shire, lives a brave little hobbit whom we all admire.” Thus starts the wonderful song, “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins,” by Mr. Spock, otherwise known as Leonard Nemoy.
The song was recorded in 1967 for a variety series titled, Malibu U.
Declassify >Retro Gaming Revisited
Sim City 2000: One of the Greatest PC Games and Sequel to the Sim that Started it All
Released in 1994, as a sequel to SimCity (1989), SimCity 2000 was the second in a now long line of SimCity games. It is an open-ended city-building game. It takes the strategy of simulation games and mixes in a dash of building with LEGOs, which if you think about it, is the perfect storm for a video game.
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Old School Magic the Gathering: Fallen Empires and the Rise of the Tribes
The Fallen Empires set was unique. It was the first set to really introduce the concept of “Tribal” cards, although back in 1994 they were just called what they were; Dwarves, Elves, Goblins, Homarids, Merfolk, Orcs, Thallids, Thrulls, or Townsfolk. That’s not to say that you needed to build a Tribal deck. A lot of the cards within the set are valuable in combination with other cards and some just on their own.
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