So now that I started playing Magic again, I’ve had the actual urge to go back and finish cataloging the last year’s worth of cards, which have been sitting in somewhat sorted piles in a corner of the downstairs room. The way they’re stored is in folders with 9-card sleeve pages in them, and I use a printed out checklist to keep track of which cards we have. (Part of the goal of all this was to try and collect at least one and no more than four of every card ever printed.)
The old way I used to make these checklists was to take the official checklists from the WotC and drop them into Excel, format them there and then copy them into Word. Well, that stopped working when I tried it. And that whole method was a pain in the ass, anyway, so I decided to install MySQL, PHP and other stuff onto my Powerbook, dumped all the card data into a database and made a web page that I formatted with CSS to make look like I wanted.
I managed to print out all four of the sheets I hadn’t done yet very quickly. They don’t look perfect, but now, doing further sheets will be much easier. And I also have a working PHP/MySQL install on my laptop, which is fun!
On a completely separate, yet equally geeky note, you are all ordered to watch Serenity. Of course, the hard-core of you have already seen it last night or today, but I’m not going until tomorrow afternoon. But, yeah…. go! Unless you’re trapped in the middle of Montana or something.
Hmm is there a online site that lists all the magic cards? My poor brother has no idea how much his cards are worth (if anything)! 🙁
Card lists are one thing, you can get those from http://www.wizards.com.
Price lists are another, as Wizards of the Coast pays no heed to the secondary market. Just do a netsearch for Magic the gathering price lists or something and you’ll find one of many places that sell them, or even in some cases buy them.
I don’t know of any online price guides, except to refer to eBay at best. Other than that, he’ll have to make a trip to the gaming or bookstore for this month’s issue of Scrye Magazine.
The Chinese news had a brief feature on “Serenity” last week, because it apparently has some scenes where the characters speak Chinese. Showed some clips and compared it to Star Wars.