r/mtg • u/konohrik • 8h ago

Discussion A tip for the cook

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Sent in a tip for the cook who I heard mention he was looking for the card. Had no place in my decks so I figured why not!

Hopefully it finds a good deck

Has anyone else tipped cards before?

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u/Pray4dat_ass96 8h ago

Do you always carry your rares when you go out to eat or was this serendipity?

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u/ihateonlineusernames 8h ago

You never know when battle city for MTG is gonna pop off. Keep that thang on you.

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u/SuspectAwkward8914 7h ago

I have friends from the other side of the country who bring commander decks to conferences just in case. I’m gonna do that with my proxy deck just in case battle city pops.

I actually ended up building a Sonic deck because the label on my friend’s deck was a badly stamped ‘DINOS’ label. Was so excited to finally play a Sonic deck only to realize it was Pantlaza.

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u/Zaexyr 4h ago

I travel with 2 commander decks usually on work trips. I like to hit up LGSs in different cities while I’m there.

I always keep them in my carry on or my personal item though, I never check them.

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u/VLKN 7h ago

I wish a Phyrexian would!

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u/HerpDerp152 8h ago

Until that homeless bum on the corner watches you go eat, then breaks in the car. And you left your fat ass binder in there

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u/ihateonlineusernames 8h ago

They’re called rare hunters. Not homeless bums I believe.

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u/HerpDerp152 7h ago

They’re called Tyrone Biggums, and he’s looking for his rock. Sorry; ehrm soul stone

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u/Human_Money_6944 3h ago

There IS objective reason to have a Yugioh Deck with you at all Times. The chances that someone wants to send you to the Shadow realm IS Not 0%. For Magic tho, there is no such reason to carry cards at all Times.

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u/kitsunewarlock 4h ago

I used to bring a magic deck with me when I was eating out with friends who I knew also played magic, but they were always too nervous to play "in public". One (let's call him Jace) even whispered harshly to me: "They're gonna think we are in a cult or something".

I didn't get it until months later at the post office someone I've never met vaguely recognized me and started asking me questions because they were concerned that Jace was "in trouble" because he was hanging out at game shops.

...classic conservative Orange County helicopter parenting.

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u/konohrik 7h ago

I have all my cards in my car for when I have downtime while working and parked a few blocks away

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u/n122333 Color Switch 8h ago

I mean, if im going to play magic out I habe my rare trade binder in my car.

Its not unreasonable to ask someone to wait at the table while you grab it and come back. This is a nice gesture and just makes everyone involved feel better.

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u/h3dr0ncr4b 7h ago

Great way to get your collection stolen

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u/n122333 Color Switch 7h ago

Do your cards never leave your house?

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u/Iggzorn 7h ago

They do, but don't stay in the car unattended

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u/n122333 Color Switch 6h ago

I guess it depends on where you are. I dont leave them in the open where its visible, and car break ins dont really happen with all the cameras where I usually am.

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u/Axel_Foley_ 3h ago

What cameras?

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u/MrChilled 7h ago

You've never left your cards in the car at work so you can go straight from work to the LGS after?

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u/mikeroon 7h ago

No

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u/MrChilled 7h ago

Fair enough, would be an extra hour travelling if I didn't so to each their own.

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u/mikeroon 7h ago

I would just bring my backpack into work

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u/MrChilled 7h ago

Ah yeah that's not possible for me really, makes sense

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u/h3dr0ncr4b 7h ago

No they don't have autonomy. They're cards.

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u/Remote-Mycologist539 7h ago

you overheard the chef of a restaurant you were eating at mention he needed a card, which you also had on your person..? what a coincidence

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u/konohrik 7h ago

Had to run to my car to grab it

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u/Remote-Mycologist539 7h ago

It’s still quite a coincidence!

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u/konohrik 7h ago

Car Cards

I also buy packs as Im driving as the local card shops are out of the hobbit and I prefer pulling from packs

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u/davidshinbein 6h ago

Please don’t do this this looks like a robbery waiting to happen 🙈 maybe hide under seat or just bring less of them with you?

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u/FierceTierce 4h ago

I’d like to respectfully second this.

I learned that the hard way. I even had my cards in the trunk when they were stolen 😬

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u/konohrik 4h ago

Ill play magnum 44

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u/LagnLikADragn 4h ago

"6 Cylinder of Exile"

3CMC

"Remove target player from the game of life."

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u/cynicaldotes 4h ago

It's crazy you remembered you had it too

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u/konohrik 3h ago

Any card above 10$ I sleeve and remember

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u/Dadcrispy 0m ago

Magic as Garfield intended

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u/DontPanic42H2G2 6h ago

A few years back the bartender at a bar I frequent was talking about building a mono black commander deck but lamenting the cost of the commander, Sheoldred. He was talking about how his friends got him DMU packs for his birthday to see if he could stumble upon one but didn't.

I had stopped playing magic at the time but I knew I had more than a handful of them in storage because for whatever reason, my ex and I had purchased an absurd amount of DMU (I think there was something he was hunting for). Anyhow, turns out I had 7 total with at least one of each style.

Next time I went to bar I brought them with me and told him to pick one or two. Not as a tip or anything like that, just to give to him. I had more than I needed/wanted and I would much rather know the card was being used rather than sitting in storage. At the time I think the cards were about $90. I also grabbed a few other black staples from the set to throw in as well. He was shocked and overjoyed.

To this day, I do not pay for my drinks there (I usually only have one or two). That was not my intention but it is a really sweet gesture because I only go about once every 4-5 months. Years later he is still grateful for something that cost me nothing. A card I wasn't using is seeing frequent play and bringing joy to another player. That is what a trading card game is all about! As a side note, I always carry cash and leave a tip large enough to at least cover my drinks. It was never about what I could get in return nor do I expect that when I show up.

Being able to give another player a staple they are looking for when they neither expect nor ask for it is something pretty special. Worth it on the occasion that you can surprise them with it.

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u/konohrik 4h ago

I agree wholeheartedly

Not of much use to me and the money doesnt matter, the happiness is priceless

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u/dkdream22 2h ago

The girl who works at one of my go-to LGS was talking about how she need the mythic Smaug for one of her treasure decks. I pulled one at a prerelease and gave it to her no hesitation. The joy and gratitude is worth wayyyyy more to me than 30 bucks. Like infinitely more

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u/strawberryjetpuff yuriko 46m ago

this is so wholesome omg 😭

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u/RMRdesign 17m ago

Great story and awesome that you gave the bar tender the card they needed.

Kind of reminds me of a time when people played for fun versus making it an investment.

I can remember making trades that favored the other person because I wanted them to have the card.

These days it’s all about money.

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u/Pretend_Type718 7h ago

I went to the ff pre release with a friend. My job as a cook gives me alot of disposable income in the form of tip income. At the time I didn't have a vehicle and he gave me a ride 2 hours to the city the pre release took place in. His favorite was an annoying voltron deck and he really wanted the buster sword which I had already ordered 2 copies for. When he asked for 20 bucks in gas money I just gave him the buster sword that was in my pre release kit. The card then went from like 40 cad to 80 cad overnight

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u/HerpDerp152 8h ago

Now you gotta shove it up his butt. I don’t make the rules.

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u/AZ-Sparda 7h ago

Sir this is worth at least 20$!
Now bend over.

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u/Sock_Man420 8h ago

Bro you just made that cooks whole month!

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u/hivemind_MVGC 4h ago

I got a haircut today - I tipped out the barber from my binder. I always ask for him and bring my binder now.

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u/LorenzosBenz 3h ago

We have a bar in Denton, Texas called Oak Street. Local card shop guy made sure they got a copy of Oak Street Innkeeper.

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u/TheVagrantmind 1h ago

I just imagine the owner of the card was not the guy who gave it, but the guy who gave it was trying to keep the owner from stiffing the owner of the restaurant and to get the card back they would have to pay their bill appropriately, and after they all realize they need to work out their differences a pack of wolves carries off the card owner’s nephews in the parking lot.

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u/konohrik 39m ago

My brother in had a stroke

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u/TheVagrantmind 36m ago

That’s awful, I was just doing a loose reference to the Arkenstone from the book, using the Arkenstone to heal the rift between men and dwarves. But… wow. Sorry to hear that.

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u/milkshakemountains 7h ago

Damn the one card I’m wanting for my collection!

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u/konohrik 6h ago

I want the full art, local shop had it but someone bought it before I could

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u/heavyartilleryx 6h ago

I mean it’s $13 card, not that hard to grab

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u/h3dr0ncr4b 7h ago

They would have 1000% preferred money

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u/Thjyu 7h ago

Tip went to the cook, not the server, promise you the cook was super happy to even get a fuckin tip in the first place

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u/ImpressiveRocks 6h ago

As someone who worked as a line cook, if this shit happened to me it would have made my week. Some experiences are worth more then the monetary value. If I got this while working id go out and ask to meet the guy, sounds like a real pod homie.