How Magic the Gathering Arena celebrates "black" history month... lol
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Pssh, you youngins.
The correct answer is Fallen Empires / Ice Age / Fourth Edition
Fallen Empires was all chaff, tedious and completely lackluster. FE teed-up the shit. Fourth Edition reprinted a lot of rare, valuable stuff with worse art, and faggoted the tap symbol for no fucking reason. This is when censorship rolled in as well.
Ice Age is when they knew they've got you, and screwed around with the rarities. Also it was clear that this was going forward as a milking operation.
This is all content complaints. A more adult answer would easily say 1999, when Wizards of the Coast got bought by Hasbro. This set the scene for future wokery. I can't exactly explain why, but WotC buying TSR in '97 also rankled. But to buy TSR and then get folded into fucking Hasbro a couple years later is something akin to a war crime.
Oh, come on, I loved Mirage! The Urza's set were pretty much when I stopped, because I was getting laid by a tall blonde varsity track runner from the next county over and going to college the next year.
You know that's funny, I forgot that part: This'll be hard for young folks to understand, but MtG was a great way to find good pussy. Somebody went and grabbed a chick and said "You've got to come see what this guy is about to do--he's going to blow up the whole table at once." She did, I did, and now we've got kids.
Nah, the girl I taught over lunch with a pizza I brought to school only dated me a few months. This girl I met on AOL AIM local chatroom later that schoolyear and lost my virginity behind a bush in her side yard beside a shed that summer.
My MtG group almost fell apparently due to 2 dudes competing over the one girl. She was pretty chill, they were not.
LOL Many such cases!
After left my school's magic scene with my war bride, similar events happened with several young ladies in the scene, and across numerous men. Some of them ended up together, married, sometimes the lady ended up with one dude, then another, then another. The guys are all "friends" and stayed that way, which I always found weird.
Your post is hilarious to me. That’s exactly the era when I played magic and, more specifically, when I stopped playing magic.
The writing was on the wall. If you'd been playing a couple years at that point, and were smart, you could see where it was going. Then you had a choice: Keep investing in beanie babies with a pretty okay game behind it (that they were clearly going to fuck with, forever) or jump ship. I jumped, found other shit to do and other places to put my money.
Somewhere in a drawer in a bureau in a shed I've still got some old beta, unlimited, dark, arabian, legends, unlimited, and 3rd edition cards knocking around. Don't even care what they're worth, they're the kids' problem eventually. For my money you can tear up a Chaos Orb and sprinkle that shit over the whole goddamn company.
You may want to rethink that. A friend of mine sold all of his cards (of that era) a decade or so back, and made some serious bank; It gave him a pretty decent downpayment on a new car.