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Assuming a (presumably incomplete) scraping by archive.org is "convincing evidence", it was originally an exchange for virtual trading cards. https://web.archi
by davejk 13y ago
Assuming a (presumably incomplete) scraping by archive.org is "convincing evidence", it was originally an exchange for virtual trading cards.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070525044536/http://mtgox.com/gwt/mtgox.php https://web.archive.org/web/20070525044536/http://mtgox.com/...
- Anderkent 13y agoWhich is 'in beta' and never had anything else on that home page. It's just a placeholder text.
- eterm 13y agoOf course they were virtual cards, that's what a "Magic: The Gathering Online" Exchange would be. (But actually MTGO has it's own de-facto virtual currency - tix - which are regularly traded for cards through the MTGO interface.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Of course they were virtual cards, that's what a "Magic: The Gathering Online" Exchange would be. I think the confusion is that some people parse it incorrectly as "Magic: The Gathering" + "Online Exchange" rather than as "Magic: The Gathering Online" + "Exchange", so think that it was (planned to be) an exchange for physical rather than virtual cards.