[Endless]

I never did as a kid, everyone else did. However, in some sort of reverse timeline, no one I know plays them anymore and I'm just now getting kind of heavily into it.

This shit is... pretty fucking fun. Draft? So good.

So yeah, Magic Cards. Anybody around here give a shit? I need Tarmogoyfs if you've got em.
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[Talbain]

I used to play real seriously, even won some tournaments. But now, nope. I just found myself spending more money on it than I wanted to. In the end I sold off most of my cards for petty cash, and now the only time I play is when I can borrow decks from other players. It's a fun game, and certainly interesting, but card games have never really been my cup of tea.
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[yellowoystercult]

A friend of mine spent summer '05 studying in China, and apparently all he did with the other guys there was play Magic. So after not having played since fifth grade, I started playing again at his urging just after Ravnica was released. I went to a couple release things with him, got involved in a couple drafts at school, and spent far too much time and money on the cards... and I realized that I'd rather spend my leisure time and money on video games, so I stopped playing Magic after a couple months. Probably for good.

I've always really liked the artwork on the cards. I had some pretty nasty looking beasties in my deck.

[schild]

Let's just say that I used to be Very Good at Magic.

We'll leave it at that.

[Talbain]

My favorite card artwork was always the Lightning Bolt.
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[google]

How does one spend a lot of money on this game?

It's just cards.
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http://playerrant.blogspot.com/

[haze]

[yellowoystercult]

They are expensive cards!

[Mr Mustache]

I still have my cards somewhere...should probably sell them.
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The people are like wool to me

[google]

[Mr Mustache]

[google]

[Talbain]

[google]

That is absolutley retarded.

But fair play to them!
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http://playerrant.blogspot.com/

[haze]

I'm waiting for the first edition to go down in price, just like a PS3

[Cryo]

I know I shouldn't, but I'm still playing godamned TCGs to this date.

Opening those sealed packs is like taking that first drag off of a cigarette, after not smoking for a month.
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PS3 - Cryoh
X360 - Cryoh

[Kipple]

[wourme]

I played in high school, but eventually traded most of my cards that were worth anything for SNES games. About ten years later, I introduced a friend to the game and bought some of the newer cards. Soon after that, I discovered that several people I work with have immense collections. We all started playing again on our lunch breaks, and we still do.

In fact, I've recently been tempted to stop by a store on my way home from work one day and get some of those new 10th edition cards. I usually get just a couple cards from each new set individually if I think they'll work well in one of my decks. My last such purchase was four of these



and two of these



I've never been to a tournament or anything--I think the type of decks that do well in tournaments are boring.

[Adilegian]

My avatar is a Magic card. I sometimes play with my fiancee. I use a blue and green deck that either totally sucks or totally kicks ass.

There really seems to be no in-between for me. I think I should edit it a bit more.
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[Broco]

Yeah I played Magic with a blue-green deck when I was like 11 years old and it was a pretty new thing. I stopped when most of my cards got stolen. Too expensive and the fad was dying down such that only the dorks kept playing. I'm surprised the game isn't dead yet.

[Toto]

I always wanted to play a Black-Blue discard deck, but could never get the funds behind the idea.
I played a Mercenaries deck for a while.

[SinJin]

[Endless]

Guys I came in second today at a tournament. I have a mono black deck which is all nutty and retarded.

I won four packs, I'm a fucking champ.

Still need those Tarmogoyfs. I've got two, a playset sells for like $70. This gay kid I know said he might trade em to me.
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[Cryo]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

This is probably the best time to ask: are any of the various Magic the Gathering video games any good, regardless of their type?
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[Endless]

The love between ROCK AND TERRY is the most pure fucking brotherly shit ever. Don't mess with that.

Tim is awesome though, best gay kid that comes in and forces me to trade pokemon back and forth for an hour so his Haunter can evolve ever.

The Magic video games? I don't know, I think someone liked Battlegrounds. They made some retarded pc game some kid was telling me was insanely easy to break (The final boss has 250 life, so you just play a mill deck I think and win).

Magic Online is fucking POISON and will addict you if you give even half a shit about playing Magic cards once in a while. Don't.
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[v84j3gs2uc7ns4]

[Deets]

[Intentionally Wrong]

[Deets]

Man IW there is a lot of jargon in there.

I guess it can't be helped?

[Intentionally Wrong]

Deets, it is the cant by which we who play recognize one another. There's also the issue that, when you devote a chunk of your paycheck to the pursuit of a hobby which revolves around a single ever-shifting game for almost 15 years, yeah, your vocabulary tends to specialize a bit.

You know how sometimes a bunch of your friends will get into a game that you don't play, and they're kind of insufferable about how into it they are, because it's something to bond over? My friends do that with World of Warcraft, for example. Well, Magic: the Gathering is kind of like that.
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JSNLV is frequently and intentionally wrong.

[Iacus]

[wpham]

I stopped playing after high school, but I had some good times from Revised up to...what was it called? Urza's Saga? I rolled Wildfire and it was always fun when the deck clicked and I blew up a bunch of cards.
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last.fm

[Deets]

[scratchmonkey]

I still have all my cards; however, I can't really play them because there's too much of an imbalance in terms of taking premade decks and playing them against somebody else -- inevitably, somebody's spent enough money on their decks or enough time at a place like the Magic Dojo that their decks are that much better than the other person and then it becomes this arms race based on money spent*.

Which is why draft and sealed deck are the only formats that I play anymore. A college friend had a gigantic collection of cards and one day we finally sat down and entered them into a database and then used that to generate random lots of cards for sealed deck games without having to buy new cards, then added random lots for drafting after each round of play. It was really the best way to determine both who had the best deck-building and match-playing skills, since everybody was working with similar and random resources. Unfortunately, he's moved away since then.

* - Admittedly part of this problem is of my own creation because I'm usually more interested in making decks that are horribly inefficient yet have a lot of personality. I have a mono-white deck that I fondly think of as The Most Annoying Deck in the World that's designed to win by making the other person run out of cards. It has so many holes; it's so gratifying when it works though.

[Baron Patsy]

I've always wanted to learn how to play one of these games, but I've never known anyone who was into it enough to show me how it was done. How would one go about getting into either Magic or another game of that type?

[boojiboy7]

Man, the same thing was said about Black Lotuses when I played, and then Blizzard reprinted them.

Yeah, I played for a bit of time between Dark Something or other up till after Ice Age, then just didn't have them money, time, or other people to keep up with it.

[scratchmonkey]

[Krabjuice Gaiden]

Better yet, find some people who play at lunch (or in the morning) and attempt to get in on it. Ask to borrow a deck.

Say something like "Pennin's aura" or "Rebel deck" and they'll think you're one of them.
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{V}_{^w^}_{V}

[Endless]

[Talbain]

One of my favorite formats to play is the no-rare or no-uncommon/rare format.

Basically it requires a lot more strategy when you can't use some of the most powerful cards in the game, plus you can actually afford to make a deck, since commons are extremely cheap.

White/Blue control decks do tend to dominate these formats though, because they've got lots of common/uncommon control cards. Red does well from bursting--especially if it's got Isochron's, though they're usually banned in most non-standard formats. Indestructibles are popular in the format too, since they're really hard to get off the board.

That being said, I like to play Pure Green or Green/White Overgrowth decks. Spores/Rancor = Win. Or of course there's the ever-popular Spirit Link (or the newer, meaner version, though I can't remember its name).
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