Magic: The Gathering

[KC]

Anyone else play? I'm more or less done playing standard formats and have switched to Modern and Elder Dragon Highlander (EDH)/Commander. I only play the latter competitively.

[Peter1469]

I remember when it was a card game. Or maybe a board game. Or combo of the two.

[KC]

I remember when it was a card game. Or maybe a board game. Or combo of the two.

It's still a card game! That's the only proper way to play imo. Magic: Online is a failure by most accounts. Plus you miss the community when you play online. My college and local card stores both have really welcoming and friendly MTG communities.

[Green Arrow]

I've played a bit. Almost always as red/black.

[KC]

I've played a bit. Almost always as red/black.

I made a red/black pauper deck with a minotaur theme for fun. It actually functioned well, as long as I only played against other pauper decks. Red/black gives you a lot of control.

[IMPress Polly]

I played Magic for a few years, from the summer of 2000 until I graduated high school in 2003. I don't even remember it being an online game.

I first got into trading card games via the Pokemon explosion of 1999. (Who DOESN'T remember that??) I got into the Pokemon TCG for a couple years (summer 1999 to summer 2001 essentially), but soon found it to be extremely simple to the point of being boring. I mean seriously, all you had to do was build a Haymaker (a.k.a. high-speed, aggressive) deck packed with high-powered Basic Pokemon and tons of Trainer cards that let you rifle through your deck practically at will and you'd win 80% of the time at least. What was the point in the game even having Stage 1 and Stage 2 Pokemon?? The 30-something "pros" would build these more complicated combo decks seemingly just to be doing so even though they were easily defeated by simple, efficient Haymakers, half the time before they could even evolve the Pokemon required to make their combos and whatnot work! (Especially after Gym Challenge and Neo Genesis. I'm sorry, but cards like Sneasel, Rocket's Zapdos, Erika's Jigglypuff, Focus Band, Cleffa, and Gold Berry really gave Haymakers an epically unfair advantage.) It was, after all, a kid's game. Magic was more geared toward teenagers and adults.

So anyway, I discovered Magic and tabletop Dungeons & Dragons in 2000, after which the Pokemon TCG became more of a side hobby than a principal interest. D&D was fun, but my fascination with it was even shorter-lived than my Pokemon fascination. I kept on with Magic through the rest of my high school days though. I guess I do tend to have the same style across the board though, as I preferred straight Aggro decks in Magic too. But hey, in Magic it was more like rock-paper-scissors in terms of what style of deck had an advantage over others.

[Peter1469]

I played Magic for a few years, from the summer of 2000 until I graduated high school in 2003. I don't even remember it being an online game.

I first got into trading card games via the Pokemon explosion of 1999. (Who DOESN'T remember that??) I got into the Pokemon TCG for a couple years (summer 1999 to summer 2001 essentially), but soon found it to be extremely simple to the point of being boring. I mean seriously, all you had to do was build a Haymaker (a.k.a. high-speed, aggressive) deck packed with high-powered Basic Pokemon and tons of Trainer cards that let you rifle through your deck practically at will and you'd win 80% of the time at least. What was the point in the game even having Evolution cards?? The 30-something "pros" would build these more complicated combo decks seemingly just to be doing so even though they were easily defeated by simple, efficient Haymakers, half the time before they could even evolve the Pokemon required to make their combos and whatnot work! (Especially after Gym Challenge and Neo Genesis. I'm sorry, but cards like Sneasel, Rocket's Zapdos, Erika's Jigglypuff, Focus Band, Cleffa, and Gold Berry really gave Haymakers an epically unfair advantage.) It was, after all, a kid's game. Magic was more geared toward teenagers and adults.

So anyway, I discovered Magic and tabletop Dungeons & Dragons in 2000, after which the Pokemon TCG became more of a side hobby than a principal interest. D&D was fun, but my fascination with it was even shorter-lived than my Pokemon fascination. I kept on with Magic through the rest of my high school days though. I guess I do tend to have the same style across the board though, as I preferred straight Aggro decks in Magic too. But hey, in Magic it was more like rock-paper-scissors in terms of what style of deck had an advantage over others.

High school 2003?



I did AD&D old school. World of GreyHawk was my fav.

[Captain Obvious]

High school 2003?



I did AD&D old school. World of GreyHawk was my fav.

We were huge on Forgotten Realms. Had a whole wall bookcased with resources.

I was a big Myth Drannor campaigner.

[Peter1469]

We were huge on Forgotten Realms. Had a whole wall bookcased with resources.

I was a big Myth Drannor campaigner.

Forgotten Realms was after my D&D time.

[Captain Obvious]

Forgotten Realms was after my D&D time.

We played up into like our mid 20's. Maybe even later.