Magic: the Gathering

[ProphetofGanja]

Although technically not a video game, there is Magic: Arena, which is a pretty good way for new people to learn the basics of the game and start playing for free.

So, anybody here play Magic? I got into it through Arena a little under three years ago when the Ikoria set came out and I've been playing Commander regularly for about a year and a half now

[Anarchistguy]

My brother-in-laws are huge fans of this. Me? Not so much...

[Zulithe]

I played in the 90s. These days it seems like they are mostly doing tie-in sets with other brands to generate interest. I looked at the Lord of the Rings expansion but don't really like some of the things they did there, so skipped out on buying any. It's for the best, CCGs used to be a relatively affordable hobby, these days it's definitely not.

I agree that Arena can be cool if you want to spend no money or very little money. But that's an electronic implementation, the actual cards are another story anymore at least IMO.

[Bahamut810]

I was for a long while up till a year and a half ago, then I didnt sit down to play enough to justify the cost to buy a box every set.

When I was thinking that I might want to get back into it the entire 1st ed reprint set thing happened and the DnDNext thing happened and now I am not willing to buy their products.

[ProphetofGanja]

Originally Posted by Zulithe

I played in the 90s. These days it seems like they are mostly doing tie-in sets with other brands to generate interest. I looked at the Lord of the Rings expansion but don't really like some of the things they did there, so skipped out on buying any. It's for the best, CCGs used to be a relatively affordable hobby, these days it's definitely not.

I agree that Arena can be cool if you want to spend no money or very little money. But that's an electronic implementation, the actual cards are another story anymore at least IMO.

I remember seeing promos for the game at comic book shops when I was a kid in the early aughts; some of it looked cool but some of it looked real wonky to me lol

Spoiler:

I do think Wizards is moving kinda haphazardly with all the different franchises they're crossing over with. Walking Dead? Fortnite? My Little Pony? Pass. But I will say that the Warhammer 40K Commander decks were really well done and had some really, really cool art and some pretty good cards. The Lord of the Rings set is also really well done, some great art and some great cards. I can't say I'm too excited for the Final Fantasy or Assassin's Creed crossover cards though. Never played a FF game and the only AC game I ever really played or enjoyed was the pirate one. The sets that will take place in original planes next year look really enticing to me, at least.

Originally Posted by Bahamut810

I was for a long while up till a year and a half ago, then I didnt sit down to play enough to justify the cost to buy a box every set.

When I was thinking that I might want to get back into it the entire 1st ed reprint set thing happened and the DnDNext thing happened and now I am not willing to buy their products.

Are you talking about the non-tournament legal yet official proxies of cards like Black Lotus that were going for way too much money? Yeah, that was a bad move on their part. And the whole D&D One thing was, too. But I didn't really let it bother me; I buy proxies of cards that I want to try out but are too expensive for me from third-party sellers. I've been playing D&D weekly for some years now but haven't spent any money to do so in at least two years, so I'm not concerned.

[Bahamut810]

Originally Posted by ProphetofGanja

Are you talking about the non-tournament legal yet official proxies of cards like Black Lotus that were going for way too much money? Yeah, that was a bad move on their part. And the whole D&D One thing was, too. But I didn't really let it bother me; I buy proxies of cards that I want to try out but are too expensive for me from third-party sellers. I've been playing D&D weekly for some years now but haven't spent any money to do so in at least two years, so I'm not concerned.

Yeah, that. That by itself didnt bother me too much, but them trying to push a brand new 'contract' (i.e. open gaming license) that was retroactive and let them steal other peoples IP sort of sealed the deal for me, then try to backtrack with a "we totally didnt mean that guys" totally killed it for me. I might be willing to play a game with other people now (since I do own several books) but I wont be giving them my money anymore.

[ProphetofGanja]

Rumor is there’s going to be a TMNT Magic set announced at a convention in New York on the 10th. Guess we’ll wait and see

[Mad Dog McMutt]

I played Magic back in '97 and it was pretty fun. However, everybody back then would constantly debate over the rules. A friend of mine had magic cards in 2013 and let me use his deck. There were a bunch of new rules and it almost felt like a different game than the one that I knew.

[ProphetofGanja]

Confirmed

[Prowler]

My brother played it back in the 90s when he was a teenager.

Then, fast forward to the early-mid 90s, and MTG becomes popular with a lot of teenagers of my own generation as well and I got heavily into it for like a year during 9th grade, I think? I sucked, though. I must have won about 6 games out of 100. I definitely saw the appeal, though. Yu-Gi-Oh was short lived and didn't seem to stand the test of time and no one played Pokémon cards back then. We just collected them.

I don't remember the rules anymore. We started out with 20 HP points but sometimes 30? So maybe the rules weren't so clear in 2005 still?

Anyway, they have made video games of Magic the Gathering, but I've never played them.