Is it worth getting back into Magic the Gathering? Haven’t had time to play in 3 years.
I hear they have a lot of power creep lately to maximize profits for Hasbro.
Anyone here been playing it a lot recently?
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I hear they have a homepage on the world wide web where we can trade playing cards. Have you heard of this?
Try Balatro
Yes. It’s more fun in person but their mobile app is pretty damn impressive.
Caveat: it’s a huge time suck if you let it be.
Power creep is the TCG sales model. They aren't interested in balance, they want your old cards to become obsolete so you have to keep buying.
I feel happy playing casually with premade stuff, getting surprised by cards as you go. I know that won't make sense for conpetitive players wanting to optimize their decks, but it's enough for us to have some fun 🤡
Man, Magic: The Gathering! I could give my 20yo white horses a spin.
played in 96, back then the cards made sense. tried to teach my kid recently and gave up saying “sorry bud, I have no idea wtf”
Magic has indeed seen power creep, aiming for Hasbro's profit. It's become more of a business than ever, with card values and game mechanics shifting to encourage spending. If you're looking for the game you left, it might feel different now. #MagicTheGathering
Play MtG Arena
Free to play
its a little grind at first but it doesn't take too long until you can craft the good cards for some highly competitive decks
In person with physical cards is more hassle than its worth
I decided not to download the phone app because the spyware tracking is so high.
I’m surprised mtg isn’t more popular amongst bitcoiners if only because of the mtgox history. Would totally enter a bitcoiner tourney 🤙
It's gone downhill a lot the last few years IMO.
It feels like it's turned into a total cash grab from endless reprinting of desirable cards, alternate art, special cards, etc. Power creep is pretty crazy.
I just play commander and cube draft on occasion now. The new stuff just isn't appealing to me.
It all depends on the format you play.
Modern costs a lot and the power creep is huge, it forces you to spend $$$ almost every year.
Forget Legacy.
Pauper costs nearly nothing but you have to like the playstyle.
Commander I don't know I don't play it.
Advice: Pauper is OK; the rest is wasting money, just play with proxies with friends at local small stores which allow them.
Dude. I feel like we would’ve been friends in high school. Otherwise I have little to add to this conversation because I haven’t played in years!
I've gone back to it numerous times over the years, mostly through limited/draft play. It's always hard to tell whether a set is fun to draft from reading card spoilers or comments, just go play 🤭
keeping up with constructed formats is difficult for any playgroup, and collecting is an ever-expanding cash grab. Fiat ruins everything 😤
I haven’t played since Urza’s Legacy.
1996 magic made less sense, mana burn, damage goes on the stack, and banding -- necropetence was probably '96 perhaps magic never made sense 🤭
It sounds like the unchecked issuance of new cards is reducing the quality of the game for the players. But it's working pretty well for Hasbro. Similar to stuff in fiat world.
Almost completed my Arabian Nights set... three to go! Used to play with my son, but he has "moved on". Now trying to master (learn) Go and get back into Chess.
I prefer @Based Trading Cards these days 🧡🧡 Great community and better scarcity ;)
I stopped playing more than 20 years ago... 🙄
I guess it was a completely different game than today... 🤷
Btw, I still find it funny how many people don't know nowadays that MtGox was Magic the Gathering Online Exchange before being a #bitcoin exchange.
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Commander is pretty fun.
Funny enough, when Wizards of the Coast started to get involved in directly making cards for the fan-made format, it got worse. It would have been better if they left it alone.
I'd recommend Edison format in Yu-Gi-Oh, if you ever want to try something a bit different.
I’ve allays been a fan of Pokémon. Simple and fun. I guess I have fond memories of playing it with my kids years ago.
I’ve been playing some MTG Arena recently over the past few years, after a long hiatus since the mid 90’s. Complexity is a bit disorienting, and tough to keep up with all of the new releases/formats, but still very fun. Would love to sync up and play a few rounds on Arena sometime if you’re up for it!
Yep I play all the time and my oldest son is a tournament player. You need to stay more recent then modern horizons 3 to be powerful enough (my old decks from tempest/stronghold/weatherlight don't stand a chance)
But most games are draft by set only, so the power and themes are pretty balanced by set. Still just as much fun as it's always been in my opinion.
That's a great set 🔥
Commander is a really fun variation, prob the only other style I play other than legacy.
That card is soooo expensive.
Best use case for ordinals/inscriptions is a decentralized version of mtg in my opinion. Fork x mage to verify you actually own the deck you are playing with (each card being an inscription) and make the game free from centralized control but still have some scarcity. Not just full proxy.
Great game- haven’t played in a long time and the teens I see playing are more into the card collecting and trading. But they also aren’t true nerds. I tried getting back into it with my daughters… they had other interests I soon found out :)
there's a shitcoin nft auto battler that is kind of like MTG called splinterlands. it's a few years old and a pretty fun game but they went crazy with the wEb3tOkEnoMiCs
You mean the physical card game?
No matter the profit, it's still a great game imo, the best of it's kind actually
I play a lot but mostly on MTG Arena. The digital game is way more efficient to play and I can get more games in with limited time as well as play with friends remotely. The digital card and deck management is excellent too. I would definitely recommend Arena over physical cards if you don't have a lot of time to dedicate to it.
Eww. No.
What do you play in Legacy? Before I stopped playing competitively in 2014 that was my favorite format - Dredge will always be close to my heart even if it didn't feel like I was playing Magic 😂
That's awesome! I played in high school and then got back into it when my oldest son started to play. He got in around the "war of the spark" set which was 2019. We built a "surveil" deck that you would love if you like the dredge ability. It has two "yawgmoths will" which is a sweet card. The new set just came out with a good commander for surveil so working on a commander variation of that legacy deck.
Why not? Everyone can mint any card they want to build a deck. Paying transaction fees to mint means theres actual skin in the game and cards can be traded/sold. All that's needed is a client like x mage to recognize and check the validity of the cards.
Wow. I can definitely see that seeing play. Creatures have come a loooooong way.
Right! Feel bad for those old creatures 🤣
RIP lol 
Haha classic!