Magic: The Gathering

[Guesty]

I'm kinda surprised that there isn't a thread for this already.

So I recently got interested in Magic again, and went to my first FNM draft (all 3 sets were Rise of the Eldrazi). It was quite fun (there's a surprising amount of strategizing during combat), even if I did lose horribly. If Standard was less expensive to get into, I'd get into it too, but I don't really have enough standard-legal cards to make a good deck out of.

Anyone play Magic here (particularly booster draft)? Apologies if there's another thread and I didn't see it or something.

 

[Griffard]

Used to play every week at FNM and regularly with friends, sort of stopped before heading into high school. My best finish was 2nd at FNM, but I did go to a draft/release thing back in the Kamigawa days. Yeah... LOVE MTG.

 

[Mr.E]

I would like to do some RoE drafting but the only two reasonably close locations for FNM are only doing Standard constructed for like the next month. -_- Standard is too expensive for me to do anything other than draft, which is all I did through the school year with friends at school.

 

[Electrode]

I started to get into MTG around my 6th grade year. It's been off and on since.

The last time I went to a booster draft was back in Kamigawa. I have no clue what sets have been out since then. I remember that my brother got both Akroma and that one black card rare that destroyed everything that attacked/blocked it. Yay for poaching.

My friends and I got into it again a few years back, but everybody who liked to play it is off and away at college/whatever. I still play it against my brother some times, but I haven't in months.

I have a few decks, all containing a very jumbled assortment of sets. My best deck is a multicolor deck (all colors) , and my favorite deck is my green one, which utilizes straight-through damage and power ups.

I'm not very good at MTG, but it's fun and what not.

 

[Mr. Hadwick]

I played magic all my childhood, but then stopped around grade 6, I started again a few years ago, and got into real competitive magic and went to FNM regularily with my cousin. I never did very well because I loved to play kinda weird and unconventional decks, always green or green split.

I stopped because I'm poor and standard is expensive as hell

 

[ICSY]

I've been playing Sealed and Draft for a while now, but due to my local FNM being hosted in a pub, I can't play it (18+ only, I'm 15), so I have to make do with pre-releases and casual games with a couple of friends. I've been out of the swing of things lately, but I do use Magic Workstation to play the odd game now and then.

 

[TEA_DEMON]

I've got back into MtG a few months ago, a bit before Zendikar was released. Tbh I was quite disappointed with RoE, but maybe it's because I don't like overpowered shit like the Eldrazi. They should've just flowed on with the land stuff imo.

Currently making a BR Zombie deck. Fun stuff.

 

[Platyp]

I started at Shards of Alara and ended at Worldwake. My friends and I bought every box between those sets, inclusive, and drafted it all. It was ridiculously fun.

There's a point, though, where (like all TCGs) Constructed becomes entirely about the deck matchup rather than how you play out the game. Yes, I know, Magic is inherently a more complex game than, say, the Pokemon TCG. But it still has the flaws that every TCG will have, though.