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Kaiser Wilhelm Il. said:
i gave up actively looking for friends in the game at my lgs. i mainly go there to play competitively.

I know a lot of people in my friend circle who are not loveshies. We sometimes meet up and play sealed deck or commander and its always fun.
computer softwares like cockatrice are fun too since they allow u to play for free anytime.
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Likely a good idea. I'm hoping that since I'm moving to a larger city soon that I'll find a place with a decent community (rate me optimistic) or a least a modern scene that isn't just dredge and inflect.
 
I played from 4th Ed to Khans block, with year plus breaks at Kamigawa, Mirrodin, and Llorwyn probably through to Innistrad. I divested my paper cards in 2007 and my MODO cards in 2015. I played EDH, prismatic, vintage and limited. The EDH and Prismatic formats kept me going until I decided to stop. I was very excited with the announcement and delivery of the first Commander sets by Wizards.

Then then power creep in EDH started to happen, an unofficial format Wizards never designed for explicitly. Then EDH specific cards in regular block sets started to show up, more power creep. The generals went off the charts powerwise, Derevi? Then Braids got banned, then the 'tuck rule' changed (Derevi again?), and Prophet of Kruphix went unbanned, for a year. Then all the SJW identity politics started to become manifest (see what I did there?) in the cards and behavior of Wizards.

Long story short, a thing I loved and invested a lot of time/money in to got DP'd by corporatism and SJW's.
 
chainer said:
Then all the SJW identity politics started to become manifest (see what I did there?) in the cards and behavior of Wizards.

Long story short, a thing I loved and invested a lot of time/money in to got DP'd by corporatism and SJW's.
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I hated Khans for a lot of reasons. One of those reasons was:

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Fitting that it is red, the color of cringe. SJW politics are about as subtle as a proton pack to the groin.
 
I used to be on the cardboard crack about 13-16 years ago. From Urza's Saga through to CoK block.

Played a few tournaments as well, usually sealed deck and draft because my local scene had several annoying rich kids who bought all the bits for a Ravager deck off the internets and gained some easy victories without actually having to learn how to play.

I almost had a white wedding a few years back when a former housemate got out his collection and we played a few rounds against each other but I didn't backslide other than that. It had been nigh on 10 years since I admitted I was powerless over Magic and my life had become unmanageable so I put my collection into a storage box and said box into my old man's attic.
 
Eh, I play on-and-off. Haven't in a while, though. Actually met a girl at a local game shop who played commander, we had just started going out when she was killed by a drunk driver.
 
yeah the sjw influx is strange also for example this:
 
The whole MTGHeadquaters debacle was hilarious.

Since standard rotation has just hit I'm about to get into mtg in a big way. I'm really looking forward to playing a tcg competitively again.
 
Carolus_Rex said:
I'm honestly amazed the MTG Headquarters doesn't have a thread on here, especially after the Puka Trade thing.
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Because we'd just piss it into the aether.

Totally played a modern format FNM with a standard eldrazi by accident today and my only win was a by round.
 
so how did your aether revolt prerelease go?
i went 4/3 and won a extra booster, my pool was ok.
I had deep green with ridgescale and the mana elf as highlight.
I played red green then, splashing for the 4 mana burn and the double striker wih energy.
Destructive tampering is a hell of a card
Rares were, yahenni, kambal, scrap trawler, electrostatic pummeler, 2 mana shapeshifter, the blue copy mythic, and the red chaos warp like mythic
 
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Sorry for reviving an old thread. as kid I played a lot of trading card games. Growing up in the 90's nothing was more exciting for me than opening a booster pack. I collected a little bit of everything, Magic included. I am trying to pick up a new hobby to get me out of the house more these days and thinking about playing MTG again. Now that I'm older and in my early 30s I'd like to re-enter the scene again. I guess my question is, is it too late to reenter the Magic scene? I feel like beginning a collection this late, I will never catch up. Is it worth it still?
 
Mr.Scalfani said:
Sorry for reviving an old thread. as kid I played a lot of trading card games. Growing up in the 90's nothing was more exciting for me than opening a booster pack. I collected a little bit of everything, Magic included. I am trying to pick up a new hobby to get me out of the house more these days and thinking about playing MTG again. Now that I'm older and in my early 30s I'd like to re-enter the scene again. I guess my question is, is it too late to reenter the Magic scene? I feel like beginning a collection this late, I will never catch up. Is it worth it still?
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Depends on the format. Legacy will set you back at least $1800 for a deck with Modern being better but not by much. Since they been doing frequent reprints older formats are getting cheaper though, provided your not after a card on the reserve list. They just released Challenger Decks for Standard for $30 and those could be tier 2 or 1.5 decks easy with a few upgrades, though those will rotate in like 6 months.

As for building a collection just going to drafts and prelease is the best idea. If your just after older formats just build a deck that share cards with other decks you want.
 
Carolus_Rex said:
Depends on the format. Legacy will set you back at least $1800 for a deck with Modern being better but not by much. Since they been doing frequent reprints older formats are getting cheaper though, provided your not after a card on the reserve list. They just released Challenger Decks for Standard for $30 and those could be tier 2 or 1.5 decks easy with a few upgrades, though those will rotate in like 6 months.

As for building a collection just going to drafts and prelease is the best idea. If your just after older formats just build a deck that share cards with other decks you want.
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Thanks for the quick reply. As a newbie, I am thinking about going the standard route at the moment and relearning as I go. As far as rotation is concerned, what exactly does that mean? When you say rotate in 6 months, does the entail that the cards can not be played in standard anymore after the rotation ends?
 
Mr.Scalfani said:
Thanks for the quick reply. As a newbie, I am thinking about going the standard route at the moment and relearning as I go. As far as rotation is concerned, what exactly does that mean? When you say rotate in 6 months, does the entail that the cards can not be played in standard anymore after the rotation ends?
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Yes, they wont be legal in Standard. It's one of the reasons why when I personally played magic I'd stick with Modern, now I just play Commander.
 
Anonymus Fluhre said:
Yes, they wont be legal in Standard. It's one of the reasons why when I personally played magic I'd stick with Modern, now I just play Commander.
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Perhaps I will get involved with Commander then on a casual level. As I stated, I am just trying to pick up a new hobby to get me out of the house for a couple hours these days. The rotations of Commander never get out dated? I do not want to spend a massive amount of money on cards. I want to budget myself within the 500-600$ range for the time being.
 
Mr.Scalfani said:
Perhaps I will get involved with Commander then on a casual level. As I stated, I am just trying to pick up a new hobby to get me out of the house for a couple hours these days. The rotations of Commander never get out dated? I do not want to spend a massive amount of money on cards. I want to budget myself within the 500-600$ range for the time being.
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You'll easily be able to do a Commander deck for only a bit of that. You might even be able to find a budget Modern deck as well.
 
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