Magic: The Gathering C/D

do kids today still play magic i assumed they shifted to making it for former kids like every other media property

yeah, I think there are a bunch of card games kids are more into

My Hero Academia seems to be a big one at the moment

you could just be making up a ridiculous name there and I’d have no idea

I started real early and got out around the time of Ice Age, I remember it seeming boring in comparison to the previous sets (Legends, the Dark, etc), lol.

yeah, it was only interesting compared to Fallen Empires lol

I was just thinking of The Dark, which kind of had some themes but was mostly a collection of weird cards

xp ah that makes sense if theres a card game for that. honestly have no idea what the media landscape is like for tweens or teens now besides anime. magic's aesthetics are rooted in stuff that hasn't been cool for a minute

i had this book as a kid which had every card up through 1996 and probably did a lot to save me from wanting to buy packs of those weaker mid 90s sets
https://i.imgur.com/BYd90jT.jpg

lol I had a friend who had that, I totally remember scouring those sets looking for secretly broken cards and coming up with nothing

do kids today still play magic i assumed they shifted to making it for former kids like every other media property

― ciderpress, Monday, February 27, 2023 10:45 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

from like age 12-19 there was this card shop I hung around pretty frequently with a bunch of kids around the same age (and some who were older), just messing around playing Magic and other games, hanging out, wasting time, etc. a lot of those people are still friends! but I do wonder if they still have shops like that anywhere. I visit local stores every so often and it's a bit depressing how there's never anyone in there anymore outside of like, FNM or whatever. back in the day it seemed like there were always people around.

Moodles I hate wilderness reclamation too fwiw

real kill or be killed vibe to this set. you either have to get a bunch of insane rares or build a tight aggro deck that constantly applies pressure. all the durdley proliferate stuff is okay but a lot of times these games just end with you getting trucked by a really stupid planeswalker. seriously I feel like 2/3rds of the decks in this set have one, it's absurd.

There's several PW in the rare slots this set, which might explain that. I'm guessing there's a story reason for it. I was only able to make proliferate matter in poison decks, where obv it helps. In a lot of RG decks, adding a counter to your permanents really doesn't matter (eg the game is usually over before Lattice Blade Mantis makes its third hit).

I think I've had my fill of the format for the reason you mentioned. Too focused on aggro, too punishing to fall behind, in spite of being fun to play for a few weeks or so

ILX magic players, how do you feel about WotC sending literal Pinkertons to harass somebody at their home because they accidentally received cards before release date and made a youtube about it?

https://kotaku.com/mtg-aftermath-leaks-pinkertons-wotc-magic-the-gathering-1850368923

yeah its pretty fucked up

insanely fucked up and the details are like… pinkertons?! for fucking magic the gathering?!

they've been weird about spoilers for a while. I remember back in like 2002-2004 this dude on a forum named "rancored_elf" would post spoilers as apparently he had an inside man. WoTC wound up suing him into oblivion and basically ruining his life. I remember him being like "they could've just asked me to stop"

iirc it ended ok for him but apparently they really brought out the heavy artilery

i was just astounded that Pinkerton still existed

I really know nothing about this game, except now this

Post Malone pays fan $2m for Magic: The Gathering 'One Ring' card

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66399865