Poll: Magic: The Gathering

[Sarynroth]

I really enjoyed playing magic in sixth form with my friends but now I'm at uni its not really socially acceptable to play and I also don't know anyone else who plays here at uni. Also its quite an expensive hobby to have for a student although I have a few hundred pounds worth of cards up here with me so I should probably get of my arse and find some people to play with. Although once I go back home I can meet up with my old friends and have a few games of EDH or Cube drafting but as they all take it more seriously (going to tournaments and the like) they all have significant better or more interesting cards than me.

 

[InfiniteSingularity]

Ah, I remember the old days of playing this game...it was amazing, it seems to be losing it's appeal for me with the new versions; however, I have a fairly substantial collection which I have accumulated over the years. Great game

 

[rex922]

-snippy-

Don't know what to do about shuffling, though. I do that thing where you deal the deck out into piles of an odd number (5 or 7) a couple times before play, but sometimes I still get a really crappy draw. maybe I should mulligan more often, that might help shuffle up the deck a bit more.

You need to balance your lands out properly and do a mana weave once then pile shuffle. this way the deck balances out quite well in terms of usable cards.

I collect. I play casually but never in tournaments. I have a DCI membership but only for prereleases and drafts. Anything that will get me a bunch of new cards at a time. My students have also adopted a "play for teh_lolz" style of casual gaming at our own "Friday After-School Magic" and it's great fun. I get frustrated at official events, though, because so many people take the game WAY to seriously. It's a GAME people. For crying out loud, is it really worth it to spend 100 dollars on a piece of cardboard? Sorry. Just my opinion.

Yea, sometimes I find some people take this game waaaay to seriously and although tournaments of FNMs have some cool prizes its often not worth it because you aren't having any fun

I think magic is a great game and can get a little expensive in constructed formats.
Often i find that if I don't want to play constructed or lack decent cards to make a new deck I just draft where you already get a decent amount of cards and it can get very exciting because each draft is a new deck and a new experience.

 

[MrDumpkins]

I really enjoyed playing magic in sixth form with my friends but now I'm at uni its not really socially acceptable to play and I also don't know anyone else who plays here at uni. Also its quite an expensive hobby to have for a student although I have a few hundred pounds worth of cards up here with me so I should probably get of my arse and find some people to play with. Although once I go back home I can meet up with my old friends and have a few games of EDH or Cube drafting but as they all take it more seriously (going to tournaments and the like) they all have significant better or more interesting cards than me.

But that's the beauty of cube drafting, you don't have to care about cards if you're using someone else's cube!