Anyone here play Magic The Gathering

[FnG]magnolia;22370050 said:
Thank you sir. I have more questions.

How 'closed' is the community or rather how hard is is to get so good at the game that you're accepted?

Honestly, I've always found the community very accepting. There's an element of the nature of the game attracting the more socially awkward/inept but I've always found the players to be nice and friendly, particularly to new players wanting to learn the ropes.

Do you have to train or study at a competitive level? Do you train with other competitive folks or is it a very individual thing?

There are groups/teams of competitive players who make a living playing the game who will train/study the game a huge amount. Generally I hang out/play with other competitive players as that way less is misunderstood between players and you can improve to an extent by discussing things with them.

What do you get out of it at both a non-competitive and competitive level? What pulls you back?

I play because a lot of my friends play. Obviously I play for the prizes (flights to foreign countries, cash prizes, rare cards etc) but I mainly play because I know so many of the competitive players in the UK.

Can you hit a ceiling of personal ability?

Definitely. It's also possible to lose a lot of ability if you take extended breaks from the game.

How much does luck factor and how much does buying cards factor at a competitive level?

Luck is always a part as your deck is, for the most part, going to random and so you don't much control about what card(s) you draw per turn to use. Buying cards is a factor, but in the competitive scene everyone is willing to lend cards to others.

Thanks in advance :) I should say that I've never played it and have no intention of doing so but it's a pretty interesting subject.
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Edit: In answer to that, yes. Big names are Luis Scott-Vargas, Paulo Vitor Damo De Rosa, Patrick Chapin, Jon Finkel, Kai Budde and Brad Nelson to name a few, but there's loads of names that you could mention to MTG players and they'd probably have heard of them.
 
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My recommendation would be start with Duels of the Planeswalkers on Steam/PS3/360/Ipad. You'll get the basics of Magic from that, along with a lot of the lingo (there is a demo too!):
http://store.steampowered.com/app/97330/?snr=1_7_suggest__13

After that, I would go for an M13 deckbuilders toolkit which has just been released (the one you linked to). That will give you a glut of basic cards, a few boosters to open, a load of land cards, and a good storage box.
Personally I'd say also to buy an intro deck, either from the set Avacyn Restored, or the M13 core set. They're about £11, and will give you a basic, but simple ready to go deck, with which you can play straight out of the box (and you get a booster pack with it too).

Also, if you buy the Duels of the Planeswalkers game, you receive a code you can take to a participating store, which will get you a promo booster pack with an alternate art card. When I handed mine in I also got a basic starter deck with it! Store locator is here:
http://locator.wizards.com/

Edit: and use the Troll Traders actual website, it works out cheaper! http://www.trolltradercards.com/
 
infernox said:
My brother has been playing this for a while?

What would be a good set for starting off.. Im quite intrested in it.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Magic-Gat...=693131730892987089&pid=100033&prg=1011&rk=1&

Would that be good?
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DBT is ok but if you're looking for something to just pick up and play with I'd recommend an M13 intro pack like http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MTG-Magic...lectables_TradingCards_RL&hash=item3a7721c9e2

That's a pre-built deck to play with that is not totally **** :)
 
I played it, until i realised they were just bits of printed card with nothing special about them and could not justify the expense. Except for a few 'foil' editions, you might as well print them off yourself, or play for free online.
 
BunnyKillBot said:
I played it, until i realised they were just bits of printed card with nothing special about them and could not justify the expense. Except for a few 'foil' editions, you might as well print them off yourself, or play for free online.
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Except you can't do that if you want to play in any kind of tournament (Magic League on MWS aside) ;)
 
Used to play quite a lot in my uni days. Looking back I spent far too much time and money on it but I found the strategy, deckbuilding and game aspect of it really interesting. My favourite deck to play was my "Living Death" deck. It used to just throw an endless supply of creatures at you whilst killing everything you had. I think LD got banned from tournament use shortly after I stopped playing.

Wasn't really fussed about the collecting aspect.

Sold most of my more valuable cards a few years ago but I've still got loads of cards left taking up sapce. If anyone just starting out wants to beef up their collection I'm quite happy to send out as many commons as you want for the price of postage.
 
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kaiowas said:
Used to play quite a lot in my uni days. Looking back I spent far too much time and money on it but I found the strategy, deckbuilding and game aspect of it really interesting. My favourite deck to play was my "Living Death" deck. It used to just throw an endless supply of creatures at you whilst killing everything you had. I think LD got banned from tournament use shortly after I stopped playing.

Wasn't really fussed about the collecting aspect.

Sold most of my more valuable cards a few years ago but I've still got loads of cards left taking up sapce. If anyone just starting out wants to beef up their collection I'm quite happy to send out as many commons as you want for the price of postage.
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Very kind of you to offer that. I am just really starting out with the card version. As mentioned earlier, I grabbed the 2013 Deck Builders Toolkit and a Troll Trader White deck kit and Black deck kit. Hoping I can make an awesome Vampire/Zombie based deck and a White/Black Exhalted based.
 
[FnG]magnolia;22369880 said:
e : whoops, this was at Deiwos.

I'd like to know more about this. Could we do a mini Ask/Tell?

How does the competitive angle work?
What's the most expensive card you've bought and sold?
How long have you played for?
How long before you became pro?
How much have you earned?

I've got lots more questions but maybe we could start with those ones. I find the concept fascinating.
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How does the competitive angle work? The competitive angle has many different tiers of competition. You have your basic Friday Night Magic (not usually held on a friday in the UK for beer drinking reasons), which is the first level of competing. Here the talent range will vary wildly, but you get some good players showing.
Then you take the large leap up to the MTG world championships, where we can compete against other british folk to compile a team of the best of british to take on the world.
And then there is the Pro Tour, the cream of the crop, the best players in the world under one roof, like Nerds'R'Us.

What's the most expensive card you've bought and sold? Most expensive card I've bought is probably Sacred Foundry at £17 each, 4 of them, so £68. And the most expensive I sold was a single Baneslayer Angel for £50.

How long have you played for? I started playing at the end of Shards block, so about 4 years now.

How long before you became pro? Nowhere near pro level yet. I've ranked decently in our region, top in my local town, and i've placed top 8 in qualifiers for pro events.

How much have you earned? In 4 years playing MTG i've spent less than £400, but my collection is probably worth more than £1000.

My colours are majority Red/White (boros) but I dabble in Blue and Black.
 
I used to play Yu-Gi-Oh back in the day.

Roflstomping people using any bull**** method of fusing a triple headed cyber dragon was always fun. And by bull**** I mean perfectly legit moves that were so annoying, like fusion revives :)

I would try and get into MTG after hearing Day9 rave about it, but I have too many other hobbies :)
 
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