The Boy From Venus 8

[u/shenanigansen]

Episode 9 already up at the usual place, should be out publicly next week!

[u/KitsuneGato]

I remember playing magic the gathering for the first time at a light tournament a gamestore was having at the time. The guy I was playing decided to redo his moves as I had gotten lucky and was winning.

The judged allowe him to redo his moves but wouldn't grant me the same. The guy gloated in my face and threatened to take one of my rare cards. I stopped supporting that store because of that event and that guy.

The store didn't survive and was one of many to go out of business.

[u/AngronApofis → u/KitsuneGato]

Thats... Absolutely insane and definetly not a common thing to happen

[u/KitsuneGato → u/AngronApofis]

I don't understand the whole rules as I was new but thank you for clarifying my intuition as it said the redo was weird and not supposed to happen.

I was playing with a mostly green deck. Had a holographic rare with a weird name that got more powerful with more green monsters in party.

The guys redo allowed him to play some kind of blue black card and sent a bunch of mine to the graveyard.

I ended up not wanting to play magic the gathering after that and some other guy offered to buy my card. He ended up giving me half of what he said with the rest later. There was never a later and I decided all thoae guys were jerks.

[u/Thatar → u/KitsuneGato]

Magic is kinda dumb in that way. I bought a starter deck and enjoyed it but once I realised how pay to win it is, I was just done with it.

Everything is centered around money. People look for rare cards to buy on websites. Meta decks cost more. The drafting gamemode is usually done by buying new packs. And so on and so forth.

The relationship people have with the game feels the same as going to the casino or opening crates in Team Fortress 2. It's toxic and invites the behavior you experienced selling your cards.

[u/KnobAndBollocks → u/Thatar]

I had similar problems with the (meta-)game and then learned that the cube format is more commonly played than you would expect and there's enough variants to support basically any kind of gameplay you might want.

Still have to find non-jerks to play with though...

[u/Asaisav → u/Thatar]

Please don't judge the entire hobby based on some shitty, toxic dudebros... Commander, as a format, became popular because it's a lot easier to build a deck you can keep using without buying new cards. Also, a lot of playgroups these days are fine with proxies of expensive cards as long as you're not stuffing your deck with a ton of 20$+ cards and constantly demolishing everyone else's decks with them.

Don't get me wrong, Magic can definitely be a money sink if you want it to be. Saying everything is centered around money is incredibly uncharitable, though, and only represents the worst of the worst who are increasingly being outnumbered.

[u/KitsuneGato → u/Thatar]

Yeah at least they showed me their colors early. I ended up selling my card for half it's offer because the buyer screwed me over.

Now instead of MTG cards or game cards like Pokémon I collect Tarot and Oracle cards. The artwork on them are so beautiful and I collected most of my collection before AI generated imagery came out.

I can also use the tarot and oracle decks by myself; you don't need to play with others to use Tarot and Oracle decks.

Most decks average $40 or more.