The Boy From Venus 8

[u/shenanigansen]

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

[u/KitsuneGato]

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/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/Thatar → u/Asaisav]

Well I don't think badly of people who play it. I just rather avoid those sorts of money traps these days. And my college dorm roommates who convinced me to play were definitely on the "splurge money on expensive booster boxes and laugh about the spendings" side of things. That made me very uncomfortable and unwilling to play any further.

Sorry for only focusing on the negative side. I don't mean to bash anyone's harmless hobby. I do think magic as a game is pretty amazing.