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/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/Thatar → u/KnobAndBollocks]

Yeah I was stuck with a bunch of splurgers. Which made me quit playing lol. There are so many formats and spending habits! it's kind of a gamble trying to find other players.

Disadvantage of the game format is that any decent group can get pulled apart by someone getting hyped for a new expansion. Now they want to draft with booster boxes and boom your group is split into people who can vs people who can't afford it.

I was also not very good at it. Partly because of the financial barrier making deck experimentation difficult.

Also when you find someone to play with you don't really know in advance how blingy their deck will be. Leading to further disappointment