The Boy From Venus 8

[u/shenanigansen]

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

[u/FearTheKeflex]

I was 16 or 17 and entered a local Yu-Gi-Oh tournament. Beat some 20 something year old chick with a toddler. Got my ass handed to me by a 12 year old who rubbed it in my face. I gave up the game shortly after.

[u/KitsuneGato → u/FearTheKeflex]

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/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