Do you play tabletop Magic at your local game store (LGS)? Perhaps you prefer the convenience of Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) or Magic: The Gathering Arena on your computer. Or maybe you like playing on your phone or tablet with the Android version. Let me know how you play and what your preferred platform is!
I used to play MTGO on Linux through Wine, but it stopped working. Trying it in a VM was too laggy. So I finally bought a cheap Windows machine primarily to run MTGA and MTGO smoothly. Personally, the convenience of digital clients has won me over, but I have fond memories of Friday Night Magic at my LGS, specially a $1 entry format we played with crappy decks because I liked the nostalgia of it being similar to when I started playing instead of the competitiveness of the typical standard format, where it seems like all the decks are similar netdeck copies.
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I’m playing Arena most days. Haven’t spent any actual money on it and don’t plan to. I’m using Lutris on Linux; I can’t say that setup or maintenance have been painless, but it’s working for me for now. I used to play MTGO years ago and would eventually like to get back to that because it’s the best platform for Pauper.
Pre-pandemic I used to do both FNM drafts and kitchen table Magic with friends, and I would love to resume both of those, but I really don’t think it’s prudent yet, from a public health perspective.
I played MTGA on Linux, with my friend, also on Linux, without issues.
For me I play MTGA. Honestly, I’m not into competitive play and just like the social aspect and having fun. Arena isn’t the best for the social aspect as its more just speed matches, but maybe they’ll release a chat system with that at some point. There is a large number of players, so finding matches is easy enough, and although the cards are completely worthless in Arena (you can’t trade them) they also don’t have a real world cost to them. I’m terrible at pricing, but I would figure I have around $500-$600 worth of cards in Arena. Again, they are totally worhtless and non-transferrable (which would be an issue if they decided to discontinue the platform), but I haven’t spent any money on them either.
With the kiddo atm. For now the most important factors for a card in a deck is that its a dragon, its powet, and general red damage dealers. Its a fun phase ill admit i started similar.
The face of my kid when i made a mono white deck (white is stupid, only 1/1 clerics and soldiers bah) and did wrath of god at the sixth or sevent turn (THATS NOT FAIIIIRRRRRR) and wiped his dragons away only to have a bunch of clerics at the next turn lol
Just with friends in paper. We’ve occasionally played online but it’s not the same.
Same here.
I’m about 50/50 in person with ancient decks and Cockatrice.
Realistically I’d go all in on Cockatrice if I really wanted to play frequently. MTG is cost prohibitive.
I only play Arena right now, and pretty much just draft and Historic. I would love to get back into real world paper drafting at my LGS but we have two young kids which makes it difficult. Once they’re older I will be looking to get back into FNM and drafting in person again.
I really do like Arena but I worry the effect it has on the paper game. I also think Historic is the most fun format right now, and has the most diverse sets of decks so I’m thankful wotc makes it free for us to play it.
I’ll attend the occasional prerelease, but I mostly play paper commander with friends.
For many years I didnt play at all, my cards were just in a box. Few years back I got them out, got everything registered using Delver Lens and started collecting a bit again. Recently two people in my boardgame group hit their heads and can’t do really long thinky boardgames at the moment, so we’ve settled on mtg as a social and still challenging compromise.
We play some of my budget legacy decks, we play a bit of jumpstart, and we’re just starting to get into commander.
Recently two people in my boardgame group hit their heads and can’t do really long thinky boardgames
Whats the story there lol
One had two minor strokes, didn’t do terrible damage but it does mean he gets tired more easily. The other has a concussion after a mountain bike fall, wasn’t a bad fall either, but it had much the same effect as the stroke had.
Were late 30s so it feels a little early for these things, but luckily I really like playing mtg so I don’t mind that part…
Wow, didn’t know a concussion could actually cause such long term issues.
Hope they recover and sorry if my initial comment was tactless.
No worries. It’s actually quite common for concussions to have long term effects, doesn’t have to be a hard knock either. Colleague of my wife had a shelf drop on his head, empty and while he was putting it up. Took him about six months to get back to almost full time employment, and he still has to take naps and manage his head during the day. My friend is also only working 30 hours for now.
I play on Arena and draft every Friday at an LGS that my friends started up. Trying to make sure it consistently fires. Me and the other potential claimant to best drafter in the city play there every week so we get a bunch of people who want to play with/against us but also a fair number of people want to dodge us go to another store.
