Magic the gathering, how did you get into it?

[ghostsprite9]

The title says it all really. I'll start...
With the whole "playstation plus free for a month" deal, i found that you could magic the gathering duels of the planewalkers 2011 for free. The sucker that i am for free stuff i downloaded it...

Thus my love for magic the gathering started.
I loved it, and at the moment i'm trying to get my mates into it.
I just wondered what made some other people play it? Maybe you stopped? If you stopped then why?

(Also any tips to beat my mates would be greatly appreciated!)

 

[ShadowKatt]

I got into it back in high school. It was the "in" thing to do, right up there with pokemon and yugioh, and wanting to be part of the "in" crowd for a change I bought a couple decks and started playing.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand subsequently got slaughtered by those kids that had parents that bought them all the singles they wanted to build the most overpowered decks in the world. I don't really play anymore. I still have my cards, and I like to go through them and play with deck building, but that's about it.

 

[King Toasty]

Alright, you're a lucky bastard. This is my 1000th post. I was saving it, but you get to have it. Congratulations.

Choose two colors that match your personality best. Here is a color wheel:

Start buying packs, preferably from M11 or the upcoming M12. Prerelease for M12 is this weekend, get to your local hobby shop.

Buy as many packs as you want, then buy a starter deck of the two chosen colors. Make a deck of roughly sixty cards, following this pattern:

Card
Card
Mana
Card
Card
Mana

Repeat until you have roughly 60. This won't win you tourneys, but it's a good start.

Play with friends over and over, refining your deck. Also, use cards you really really like.
Visit the magicthegathering website, the articles are great.

My biggest piece of advice is to keep playing, keep enjoying, keep having fun, and above all, get a 20-sided dice.

 

[TheIronRuler]

I tried a video-game once but it wasn't something I like.
When it comes to trading cards I'm not in elementry or secondary school anymore, so...yeah...

 

[ghostsprite9]

Alright, you're a lucky bastard. This is my 1000th post. I was saving it, but you get to have it. Congratulations.

Choose two colors that match your personality best. Here is a color wheel:

Start buying packs, preferably from M11 or the upcoming M12. Prerelease for M12 is this weekend, get to your local hobby shop.

Buy as many packs as you want, then buy a starter deck of the two chosen colors. Make a deck of roughly sixty cards, following this pattern:

Card
Card
Mana
Card
Card
Mana

Repeat until you have roughly 60. This won't win you tourneys, but it's a good start.

Play with friends over and over, refining your deck. Also, use cards you really really like.
Visit the magicthegathering website, the articles are great.

My biggest piece of advice is to keep playing, keep enjoying, keep having fun, and above all, get a 20-sided dice.

Awesome. Thank you very much for the tips, and posting your the 1000th post.
Congratulations on that!
Guess i'll pick blue. i can guess what my friends will pick already

 

[King Toasty]

Alright, you're a lucky bastard. This is my 1000th post. I was saving it, but you get to have it. Congratulations.

Choose two colors that match your personality best. Here is a color wheel:

Start buying packs, preferably from M11 or the upcoming M12. Prerelease for M12 is this weekend, get to your local hobby shop.

Buy as many packs as you want, then buy a starter deck of the two chosen colors. Make a deck of roughly sixty cards, following this pattern:

Card
Card
Mana
Card
Card
Mana

Repeat until you have roughly 60. This won't win you tourneys, but it's a good start.

Play with friends over and over, refining your deck. Also, use cards you really really like.
Visit the magicthegathering website, the articles are great.

My biggest piece of advice is to keep playing, keep enjoying, keep having fun, and above all, get a 20-sided dice.

Awesome. Thank you very much for the tips, and posting your the 1000th post.
Congratulations on that!
Guess i'll pick blue. i can guess what my friends will pick already

Blue centers around wizards and counter-spells. Annoy the living hell out of them.

 

[Korak the Mad]

My friend gave me a pack for a christmas gift one year, and after that I became hooked to it. I don't really play, for there is nowhere I can really play it, or anyone to play it with. There is one store that sells the cards but doesn't offer Friday Night Magic, so, I'm out of luck.

 

[nohorsetown]

I got into it when it first came out, actually. I was in junior high, and a couple of friends were playing it, so I jumped on the bandwagon and bought a starter and a few boosters. As I was about to leave the nerd-store, a couple of older guys called me aside and proceeded to swindle me out of some of the better cards from the boosters. I remember trading a card for three Hill Giants, thinking "Score! I got *three* of these guys!".. within a year, I was the one ripping off newbies in trades. Back then we played for ante, and I actually won a Lord of the Pit and a Black Lotus.

After Antiquities, I quit playing for a few years, and got back into the game in high school, around the Weatherlight/Tempest era. I quit playing again after high school. Both times I quit, I gave away all my cards. So yeah, I gave away a Black Lotus (alpha or beta), and God knows how much other stuff that would be valuable/awesome now.

About a year and a half ago, I randomly came across a huge bulk deal for thousands of cards (not rare or awesome, but still..) on ebay for cheap. I said "what the hell", and bought them, and then did the same thing again a few weeks later. Now I have tons of magic cards from a million cycles/expansions that I missed over the years. Most of the new ones seem insanely overpowered to an old-timer like me. I built fifteen relatively-balanced decks, tho: one of each mono-color, and one of each two-color combination, for casual play with friends and family. I've got my money's worth, and this time I'm not giving away all my cards.

So there ya go, my Magic: The Gathering life's story!

 

[IndianaJonny]

Hmm, first got playing when introduced to it by a friend, plus I found a kooky hooby shop in Edinburgh that had a couple of loose cards boxes (hands up all those who LOVE trawling through loose card boxes!).

I'm a real sucker for the artwork on the cards to the point where I'll by ones that have no use in my deck, they just look nice. It's artwork that transports me away to imagining all those fantasy universes of Conan, John Carter, D&D etc -I just find it so evocative.

Oh, and though it may be dismissed as nerdy/geeky, in an era where videogames have largely (and sadly) superceded boardgames at least with MTG you're face-to-face with your friends.

 

[AlohaJo]

My friends got me in to Yu-Gi-Oh!, and I've been playing it for about 6 months, but I then got the itch to try something new, so I went to the game shop, picked up a New Phyrexia Intro pack, and the Deck Builder's Toolkit, and just started from there. Definitely one of the better purchases I've made.

After Antiquities, I quit playing for a few years, and got back into the game in high school, around the Weatherlight/Tempest era. I quit playing again after high school. Both times I quit, I gave away all my cards. So yeah, I gave away a Black Lotus (alpha or beta), and God knows how much other stuff that would be valuable/awesome now.

Ouch. I just saw a Black Lotus that was being sold for $1800, and it was pretty beat up.

 

[-Dragmire-]

Alright, you're a lucky bastard. This is my 1000th post. I was saving it, but you get to have it. Congratulations.

Choose two colors that match your personality best. Here is a color wheel:

Start buying packs, preferably from M11 or the upcoming M12. Prerelease for M12 is this weekend, get to your local hobby shop.

Buy as many packs as you want, then buy a starter deck of the two chosen colors. Make a deck of roughly sixty cards, following this pattern:

Card
Card
Mana
Card
Card
Mana

Repeat until you have roughly 60. This won't win you tourneys, but it's a good start.

Play with friends over and over, refining your deck. Also, use cards you really really like.
Visit the magicthegathering website, the articles are great.

My biggest piece of advice is to keep playing, keep enjoying, keep having fun, and above all, get a 20-sided dice.

What about an artifact deck?

OT: I got into it in high school for a while, dropped it later though.

 

[King Toasty]

Alright, you're a lucky bastard. This is my 1000th post. I was saving it, but you get to have it. Congratulations.

Choose two colors that match your personality best. Here is a color wheel:

Start buying packs, preferably from M11 or the upcoming M12. Prerelease for M12 is this weekend, get to your local hobby shop.

Buy as many packs as you want, then buy a starter deck of the two chosen colors. Make a deck of roughly sixty cards, following this pattern:

Card
Card
Mana
Card
Card
Mana

Repeat until you have roughly 60. This won't win you tourneys, but it's a good start.

Play with friends over and over, refining your deck. Also, use cards you really really like.
Visit the magicthegathering website, the articles are great.

My biggest piece of advice is to keep playing, keep enjoying, keep having fun, and above all, get a 20-sided dice.

What about an artifact deck?

OT: I got into it in high school for a while, dropped it later though.

Artifact decks are LOADS of fun, but you'll still need to choose a color. White and blue work quite well together.

Yeah, nobody in my school plays, except for a nerdy few. Good times with them, though.

 

[aba1]

Peeps in my art class were playing so I busted out my old modular deck from when I was a kid n got sucked in like a vacume just came along and raped my shit.

I am addicted...

my friends are always refering to me as the blue player because no matter what colour I play I always tend to gravitate towards control in some form or another

 

[Syndef]

Started collecting them alongside Pokemon cards (just to have them, not to play) when I was a kid. Then I realized that Magic was actually fun. I stopped playing a long time ago though. Glad to see it's still going strong.

 

[teisjm]

I collected the cards before i knew how to play the game, before i could even read english proberbly,
Then years later, around the time of the oddysey block peeking it's head out, a friend of mine taught me how to play, so i played and learned how to, I stopped around the end if the mirrodin block, cause we never had time to play, now i just picked it up again about 2 months ago, and is trying to start a playgroup with my cousins, my brother and some friends.

As for how you beat your mates, if you started this recently, spend time learning the game by playing, pick up as much rules knowledge as you can, but mainly, learn through playing (and reading articles on magicthegathering.com) what works and what doesn't.

When you get to know the game a little better, start thinking about deckbuilding a lot, you could download magic online, even if you play paper magic just to use the deck editor, which is a nice deck building/card database tool.

Also, if you're new and is buying packs, and trading with people you don't know, use cardkingdom or some other site to check out the value of your rares, so you don't get ripped off

 

[PatrickXD]

Well I don't play Magic and never have, but I do play other card games if that counts? Like i am the reigning champion in my school in terms of YuGiOh! cards. I don't know how I got into it really, we all just reminisced about the 'good old days' and brought in some random cards. Before we knew it, we had 40 people doing full on school sponsored tournaments to raise money or charity!

 

[aba1]

I got into it when it first came out, actually. I was in junior high, and a couple of friends were playing it, so I jumped on the bandwagon and bought a starter and a few boosters. As I was about to leave the nerd-store, a couple of older guys called me aside and proceeded to swindle me out of some of the better cards from the boosters. I remember trading a card for three Hill Giants, thinking "Score! I got *three* of these guys!".. within a year, I was the one ripping off newbies in trades. Back then we played for ante, and I actually won a Lord of the Pit and a Black Lotus.

After Antiquities, I quit playing for a few years, and got back into the game in high school, around the Weatherlight/Tempest era. I quit playing again after high school. Both times I quit, I gave away all my cards. So yeah, I gave away a Black Lotus (alpha or beta), and God knows how much other stuff that would be valuable/awesome now.

About a year and a half ago, I randomly came across a huge bulk deal for thousands of cards (not rare or awesome, but still..) on ebay for cheap. I said "what the hell", and bought them, and then did the same thing again a few weeks later. Now I have tons of magic cards from a million cycles/expansions that I missed over the years. Most of the new ones seem insanely overpowered to an old-timer like me. I built fifteen relatively-balanced decks, tho: one of each mono-color, and one of each two-color combination, for casual play with friends and family. I've got my money's worth, and this time I'm not giving away all my cards.

So there ya go, my Magic: The Gathering life's story!

not going to lie very jelous I always wanted to play all the old sets there so cool all the cards are so flavorful ahhhhhhhhhhhhh I am jelous I have never even seen a real copy of black lotus to have owned one is so cool its the best card ever made and a huge piece of magic history

 

[live2laugh]

My ex got me into it. He had loads of cards so i started playing and built a couple decks. That then went on to buying a load of cards and eventually getting a few of my other friends into it.

 

[Nabirius]

This follows a natural cycle, you realize what a cool game it is, you and your friends gets into it, but one guy always seems to have a coherent deck and everyone just loses, so you all start to get more cards, then you start buying them online. And suddenly you have no money.

 

[-Dragmire-]

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What about an artifact deck?

OT: I got into it in high school for a while, dropped it later though.

Artifact decks are LOADS of fun, but you'll still need to choose a color. White and blue work quite well together.

Yeah, nobody in my school plays, except for a nerdy few. Good times with them, though.

My artifact deck was full of cards that gave colorless mana.

I tried collecting all the weatherlight crew searching for the Legacy

ended up with three of these but I failed in finding the crew.