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How do you all play Magic: The Gathering these days? (mtgzone.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 and store credit prizes 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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recently two people in my boardgame group hit their heads and can’t do really long thinky boardgames

Whats the story there lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, didn't know a concussion could actually cause such long term issues.

Hope they recover and sorry if my initial comment was tactless.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.