I believe it's actually more a handed-ness thing going on here. Most people are right-handed and when they tap their cards they use their right hand. Due to how your joints work, it's easier for the right hand to tap to the left and for the left hand to tap to the right. When the right hand taps to the right, it's pretty much just your wrist. When you do it to the left, your elbow and shoulder gets in on the action as well.
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i tap upright because i make the text box face the opponent so that they may refer to it at anytime. i put them back the right way if i attack(yes it's weird)
Just as long as it's side-ways, I could care less which way they are. However, what bugs me is when people pile their lands on top of each other. I like to be able to count how many lands are tapped or untapped by glancing, not having to ask the person "how many untapped?" and then watch them count. ugh.
First year or so I played I tapped to the left but after a while I made myself get into a habit of tapping to the right, which felt more natural to me.
And I don't care how people tap their lands as long as it's clear when they have and haven't tapped their lands.
i ran into a guy at college that would tap by putting a plastic gemstone on any cards that were tapped instead of turning the card. it was weird as hell.
i always tapped to the left,always will. this is mt preference,probably always will be, left hand:tap, right hand:hold cards, if someone says i'm tapping wrong, i'll probably keep doing it the "wrong" way just to annoy them,mainly because i like to annoy people for fun sometimes:D
The diagonal thing does bother me, it seems so lazy. Also tapping things in different directions. A bit of OCD, but I don't say anything unless it was a friend who knows I'm like that. But left or right I don't care as long as you're consistent.
Just as long as it's side-ways, I could care less which way they are. However, what bugs me is when people pile their lands on top of each other. I like to be able to count how many lands are tapped or untapped by glancing, not having to ask the person "how many untapped?" and then watch them count. ugh.
Agreed, I hate that too. Some of the people I play EDH with do it and it can make it tough to read the board mid-late game.
Even when you have a ton of lands in play it just isn't that hard to stagger them such that it is easy to tell how much of each you have.
It doesn't matter, and I don't do it the same way every turn, but if I have multiple permanents tapped at the same time I do try to tap them all the same way.
Diagonal isn't acceptable and I usually assume that people who do it are trying to cheat, since it can frequently be ambiguous whether your permanents are tapped or not.
i ran into a guy at college that would tap by putting a plastic gemstone on any cards that were tapped instead of turning the card. it was weird as hell.
Maybe he played Illuminati before magic.
Illuminati is pretty old, only a few years younger than MtG, and that's how they "tapped" because Wizards had a lock on tapping as a mechanic.
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I always tap my cards clockwise. Tapping counter-clockwise just seems weird to me, and how someone could ever get to the point that they thought that tapping counter-clockwise was somehow normal is a complete mystery to me.
I tap to the right, because that's the direction the tap symbol points. Usually to save space I tend to tap lands only 45 degrees, unless it's too confusing what resources I have available, then I'll tap 90 degrees and stack stuff but that just adds time to the game as I have to reorganize my lands every turn.
i ran into a guy at college that would tap by putting a plastic gemstone on any cards that were tapped instead of turning the card. it was weird as hell.
Wizards owns the patent on tapping, or actually just rotating cards in general (it expires this year) so many card games that used tapping had to come up with alternate means, usually putting some type of marker on the card. Most likely he played another card game before Magic and that's why he does that.
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Last Friday, I was at a friends house playing some magic with about 7 people. normal on a friday when no one is doing anything.
He introduced us to a few new guys in the group and was ok.
As we were playing, my opponent was letting out deep sighs, grunts and over all just upset about something.
Finally after I beat him, he looked at me and said these exact words:
"Why are you tapping your lands the wrong way?"
HUH?
He was explaining that you ALWAYS tap your lands to the left to show they have been used. He even taught his kids - Always to the left.
I tap my lands to the right. Being taught since revised, the original symbol was tap to the right.
We argued for 10 min before he left. Everone in the group agreed:
Tap to the Right.
What is the correct way?
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seriously, is your friend part of the gestapo?
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Doctor, my eyes...cannot see the sky. Is this the prize for having learned how not to cry?
I'm guilty of this.
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And I don't care how people tap their lands as long as it's clear when they have and haven't tapped their lands.
This sounds kinda dirty when taken out of context...
Doesn't bother me how others tap as long as they are horizontal. the diagonal thing does bother me, but not enough to say anything.
Agreed, I hate that too. Some of the people I play EDH with do it and it can make it tough to read the board mid-late game.
Even when you have a ton of lands in play it just isn't that hard to stagger them such that it is easy to tell how much of each you have.
Diagonal isn't acceptable and I usually assume that people who do it are trying to cheat, since it can frequently be ambiguous whether your permanents are tapped or not.
Maybe he played Illuminati before magic.
Illuminati is pretty old, only a few years younger than MtG, and that's how they "tapped" because Wizards had a lock on tapping as a mechanic.
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Wizards owns the patent on tapping, or actually just rotating cards in general (it expires this year) so many card games that used tapping had to come up with alternate means, usually putting some type of marker on the card. Most likely he played another card game before Magic and that's why he does that.