Hello guys... I´m not sure if this thread has been put up before but i got tired of searching and was too exited so i decided to make my own:
Question!
Why is magic so important to you? Why do you like it? Why does it make you spend the money and time it makes you spend in it?? Why does it keep you from studing? (like moi) and why WHY is it that this game has taken hold of you?
I´ve played magic ever since i was 10 years old. Like some of you may have experienced, i also quit various times throughout my "magic career" but have been incapable of leaving it completely.
I learnt about it at school and instantly loved it. I played collected and sneaked out of my house to the nearest store to buy me a nightmare knowing that i would get beat up if i got cought wasting money by my parents =D.
My father bought me, for my birthday the 7th edition starter pack that had the foil thorn elemental. I was so happy! It was the only thing i asked for for years. Once i had to leave the country, to go to portugal, i sold everything... and about 2 years later, i started over since i had found friends who also played. This was during the mirrodin cycle. They only played it as a one time thing, so 4 years later, when i had to leave to come back to my country, i left the cards once more.
Old enemies from the original school back home, caugh up to me via msn and asked me if i still played that game and if i still had my binder, (since because of my addiction i had been caugh off guard as recess had ended but i was still playing so the teacher got really mad at me "you and those srupid cards" she used to shout and of course they had totally laughed their asses off)... at that time i must have been about 16 or 17 and all i could say was "of course". Even at that time i wasn´t as addicted as i am now... i know know that my friends in portugal dont play magic no more and they kept the SICKEST CARDS EVER... know that i know how good they are (chrome mox, confidant, top, arcbound ravager...) i might ask them to send them to me
all in all... this game has completely taken hold of me and i just love it... It is a very very big part of my life, always was and always will be. all i can think is: Will i ever NOT be addicted to this game? Will magic still be around after i´m gone? Are the chances of me having a boy so that i can teach him to love magic really 50-50? and if not... could a girl learn how to play magic??
(naa just joking... but seriously...)
Ok so a monopoly is a multinanana ...... (started studing)
When i saw the cards at 10 i wondered
"what is this"
"how does it work"
and it pretty much drew me into a fantasy state for years.
after a few years go by and im in grade 5 or 6 i find myself buying packs of homelands for 2 dollers each, not knowing how to play, what it was or anything i just kept onto them
Finally in highschool i learn what the game is, find out the history, started my own playgroup that kept me occupied for 5 years. Pretty much kept me away from drugs and my grades in check (somewhat)
i owe alot to the game, ive made my best friends playing it, and my gf is getting damn good to.
Its collecting, and buying a pack to find you tripled your investment.
It proved a way for me to forge new connections with a lot of good friends as college, and also reform connections with old friends when I moved back home after dealing with heavy depression issues.
I've also sunk a lot of money into it, and I'mma get my money's worth, darn it!
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Major EDH player! Current decks:UUBraids, Waifu | UGZegana | RGWEnchantress Uril, the Miststalker | WBTriad of Fates (new!) | RBGXira Arien Re-dredge-imator (unretired!)
Eladamri | Anowon | Sydri | Melek | Augustin IV | Thelon | Sliver Overlord | Ramirez DePietro
One of the things I like about magic is the artwork - it really drew me in, and, believe it or not, is one of the reasons I still play.
Also, I find it fun to write up decks, and just go out and have a blast playing with my friends - I'm glad they're not too competitive.
It is one of the things that makes me who I am. It has gotten me through hard times in my life, at some points being the only real joy I had in my life, the only thing I had to look forward to. I have met some good people from playing the game as well.
It is also one of the most fun games I have ever played, and it takes up a lot of my spare time. I just love it. I have always loved trading card games. It has become who I am. When I describe myself, I think musician, writer, trading card game player, free thinker, above average.
I also get joy out of winning. Winning means I am succeeding at what I am doing in life.
I've also had lots of good memories from this game. Every time I go to a big event, there is always a story to be told. Even FNMs are really fun, with lots of joking and inside jokes.
Most importantly, if I can comprehend and be good at this game, it means I can do anything. Not everyone realizes it, but this is probably the most complicated game on earth, more complicated than chess. It means i have the mental capacity to do whatever I choose to with my life.
I believe that I have enough social competence to slip into a party or two, potentially wooing some attractive females that would not mind spending the evening performing the booty dance on me.
Magic helped me get through 8th grade, which was a really, really hard time in my life, due to a bunch of crap going on at the time. I could go to my LGS, and immerse myself in something other than math equations and science vocab, with people who didn't care who I was dating (or not dating) or who I hung out with. It was my safe haven.
Nowadays, my LGS stopped doing tournaments, and so magic has become a smaller part of my life. Although I'm sad about this, it was kind of the bridge that I walked across from being the fragile, emotional me as a middle schooler, to the more carefree me of today.
Basically, magic is special to me because he helped me survive Middle School.
Well, I'm 22 now. Started playing when I was 7 when two of my elementary school friends introduced me to the game. When I was 10 I moved out of the states to Asia with my dad (he was sent to Singapore for work), but I would come back in the summers and me and my two buddies would play. Over the next 8 years it was really good bond that kept us very close, and even now they are still my 2 best friends (through living abroad and college).
Magic means a lot because it's a purely social thing with those two friends, and how it helped me stay in touch those first years when I moved. Of course now whenever I'm back in that area there is a LGS I got to and I've met a lot of other people playing there. I've put a lot of time, and money into the game, but if my friends ever gave it up I'd also stop playing without hesitation. So in that sense it is special to me, but at the same time the game itself is not that special to me. On a personal level, it's pretty low on the priority list.
I'll be honest, I don't get out much. I'm just not a very big go-getter. I keep to myself and to my small group of friends I've known since I was a small child.
Magic helps give me a reason to go out and socialize with people outside of school or something. I really enjoy my time playing EDH and just hanging out with people who share a common interest with me. Magic is an easy way to connect with someone.
In fact, I am going to a different high school than most of my grade-school friends. It was difficult for me to adjust to it, not knowing anyone and all. I might as well have moved across the country. One day, though, I saw some people playing the game at lunch and we got to talking about it. I brought in one of my less powerful decks to play, and we had a blast.
I've recently gotten to be more social and comfortable around people I don't know, but if it weren't for this game, I just don't know what I would do.
im surprised to see how much this game means to everyone. And how much it has affected all of you on a personal level.
I also owe an incredible amount to this game.
I´ve been moving around all over the world every couple of years and am pretty miserable because it´s incredibly hard to make friends and then lose contant with them and to start over...4 or 5 times.
In an anime convention, that also had some magic players i was looking at some cards when i saw a peson i recognised but didn´t know. He was from a class in college. If it werent for the cards (and of course alot of other things that could have changed before we met)... i would be almost completely alone in my college classes ( and i wouldn´t have gotten all the help, or books or notebooks he gave me =P)
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Putting aside the fact its a fun game with basically the largest card pool of any ccg back in 93 I was 10 and basically a latch key kid my both my parents were working a lot and I functionally only saw them on weekends. Every saturday morning I would go to the grocery store with my mom and she would buy me a few packs of cards. When we got home my dad and I would play a few games. Since then my folks went through a messy devorce and being an adult myself now Im back to not seeing them much. So for me its at least part nostalgic of simpler times.
It has allowed me to make great friends through playing and (especially) judging. Traveling to huge events and seeing my friends from all over the world is very special to me.
When I first picked up the game back during Urza's, it was a hobby I enjoyed and it helped feed my love of collecting cards (X-men cards were getting less and less fun to collect) as well as giving me an alterior motive for finding cards (I could actually use them in a game). Since then, the game has definitely turned from a hobby into just a fun casual thing. More importantly though, a night of MTG is one of the many ways that I get to catch up with my old friends from my hometown.
One of the few times I could actually get my dad's attention and kind of try to bond with him was at the LGS he owned in Kansas City and when it was quiet, we'd play Magic.
Granted he would always ruin it by telling me he was going to die soon.
I think it's been the ritual of driving down to 'card night' every single Wednesday for the last 11 years. Rain, Sleet, Hurricanes, Childbirth (!!!)..the USPS has got nothin on my group.
We're flatcrack addicts, all. We will usually drop whatever we're doing for a chance to play. At least I do. We're a very VERY tight-knit group by now.
I'm a creature of habit eh?
The other (more recent) thing is the joy of introducing other people to it and watching as game-by-game, they slooowly start to figure things out and then they slooowly start to fall in love with it just like I did.
Having explored so many different aspects of this game over the years, I love being able to pass that passion on to someone else. Good stuff. (And it does also get me more folks to play with..hehe.)
The reason I keep spending money on it is pimpin out some of my favorite decks now. I'm not happy til they're 100% done. It adds up. It'll be a glorious day indeed when I'm finished. They're just 'special' and this is a way to make them a little more special, to me, and hopefully others.
Started when I was 7 (92/93), as everyone in my neighborhood played it, and weekly would have a "tournament". This tournament involved friends of mine who didn't know the other friends I had, so in a way, it brought a lot of people together.
Dropped the game when my friends moved away around tempest, and picked up the game with Apocolypse, and left again in Odyssey. Was certain that I was done with magic, until my brother introduced me to Ravnica, and I fell back in love.
Cubing has kept my attention in this game, as I can bring my "best" and "fun" cards to a friends and be guaranteed fun and everyone on an equal level, and everyone can play without investing in a deck!
Epic Cards: Force of Nature, Shivan Dragon, and Craw Wurm.
Epic Fails: Trading Dual land for a truck ton of islands and plains and force of nature and shivan dragon (back then it was hard to get lands)
Question!
Why is magic so important to you? Why do you like it? Why does it make you spend the money and time it makes you spend in it?? Why does it keep you from studing? (like moi) and why WHY is it that this game has taken hold of you?
I´ve played magic ever since i was 10 years old. Like some of you may have experienced, i also quit various times throughout my "magic career" but have been incapable of leaving it completely.
I learnt about it at school and instantly loved it. I played collected and sneaked out of my house to the nearest store to buy me a nightmare knowing that i would get beat up if i got cought wasting money by my parents =D.
My father bought me, for my birthday the 7th edition starter pack that had the foil thorn elemental. I was so happy! It was the only thing i asked for for years. Once i had to leave the country, to go to portugal, i sold everything... and about 2 years later, i started over since i had found friends who also played. This was during the mirrodin cycle. They only played it as a one time thing, so 4 years later, when i had to leave to come back to my country, i left the cards once more.
Old enemies from the original school back home, caugh up to me via msn and asked me if i still played that game and if i still had my binder, (since because of my addiction i had been caugh off guard as recess had ended but i was still playing so the teacher got really mad at me "you and those srupid cards" she used to shout and of course they had totally laughed their asses off)... at that time i must have been about 16 or 17 and all i could say was "of course". Even at that time i wasn´t as addicted as i am now... i know know that my friends in portugal dont play magic no more and they kept the SICKEST CARDS EVER... know that i know how good they are (chrome mox, confidant, top, arcbound ravager...) i might ask them to send them to me
all in all... this game has completely taken hold of me and i just love it... It is a very very big part of my life, always was and always will be. all i can think is: Will i ever NOT be addicted to this game? Will magic still be around after i´m gone? Are the chances of me having a boy so that i can teach him to love magic really 50-50? and if not... could a girl learn how to play magic??
(naa just joking... but seriously...)
Ok so a monopoly is a multinanana ...... (started studing)
A huge thanks to Argetlam and the guys at Hakai studios for this awesome banner
When i saw the cards at 10 i wondered
"what is this"
"how does it work"
and it pretty much drew me into a fantasy state for years.
after a few years go by and im in grade 5 or 6 i find myself buying packs of homelands for 2 dollers each, not knowing how to play, what it was or anything i just kept onto them
Finally in highschool i learn what the game is, find out the history, started my own playgroup that kept me occupied for 5 years. Pretty much kept me away from drugs and my grades in check (somewhat)
i owe alot to the game, ive made my best friends playing it, and my gf is getting damn good to.
Its collecting, and buying a pack to find you tripled your investment.
And of course, the new card smell.
I've also sunk a lot of money into it, and I'mma get my money's worth, darn it!
Props to Theismisacrime for the sig! Click for Trade list!
Major EDH player! Current decks: UUBraids, Waifu | UGZegana | RGWEnchantress Uril, the Miststalker | WBTriad of Fates (new!) | RBGXira Arien Re-dredge-imator (unretired!)
Eladamri | Anowon | Sydri | Melek | Augustin IV | Thelon | Sliver Overlord | Ramirez DePietro
Retired! Kangee | Kaalia
Blashpemy!
jk
but what are you saying, you could get rid of your cards tommorow, and not give a second thought to it?
or even have fond memories?
Also, I find it fun to write up decks, and just go out and have a blast playing with my friends - I'm glad they're not too competitive.
It is also one of the most fun games I have ever played, and it takes up a lot of my spare time. I just love it. I have always loved trading card games. It has become who I am. When I describe myself, I think musician, writer, trading card game player, free thinker, above average.
I also get joy out of winning. Winning means I am succeeding at what I am doing in life.
I've also had lots of good memories from this game. Every time I go to a big event, there is always a story to be told. Even FNMs are really fun, with lots of joking and inside jokes.
Most importantly, if I can comprehend and be good at this game, it means I can do anything. Not everyone realizes it, but this is probably the most complicated game on earth, more complicated than chess. It means i have the mental capacity to do whatever I choose to with my life.
RUG Riku, Two is Better Than One
UB [PRIMER] Wrexial, Classic Control
RG Radha, Ramp's Theme Goes With Everything
standard
BU control
BG infect
modern:
mill
edh:
devour for power
Shizuko ramp
Nowadays, my LGS stopped doing tournaments, and so magic has become a smaller part of my life. Although I'm sad about this, it was kind of the bridge that I walked across from being the fragile, emotional me as a middle schooler, to the more carefree me of today.
Basically, magic is special to me because he helped me survive Middle School.
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Magic means a lot because it's a purely social thing with those two friends, and how it helped me stay in touch those first years when I moved. Of course now whenever I'm back in that area there is a LGS I got to and I've met a lot of other people playing there. I've put a lot of time, and money into the game, but if my friends ever gave it up I'd also stop playing without hesitation. So in that sense it is special to me, but at the same time the game itself is not that special to me. On a personal level, it's pretty low on the priority list.
Magic helps give me a reason to go out and socialize with people outside of school or something. I really enjoy my time playing EDH and just hanging out with people who share a common interest with me. Magic is an easy way to connect with someone.
In fact, I am going to a different high school than most of my grade-school friends. It was difficult for me to adjust to it, not knowing anyone and all. I might as well have moved across the country. One day, though, I saw some people playing the game at lunch and we got to talking about it. I brought in one of my less powerful decks to play, and we had a blast.
I've recently gotten to be more social and comfortable around people I don't know, but if it weren't for this game, I just don't know what I would do.
I also owe an incredible amount to this game.
I´ve been moving around all over the world every couple of years and am pretty miserable because it´s incredibly hard to make friends and then lose contant with them and to start over...4 or 5 times.
In an anime convention, that also had some magic players i was looking at some cards when i saw a peson i recognised but didn´t know. He was from a class in college. If it werent for the cards (and of course alot of other things that could have changed before we met)... i would be almost completely alone in my college classes ( and i wouldn´t have gotten all the help, or books or notebooks he gave me =P)
A huge thanks to Argetlam and the guys at Hakai studios for this awesome banner
Currently looking to buy miscut Homelands, (my wife thinks I'm crazy too).
Semper Gumby (Always Flexible)
Granted he would always ruin it by telling me he was going to die soon.
I think it's been the ritual of driving down to 'card night' every single Wednesday for the last 11 years. Rain, Sleet, Hurricanes, Childbirth (!!!)..the USPS has got nothin on my group.
We're flatcrack addicts, all. We will usually drop whatever we're doing for a chance to play. At least I do. We're a very VERY tight-knit group by now.
I'm a creature of habit eh?
The other (more recent) thing is the joy of introducing other people to it and watching as game-by-game, they slooowly start to figure things out and then they slooowly start to fall in love with it just like I did.
Having explored so many different aspects of this game over the years, I love being able to pass that passion on to someone else. Good stuff. (And it does also get me more folks to play with..hehe.)
The reason I keep spending money on it is pimpin out some of my favorite decks now. I'm not happy til they're 100% done. It adds up. It'll be a glorious day indeed when I'm finished. They're just 'special' and this is a way to make them a little more special, to me, and hopefully others.
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Dropped the game when my friends moved away around tempest, and picked up the game with Apocolypse, and left again in Odyssey. Was certain that I was done with magic, until my brother introduced me to Ravnica, and I fell back in love.
Cubing has kept my attention in this game, as I can bring my "best" and "fun" cards to a friends and be guaranteed fun and everyone on an equal level, and everyone can play without investing in a deck!
Epic Cards: Force of Nature, Shivan Dragon, and Craw Wurm.
Epic Fails: Trading Dual land for a truck ton of islands and plains and force of nature and shivan dragon (back then it was hard to get lands)
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