MTG Players?

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Anyone here? I just recently in the last couple months have gotten back into it after nearly 20 years. Went to my first midnight pre-release this weekend for the M2014 deck being released on Friday. It was also Friday Night Magic with a sealed tournament thing. Prepaying got you a stack of boosters to play a few rounds with. Was a blast. Not many MTG female players in my area.

The Tattered Princess

It's a male dominated game alright. There are some other female players at the store I go to but there's still more men than woman.

I'm not very good. I'm not so terrible that I would feel like I'm making people think women can't play magic. I can play.

I've won a few FNM drafts since gatecrash came out. but they were all close to the release of a new set. I'm not sure if that's random or if I really have an easier time when people are still adjusting.

I played for a few months, but packed up once the few people I had to play with moved away. Such games have always been a social hobby for me, only worth paying for and paying attention to with a dedicated companion or group. I'd like to get involved again, but I'm not sure if there are any local groups or how welcoming they would be.

Do people talk much at your events?

If you guys are having a hard time finding people to play with you can play online here. I don't play anymore myself, but it's always an option, but it's less enjoyable obviously.

I find playing MTG online a great deal more enjoyable than I ever found playing MTG with people at the local wargame club.
Nowadays it's common for me to not bother going to the club and stay at home playing MTG over the internet instead.

I play the DOTP games over Xbox Live.
Well, more accurately I play MTG 2013 and 2014 over XBL because nobody else seems to play the first two DOTP games any more.

The benefits of my approach are.... I can play standard MTG (at the club they play some kind of convoluted version of Commander) , I can play against people of the same skill level as me (at the club they're all much more experienced) , I can play with decks which are about the same 'quality' as my opponents (at the club they stuff their decks with loads of cards which are either £35 each - or high-powered illegal fake ones which they made themselves) , I get a bit more support with deck building when playing the new 'Sealed' mode of MTG 2014 (at the club there is zero help with deck building of any sort), if somebody is being a douchebag then all you need to do is hit the 'mute' button (at the club a number of the MTG players are obnoxious sexist douchesacks with no mute button) and I can enjoy a whole lot of quick 5-10 minute games with all sorts of different decks rather than (as would be the case at the club) getting locked into some (for me very boring) 3-hour long commander game with 8 people playing or something.

Right now I especially enjoy the Dimir deck, and the Sliver deck.
For MTG 2013 I really like the Dimir and Orzhov decks.
I always like Lilliana's decks, as well.

I'm the opposite. I prefer playing with another person and I LOVE collecting the cards. We have an awesome little cafe run by a fun lil Irish guy, a total sweet bloke. Its a gaming place with great food, coffee and you can buy lots of gaming supplies. It mostly guys but I am quite shocked to see a lot of females as well. There is also a group called The War Dolls. They are a group of female gamers through the cafe and the Atlanta area devoted to the support of female gamers in the community. As of last weekend, I became a member...so gotta rep mah girls now. Most of them play stuff I don't, like the Warhammer stuff. I wouldn't mind but its much too involved, time and cost consuming. I will stick to Magic The Gathering and White Wolf games (i.e. Vampire The Masquerade and the like). Maybe a little D&D now and then. I've made a few friends up there and I go there with a friend so we play there for fun as well as at my house. But I am getting to meet more people through the store and their 3 FB pages, so I am enjoying getting into it more. I got my new M14 core deck (black) early Fri night as well as 7 boosters (not including the 2 in the core deck). Getting a white deck Fri with some more boosters. Trying to build a nasty B&W deck. Maybe a blue and white deck as well. I'm still re-learning so I am getting my arse kicked but I've actually won a few rounds here and there, and I don't mind losing. I look at losing as a learning experience, I am watching how they play their cards and its paying off. I have learned how they use their cards and I am turning around and using it against them. Gawd, it feels great being a deviant. LOL

The Tattered Princess

I played way back in Beta/3rd ed and the first few expansions. This was when i was in the 7th grade. I then stopped for a while until High School for a year and then didn't play at all until 2011-2012. I haven't played a game in a year now. I never really did the tournament thing. My last four decks I made/played was a Golem themed deck, a Green Weenie to Meanie, A Mill deck, and a counter(more counters on all the things not counterspells, but I forget what it's called) deck

I could see how playing MTG in person would be worthwhile if the other people are supportive of your efforts and explain how deck-building works.
But, I've never been fortunate enough to be in that sort of situation.
And, probably never will.

Shop around. Go to different stores for FNMs. The store I started going to had some people that were very helpful to new players. The store I go to know isn't as patient. Try different environments and meet different people. You'll find someone that can help you get the hang of it.

Shop around where ?

The environment at the local wargame club isn't one which I find enjoyable to play MTG in.

There are no gaming stores here, and certainly no FNM.
WoTC like to behave as though everybody has FNM happening just down the road... but that really isn't true.

The nearest FNM event is at least an 8-hour long-haul journey away... and I'm not well (or rich) enough to travel that far (including an overnight stay at a hostel or something, and yet another long-haul journey back again) all just for a few hours of MTG.

If it was simply a case of walking into a local gaming store on Friday night, then I would already have done that.
But life really isn't that simple. Which is why I play so much MTG over Xbox Live.

I threw out my entire MTG hoard about a month ago. Including my red Aggro deck that I got by trading in an Ice Age Lhurgoyf.

Bye, bye, Eron The Relentless.

The deck was *old*, however... It wouldn't stand a chance against modern cards.

I play quite a bit. I got back into it in 2009 and have been pretty hardcore ever since. I don't do a lot of the big tournaments, but typically go to FNM ever week and some other shops near me have tournaments throughout the week that I go to. I pretty much only play standard constructed and will do limited events on occasion.

I like the "Sealed" version of DOTP MTG 2014 - not just because it lets you mix & match 'booster packs' of cards, but also because the decks can have as little as 40 cards in them. I think that for me, having 40 card decks can make the game more enjoyable than using the 60 card DOTP decks.

I've always been a fan of the game. Have alot of the physical cards, some of which are very old indeed, going back to the old Ice Age set.

Currently though, if I want to play this, it's mostly done through Magic Online. This being because there simply is no community for this sort of thing in my area.... and believe me, I've looked. Though, this never really was the sort of area for that. The types of places that would sell the cards as well as do things with them like comic-book stores and all tend to just fail and die around here, because.... because derp, that's why. Cant get friends interested in it either. So, Magic Online it is. Never liked DOTP; heck, it took them bloody forever to even give the option to build decks, which to me is a HUGE part of the game as a whole. Way, WAY too limited.


The only problem with the whole thing as a whole is that it is quite the expensive hobby (and M:O's prices for cards are exactly the same as the physical version). I've always found it worth it though.

Are you living in a rural area so remote that there's no public transportation? The event locator says there's an FNM in Georgetown and that's a pretty small town where I live.

It's not like every area with public transportation is by definition anywhere near to a gaming store ; never mind one which runs FNM.

According to the FNM locator the nearest store running FNM is over 100 miles away.

Would you feel like travelling over 200 miles just to play MTG for a few hours ?
No ? Oddly enough, me neither.