curiosity: the satisfaction

[egypturnash]

After six total games of Magic with the intro packs I bought I have decided that it's just not for me. Playing with the two starter decks we have feels slow and bloodless and, frankly, kinda boring. Nick tells me that a better selection of cards could make it much faster and more interesting - but, well, do I want to spend a few hundred bucks on the possibility that will make it interesting to me? Nah. I'd rather just sink that money into music or books or something.

So, now I know. I guess I'm immune to its charms. I've been vaguely curious what's so addictive about it ever since it first came out, and I can see the potential addiction mechanic of wanting to buy cards to get just one more particular card to complete your awesome deck... but I'm just not interested enough in this system.

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[coyoteseven.livejournal.com]

Damn, and I just found the most comprehensive rules site (http://www.crystalkeep.com/magic/rules/) for MtG I have ever seen. And it's a fan run site. Ah, well...

[coyoteseven.livejournal.com]

BTW: There's still the online version. Though it wants you to pay for cards, there's ways of getting cards without paying for them. It just requires patience.

As well, for myself, regarding trying new things: I've developed a "three strikes" rule. This came in handy for food, especially. Because it turned out, sometimes food I'd previously judged as "bad" just turned out to be not prepared very well. If I never gave it a second chance, I'd have never known that!

But what the hell do I know? There are several things in life that I still refuse to try. So there.

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

http://www.airshipentertainment.com/growfcomic.php?date=20070107 Will get you up to date w/o spending alot of cash. :)

That said, how about Munchkin?

[relee.livejournal.com]

Hah, if you want something long and expensive you should try playing Warhammer 40K. I sunk at least $600 into that, and the matches last like 5-6 hours. I always won because nobody could play the entire match, they had to give up and go home.

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

Although, honestly, I've always wanted to give Wargods of Aegyptus a shot. I just can't see her getting into Warhammer 40k. It's just too depressing.

[relee.livejournal.com]

Well, I was just a little kid when I started playing Warhammer 40K, I didn't truly understand the setting for a few years after I had been playing. ^.^;;

It is pretty depressing, by design. My friend Bea likes to call it GRIMDARK in all caps 'cause it's so grim and dark that it's over the top ridiciulous.

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

I think magic was much easier to get into in the past. Dump 30 dollars on two tournament packs, and your imagination started to take off and you could get a lot of mileage out of those decks. It's not quite as easy to start up now, and the Fan Base is 'way too young/serious'. Still, pretty art! I love looking at pretty art... Probably only reason I still play the game.

Honestly, at this point, from what I've heard and seen, your dollar value probably would be better spent on the game Dominion. At least, it seems very popular from the talk of everyone who has ever played it. And it's a medium length game, so it's not like it's over too quickly.

[emberleo.livejournal.com]

The pretty art is definitely how I got sucked in. The rep who invited me to play figured out very quickly that the art on the green cards would appeal to me the most, and let me play with them first. Smart man.

--Ember--

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

My utter disappointment came after Mirage when they stopped making Unicorn Cards. I so wanted more Unicorn cards.

[halfelf.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, Magic has swallowed my life for the last month or so, as I have gotten back into it yet again. >.

[otter3.livejournal.com]

I have plenty of Magic cards lying around over here, if you really are curious. They're left over from... 1996 actually.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Well, it's actually a pretty good game. You may be able to get a vast supply of common cards for a few bucks on ebay or something, which would be a cheap way to get a still better sense for the character of the game (and deck-building and playing with better decks), and give you nearly all of the fun except the really obsessive stuff.

Or, not. There are lots of other equally good games out there.

[Says the lizard who has two shoeboxes of M:tG cards from the mid-90's, and hasn't really paid attention to the game since then, 'cause it has plenty of cards to play the pretty good game with Rhys with so why bother getting more?]

[packbat.livejournal.com]

*applauds*

[aprivatefox.livejournal.com]

If you're interested in playing with the rules a bit more, you can poke at our cards when next you're out this way. It's taken the place of golf in my office, as the game everyone plays together so as to have a non-work topic on which to converse, and so I've got a bunch of extra cards to let people play without needing to own any of their own.

It's a well-designed game, but I mostly stay out of the "serious" play.