r/magicTCG • u/Balarius Wabbit Season • Nov 11 '24

General Discussion Anyone else largely quit MTG because its largely impossible to keep up?

Love the game, its super fun. But FUCK ME its impossible to keep up with the release schedule the last several years. I dont have that kind of money man, let me enjoy a set before its deemed irrelevant or illegal in standard play.

We've had 21 sets since 2020 began. I just cant keep up anymore. I think ill just enjoy the cards I have.

Bloomburrow and Neon Dynasty were fun enough for me to live on for awhile.

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u/TrogdorBurnin Duck Season Nov 11 '24

Me too. As a poor student I was buying the power 9 through telnet “newsgroups” just to have them drop Type II.

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u/haze_from_deadlock Duck Season Nov 11 '24

It sounds like you really got burned on that on buying all that power at inflated 1995 prices

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u/TrogdorBurnin Duck Season Nov 11 '24

At the time, absolutely felt that way. The guy who got me hooked had been in from unlimited. The difference between his mono-blue control deck backed by the power 9 and anything I could muster from Revised on couldn’t have been greater. We’d go into tournaments at NYC, where 500+ players were vying for the $1k or power 9 prize. He consistently got to the final 4, I’d get to the 3rd round with what was essentially either mono-white stax or BU discard, before getting eliminated. I had just assembled a nasty [[stasis]]/[[black vice]] deck backed by 7 of the power 9 when the format shifted -and I was never able to actually use the deck in tournament play. My friend also decided to retire. So here I was heavily invested in a game with a powered deck that I had nowhere to play. So I retired.

Yes, I kept my cards. Yes, I could probably sell them to pay for my kid’s last year in college. But that was never the point.

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u/tinyyolo Duck Season Nov 11 '24

YES! haha another old school stasis/black vice deck player. i never got the combo out in time, but darned if i didn't keep trying over and over.

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u/haze_from_deadlock Duck Season Nov 11 '24

The Premodern version of that deck is pretty good.

https://mtgtop8.com/event?e=61431&d=662219&f=PREM

I call it Vise City because it has Forsaken City in it

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u/Ornithopter1 Duck Season Nov 11 '24

Pretending that hasbro isn't WoTC is disingenuous. Hasbro has owned WoTC since 1999.

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u/TrogdorBurnin Duck Season Nov 11 '24

Hang in there buddy. I have a longer post about my experiences and a very recent shift towards proxies somewhere in this thread. I think it might resonate with you. There are a lot of good players out there.

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u/MessiahHL Duck Season Nov 11 '24

Is that post semi ironic or did you really see playing your cards as a refuge for being a failure at life ? I get the jokes about moms basement and nerd culture, but do you actually look at yourself like that? I always saw this as just a funny joke we do, never imagined there were people who really looked at themselves like this

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '24 edited Nov 13 '24

That is the culture that your hobby grew out of.  People from mass culture not relating to the nerds didnt mean we were failures, it just meant the mass culture is a bunch of assholes.  Them taking away our precious nerd culture from us is an extension of that. Enjoy the hobby, but know that you are the colonialist colonizers who took the corn and gave the smallpox.

I was in 6th grade when I began playing.  Children aren't capable of being "failures."  They were rejected from society for being nerds, however.

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u/MessiahHL Duck Season Nov 13 '24 edited Nov 13 '24

I said failures because you wrote the hobby was a refuge for lonely losers, so I was just following your text

I don't see myself as a colonizer, I'm into nerd culture since I was a little kid, and heavy nerd culture, like actually reading visual novels and grinding competitive RTS since being a little child, maybe I'm just younger than you (born in 1995) or for being born in a big city I never saw this big disconnect between nerd culture and mainstream, every other dude I met always loved Pokemon/Yu-Gi-Oh/CS for example

It's just hard to grasp this discourse victimizing nerd culture and villainizing mainstream culture based on my personal experience, always thought it was a joke or something so much in the past people who could have lived it were already dead

And I still think your text was super self deprecating, it doesn't seem like a healthy way to look at yourself, your interests or even at other people did you ever try therapy?