What is this card game Magic

It is a sausage fest. Enjoy.

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It is a sausage fest.

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Jealous. Love sasauge.

Whatever you do, say you found a deck at a pawn shop, but accidentally left some of the cards in your pants that went through the washer. Be sure you tell them the one that really stuck out to you before it was ruined was a Black Lotus.

Prepare to spend a fortune if you get hooked. Or just be a limited player and draft. Not uncommon at all for competitive tournament decks to cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars sometimes thousands. Absolutely ridiculous.

Best thing I did was quit competitive magic and build a cube to draft out of with my friends. Update the cube as necessary with each new set...even though I'm about 5 sets behind now.

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Prepare to spend a fortune if you get hooked. Or just be a limited player and draft. Not uncommon at all for competitive tournament decks to cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars sometimes thousands. Absolutely ridiculous. Best thing I did was quit competitive magic and build a cube to draft out of with my friends. Update the cube as necessary with each new set...even though I'm about 5 sets behind now.

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Save some pussy for the rest of us bro

Very assuming of you.

1. I never said I was going. I said I was invited. I told him I probably would t go. I'd rather do cool stuff like go binge drink alone.

2.i don't know tons of friends who play it. I know one nerdy one

It's a great game, but it's tough to just jump into. There's a high barrier to entry both in terms of strategy and investment.

Magic has been going really strong, with multiple expansions per year, since it was created about 25 years ago. With thousands of cards of course spring multiple formats that restrict the card pool. Knowing which format the event is, and if your friends have a deck available for you to use, will tell you whether the event is worth your time.

The most commonly played tournament format is Standard, which consists a 60 card deck of the last year or two's worth of cards. It's probably the lowest barrier to entry in terms of investment among constructed formats. Other tournament constructed formats include Modern, Legacy, and Vintage, which escalate both card pool and investment barriers, with legacy decks potentially costing more than many automobiles.

The most commonly played casual format is commander (aka EDH), which can have wildly varying investment thresholds, and is a pretty random/low playskill format. It is a 99 card deck plus a "commander" which sets the theme of the deck, and cards can be from any Magic set.

The lowest-investment format, and my favorite, is called "limited." It's where you open packs to make a deck, either with 6 "sealed" packs to make a 40 card deck, or a "draft" where you open 3 packs and pick cards that you want for your deck and passing the rest to the next person. Since this format involves on-the-fly deckbuilding as well as actually playing the game, it's got a pretty high playskill barrier.

I really do think it's one of the best games ever created, and it's worth your time to learn, but I wouldn't just jump in without knowing what you're getting into first.

EDH

Pokemon>>>>>>>>>>>>magic

I Play both