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How Casual Play Took Over Magic: The Gathering and What It Means For Its Future -- Distraction Makers on YouTube (www.youtube.com)

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Commander emerged in most Magic players awareness in 2011 with the release of the Commander Pre-cons. Dubbed the format for casual players it quickly grew in popularity to where we are today. Commander is the most popular way to play Magic: the Gathering and it player base continues to grow. Join us as we discuss how we got here, the current problems Magic is facing because of this, and where MTG might go from here.

Great discussion on Commander, Standard and competitive formats, and Magic's philosophies over their history.

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[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I never understood the appeal of commander, always thought it was a bit shit. Give me a good draft any day of the week instead.

[–] punkhazard@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Always completely hated drafts, jumped on the commander train as soon as I discovered the format. Pretty cool the game has all these formats :D

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Oh yeh, variety is the spice of life for sure!

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

I never really got into commander either, but the bracket system makes it more appealing to me at least. No need to worry that someone's just going to go off turn 2 when going against a sand tribal deck, a madness deck, and a mono green control deck.

Either way, standard always interested me the most, but they absolutely shafted standard so now if I play it's basically just brawl these days because of the matchmaker.

Draft is fun as well, just expensive to get into :(