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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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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

As more and more competitive players join the play group at my shop the less overall players I see. And many of the competitive players seem to want to play competitive against casual players, not other competitive players.

The casual players are my backbone. Eventually the competitive players (who really are just sore losers, and mostly learned how to play Commander and not Magic... but that is a whole different issue with the game) tire of not being able to steamroll casuals, or get tired of actual cEDH players curb-stomping them and stop coming.

I tell players, "it is easier for a competitive player to play casually, than a casual player to play competitive."

[–] cha1n@mastodon.scot 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

@nokturne213 @mike so yes this hasn't changed much since I started playing in the 90's. I always felt those playing type 2(showing my age) or limited events enjoyed it more and we're great fun to play against.
I enjoy playing commander but only against a few people who don't take it too seriously.. But prefer limited events as everyone is on the same level.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@cha1n@mastodon.scot I started playing Magic the week of alpha's release. I only ever played in a couple local competitive events. I do miss the days of being able to only every single Magic card ever printed.

[–] cha1n@mastodon.scot 4 points 2 weeks ago

@nokturne213 that's very cool.. ironically I found out about it when MicroProse released the game on the PC.. and I remember showing my friend and him turning to me and saying oh yes I have some cards..

..and that ladies and gentlemen is where all my money went for the next 30 years.. ahem..

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