How do you all play Magic: The Gathering these days? (mtgzone.com)

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Do you play tabletop Magic at your local game store (LGS)? Perhaps you prefer the convenience of Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) or Magic: The Gathering Arena on your computer. Or maybe you like playing on your phone or tablet with the Android version. Let me know how you play and what your preferred platform is!

I used to play MTGO on Linux through Wine, but it stopped working. Trying it in a VM was too laggy. So I finally bought a cheap Windows machine primarily to run MTGA and MTGO smoothly. Personally, the convenience of digital clients has won me over, but I have fond memories of Friday Night Magic at my LGS, specially a $1 entry format we played with crappy decks and store credit prizes because I liked the nostalgia of it being similar to when I started playing instead of the competitiveness of the typical standard format, where it seems like all the decks are similar netdeck copies.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

The group of friends I played Commander with have stopped playing together, since people have moved farther away or have gotten more occupied with their families.

I have 2-3 local game shops I enjoy playing at, and so I'll go every week or two for something. 90% of the time it's Commander, but occasionally I can find a draft or pre-release firing off. I also have a few Pioneer decks that I would like to grind in paper, but it's hard to find anyone actually playing Pioneer.

On my own time, I play Arena maybe 2-3 days a week, primarily just playing Standard or whatever is going on with Midweek Magic.

I honestly consume more Magic content than actually play myself.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately I too consume more magic content than I get to play. 😓

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