How Did You Get Into MtG?

[Silent_one]

That sucks

[Wally]

Here's a tip for you then,
Mtg is a money pit. You can just keep spending monies on it and it will never be enough. :/

[Ekoldr]

Here's a tip for you then,
Mtg is a money pit. You can just keep spending monies on it and it will never be enough. :/

I couldn't agree more good sir. I started playing when Onslaught first dropped. I was fortunate enough to have access to a local comic and card shop that kept its doors open late for the nerdy street urchins. There I learned the ropes but sadly that experience was short lived after the law got wind that an adult was "supervising" children into wee hours of the morning (sometimes until the sun came up). Nothing happened like they made it seem by it was enough for the parents to want the shop closed. Course when you're 13 year old doesn't come home til after sunrise I suppose I could see why they were upset. After that I semi-ceased playing all together and about a year ago sold all my cards and almost gave up hope I would find more players again (so sad... Lol) lately however I've started up again playing with my co workers on breaks and have already sunk so much money into my decks.. I guess that was my point all along... Haha sorry for the life story guys, nice to meet y'all as well.

[Vicadylan]

Here's a tip for you then,
Mtg is a money pit. You can just keep spending monies on it and it will never be enough. :/

I couldn't agree more good sir. I started playing when Onslaught first dropped. I was fortunate enough to have access to a local comic and card shop that kept its doors open late for the nerdy street urchins. There I learned the ropes but sadly that experience was short lived after the law got wind that an adult was "supervising" children into wee hours of the morning (sometimes until the sun came up). Nothing happened like they made it seem by it was enough for the parents to want the shop closed. Course when you're 13 year old doesn't come home til after sunrise I suppose I could see why they were upset. After that I semi-ceased playing all together and about a year ago sold all my cards and almost gave up hope I would find more players again (so sad... Lol) lately however I've started up again playing with my co workers on breaks and have already sunk so much money into my decks.. I guess that was my point all along... Haha sorry for the life story guys, nice to meet y'all as well.

Actually there's a comic/gaming shop just down the road but I'm nervous about going in there and learning the ropes from a bunch of hardcore tabletoppers.  Im sort of an athletic dude and I don't know, they intimidate me hahaha.

[Coffee Vampire]

This one guy in my class taught me during finals week. It was a pretty chill week so after our finals were done we went to a game shop and I ended up buying the vampire onslaught event deck. I had some extra money and my birthday and christmas were comming soon. I fugured why not? Now I'm hooked 4 lyfes. lol

[D3g3n]

Welcome to the wonderful world of Magic the Gathering, lol. This is my first post on this forum, so this is quite a fitting thread fir me to post. [Warning, will be a block of text]
Anyways, I started a little under ten years ago, around Middle School. Learned the basics and had games around lunch break. At that time, I played other TCGs like YuGiOh and Pokemon, but pretty much ceased all forms of TCGs after I graduated Middle School. I have recently restarted again in the past year since my brother and his friends actually play MTG, so during breaks (we are in college at the moment... well his friends and I are) we have a casual game time either Friday or Saturday night into the next day morning. My first set of cards were hand me downs from friends back in Middle School... I can't actually remember who though... haha. Then I got my first booster pack and really got into the Kamigawa expansion (despite the criticism from players, but I liked the Japanese themes), and about last month is when I bought my own Innistrad and Dark Ascension boosters [loving the gothic theme]. So yeah.......

By the way, if you don't want to fork over a fortune and want something to start with,  I'd highly recommend one of the Event Decks. Then meet various players at local places or on this forum and have a quick game or so; everyone seems nice enough to help here. One of my friend just got into MTG and he made his first deck by going to a handful of Friday Night Magic sealed limited and he enjoys the drafting environment, although may vary depending on your local/attending FNM place I guess.

[Ekoldr]

Here's a tip for you then,
Mtg is a money pit. You can just keep spending monies on it and it will never be enough. :/

I couldn't agree more good sir. I started playing when Onslaught first dropped. I was fortunate enough to have access to a local comic and card shop that kept its doors open late for the nerdy street urchins. There I learned the ropes but sadly that experience was short lived after the law got wind that an adult was "supervising" children into wee hours of the morning (sometimes until the sun came up). Nothing happened like they made it seem by it was enough for the parents to want the shop closed. Course when you're 13 year old doesn't come home til after sunrise I suppose I could see why they were upset. After that I semi-ceased playing all together and about a year ago sold all my cards and almost gave up hope I would find more players again (so sad... Lol) lately however I've started up again playing with my co workers on breaks and have already sunk so much money into my decks.. I guess that was my point all along... Haha sorry for the life story guys, nice to meet y'all as well.

Actually there's a comic/gaming shop just down the road but I'm nervous about going in there and learning the ropes from a bunch of hardcore tabletoppers.  Im sort of an athletic dude and I don't know, they intimidate me hahaha.

Well see now I had a friend introduce me and believe it was intimidating and you also have to be ok with people handing you your taint numerous times. It's true that in most card shops there is an air of "know what you want and what you're doing" but being straight up will usually divulge the inner workings of most card "scenes" MtG players tend to be very humble people with mean streaks, I.e. we take pleasure from schooling newbies who think they're hot s--t (as almost ALL MtG players think they are at some point in their "career"). Moral of the story, you ain't gotta lie to kick it. Walk in and watch a few hands (w/o being a shoulder looker) and read a rule book at some point are the only two pieces of advice I'll give. Like I said, MtG players are genually cool people, have no fear.

[ChrisRodriguez]

I started to play Mtg back in '94 when the game had just came out. My cousins and I were into D&D and went into our local comic/game shop, and the shop owner (Fred) started to talk to us about this new card game that was like D&D. He then gave us free packs and a rule book. I've been playing ever since.

[Almosteric]

Friends and I started playing 15 years ago when they called the fourth edition revised. On and off again since then.

[Udntnome]

TBNL

[Vicadylan]

I got a deck!  R/W and I bought a few booster packs as well.  I'll report back with what I got and fill anyone who cares to listen in on what they contained... 

[TBNL]

TBNL

You're welcome

[Vicadylan]

What's tbnl?

[TBNL]

What's tbnl?

Me, as in, I started him on it

[Vicadylan]

What's tbnl?

Me, as in, I started him on it

Ah, yeah, that makes sense...