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[DirtyMustachio]

That was a delightful post, I played competitive yuguoh for 8 years and I must say the people are much worse

[Blaze2100]

In my experience, standard is for noobies. In new York I had 15 coworkers who played, and I wa the only person with cards older than innistrad -_-. I told them I've been playing for years, I have a ton of cards, I don't want to invest more money just to play standar with them. They quickly learned to love the variety in old cards. I just moved to San Diego 3 months ago and I having a hard time finding people who play casual outside of edh or turn 1 win  legacy decks. I'd rather play the turn 1 decks over the standard player who looks down on casual

[Silent1236]

Standard sucks!! I'd play casual anyday over standard.

Same here!  I've always kinda hated standard 

[Thorn]

I mainly am a standard player but I have a edh, legacy, and a few casual decks and I like them all equally.

[#noided]

Standard. More like. Blandard.

[Wackaman9001]

I mainly am a standard player but I have a edh, legacy, and a few casual decks and I like them all equally.

Variety is the spice of life

[Safira008]

I'm lucky enough to live around a college town with a relatively small gaming shop called the wizard's guild. Every time I go in there, there's someone willing to play-employees and patrons alike- who help me learn the rules of the game (I'm still a beginner) and give me improvement tips.
In that store we use Star City prices, and when I pulled a Cavern of Souls from my first new card pack, one of the guys in there offered me a look through his trade binder for cards up to worth of about $30, even though now I see its worth perhaps $25. He really helped expand my collection so that I could trade with people for cards I'd actually like to use in my red burn casual deck haha

[Cindjor]

People overrate winning too much which is why I think they're so uptight. I don't mind losing if I figured out why I lost and just keep playing more games.


I stopped playing for 8 years and most of my cards are from ice age, tempest and urza block so I'm used to old cards. I'm fascinated by the new cards and all the synergy. I don't even feel like going to FNM because of the lack of standard cards I have.

[Wally]

To be honest I mainly play at our local FNM, and yes, its standard.
I really enjoy that in our group new players can start up and have access to the same cards that are being played by everyone else.
We do sometimes get the opportunity to play legacy or extended, or even commander / planechase nights, but usually it's standard.
In our group of around 15-20 people, no one really takes it all too seriously and a lot of us usually rotate thru a few decks each week to keep things interesting and the matches different. Because of this, our meta isn't overrun with one particular type of deck and everyone pretty much has to be ready for anything.

Also our prizes system helps the new players just as much as the more seasoned.
Depending on how many players there are for a night, so many boosters are opened and layed out on the table. The winner picks his first choice and then on thru the pack till the last player picks theirs, this continues 3 or 4 times, and then the rest are shuffled back into a pack and dealt out in piles for each person to pick up, again in order.
Depending on who is there, new players will get some really good suggestions from more seasoned players, and if they need a particular card people will often pick a good card for them from their pick and give it to them to help them out.

Anyways, our group usually plays for fun. It's great. Standard or otherwise.

[Coffee Vampire]

Damn, a lot of players be hatin on standard! I myself like it. ^^

[Brandalog]

Damn, a lot of players be hatin on standard! I myself like it. ^^

I like it as well, idk why but I just like the competitiveness of it. But while still being able to have fun x)

[DirtyMustachio]

What a lot of people fail to notice is that a lot of the "fresh" new standard/magic players have no interest in anything but standard.

Let me explain. They are the refugees from other card games (especially, in particular Yu-Gi-Oh) where there are no casual variants, and when you play, there is no variety.

I played competitive regional, pro tour level yugioh for 8 years. And in doing so I probably spent enough to purchase a playset of black lotus.

I only played magic casually until this year, and to be honest, the restrictions of standard is sometimes what appeals to new players. They want that closed edge to compete with people at a still high level, without all the op cards.

In most other card games, you play 1 maybe 2 decks. You spend buttloads of money. And playing ends up being a work of habit. I can only see the playpool getting larger for magic in the future

[Millionlittlee]

I'm way to new for non-standard games but I like casual and I'll play anything that doesn't have a main win factor in turn 1

But my favorite format would have to be block don't ask me why

[Harmon74]

I'm an old dog.  I play type 2, not standard.  Lol.  I'm really just getting back in to mtg.  I love playing standard/type 2.  I really like the competitiveness of it.  Ive been playing a R/U Delver deck since I've gotten back into mtg.  I haven't placed real high, but I have fun!  The deck is so fast, and has so many different ways to play it, board control, aggro, control, burn.  Idk.  I just like it.  I know a lot of people hate on Delver, but it's an awesome critter.

[izik99]

I'm way to new for non-standard games but I like casual and I'll play anything that doesn't have a main win factor in turn 1

But my favorite format would have to be block don't ask me why

Whats block? Is it where you can only play from the most recent block, so roght now you could only play from Innistrad, Dark Ascension, and Avacyn Restored?