Loremaster vs Tournament Player

[Noblellama]

So I have been around the game a while (early 1995) and I love the game and the story.

I'm a deck builder, drafter, player and lore master. I love to take the cards I have and build decks, I never buy singles, never pre-order, and trade for what I need. This isn't a statement about those that do, on the contrary, you guys are awesome about predicting which cards are gonna be awesome before I even realize it.

What this is instead, is a statement of sadness about the current player meta. My LGS had fnm and draft as usual on release weekend and during the whole time, they periodically asked trivia questions about magic's past due to the time traveling nature. 76 players in the store and only one other guy knew anything about the story besides me.

Anyways, a playmat, 2 shirts and a pack of deck sleeves later I walk away happy but sad.

Why do so many of the new players not care about the gigantic story that have this game life? It is tall about the newest net deck or combo is it?


Side note: I won draft undefeated with mono white...

[Spikepit]

Word.

[Rass]

No idea. I was before the stories. Then the book with the  {Arena} Came out. I'm not a big reader so I got the book and the card but didn't read it. So I really don't care about the lore just that it's a fun game.

[blackychan1]

I've never really thought about it. I'm a fairly new player (about 2 years). The story may be too immense for me to be able to tackle it by now. I have no idea where to start!

[rarehuntertay]

Miserable grumpy old men unite!!!
First thing I did when I got back into the game was to catchup on 10-years of lore

[MuggyWuggy]

TBH the books are about the level of Dan Brown. Read them when I was a kid, and it was interesting then...but so were also doom scifi novels.

I enjoyed THS a lot due to my fandom of Greek mythology. Ugin and Sarkhan and PWs.. Why when I was a kid, only you were the PW and urza or lim dul was the bad guy, now were traveling planes and dimensions and different ages like we have some sort of magical time portal. Bring back mana burn and ante. Demonic attorney T1 is all I need. Damn kids and your silly elspeths.

[rarehuntertay]

TBH the books are about the level of Dan Brown. Read them when I was a kid, and it was interesting then...but so were also doom scifi novels.

I enjoyed THS a lot due to my fandom of Greek mythology. Ugin and Sarkhan and PWs.. Why when I was a kid, only you were the PW and urza or lim dul was the bad guy, now were traveling planes and dimensions and different ages like we have some sort of magical time portal. Bring back mana burn and ante. Demonic attorney T1 is all I need. Damn kids and your silly elspeths.

You want power? Unlimited power? Then sign my  {Contract from Below}!!

[MuggyWuggy]

{Dakkon blackblade} best esper general

[Rass]

We used to play .........

Uphill both ways in the snow 50 degrees below zero.

[Destore117]

I don't know much about the story but what I do I pass around with my friends, Sorin's cool and the whole Urza made a robot named Karn which created an entire plane of reality. Makes me think I'm missing out on a lot of the meat of Magic. Although I do have one of the books for Mirrodin with Glissa trying to figure out why the Levelers are after her and she meets Bosh the golem and the goblin (I wanna say squee? But I can't remember.) and like looking through Mirrodin set I'd see cards and be like Oh hey...that's from the...YEAH!!! REFERENCES!

Stuff like that makes me happy playin magic

[Distriimuir]

The backstory lore is what got me into magic, and what keeps me buying new sets.

[Anoobass]

Idk how many people I speak for, but I for one do not like reading.  And it's not like I'm bad at it, being my worst subject, I still did better than most of my class in school.  But what usually ends up happening is the story starts to lul, and I get bored.

Not to say I haven't read anything, I read 5 of the halo books and I loved [most of] them.  The reason I stopped at 5 was when I read contact harvest, it had too many drawn out, uninteresting parts and I barely finished it. 

So not to say that I don't want to read the backstory/lore, but if I lose interest, it just makes me sad that I wasted my time.

[Kaylesh]

Me for myself, I am a bit of a go between. I don't preorder or buy cards for their power level, yet I do like to combo with what I have, oldskool like even before the chronicles and books and sets. I never cared too much for the stories, but liked the references of the old cards, like the quotes from Coleridge on the zombie, forgot his name.

[LinkCelestrial]

I'm pretty familiar with the current storyline, including the Zendikar "backstory". I don't know very much about Theros, except that Elspeth killed Daxos because Xenagos then she got mad and killed Xenagos and Heliod got scared and killed Elspeth.

I honestly quite like the storyline. I want to see a format where decks are all in "flavor". Like if you guys remember the Garruk vs Ajani wallgames. Sometimes I try to make a deck work just cause the flavor of it is too good to pass up.

[MuggyWuggy]

Is that why Daxos isn't good enough for constructed?