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09/28/23 12:02:41 PM
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GranTurismo
09/28/23 2:24:55 PM
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cards? It was never a tv show or video game? mtg is not as big as it was years ago?
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Cocytus
09/28/23 2:25:51 PM
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Just a trading card game.

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MJOLNRVII
09/28/23 2:26:10 PM
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The video game MtG Arena probably did a lot for its popularity in recent years, no thanks to Covid shutting down sanctioned events at LGS'. I hear there was supposed to be a Netflix show or something but I have no idea what came of that or it's in development hell.

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OriginalPlain2
09/28/23 2:26:12 PM
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who

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GranTurismo
09/28/23 2:27:42 PM
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Did you hear about those 2 guys who stole like 1 mil. worth of mtg trading cards at that one convention? Wonder if they were ever caught
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WingsOfGood
09/28/23 2:27:50 PM
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It had a movie but it was not called MTG.

Like sorcerer apprentice or something.
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GATTJT
09/28/23 2:28:13 PM
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There are video games (of the card game, like the Pokemon card game for the Game Boy) and novels. No TV shows that I am aware of, although you'd think there'd be one by now. The lore is so extensive that it's ripe for one.

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voldothegr8
09/28/23 2:30:02 PM
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Nope, just the first TCG of its kind.

It's still popular but nobody plays 1v1 anymore, they play "commander" which is a 4 player variation.

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GATTJT
09/28/23 2:30:27 PM
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GranTurismo posted...
Did you hear about those 2 guys who stole like 1 mil. worth of mtg trading cards at that one convention? Wonder if they were ever caught
They were. They were stupid enough to wear shirts with the logo of the game they designed on them while they were doing it.

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EmbraceOfDeath
09/28/23 2:31:51 PM
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voldothegr8 posted...
Nope, just the first TCG of its kind.

It's still popular but nobody plays 1v1 anymore, they play "commander" which is a 4 player variation.
In paper Magic sure, but that's because most of the 1v1 is online now.

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GranTurismo
09/28/23 2:32:22 PM
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Isn't the popularity of the card game losing a lot of it's steam? it's not as big as it once was? Most of it's biggest fans are like teenagers or something?
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WingsOfGood
09/28/23 2:33:12 PM
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GranTurismo posted...
Isn't the popularity of the card game losing a lot of it's steam? it's not as big as it once was? Most of it's biggest fans are like teenagers or something?

Nope.
It is now collabing with likes of Lotr and that sold better than any set ever.

Also those teens were teens in the 90s so they like 40-60 now with too much money.
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GranTurismo
09/28/23 2:33:58 PM
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When did mtg first come out? Have never really cared about this card game
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WingsOfGood
09/28/23 2:34:14 PM
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GranTurismo posted...
When did mtg first come out? Have never really cared about this card game

1994 or 1995
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ellis123
09/28/23 2:35:35 PM
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They have made a couple of attempts at making TV shows (the more successful one was on G4) but the shows never got numbers so they were canned. Same thing with stuff like the manga.

And it is smaller now though that isn't saying much considering its utterly nonsense numbers around 2010. For perspective its player base at the time was 4x that of YGO and that was also a high point for YGO from what I recall.

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GATTJT
09/28/23 2:35:54 PM
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GranTurismo posted...
Isn't the popularity of the card game losing a lot of it's steam? it's not as big as it once was? Most of it's biggest fans are like teenagers or something?
I don't know why you think this. Magic is still insanely popular and it hit a billion dollars in revenue last year.

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WingsOfGood
09/28/23 2:37:00 PM
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ellis123 posted...
And it is smaller now though that isn't saying much

Where do you get this?
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voldothegr8
09/28/23 2:37:21 PM
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GranTurismo posted...
When did mtg first come out? Have never really cared about this card game
1993

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ellis123
09/28/23 2:39:59 PM
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WingsOfGood posted...
Where do you get this?
Tournament data results. Certainly you can point out that casual players make up the bulk of the base but casual play is extremely nebulous as people constantly flit in and out of actually playing on that front so it is next to impossible to have anything resembling a real number.

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WingsOfGood
09/28/23 2:41:07 PM
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ellis123 posted...
Tournament data results. Certainly you can point out that casual players make up the bulk of the base but casual play is extremely nebulous as people constantly flit in and out of actually playing on that front so it is next to impossible to have anything resembling a real number.

But why would anyone play standard?
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ellis123
09/28/23 2:48:16 PM
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WingsOfGood posted...
But why would anyone play standard?
I am talking about all formats, not just standard. Well, ones with actual tournament results.

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Tyranthraxus
09/28/23 2:49:57 PM
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GranTurismo posted...
cards? It was never a tv show or video game? mtg is not as big as it was years ago?
There are several video games, novels, rpg supplements for D&D, and... for a very very brief moment in time... it was on ESPN

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AnsestralRecall
09/28/23 2:50:12 PM
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Standard is bad, commander is even worse (and has slowly been killing everything good about Magic)
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MC_BatCommander
09/28/23 2:50:29 PM
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It had an absolutely incredible PC game in the 90s called Shandalar that I loved. The fact they never revisited the concept of a single player RPG is so depressing

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Tyranthraxus
09/28/23 2:50:46 PM
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GranTurismo posted...
Did you hear about those 2 guys who stole like 1 mil. worth of mtg trading cards at that one convention? Wonder if they were ever caught
They were caught btw

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MarcyWarcy
09/28/23 2:51:05 PM
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there have been multiple video games, a bunch of novels, at least two series of comics that i know of

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vycebrand2
09/28/23 2:51:33 PM
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WingsOfGood posted...
1994 or 1995
Earlier than that. I played with friends who had the 1st ed. I bought w/e 3 or 4th ed was. Had both the Legends and Ice Age stuff. I know I had them before I left home in 94.

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ellis123
09/28/23 2:53:18 PM
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MC_BatCommander posted...
It had an absolutely incredible PC game in the 90s called Shandalar that I loved. The fact they never revisited the concept of a single player RPG is so depressing
Still the best card-based video game.

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AnsestralRecall
09/28/23 2:54:11 PM
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ellis123 posted...
Still the best card-based video game.

Nah, Neon White exists now
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GranTurismo
09/29/23 9:00:00 AM
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AnsestralRecall posted...
Nah, Neon White exists now

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dameon_reaper
09/29/23 9:08:22 AM
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There are novels. I remember reading one of them and I don't even remember what it was. I don't play the game and while I played with my friend, I preferred YGO. Now I don't have enough money to collect cards.
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GranTurismo
09/29/23 9:10:19 AM
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dameon_reaper posted...
There are novels. I remember reading one of them and I don't even remember what it was. I don't play the game and while I played with my friend, I preferred YGO. Now I don't have enough money to collect cards.
are yuigio cards still big? mtg is bigger , though?
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CARRRNE_ASADA
09/29/23 9:11:13 AM
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AnsestralRecall posted...
Standard is bad, commander is even worse (and has slowly been killing everything good about Magic)


Theyve released so many broken cards for commander lately that Ive noped out of the game.

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AnsestralRecall
09/29/23 11:12:32 AM
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CARRRNE_ASADA posted...
Theyve released so many broken cards for commander lately that Ive noped out of the game.

I exclusively play legacy and between the Modern Horizons sets and commander shit there's been so much forced 'rotation'
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BewmHedshot
09/29/23 11:22:37 AM
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dameon_reaper posted...
There are novels. I remember reading one of them and I don't even remember what it was. I don't play the game and while I played with my friend, I preferred YGO. Now I don't have enough money to collect cards.
Yeah there were a bunch of novels

20th Century Fox announced a movie back in 2014 but it died over creative differences (the studio wanted to inject Earthlings into Magic) without ever even casting Jace.

Supposedly according to imdb there's a NetFlix series releasing this year?
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Megaman50100
09/29/23 11:26:04 AM
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draftchads can't stop getting massive dubs while constructedcels mald over constant cash-in product Ls

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ironman2009
09/29/23 11:26:58 AM
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Mono blue players should rot in hell

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MarthGoomba
09/29/23 11:28:15 AM
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MTG Battlemage on PS1 was amazing

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DirkDiggles
09/29/23 12:00:41 PM
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ironman2009 posted...
Mono blue mill players should rot in hell

fixed

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Darkinsanity1
09/29/23 12:03:57 PM
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AnsestralRecall posted...
Standard is bad, commander is even worse (and has slowly been killing everything good about Magic)
Well that's an opinion for sure. But with a username like yours you've probably been playing a long time so that's interesting.

To add onto this. Commander is pretty much the only format I play now because I'm so sick of bans constantly. So frustrating to buy into a deck in paper magic and whoops suddenly it's much worse or even unplayable now. I don't think something should be banned unless it's seriously format warping and oppressive. Wizards prininting cards like The One Ring and Bowmasters makes me nervous but I guess that's because I'm afraid of bans. I actually enjoy powerful cards.

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Prestoff
09/29/23 12:04:34 PM
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I was thinking that since it's so rich in lore making a movie about it would be a cinch, and then I get flashbacks about Warcraft and how fucking awful it was. The worst part, it was directed by a very competent director, but not even a good director can do anything if the script is garbage.

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MJOLNRVII
09/29/23 5:34:41 PM
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God I fucking hate Modern Horizons sets. It's almost impressive it ruined Pauper at a time as well.

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firedoom666
09/29/23 5:51:55 PM
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Magic has had novels and video games.

Netflix was working on a TV series but it has been in development hell for years and was probably secretly canceled long ago

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CARRRNE_ASADA
09/30/23 11:23:47 AM
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AnsestralRecall posted...
I exclusively play legacy and between the Modern Horizons sets and commander shit there's been so much forced 'rotation'


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