Ice Girl's public thoughts.

Magic the gathering addiction 😰

For people who know I was once in the top 300 magic the gathering players in the world.

I had so much money time and effort tied up in magic the gather in my highschool and early twenties I was friends with multiple level 2 and level 3 judges and would often get into lengthy conversations about how if I became an official judge I could turn this into a profession since it seemed I was just outside the reach of being able to be a pro magic the gathering player (ie able to support themselves off of winnings)

But one day a card that was once worth nearly 500 dollars that I had a couple of playsets of got reprinted and dropped to 50 dollars and thus I lost 3,600 dollars in an instant. It was that moment I was like well being so invested in magic when they can just reprint any card at any time for any reason means what I think they are worth actually is all an illusion since they really are just paper ink and collective delusion.

So I sold off my entier magic the gathering card set and swore the game off entirely because I knew how obsessed I was always hoping to one day be one of the best in the world instead of the top .01%

Well someones nephew recently showed an interest in magic and instead of talking about my decades long magic the gathering obsession. I have decided for the holidays to get them some pre built magic decks.

The reason is two fold magic the gathering is actually a great game!

It teaches lots of core ideas such as deception meta gameing thinking ahead negotiating I can go on but the issue is magic the gathering collecting is an insane money sink that is literally quicksand because the more you buy the deeper into it you become.

My hope is by giving him some preconstruction decks i can encourage him to play while also getting him away from singles. Magic the gathering tends to sell preconstruction decks at a reasonableish price for people just breaking into the hobby while also often being easier to understand.

Some top tier competition decks can have strats or bizzare rule breaking bending interactions the pre built from wizards of the coast decks will never include, also they will be of relative balance.

After I did that for him I figured well I should have some easy friendly decks as well on hand incase he wants to play with me and I can practice again and before you know it someone who "doesn't" play magic spent roughly 120 dollars on magic the gathering in two orders.

See what I mean! Magic the gathering is an infinite money sink for players.

However this is a good start and I will not spend any more money on magic the gathering for awhile.

Tricky wizards of the cost!