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Originally Posted by Sire Of Dragons  I prefer to be at a table with the cards, the dice, the counters, the works and the people. |
Was never really an option for me except when I first began playing and then no one knew how to play anyway so the game was basically about who could sound the most convincing whilst making the rules up as they went along.
No question you lose something online but it's a bit of give and take; you can't break rules so there's no arguments about that plus it's an easy way to learn. There's always lots of games so if you play enough you build that same group of friends, competitors, rivalries etc as you would irl. Trading is well set up, you can by packs, trade or buy cards and with the marketplace you can pretty much buy any card 24/7, just learn enough not to be scammed. In fact one thing I always thought was a nice touch was that at any point any or all online cards can be traded for real cards.
But imo by far the biggest downside of Magic online is that if a player doesn't want to finish a game or concede and so give you the win, they can just log out, leaving you there with a frozen game until you concede and so lose, in the open rooms it's not even for rankings so it's absolutely pointless. I figure it's only fair to sit there and take your punishment when you're losing (on the other side someone is finally enjoying seeing a plan work) and would only even concede if I felt someone was continually passing up attacking opportunities because they wanted the big finish, so it was so fustrating to get ahead and then have the other person just get up and walk out
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