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Re:Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion by GFischer on Friday November 22, 2013 @12:25PM (#6782179)
(not the op) I love Magic: the Gathering and played on and off for 18 years now.

It has two big downsides, the main one for me is that it's extremely expensive (a brand new console + collection of titles is equivalent in price to owning a couple of top tier decks).

The other one is that it's seen as uncool or childish or nerdish. I'd rather not mention it in workplaces anymore.

That said, yeah, building decks playing the metagame is very rewarding intellectually :) and having games 24/7 on Magic Online is great.

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Re:Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion by RBerenguel on Friday November 22, 2013 @12:49PM (#6782370)
/The other one is that it's seen as uncool or childish or nerdish. I'd rather not mention it in workplaces anymore./

Not like Go, don't you think? (I do, been playing go for 10 years already)

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