the Magic card game

[AE6]

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OP,

Noah is going to make fun of you

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just noah?

[chopsticks]

Don't play magic the gathering. David Williams did and now he's playing poker for a living and acts in porn movies. Who would ever want THAT?

[tuq]

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im not in highschool anymore so i dont care what others think about me, already have a booty call/ moving to gf status

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Why would you mess up a perfectly good booty call by turning her into a girlfriend?

A friend of a friend co-founded WoTC and I think had a hand in the development of the game. It's worth noting that prior to that he paid his way through college via his poker winnings at B&Ms so between him and David Williams I would guess there's a pretty useful correlation between those two things.

[Kimbell175113]

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kimbell thanks for the honest response, raypowers said it would help getting smarter and thats the sort of thing i was hoping for.

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It will help as a mental exercise, no doubt about that. The math is a different kind than that in poker. Poker you have to be good at estimating %ages that are infinitely complex; magic you have to be exact, because usually things are close, but for the most part it's only one or two steps past straight linear equations (how many turns you have left given how much damage per attack, and what possible changes can occur in the next few turns).

It's obviously less boring than that, and I'm glad I learned the game and its strategies, but it's like 4High said: whenever I think about starting again, I realize that it may not be worth it to get into practice, and I would hate to do it and just be average.

edit: more, cause I am bored. Remember when you just started playing poker and you didn't know what you were doing, how looking back, at the time you didn't even know the correct way to think about poker? When you start playing magic you will be like that for a long time, as the game (for me, at least) is more complex on the rules level and it takes a long time to figure out the right way to think, to figure out what actions correspond to an increased chance of winning. Maybe it'd be better for someone who learned poker first, but probably not that much.

[mbillie1]

just read some [censored] books and stop posting in OOT

[huber117]

i saw somewhere that you can play online no way am i gonna waste time going to conventions or clubs to play it. and i wouldnt go so far as to really get into the game, just try it out, all id be doin is missing out on some sngs.

tuq, im starting to really like her, even after i nut i still like her, plus we get along pretty well and her older sis is cool with me. but all this is for another thread im not gonna make.

[joes28]

thats not all david williams did before poker(he did porn).

[eviljeff]

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thats not all david williams did before poker(he did porn).

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lol, abrupt parenthetical really did it for me

[AlexM]

People who play a lot of competitive "thinking" games learn a lot of game theory and that translates to other games.

[cellobob]

Yep. Paul Phillips played scrabble, random surly old dude was a chess champ, and they had a segment on John Murphy playing Magic sometime during the 2004 WSOP that I remember. Plus all the backgammon players from Europe.