this feels so T4T lmao, wish you luck!

Dear magic players, you claim to hate landlords but you own lands?

you could have picked Lauren Boebert and you went with Marjorie Taylor Greene??

I've played since I was but a wee child so literally 30+ years off and on

You're going to have to ask something specific or I'm going to infodump and nobody wants that

Edit:

anything I should know before going in?

You won't understand the intricacies of the rules fully and that's ok. Just do what the card says. If that's not helping, look up the specific card on the gatherer website and it may have the exact interaction you're wondering about

pssst this isn't to you, corgi, but the other mtg heads in the audience

you can print out insanely nice proxies for quite cheap (<$0.50 per card) using the methods and tools here

I've printed out multiple commander decks and a full vintage cube.

someone's lands are getting tapped

it's expensive, supposedly

Nah, just let her teach you and have fun.

Lol, that's not a date, that's a nerd's equivalent of an Amway pitch. Good luck tho!

Just be careful when shuffling the cards. Probably not the case here but they can be very expensive. Do NOT riffle shuffle. The rest will be part of the fun of the date.

Is shes still talking to you after you play a blue deck against her shes a keeper

i gotchu:

• red is the best color
• always buy singles (unless it's over a dollar, then write the rules text on an index card and draw a stick figure and stick it in a sleeve)
• never buy packs (unless you enjoy gambling and have a magpie-like attraction to useless shiny objects) (or you wanna play limited. don't be scared of draft)
• counterspells are just part of the game
• land variance is just part of the game
• combo decks are technically part of the game
• if you think you should mull, mull
• pauper is the best format
• when you find a local game store that's actually cool, give them some love
• fuck wotc

Hell yeah, have fun! Magic is a blast!

try to get her to quit in favor of a cheaper hobby not owned by a shitty company.

and i say that as someone who played for over a decade

I'd look into the different formats, they all boil down to the rules for deck building. Standard is kinda lagging right now, but all that stuff is legal in Pioneer and I really like Pioneer. There's also Commander, a format developed by the community.

If you wind up buying packs, set boosters have better stuff than draft boosters.

Also don't get into Modern unless you're willing to pay upwards of $1000 for a deck.

It takes like one game to get the basics down, after that it's just learning random terminology. Have fun with it!

I've been on a date with her! I mean probably not literally but I did go on a few dates with someone who wanted to do this date. And I beat her our first game. So I am kinda wondering if it's her. And also if she's okay she was not doing well for some various life reasons and we ended up not hanging out again after that date. Probably shouldn't have been good at deck games

Mega Terrific Game?

It's a very high variance luck based game, so there's a chance that on one of your first games you get a very shitty draw and end up dying without being able to do anything at all.

Most games aren't like that though, so hope tou have fun!

Play Netrunner instead. It has way better themes and the card market does not operate like a capitalist economy (you can print the full set of cards at home). I'm biased.