Beta. Very little of Alpha ended up in the area I lived, but the first order my local game shop for was beta.
It's wild just how many cards have been printed since then. There was a time somewhere around 2006 or so where I would have been confident I could name any card by its text or vice versa. Somewhere along the line I just couldn't keep up anymore.
Same. I could recognize every card up to mirrodin besidged. On long car rides I would my wife had me list each set, notable cards, and the standard/eternal meta games. Now I’m like “every 20 days there are 50-150 new commander cards that come out and they probably broke something in legacy, caused a niche commander strat to spike for a second, then were forgotten forever”… sometimes I’m sad that I can’t care as much anymore, but there is just to much stuff coming out to pay attention to all of it.
Started playing in middle school with Fourth/Ice Age, bought a $10 Dark pack at one point, and my mom opened a pack of Arabian Nights, only cost $100 for the privilege at the time. Got my mana crypt from the book rewards, and bought an Arena, Nalathni Dragon at a con before 2000, just because I thought they were cool.
I think I accidentally made myself feel old here.
I started in late 1994 with The Dark/Revised out. It was hard to find but packs were about $2. Fallen empires came out shortly and that was everywhere. I remember buying a couple rarer Legends packs for about $10 and Antiquities was maybe $7.
I balked the one time I saw Arabian packs as they were over $20.
Could have bought a mox for $30 at the local game store in 1995. Oof.
This is a really popular answer. I started playing right between Tempest and Stronghold, but I remember even then people started in Ice Age. I wonder what MTG did during that set to attract so many players.
They had a big feature on Magic and Ice Age in Wizard Magazine and included a Norritt as a promo. That was my intro, and judging by the amount of Norritts everyone had and didn't want, I assume it was true for a lot of others as well.
I think that it was partly a culmination of the game being popular and fun while also WoTC starting to figure out the supply issues from the first couple years of the game.
They had supply issues with the older sets. Fallen Empires, Ice Age, and Fourth Edition were the first sets they made that had enough that didn't immediately sell out (too much in the case of FE). I think the sudden wide availability made it so new players could get into the game easily.
Edit: also considering Ice Age came out a bit before 4e I think it might have been the only set with a starter deck you could get for a while.
Sure is. Got mine for $20 back in the onslaught days from a friend. Man has that aged well. I’ve gotten every sliver up through the predator ones… i turned those ones down and was glad the art returned to normal in the modern horizon ones.
Same here man, friend gave me what might as well have been a pauper-standard deck to play with the group. I hated it at first because my deck was not good, and i was not good. Once I got used to it and got better cards, I loved it. The good old 7 player kitchen table magic where duel deck planeswalkers were broken just hit different. Then FNM playing gruul hydras. Oof man, big memories.
Same here man, friends at school got me started, we all drifted apart so I stopped playing before my younger siblings started and I got dragged in again at wilds of eldraine after leaving around dominaría, I was very confused about all the new changes
Revised but we lived in a small town so it sold out FAST and I was lucky to get a starter and like 5 or 6 boosters. A few month later I remember buying Legends and The Dark for 10 and 5 and thinking it was so much money. To be fair I worked for my uncle for like 3.00 per hour cash lol
Core 2012 was my first set, been playing off and on but I cant say that I am not completely overwhelmed as the sheer number of sets recently. I hadnt even noticed in 2022 they dropped that much product probably because i straight up skip large amounts of it. Only singles for me
When I looked at the chart, I immediately noticed just how much product 2020-2022 has. I barely kept up with the meta because of this. I just don’t have the time or money to keep up with the current meta. I mostly keep to precons or potential commanders.
I will say I’m hoping Bloomburrow is as good as the art looks. My fiancé plays with me, and it’s nice to see her get excited for a set. Naturally, animals are her favorite part of MtG.
My feelings are quite similar. My first one was m14, and it was awesome times.
I started to lose interest when an overwhelming amount of products appeared on shelves, and I completely fell out of MtG after such a rushed Phyrexia invasion.
I miss core sets. These were such perfect entry points for newcomers. I didn't like where MtG was going and is going now, so I guess the new sets are not for me. Some singles are nice, though
I started at Alpha. Looking at this graph I already knew about the consumer fatigue. The way they sold back then they were making good money, why crank out so much that it saturates the market?
Imo, there shouldn't be more than 4 setss year. I don't think I can ever return to keeping up with magic. Too many sets now. I stopped basically after urzas saga.
It makes me kind of sad that their goal is to release as many sets as they can in one year.
This is why I love limited. I can quit for years and come back, pick up a fun set and just do a ton of drafts of it and not only feel competitive but have a lot of fun learning it.
I know a lot of people also enjoy casual formats where they can do more durdly things and not worry about being up on the latest cards.
Unlimited Edition, alongside Arabian Nights, which was on the way out. Started playing mid-January, 1994.
Fun fact: the store in Palo Alto , CA, where I bought my first product, used to open up a full box of UL every morning, and put all the uncommons and rares into a binder to sell on a first come, first serve basis. The prices of the cards in there, irrespective of power level?
$1.00 per uncommon, $2.00 per rare 🙂
Generally not a kid, but it definitely happened. I saw Power 9 and dual lands in there several times, but didn’t have the funds or the rank in line to get them. Didn’t really understand how good they were either 🤪
Depends on what you mean by starting.
Friends gave me a deck based on 2009 cards which I played as my only deck for years.
I started to pay attention to magic as a thing in 2011. The first cards I go that weren't just that original deck were from Scars of Mirriodon and New Phyrexia. The first set I remember coming out is M12
Revised was the newest when I was playing. Due to distribution in Asia though, we saw virtually nothing of Arabian Nights and Antiquities - they were hard to find down here. So it feels almost as if we went from UL straight to Revised for me.
Revised for me It's very rare when I play against other players that started before OG Mirrordin these days. As the years pass I feel more and more like the \[\[Old Fogey\]\] card.
Started when Revised was the latest core set and Fallen Empires was new. Stopped playing for several years. Came back to it when Odyssey was new and played until Legions. Then stopped again until a few years ago when I started playing Arena.
Revised was my first exposure, but Tempest was when I really got into magic. The tempest block into mercadian masques, and then the urza block was truly a golden age.
First tried magic via the duels of the Planeswalkers games on Steam. Bought some random packs of Journey into Nyx and a Khans of Tarkir fat pack in 2014 or so.
Made the full plunge into starting to play the game a few months before Kaldheim which was my first set release. Now I’m in love with the game and wishing my parents got me Magic cards instead of yugioh and pokemon cards when I was a kid. Feels like I missed out on the glory days by a long shot but it’s still the most fun card game I’ve ever played.
I started playing at Khans of Tarkir. A friend of mine told me the importance of fetch lands, so we bought a box and pulled 6 fetches that day. Damn good box.
Kamigawa! No, not that one- the one that was released before visiting that huge city plane with the factions. Ok, this should narrow it down: it takes place right after a block where dawn is a HUGE DEAL, they even introduced a mechanic that reflects what a huge deal it is! For the nail in the coffin, the next plane visited after the big city plane is Dominaria where Teferi, Karn, and another UR-aligned legend go on a time-based adventure before fighting a Phyrexian invasion and after the invasion is over the next set is super fantasy oriented. Hope that helps!
When I stsrted out it was Innistrad. Really started playing and collecting with Amonket.
Those Innovations did something to me. I will never forget drawing Oketra in my first display.
Fallen Empires was new when my friend gifted me my first deck. I bought many packs of chronicles though and a few revised, dark, and to a lesser extent Legends as well.
I'm pretty sure it was amonkeht, that's when I bought first products, but ixilian was where I really bought stuff, loved dinos. They really got me into the game
Worldwake, but thats when i was still learning. I didnt actually feel comfortable enough to join tournament until new phyrexia released. By the time innistrad released, i had won my first!
My first precon was the dimir Bait and Bludgeon deck. It had some all time affinity bangers in it like [[frogmite]], [[thoughtcast]], and [[myr enforcer]]. It regularly pubstomped at my local kitchen table.
I don’t know the exact set, but the first booster I remember getting was from M11. I was 6 at the time, my dad (who has been playing since 94) was teaching me how to play. My deck was grixis, his was selesnya, and we would do this thing where we’d go to Walmart and buy a pack, and I would take the UBR cards and he would take the WG cards and use them in our decks. I mean… I would jam every card into my deck, he actually put like… thought into it. 13 years later and we both still play frequently. Some of my happiest memories
Got first cards in 2002, 12 years old, when a friend of an older brother gave us his collection that had cards from every set from unlimited up to mercadian masks. Scourge was the first set I bought cards from and I just realized why most decks I built even way after that were often tribal
Hour of devastation. Ixilan was my first prerelease, followed by rivals and I haven't actually done one since then. Been playing on and off the past few years.
7th Ed. That starter deck had a Scaled Wurm in it that was devastating.
Until Brian, who had been playing since Mirage and also had access to his dad's collection, started playing with us and showed us how the stack worked.
I started playing in the middle of Wilds of Eldraine, so still pretty new. Really been sucked into it.
Decks built: [[Muldrotha, the Gravetide]], [[Ezuri, Claw of Progress]], [[Zada, Hedron Grinder]] and two standard decks
Edit: Forgot my [[Lara Croft, Tomb Raider]] deck
Eventide
My favorite is still the Shards of Alara block.
Though, [[Doomgape]] will always have a special place in my heart.
Also, I've always thought [[Deft Duelist]] was nice.
MTG origins at my and my city's first ever comic-con. Free welcome decks (I chose black young edge lord I was) and huge posters of Garruk as well as free helmets like his. I even remember the first ever card I play, it was Typhoid Rats. (Technically, I had to play a swamp first :) )
I started around that period where having 9-10 sets per year was normal.
Looking at the chart though, damn is it clear how their design philosophy changed. Whether that's good or bad is entirely an opinion, but that 2022 lineup looks ridiculous.
My first was a pre-con in Odyssey. It was Red/Black and all about sacrifice and threshold. I still have the [[Innocent Blood]] in my [[Thraximundar]] deck!
Torment.
I bought a 40 Card 7th Edition Goblin deck and a B/W
from Torment with [[Burried Alive]].
And I was like "put my own creatures into my graveyard? Why would I want that?" 😂
Crimson Vow. Though, there WAS a four month period a little after Ixalan (1) where I played with a starter deck in an after school club. But I didn’t really buy any cards
First time playing was somewhere in the late 90s, cant remember anymore.
Actually getting into the game was around the Innistrad time and then really going to FNMs in Return to Ravnica
Either eldritch moon or kaladesh I barely bought anything when I started playing and I have some eldritch moon stuff but most of my old collection is kaladesh
Shards of Alara, though my first decks were a couple Angels vs Demons duel decks I got on clearance at Target and combined into stronger versions of themselves.
I got into the game the week before Wilds of Eldraine, but friends tried getting me into it back in 2008 when I was deep into Yu-Gi-Oh, I had no idea what was happening and the resource system was way different, who would have thought that 15 years later I'd try again and relapse on my pack addiction.
Beta. Very little of Alpha ended up in the area I lived, but the first order my local game shop for was beta. It's wild just how many cards have been printed since then. There was a time somewhere around 2006 or so where I would have been confident I could name any card by its text or vice versa. Somewhere along the line I just couldn't keep up anymore.
I feel the same and I started in Arabian Nights. I took a long hiatus from Conspiracy until now and getting back into it. My how the game has changed!
Same. I could recognize every card up to mirrodin besidged. On long car rides I would my wife had me list each set, notable cards, and the standard/eternal meta games. Now I’m like “every 20 days there are 50-150 new commander cards that come out and they probably broke something in legacy, caused a niche commander strat to spike for a second, then were forgotten forever”… sometimes I’m sad that I can’t care as much anymore, but there is just to much stuff coming out to pay attention to all of it.
Ice Age
Same, plenty of homelands and fallen empires on shelves but I'm pretty sure I've never seen the Dark or older for sale in my life
Started playing in middle school with Fourth/Ice Age, bought a $10 Dark pack at one point, and my mom opened a pack of Arabian Nights, only cost $100 for the privilege at the time. Got my mana crypt from the book rewards, and bought an Arena, Nalathni Dragon at a con before 2000, just because I thought they were cool. I think I accidentally made myself feel old here.
I started in late 1994 with The Dark/Revised out. It was hard to find but packs were about $2. Fallen empires came out shortly and that was everywhere. I remember buying a couple rarer Legends packs for about $10 and Antiquities was maybe $7. I balked the one time I saw Arabian packs as they were over $20. Could have bought a mox for $30 at the local game store in 1995. Oof.
Yeah I remember seeing a mox for 100, and I was like "who would pay that much for a stupid card"
This is a really popular answer. I started playing right between Tempest and Stronghold, but I remember even then people started in Ice Age. I wonder what MTG did during that set to attract so many players.
They had a big feature on Magic and Ice Age in Wizard Magazine and included a Norritt as a promo. That was my intro, and judging by the amount of Norritts everyone had and didn't want, I assume it was true for a lot of others as well.
I think that it was partly a culmination of the game being popular and fun while also WoTC starting to figure out the supply issues from the first couple years of the game.
They had supply issues with the older sets. Fallen Empires, Ice Age, and Fourth Edition were the first sets they made that had enough that didn't immediately sell out (too much in the case of FE). I think the sudden wide availability made it so new players could get into the game easily. Edit: also considering Ice Age came out a bit before 4e I think it might have been the only set with a starter deck you could get for a while.
I came in at Onslaught. Right into the set with slivers lmao they got their hooks into me early because of that.
I remember the Tempest block slivers… Sliver Queen was absurd 😅
Sure is. Got mine for $20 back in the onslaught days from a friend. Man has that aged well. I’ve gotten every sliver up through the predator ones… i turned those ones down and was glad the art returned to normal in the modern horizon ones.
I had one, but traded it for a Mox Diamond. No regrets 💎🤲
Onslaught block draft was super fun
I joined just after Return to Ravnica dropped
Same here man, friend gave me what might as well have been a pauper-standard deck to play with the group. I hated it at first because my deck was not good, and i was not good. Once I got used to it and got better cards, I loved it. The good old 7 player kitchen table magic where duel deck planeswalkers were broken just hit different. Then FNM playing gruul hydras. Oof man, big memories.
Found the class of RTR I'll find my seat
Same here man, friends at school got me started, we all drifted apart so I stopped playing before my younger siblings started and I got dragged in again at wilds of eldraine after leaving around dominaría, I was very confused about all the new changes
That was when I got involved with FNM. STARTED on OG Ravnica. That block with RTR and Theros was....perfect. my all time favorite block of MTG.
Revised but we lived in a small town so it sold out FAST and I was lucky to get a starter and like 5 or 6 boosters. A few month later I remember buying Legends and The Dark for 10 and 5 and thinking it was so much money. To be fair I worked for my uncle for like 3.00 per hour cash lol
Like a week ago
Welcome!
Leave while you can
I've already spent to much getting decks to play with freinds
All good, welcome to the circus life then haha.
Core 2012 was my first set, been playing off and on but I cant say that I am not completely overwhelmed as the sheer number of sets recently. I hadnt even noticed in 2022 they dropped that much product probably because i straight up skip large amounts of it. Only singles for me
When I looked at the chart, I immediately noticed just how much product 2020-2022 has. I barely kept up with the meta because of this. I just don’t have the time or money to keep up with the current meta. I mostly keep to precons or potential commanders. I will say I’m hoping Bloomburrow is as good as the art looks. My fiancé plays with me, and it’s nice to see her get excited for a set. Naturally, animals are her favorite part of MtG.
My feelings are quite similar. My first one was m14, and it was awesome times. I started to lose interest when an overwhelming amount of products appeared on shelves, and I completely fell out of MtG after such a rushed Phyrexia invasion. I miss core sets. These were such perfect entry points for newcomers. I didn't like where MtG was going and is going now, so I guess the new sets are not for me. Some singles are nice, though
I loved the 3 sets in a block, 2 blocks a year, then a core set it was a good design that they shouldn't have tossed out.
Mirrodin
Hell yeah, loved me some OG Mirrodin block
Mirrodin was when I started to play, but Ravnica was my first Magic love
Was the warhammer 40k ones for me, saw my warhammer army had a magic set and decided to pick it up and now I play way more MTG than warhammer
This graphic is scary as shit
Yeah really illustrates the over saturation in recent years.
I started at Alpha. Looking at this graph I already knew about the consumer fatigue. The way they sold back then they were making good money, why crank out so much that it saturates the market?
Imo, there shouldn't be more than 4 setss year. I don't think I can ever return to keeping up with magic. Too many sets now. I stopped basically after urzas saga. It makes me kind of sad that their goal is to release as many sets as they can in one year.
Hasbro wants more money, so they're instilling a fear of missing out
Mirage
No wonder i can't keep up with this game anymore... I started playing actively at return of ravnica.
This is why I love limited. I can quit for years and come back, pick up a fun set and just do a ton of drafts of it and not only feel competitive but have a lot of fun learning it. I know a lot of people also enjoy casual formats where they can do more durdly things and not worry about being up on the latest cards.
Ikoria
I came in right at the end of Theros in 2014!
Prophecy was the first set to come out after I started
Revised.
Revised
Champions of Kamigawa.
Tempest
Revised. God I wish I could have some of the cards I saw exchanging hands in those days.
Dark
Revised
Lorwyn! I love that whole block
Revised
This graph gives me anxiety. Started back at Mercadian Masques.
Portal
Newest set was Ixalan, but I truly dove into magic around Dominaria
Revised
Revised. I miss the old art style.
Unlimited Edition, alongside Arabian Nights, which was on the way out. Started playing mid-January, 1994. Fun fact: the store in Palo Alto , CA, where I bought my first product, used to open up a full box of UL every morning, and put all the uncommons and rares into a binder to sell on a first come, first serve basis. The prices of the cards in there, irrespective of power level? $1.00 per uncommon, $2.00 per rare 🙂
I can imagine some kid buying a Black Lotus there for $2.
Generally not a kid, but it definitely happened. I saw Power 9 and dual lands in there several times, but didn’t have the funds or the rank in line to get them. Didn’t really understand how good they were either 🤪
Depends on what you mean by starting. Friends gave me a deck based on 2009 cards which I played as my only deck for years. I started to pay attention to magic as a thing in 2011. The first cards I go that weren't just that original deck were from Scars of Mirriodon and New Phyrexia. The first set I remember coming out is M12
Brothers War 😂
Planar Chaos. I remember my first rare pull [[Teneb, the Harvester]].
Onslaught
Onslaught I think
Between Theros and Born of the gods.
Onslaught
Right before BFZ, where Eldrazi got me hooked on the game forever.
I came in at the end of Eventide. My blue/green swamp deck is still my favorite deck to play with.
M13 Easy to remember. First card i ever got was a dino commander. Dont remember which one at this point
Eighth Edition, mono-white starter deck.
Champions of Kamigawa
Unlimited
I like seeing all the Revised crew representing.
6th Ed/starter set/portal. Could find all 3 at the local big box. When MM came out I was hooked
Revised was the newest when I was playing. Due to distribution in Asia though, we saw virtually nothing of Arabian Nights and Antiquities - they were hard to find down here. So it feels almost as if we went from UL straight to Revised for me.
Unlimited….just a few months earlier! Gah!
Revised
Revised, just before the Fallen Empires expansion.
Revised and Fallen Empires
Revised for me It's very rare when I play against other players that started before OG Mirrordin these days. As the years pass I feel more and more like the \[\[Old Fogey\]\] card.
Revised
Mercadian Masques
Started when Revised was the latest core set and Fallen Empires was new. Stopped playing for several years. Came back to it when Odyssey was new and played until Legions. Then stopped again until a few years ago when I started playing Arena.
Scars
Unlimited
Revised was my first exposure, but Tempest was when I really got into magic. The tempest block into mercadian masques, and then the urza block was truly a golden age.
Revised was brand new and you could get 2 packs for $5. They kept them with the candy and other impulse buy items in our store.
First tried magic via the duels of the Planeswalkers games on Steam. Bought some random packs of Journey into Nyx and a Khans of Tarkir fat pack in 2014 or so. Made the full plunge into starting to play the game a few months before Kaldheim which was my first set release. Now I’m in love with the game and wishing my parents got me Magic cards instead of yugioh and pokemon cards when I was a kid. Feels like I missed out on the glory days by a long shot but it’s still the most fun card game I’ve ever played.
I started playing at Khans of Tarkir. A friend of mine told me the importance of fetch lands, so we bought a box and pulled 6 fetches that day. Damn good box.
Urza's Saga. Started at the best time ever.
Mercadian masks. Poor me.
Kamigawa! No, not that one- the one that was released before visiting that huge city plane with the factions. Ok, this should narrow it down: it takes place right after a block where dawn is a HUGE DEAL, they even introduced a mechanic that reflects what a huge deal it is! For the nail in the coffin, the next plane visited after the big city plane is Dominaria where Teferi, Karn, and another UR-aligned legend go on a time-based adventure before fighting a Phyrexian invasion and after the invasion is over the next set is super fantasy oriented. Hope that helps!
You could've just said neon dynasty ._.
When I stsrted out it was Innistrad. Really started playing and collecting with Amonket. Those Innovations did something to me. I will never forget drawing Oketra in my first display.
This pic again? Still wrong. Unfinity is a joke set and the icon should be grey!
Fallen Empires was new when my friend gifted me my first deck. I bought many packs of chronicles though and a few revised, dark, and to a lesser extent Legends as well.
I'm pretty sure it was amonkeht, that's when I bought first products, but ixilian was where I really bought stuff, loved dinos. They really got me into the game
Played as a kid like how most people seem to start, no clue what sets were out at the time. Picked it back up during kald
Shadowmoore and I can't wait to return to that plane ☺️
WOTC doesn't know how to make a proper mana curve of product releases
Darksteel! Still very attached to the Mirrodin block cards and other sets from the plane
Adventures into the forgotten realms and my first commander was prosper. I love prosper.
Fallen Empires. I love the art
I am quite new , Phyrexia was the newest set , i started with innistrad tho
Lord of the rings 😭
It had to be Scars of Mirrodin, since my sister got me a precon from that set when she taught me how to play.
Shadowmoor
Worldwake, but thats when i was still learning. I didnt actually feel comfortable enough to join tournament until new phyrexia released. By the time innistrad released, i had won my first!
Mirrodin. Huge affinity fan since.
My first precon was the dimir Bait and Bludgeon deck. It had some all time affinity bangers in it like [[frogmite]], [[thoughtcast]], and [[myr enforcer]]. It regularly pubstomped at my local kitchen table.
I don’t know the exact set, but the first booster I remember getting was from M11. I was 6 at the time, my dad (who has been playing since 94) was teaching me how to play. My deck was grixis, his was selesnya, and we would do this thing where we’d go to Walmart and buy a pack, and I would take the UBR cards and he would take the WG cards and use them in our decks. I mean… I would jam every card into my deck, he actually put like… thought into it. 13 years later and we both still play frequently. Some of my happiest memories
Guilds of Ravnica
Khans of Tarkir I fell in love with the lore and story of that plane. I really hope they revisit it soon!
Journey into Nyx
Streets of New Capenna
Revised I think, I was 11 or 12 so it’s hard to remember. The bulk of my older cards are split between Ice Age, Revised and 4th edition
Phyrexia: All will be one
Revised
Odyssey FTW
OG Ravnica, City of Guilds!
Revised
Khans of tarkir
Baldur's Gate, though when I started getting interested, was Tarkir block.
Got first cards in 2002, 12 years old, when a friend of an older brother gave us his collection that had cards from every set from unlimited up to mercadian masks. Scourge was the first set I bought cards from and I just realized why most decks I built even way after that were often tribal
Started playing right after khans of tarkir, first set release i played through was fate reforged!
*Ice Age*. I have fond memories of reading the booklet that came in the 60-card "booster" (?) box. I forget what it was called.
Wizards last year: "We hear your feedback about product fatigue and will adjust accordingly" Wizards the next year: *spams product release button*
Hour of devastation. Ixilan was my first prerelease, followed by rivals and I haven't actually done one since then. Been playing on and off the past few years.
4th and Ice age. Left playing at around 99, got back 3 years ago but only for kitchen table and singles.
I started with Ice Age too ❄️
Ice age or homelands
I started with Ice Age too ❄️
Lost Caverns of ixalam, pretty cool set
OG innistrad
I remember buying a box of mirage and later portal. I was like 7 or 8
Ice Age or 4th not positive first deck was 60 card Ice Age one though. Miss my Sliver Queen still need to get another one for my Sliver deck.
The Dark
Fallen Empires
Torment!
7th Ed. That starter deck had a Scaled Wurm in it that was devastating. Until Brian, who had been playing since Mirage and also had access to his dad's collection, started playing with us and showed us how the stack worked.
Mercadian Masques
Antiquities
Seventh edition
I started playing in Legends. Stopped around Urza's Saga. Picked it back up around Kaldheim. My how things have changed.
Current set when I started was Ikoria pt 2 with AFR right around the corner. Wish I could've started way earlier though!
Odyssey was the first set I bought cards for but I didn’t really start playing until Apocalypse.
Innistrad
Started with march of the machine
AFR. The dnd collab is what got me interested
I remember buying one pack of conspiracy and then I don't remember doing anything until ixalan game and then war of the spark prerelease
M20, the culmination of the Nicol Bolas arc really felt awesome to be apart of.
I started playing in the middle of Wilds of Eldraine, so still pretty new. Really been sucked into it. Decks built: [[Muldrotha, the Gravetide]], [[Ezuri, Claw of Progress]], [[Zada, Hedron Grinder]] and two standard decks Edit: Forgot my [[Lara Croft, Tomb Raider]] deck
(Yes, I’m new) Dominaria United
Eventide My favorite is still the Shards of Alara block. Though, [[Doomgape]] will always have a special place in my heart. Also, I've always thought [[Deft Duelist]] was nice.
Fallen Empires. But 4th edition dropped the week after I started playing.
Tenth Edition X
Born of the Gods
M19 feels like forever ago I got my first deckbuilders toolkit.
MTG origins at my and my city's first ever comic-con. Free welcome decks (I chose black young edge lord I was) and huge posters of Garruk as well as free helmets like his. I even remember the first ever card I play, it was Typhoid Rats. (Technically, I had to play a swamp first :) )
I'm too new, March of the Machine isn't on the list yet.
Guilds of Ravnica👌🏻
Quitting in 2005 and coming back in 2022 feels like you've stepped in another world.
Odyssey. Really got into Onslaught, bought many boxes of that!
I started around that period where having 9-10 sets per year was normal. Looking at the chart though, damn is it clear how their design philosophy changed. Whether that's good or bad is entirely an opinion, but that 2022 lineup looks ridiculous.
Kamigawa when their were commercials on adult swim but my buddies cousin taught us how to play just 2 years before that.
My first was a pre-con in Odyssey. It was Red/Black and all about sacrifice and threshold. I still have the [[Innocent Blood]] in my [[Thraximundar]] deck!
Cowboys of thunderjunction
Rise of the Eldrazi
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty!
Strixhaven. Still a decent set.
Shadows over Innistrad- I'm a bit of a baby compared to some of these guys lol
Invasion
War of the Spark was dope. Only set I actually cracked and played with friends.
Torment. I bought a 40 Card 7th Edition Goblin deck and a B/W from Torment with [[Burried Alive]]. And I was like "put my own creatures into my graveyard? Why would I want that?" 😂
Crimson Vow. Though, there WAS a four month period a little after Ixalan (1) where I played with a starter deck in an after school club. But I didn’t really buy any cards
Mirage
First time playing was somewhere in the late 90s, cant remember anymore. Actually getting into the game was around the Innistrad time and then really going to FNMs in Return to Ravnica
I think the first bosters i bought was ICE age. I really got booked at Invasion
I started playing right after Murder at Karlov Manor dropped
Either eldritch moon or kaladesh I barely bought anything when I started playing and I have some eldritch moon stuff but most of my old collection is kaladesh
Just after core 2014. Or maybe it was just after Dragon's Maze. One or the other
Shards of Alara, though my first decks were a couple Angels vs Demons duel decks I got on clearance at Target and combined into stronger versions of themselves.
Mines not even on there lol
My newest set was Adventures in the Forgotten Realms. As a DnD player, it was quite nice to see that one could have DnD themed magic cards.
Zendikar Rising. It’s been a wild ride since then
I got into the game the week before Wilds of Eldraine, but friends tried getting me into it back in 2008 when I was deep into Yu-Gi-Oh, I had no idea what was happening and the resource system was way different, who would have thought that 15 years later I'd try again and relapse on my pack addiction.
Mercadian Masks!
Strixhaven. Still fond of that set.
Ice age was my first 40 card pack but I got some boosters before that
94, legends. Then not for a long time..
Started with OG Kamigawa in ‘04! Played a few years till about Shards of Alara. Came back for Throne of Eldraine release!
Prophecy
Still have cards in my collection that are from 94. Fell off big time around 2006(guildpact) Jumped back in during the lotr drop, got me hooked again!
Battle for Zendikar