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This is a M:tg blog but I promise I'll keep the jargon to a minimum.

So recently I started playing Magic Online. It's another way to sink money into a game that already takes about 50% of my spare cash. It has been extremely enjoyable so far and the more drafts you win the more you can play for free. Of course every draft requires 2 dollars to play in addition to the prizes you can win from a draft. In that sense it's a lot like playing poker at a casino, you can come out ahead but the house always takes a share. If you sell off the "cards" you open you can usually make back the money you spent, so luckily this nonsense isn't too expensive.

As there are prizes on the line people take this shit as SERIOUS BUSINESS. Most people you play online won't say anything or just give a friendly "gl" at the start of the match. Others are not so civil about the whole business. One guy I was about to beat decided he'd rather log off and force me to wait for him to time out than concede.

My favorite time was when I attacked some guy and he prevented all the damage from my worst creature. He then said "Whoops! I clicked the wrong thing, good game." This was weird off the bat because he obviously wasn't dead yet just looking at the state of things. Then I figured out he was deliberately lying to me in order to kill my best creatures without me realizing his plan. I've bluffed in magic before and played like I could do something I couldn't but never have I just lied to my opponent. That's a whole new level of skeez. I promptly killed him after that.

One guy I played had a username of HankYu. Despite Cong's egging on, I managed to resist saying "Hank Yu for a good game."