Magic: The Gathering is a card game, and expensive at that. But one that is also a lot of fun.

The game consists of 3 main principles: drawing and placing cards, using mana cards, and attacking your opponents.

To play the game, you “Typically, all you really need is a deck,” senior Chase Larson said. “It helps to have dice or life trackers or something else like that. But really, all you need is a 60 to 100 card deck.”

Just having cards is the main thing needed for a game of Magic, but knowledge of said cards is very useful.

Cards in Magic are typically basic to understand and use, but not every card has this bonus.

“It’s easy to learn the basics,” senior Michael Fitterer said, “But there’s like lots of fine print things that you have to learn and memorize to play normally and whatnot.”

Now no one will play a game if it’s not fun. The same is true for Magic: The Gathering.

One great way to measure how fun a game is by how long a person has played for.

For both of our interviewees, that span of time has been years.

“Six years, maybe up to eight,” Chase said.

“Span of five years that I’ve played,” Michael said.

But how long a player has played is one thing, but how old a game is while still being popular also says a lot.

Magic: The Gathering is an old game, having come out in 1993, and has grown to 50 million players since its release. 

With a game that old and having that large of a fanbase, it’s no surprise it’s seen here in our school.