Magic’s 30th anniversary
This year is Magic’s 30th anniversary, and for me personally it’s my 20th year since I was introduced to the game. I began playing Magic after having played Pokemon and Yugioh and was 13 at the time. My dear friend Daniel Lacombe introduced me, my brother, and my dad to the game with some stuff from the set Scourge and older sets.
So my first exposure to Magic involved a lot of the Typal (formerly tribal) elements, and even at that time I found myself in more of a midrange style with Clerics though it was a lot of cards we own and things like that. 20 years later, and the set we were introduced with still shows its influence as I still have a Cleric deck, my dad plays an Elf deck (though he did first play Beasts), and my brother plays Slivers.
The next few years of Magic have some interesting cards for us to see — and at GenCon they pulled back the curtain for 2024, and for 2025 and even a bit of 2026. There are some really interesting things coming up — I’m looking forward to Fallout Commander decks (… as long as the prices avoid insanity), the return to Lorwyn, and next year’s new settings sound really interesting. If you want to know more about what’s coming — you can read my piece on TechRaptor: https://techraptor.net/tabletop/news/magic-gathering-2024-roadmap-stars-fallout-modern-horizons-and-more
