Greetings Earthlings!

[Ember]

Welcome to Susan's, Zoë!  Wow, trans nerds, does it get any better?

Nerd that I am, still I only played Magic once about 15 years ago.  I was playing with Wil Wheaton, tho.  He helped my buy my first (and only) deck.

[Lynn]

I have been interested in Magicka, but I believe it's too expensive of a hobby to get into if you want to do it properly (and I never half ass things in life).

[Fighter]

I have been interested in Magicka, but I believe it's too expensive of a hobby to get into if you want to do it properly (and I never half ass things in life).

If by Magicka you mean Magic: The Gathering, I've noticed it's actually relatively cheaper than most other card games I've played (Yu-Gi-Oh, for example). You can buy a single starter pack for only about $12-14 where I live, and that gives you a fully playable deck and a booster pack. Well unless you want to get REALLY into it and buy cards like some of my lame friends did. I don't care how good it is, I'm NOT spending more than $1 on a single card! Not to mention it takes the joy out of finding a really great card at random from a pack . At least I think so.

If you want an expensive hobby, try getting into something like the Warhammer war game. A starting pack for that game costs like $200 or so. The book alone costs about $50 or so, a single army costs about $40 (and they're unpainted), and the rulebook FOR that army costs about $20 or more! And those are just basics. If you wanted things like Heroes and other specialties, the money just flies right out of your bank account. Now THAT's an expensive hobby .

[Lynn]

Yeah I meant Magic: The Gathering. I had just finished playing some Magicka with a friend hence the confusion.

I might at some point get into it though, when I have money to spare and friends to play it with ... which is not right now.