That's an excellent article (and though it was written about fighting games, it does translate over to MtG very well), but I always took issue with one assumption of the article - that all players involved are playing for the same reason. Most players who play semi-seriously consider anything to be fair game. But not everyone plays to win at any cost - some people play to have fun, try new things, mess around, win with style. Whatever. They tend to have ideas about what's "cheap" and should be allowed. Unlike Sirlin, I don't think this is wrong at all. It's not an attitude you bring to tournaments, but nobody should tell you that the way you play your game is "wrong".
The problem is when two people with different ideas of what's "fair" play. If one person thinks everything is fair, and another thinks discard or counter is cheap, there's gonna have to be some sort of meeting of the minds there, or you're gonna have a bad time.
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That's an excellent article (and though it was written about fighting games, it does translate over to MtG very well), but I always took issue with one assumption of the article - that all players involved are playing for the same reason. Most players who play semi-seriously consider anything to be fair game. But not everyone plays to win at any cost - some people play to have fun, try new things, mess around, win with style. Whatever. They tend to have ideas about what's "cheap" and should be allowed. Unlike Sirlin, I don't think this is wrong at all. It's not an attitude you bring to tournaments, but nobody should tell you that the way you play your game is "wrong".
The problem is when two people with different ideas of what's "fair" play. If one person thinks everything is fair, and another thinks discard or counter is cheap, there's gonna have to be some sort of meeting of the minds there, or you're gonna have a bad time.
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