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by stuffydollfan
Fri Oct 02, 2015 11:31 am
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: 3 years of DtR, what next?
Replies: 63
Views: 481684

3 years of DtR, what next?

I did notice a decline of players once that boros deck rotated out. I was playing the rakdos version of the deck and I loved the match up against the boros deck. Fun times.

I think youre on to something with youtube. People love youtube and this site can take an opportunity with creating their own content and using it to attract more people on to here.
by stuffydollfan
Tue Sep 29, 2015 8:56 am
Forum: Speak Your Mind
Topic: 3 years of DtR, what next?
Replies: 63
Views: 481684

3 years of DtR, what next?

Story time.

I came here during the RtR block from the MTGS forums. At that time my goal was to get back into standard win a bunch of FNMs and to collect all of the shock lands. I had been playing magic for about 10 years at that point but was never really serious with the game. I was on break from standard and just been playing edh for about 3 years by that point. I knew I had to get better if I was ever going to reach my goal of winning all the shocks. So I went online and ended up on MTGS out of all the possible places i could have gone to. Luckily it wasn't very long before I noticed a DtR link on Zems sig and found my way here.

Once I made an account and started getting into conversations with the people on here then everything started to change. Some of the most helpful stuff on the website was the improve yourself as a player threads. And while some of those articles are mainly designed for the red player in mind, they are good reads for all other players as well. But the most important resource to this forum has always been the like minded community of players. All the knowledge, experience, and research you all have is what brought me here and what i think brought everyone else as well. It wasn't very long after that I started to get better. Instead of going 3-2 or 2-3 on most FNMs, I was actually winning a bunch of them. Sure FNM is no big deal, but that was where I had my sights set on. I went from the guy that all the top players never took seriously, to probably the top guy at the store. Eventually by the time Theros came out, I was able to achieve my goal of collecting play sets of all the shock lands *which i have all sold or traded away but thats besides the point*. I continued having success playing red at the FNM level, and even doing good at higher levels of competition all the way until around DoT came out. That's when my work schedule changed and my magic playing time was cut almost entirely.

I'm not sure about the decline of this place, but i do think it does go beyond just the whole forum format dying down and Zems cheating. Is there another place that is stealing people away from here? Places like SCG and CFB have existed long before this place ever did and yet this place managed to attract many people despite those websites. Is this place not as good as I am making it out to be? It could be but I highly doubt that. Or could it be that many of the people on here have other stuff going on in their lives? My reason for not being as active as I used to be is because of a change of schedule at work. I really hope once my schedule changes back to normal that this place is still around and thriving because I really do believe it's a valuable place.

Anyways I've rambled on long enough.
I say lets do whatever it takes to keep this thing afloat.

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