Strange, then how do I play Magic online? Also, Magic has many different formats. Commander, for example, you're not limited to cards in a certain timeframe.

Educate us then. We'd love to play too.

@30

That's simply not true. You can play standard, moddern, legacy, vintage, or commander. Yeah, standard roates, but not really any other format.

@ross: if you don't want to play competetively you can of course play what you want, but since the largest and most popular tournaments are the standard tournaments, thats the one and only way playing Magic competetively, thus you are limited to certain cards only.

That however doesn't matter at all, since its actually offtopic. What matters is that there isn't an accessible Magic The Gathering client out there that I know of, but there is a Yu-Gi-Oh client, so that can actually be played. If it comes to Magic The Gathering, all you can do is playing it with real cards on a real table with real people .
Best Regards.
Hijacker

I am currently on the MUD as Zersiax and would be happy to teach new players. I think that honestly, the best guide of sorts that would take everything into acocunt is to make a log of a duel where an experienced player explains the rules to a new player. That would take various duels to go through all the summon mechanics and such, but I think that would be doable. Is that something someone here would like to create with me?

Zersiax

Hi.
@Zersiax I would strongly advise you, that if you're going to teach new players, you a least teach them something that's up-to-date. I just took a look at the log you posted, and I can't understand why you aren't teaching them in the "link" format.
I know, it can be a bit tricky, but it is the modern way of playing.

Wow what a  super dumb newbie i am, i missed an opportunity to use my  spell to destroy his only monster and i was destroyed because of that lol

I'm also around for playing if you want, though I'm sure it looks like I idle a lot.  I'll be glad to help out anyone whose new to the game, just be sure to let us know so we can load up an older deck and adjust the banlists for rooms accordingly.

@37
Coming on a little strong there, aren't we? Yes, the link format is how people play, but since we barely even got into special summoning it really isn't relevant at this point. Syncro summoning and fusion summoning, that was briefly touched on, are still relevant game mechanics and I would argue they are easier to grasp then the link format.  Throwing extra monster zones, link materials, co-linking, the altered spell row with the pendulum slots that are on s1 and s5 without even having covered pendulum summoning yet ...yeah no.
So thank you for your strong suggestion, I hope my explanation pleases you. We will get to the link format. Just not in the first duel.

@38 I considered doing that, but I put this up at midnight or so and I wanted people to have something to work with while I got some shut-eye. I'll get rid of the unnecessary output when I have a minute.

Zersiax

@43 sorry if it sounded a bit harsh.
My reason for even bringing it up in the first point, is to not teach newbies old, redundant rules.
Say fx, that you teach them about pendulum summoning but then, when you're going onto link summing, you need to go back and say like, well everything you just learned about pendulums is flipped. The pen zones have change places, pen summing itself doesn't work the same anymore (same for any other type of extra deck special summoning)

I posted a guide in the articles room on some of the basics of the MUD along with some links to resources that should assist with deck building etc.

Please post feedback here.

I also added the link to the latest VIP soundpack for those of you who have been asking for it.  Since the soundpack is hosted on dropbox and is updated every now and then the link is subject to change, so grab it while its hot.

I'll be a little sparatic on their as I'm on vacation with my family at the beach, but I'll try and be on.  I've noticed that it seems to be a little more active in the mornings and afternoons.  You may need to idle a bit, as I've noticed that if nobody is on, people only log in for a few seconds.  Try talking as well, to trigger peoples sound packs if they may have their headphones off or something.