A friend of mine later invited me to try picking up magic cards again to play at a team sealed deck and the players were mostly rather rude, immature jerks. V:TES because it has a much older player base is far more mature, and, in my opinion, a far more enjoyable game because of it. The multiplayer nature of the game means that you will tend to lose far more than you win which means you enter each game with the expectation that, if things tend to run their course, you probably won’t win. This is a far cry different from Magic where every player expects to win the game unless the got unlucky and seem to come unglued if they can’t achieve the game dominant position their deck was designed to achieve.

I’m never, ever going back to Magic.

KevinM :
Not to mention the fact that every constructed tournament became — and still is — about who can cheat the best.

Wow, bitter words.. and you couldn’t be more wrong.

“Professional” MtG has come a long way. Nowadays the judging is superb, players more mature, and cheaters scarce.