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shadowsword87 posted...

You "need" a gamestore to run prereleases, and sanctioned events (mostly friday night magic).

By moving things digitally, and heavily promoting magic arena, surprise, friday night magic isn't as emphasized, but, paper prereleases probably are still happening.

I still can play magic by going to a friends house and jamming some EDH games, and then playing The Crew, or whatever.

I mean paper tournaments really aren't happening because of Covid-19, Arena might hurt RL tournaments a bit but there are still plenty of areas where you can find plenty of RL tournaments assuming a pandemic isn't going on.

In my area no store is doing RL tournaments right now the risk of Covid-19 is too high. Blaming Arena for the death of paper magic is a joke, especially when we are seeing a ton of older cards spike in value over the past year or so. Crap some are playing Commander in paper using computers and a camera to stream each of their decks and play area.