Poll: How Old Are You?

[Smmenen]

I'm conducting a survey of both the Vintage and Legacy communities, and I'll report the results to Wizards and to the broader Magic community. I'm interested in learning what the average age of each community is. Please vote!

[mossivo1986]

Looks like 23-24 year olds have an early lead woot woot?!#

[Smmenen]

There have been over 40 views, but only votes!? Come on! Vote!

[Bardo]

<- Fucking old. (35)

Represent, Rotten.

[Peter_Rotten]

<- Fucking old. (35)

Represent, Rotten.

Ditto! Old enough to be your dad. Immature enough to be your little brother.

[Phoenix Ignition]

Keep in mind the average competitive player is older than the average tournament goer

[majikal]

Looks like I'm the only 25-year-old so far. :eyebrow:

[(nameless one)]

As said by the Epic Beard Man....

im 67 years old and I will kick your ass!

LOL j/k. I would imagine the average age of eternal formats would be 20-25.

[rocketrae21]

Looks like 23-24 year olds have an early lead woot woot?!#

I didn't know this was a competition?

[xTrainx]

Oh yes. Probably the only 15 year old on the whole forum. Almost sixteen, not quite there.

[Smmenen]

As said by the Epic Beard Man....

im 67 years old and I will kick your ass!

LOL j/k. I would imagine the average age of eternal formats would be 20-25.

The Vintage poll skews to the 25-30 range.

[yawg07]

23! *gives out dope respeck knuckles to all the 23-24's in the hizzy*

[Pastorofmuppets]

I'm 12 and what is this

[DownSyndromeKarl]

couple months shy of 27. I don't know how this is going to pan out, but this forum I think runs in the early to mid 20's with the occasional exception. I don't believe this site captures who plays the eternal formats.

[J.V.]

20.

[Jaynel]

20.

Also 20.

[Shimi]

20.

I'm 22 and I'm surprised, very active people like you J.V( at least in dreadstill topic) seem alot older then really is.Also I expected that legacy players would be older than they really are.

[thulnanth]

Hey All,

Wow... I'm almost 40... you guys really make me feel old here :eek:

On the plus side, I can remember pulling many of my pricey Legacy staples from boosters. :tongue:

Take it easy,
Jared

[Purgatory]

Just turned 24!

Not that it did any difference in this poll!

Feeling a bit better about getting older now!

Thanks, OP!

[Skeggi]

Just turned 24!

Not that it did any difference in this poll!

Feeling a bit better about getting older now!

Thanks, OP!

You're 24 and were feeling old? Urdoinitwrong. Come back to us when you're about to hit 30.

[eq.firemind]

I am... wait, close to 23?

Hell, when I was 10 time was like lame turtle.
Not it's like innatel runner who eats more and more steroids every month...

[Cthuloo]

I'm 26. What's interesting to me is that I stopped playing magic around 18, and came back at 24, skipping what seems to be the average age range.

[Digital Devil]

I'm 20 - started @14, then suddenly stopped until Time Spiral was released. Now it's 3 years-and-a-few-months I'm in love with this game.

[Eldariel]

Turns out I don't even know how old I am anymore. I put myself up as 25 even though I'm still 24...I think? Anyways, yeah, around there. In my defense, categories suck 'cause the odd number is first. That's just...wrong. Normally it's safe to pick the one with 25 since it includes some earlier years too and I fall somewhere in there.

[yankeedave]

I love and hate the fact that I fall into the 33+ and there isnt actually a number for my actual age! (34 btw) Ye gods I feel old!

[pippo84]

I'm 26 from a few days! And actually started playing something like 2 years ago..

[MMogg]

Yay! So far, I'm part of the second smallest demographic in this poll (31-32). I always knew the XS on my underwear meant Xtra-Special!

[Nelis]

I'm 26. What's interesting to me is that I stopped playing magic around 18, and came back at 24, skipping what seems to be the average age range.

Average age range of people visiting this site and taking the effort to actually reply to this poll. I can imagine that people who are older do not feel the need to visit this or any magic site. My cousin for instance is 33 (I'm almost 35) and he doesn't visit any websites. A lot of my magic buddies are in the 30 range and hardly ever visit this site either. I wonder what the real demographics are on magic players worldwide.

[oldbsturgeon]

I just turned 29 yesterday, yay for the 7.89% I represent!

[Skeggi]

Anyone bother to find out, if you take 15 for the youngest and 33 for the oldest, what is the average player age?

[Jugglin]

I'm 26. What's interesting to me is that I stopped playing magic around 18, and came back at 24, skipping what seems to be the average age range.

Same here, also 26 and stopped when I was like 18 years old when I stopped playing Vintage.
Got back into the game about 3 years ago, and enjoy Legacy a lot.

[herbig]

Oh yes. Probably the only 15 year old on the whole forum. Almost sixteen, not quite there.

We could tell by the x's.

[Jim]

I'm 27, I started play at 12, and have been playing the whole time...I've seen some shit.

[RogueMTG]

22. Started when I was 11, 50% of my life has been spent/wasted playing Magic :D.

[paK0]

20 and counting

I started playing during Masques, so it should be somewhere around 10 years with a two years break for me

[Michael Keller]

28.

Started playing when I was 11 years old.

[caiomarcos]

Turning 25 tomorrow (April 21st), but since this is a scientific poll, I had to side with the youngsters of 23-24.

Just to brag a little: out of 25 years, 14 of them playing this game, giving a .56 ratio.

[(nameless one)]

I'm 20 - started @14, then suddenly stopped until Time Spiral was released. Now it's 3 years-and-a-few-months I'm in love with this game.


Let me guess, you quit at around Kamigawa time as well right? Time Spiral brought me back the game as well.

[Jak]

I feel... young.

18 here

[Finn]

Damnit. Damnit.

Stephen, could you please disable this poll and make a completely new one with an age category that starts at like 37 or something? Landing in the "x and older..." area is damaging to my sense of youth.

And it's only getting worse.

[android]

37 (I think)

I have to do the math every time but I was born in November of '73 so maybe that makes me 36.

[practical joke]

You guys make me feel young again! ( 23)

[Finslayer]

My first introducion to MTG came at the age of 9-10 years old when I watched when my uncle was playing with his friends. Later at the age of 13 I started to play and have loved this game since those days (I'm now 17) .

[Ciberon]

I feel... young.

18 here

Indeed. Same here. Finally old enough to TO.

[General_Norris]

I love Bell curves.

(19 BTW)

[beastman]

20.


Also 20.


Word. 20 is the age of all the cool people.

[Smmenen]

So far the average age is 24.1.

I would have included more age options, but the forum software would only allow me to post 10 poll options.

[Wargoos]

Word. 20 is the age of all the cool people.

21 ;(

[Drizztjah]

I turned 27 last week. :)

[Jason]

Gonna be 25 in less than a month but still answered as 24

[(nameless one)]

21 ;(

Dont worry, we are cooler by a year!

[Aggro_zombies]

I'll be 23 in less than a month, but I answered 22 anyway.

[Mark Sun]

21 here, turning 22 in June.

Wow, nice distribution of the results! Whew!

[Brad Herbig]

Word. 20 is the age of all the cool people.

Absolutely.

[Penguinizer]

I'm surprised how few young people there are. While I can see Legacy not exactly drawing people in, I thought there would be more people.

[Smmenen]

I'm surprised how few young people there are. While I can see Legacy not exactly drawing people in, I thought there would be more people.

what do you mean by young?

[Nihil Credo]

This is excellent news - it seems no more than 14 people need to be banned in order to finally open that porn thread.

[frogboy]

This is excellent news - it seems no more than 14 people need to be banned in order to finally open that porn thread.

I'll have the reds get right on that.

[Anusien]

Now we just need the second poll, "Did you lie on the 'How Old Are You?' poll in order to seem more mature than you really are?"'

[Broham]

I'm 28 and everybody I play with is older than me, save one or two.

As for this exercise, I think the results will reveal what age brackets enjoy posting on forums more than anything else. I know lots of Legacy players that actively build decks and theorycraft with one another but do not post on forums, or even really read them for that matter.

My curiosity is still burning though. :)

[Smmenen]

It's just a survey. It's not scientifically conclusive, but it is a large sample.

[godryk]

23 to 24...

You know what would be fun? A gender poll (who dares to break that beatifull 100% male result?)... or even better, a sexual tendency poll...

[Forbiddian]

This is excellent news - it seems no more than 14 people need to be banned in order to finally open that porn thread.

Oh my fucking god did I lol.

[Some Guy]

oh , it is nice to know many I have argued with here are only children. then how years ago when they join the site , they did not even have public hairs.

[Jak]

oh , it is nice to know many I have argued with here are only children. then how years ago when they join the site , they did not even have public hairs.

One of the best posts on this site.

[jeanbathez]

Damm, I'am old !!!!

I should have realized that since my daughter is now old enough to start playing cards with me. (No not magic, she is too joung for that, only simple cardgames...;-) )

[DownSyndromeKarl]

Damm, I'am old !!!!

I should have realized that since my daughter is now old enough to start playing cards with me. (No not magic, she is too joung for that, only simple cardgames...;-) )

That doesn't say how old you are. I'm 26 and my daughter can play games with me. notSettlers or Magic, but candyland, hi ho cherry-o, we're going to try Yahtzee here one of these days

[jeanbathez]

Hi ho cherry-o.. sounds nice...

I'am one of the 14 (atm) with 33 or older, the rest is my secret ;-)

[Michael Keller]

If you started playing years ago (probably sometime before 2003), the mechanics of the game were much easier to understand. Now, with younger players trying to get involved in the game, explaining how to play is an absolute nightmare.

Remember when someone asked you how to play you could show them how to simply turn cards sideways and what "Swampwalk" means? Yeah, those days are long gone. The mechanics of the game (albeit simplistic to most of us) have changed drastically, and along with that a much higher level of complexity in the game's overall architecture.

I would hate to be a fifteen year-old kid coming into the game today trying to learn what a "replacement effect" is or what "timestamp" means. I used to just love playing Juggernauts and Witch Hunters (who am I kidding; I'll still find a way).

[sunshine]

Pretty nice distribution so far. Not too surprised to see the young professionals + college students driving the curve. The perfect age to have been just getting into the game long enough ago for nostalgia to be a factor, while old enough to have some disposable income to spend on more expensive pieces of cardboard.

For some anecdotal data - I personally drifted away from standard after heading to school in Middle-Of-Nowhere, ME which pretty much meant I could reliably find magic tourneys thrree months out of the year. Eternal formats just made more sense.

[troopatroop]

20

[frolll]

23, going to 24. And I'm already feeling old. Like, since I hit 21, I'm like, crap, it's too late to be young. :eek:
Still, happily married to a wonderful wife since 4years and a half, and I'm going to be a Philosophy teacher in a year and a half. Life could be worst. :p

[tpnp]

29. I started playing with Revised in the fall of 1994, quit shortly after Ice Age came out since all my friends stopped. I picked it back up shortly before Tempest was released and haven't looked back since.

[Trans Am]

32. me and some friends each stole an unlimited tournament deck and some arabian nights packs. stopped playing for a year, got back into it for ice age and fallen empires. then quit again, just picking up random packs here and there until tempest. then ignored the game until onslaught block and played through mirrodin, then quit and sold off everything. bought a single betrayers precon, lame, then quit. got back into it with the time spiral block. and got into legacy about when morningtide came out.

[C.P.]

24 in 2 weeks. Started playing when stronghold was the newest set. I wish I still had all the Korean cards that I opened back then.

So Vintage community is slightly older than Legacy community? This is pretty interesting.

[Michael Keller]

24 in 2 weeks. Started playing when stronghold was the newest set. I wish I still had all the Korean cards that I opened back then.

So Vintage community is slightly older than Legacy community? This is pretty interesting.

Well, it makes sense that those people with an interest in older, more valuable cards would partake in a format (essentially) dictated by nothing but.

[Nihil Credo]

I would hate to be a fifteen year-old kid coming into the game today trying to learn what a "replacement effect" is or what "timestamp" means. I used to just love playing Juggernauts and Witch Hunters (who am I kidding; I'll still find a way).

Minus the occasional screwed-up card (Snakeform/Mutavault) knowing the fine details of the rules is definitely not needed to learn to play modern Magic, any more than you needed to memorise that hilarious rat-maze of spellcasting priorities to learn to play 1995 Magic.

Shards block is by *far* the most complex of the three pieces of current Standard, and it still doesn't contain any mechanic as confusing and under- or un-explained as Banding or Enchant World vs. Original Legend Rule.

[Raptor]

I'm kinda young compared to all the old people here ;)
I'm 17 and started when Invasion just came out.

[herbig]

38. Boy I feel old...

[dahcmai]

You can be old with me, Herbig. I'm older, though not by much.

[Nightmare]

Herbig is a troll. He's actually in his mid-20s.

[DuxDucis]

About time I'm in the top end of something :D


but candyland, hi ho cherry-o

Love playing those two games with my kids.

I made a memory set for my daughter out of Magic Cards. 2 of each land and 2 of each colour. She really enjoys it. The hardest part was trying to find a kid friendly black card.

[majikal]

oh , it is nice to know many I have argued with here are only children. then how years ago when they join the site , they did not even have public hairs.

they did not even have public hairs.


public hairs.


public
:eyebrow:

[Brad Herbig]

Herbig is a troll. He's actually in his mid-20s.

I'm 20.

[DownSyndromeKarl]

is it starting to smell like Ben Gay in here? It seems that last page was littered with geriatrics.

:p






Love playing those two games with my kids.

I made a memory set for my daughter out of Magic Cards. 2 of each land and 2 of each colour. She really enjoys it. The hardest part was trying to find a kid friendly black card.

Infernal Spawn of Evil? lol. My youngest is in the "Daddy...Card" phase. Right now she has a Mesa Pegasus, Venerable Monk, and a half eaten Soldier token. When my older one was her age, she ate cards all the time, so i stopped giving them to her. The little one only ate the soldier, hasn't put any of the others in her mouth.

[Bardo]

Through no campaigning or influence on my part, I'm delighted my girls' two favorite MtG cards are Brainstorm (MM) and Psychatog. I even modded one of my togs to be an AvaTog. Not quite sure why she likes the thing, but it still makes me smile. And around our house, all MtG cards are called "Daddy Cards." Kinda cute.

[DownSyndromeKarl]

And around our house, all MtG cards are called "Daddy Cards." Kinda cute.

same here. I also have star wars toys everywhere that are "Daddy's toys" and my horror movie collection is "Daddy's bad dream movies"

[herbig]

I keep all of my Magic cards on top of the refrigerator with the firearms where my kids can't get at them. I take a lot of precautions to make sure they can't pilfer through my boxes and the safety is always on.

[Mr. Fantastic]

I'm 26. What's interesting to me is that I stopped playing magic around 18, and came back at 24, skipping what seems to be the average age range.

That is my story, word for word, age for age. Only now I'm trying unsuccessfully to stop playing again. :D

[zalachan]

Im nearing my 25th.. so im in the golden middle of that chart..

Started playing when Exodus and Saga roamed the shelves.. there weren't a lot of people interested in Magic at the time, so i was just buying cards, putting some "cool" decks together (Coat of Arms "Apes" deck, Ogre Shaman "Burn" deck, Gobblin Offensive/Saproling Symbiosis with mana elves "Token Boom" deck, etc.)

I stopped around 7th edition, when my dad lost it and burned a big chunk of my collection (most of everything i gatered so far). Then i quit until my college years, i came back with Kamigawa, spent some money on boxes, some money on Warhammer miniatures (well quite a lot of that stuff actually..aw:S) and went out again when they started with "rapid Lorwyn sets, gotta catch em all".

Then i played some WoW, found out i dont like it as much as Magic (still spent a lot of my time there..)

[Joe_C]

I am pretty sure I am the oldest player at most of the tournies I attend.

1976 Representing Bitches!!!

[tomjulioo]

i'm 32 since yesterday...

[Svenanole]

I'm 20 here

I stared playing casually in like ten years ago for like a year, stopped bc none of my friends were playing it.

Got super drunk at college, saw my best friend's roommate playing it with some of his buds and deiced to play him hammered for old times sake. It was fun because i got like 30 elves in play and a wellwisher.

I threw a couple of decks together to play with them, constructed a Jund deck this past summer and played a little bit with it. Sold all my standard cards this winter (no way Baneslayer angel is worth more then Force of Will) and moved into legacy because I felt that it was the best format in terms of having powerful cards but nothing broken.

[Mayk0l]

24.
Ten years into this game and I still suck.

[JeroenC]

Voted twenty but fast approaching 21.
Just like the guy above me, almost ten years into the game and still bad. :(

[ImpinAintEasy]

Well I'm 32, but I voted 33+ cause my Birthday is in 2 days, woo hoo happy birthday to me. I am accepting donations of Force of Will from MTGO.

Oh and 1977 baby, year Elvis died.

For you youngsters google it!

[the Thin White Duke]

Oh and 1977 baby, year Elvis died.
For you youngsters google it!

'77 representin!
I love playing those young punks and telling them "I was playing Jandor's Saddlebags when you were in diapers!"
But then they just ask "What's a Genders' Saddlebag?"

I was the Magic "teacher" at my friend Greg's store back in '94. There were quite a few noobs I helped get addicted. These days though, you'd have to pay me to explain the game to new players. ...and I guess that means I'd have to read the rules too...

[Philipp2293]

24.

[Adan]

OVER 9000!!!

Well, I'm 19 currently, but next month I'm 20.

[Vacrix]

I'm 20.

[keys]

Most common age being 23-24 makes sense because we've been playing since Ice Age/Mirage/Tempest and retain some of the nostalgia that adds so much value to the format. Most people that age probably did not collect Alpha/Beta otherwise they might be playing Vintage. I'm 24 and that's my experience at least.

[caiomarcos]

Most common age being 23-24 makes sense because we've been playing since Ice Age/Mirage/Tempest and retain some of the nostalgia that adds so much value to the format. Most people that age probably did not collect Alpha/Beta otherwise they might be playing Vintage. I'm 24 and that's my experience at least.

Exactly that.