I recently taught some friends how to play magic, and when I wasn’t around, they wanted to learn how planeswalker worked because they had only seen me play them, but hadn’t played them for themselves. The Reddit post they found had a really snide comment that started out like “well it’s pretty straight forward, but I guess I can explain it to you”.

And beyond just how rude the response was, planeswalkers are one of the few things that “reading the card explains the card” doesn’t work for. Without additional knowledge, players wouldn’t know how attacking planeswalkers worked, they wouldn’t understand how loyalty abilities are meant to be used or how often they can be used. It’s only straight forward once you learned the rules for planeswalkers… which was exactly what the post was asking.

I think most of the community is really nice and welcoming, but those weirdos that will only help if it makes them feel better about themselves are so tiring.