I do think that there are hypercompetitive nerds that play games hypercompetively even if they don’t earn money for it because they want to be the best. Most of them don’t do it full time, but I don’t see why that’s needed.
(I’ll say that, at least as games go, the ones that depend more on probability judgments and less on, say, reflexes seem more likely to lead to general rationality skills.)
I do think there’s an argument that MtG is better for general rationality skills then Go. MtG has a lot more uncertainty and when you cards are released the process of understanding how the new cards interact with the existing ones brings constantly new things that have to be figured out while go is relatively static.
However in contrast to chess or go I think the average magic player puts less effort into becoming a good magic-player currently partly because of how MtG’s culture differs from the culture of the others. Having the skill building centered around Pro Tour’s seems to me like a way to limit the amount of people who focus on skill building.
(MtG and Go are the two games I know best and where I have an idea of how they work)
I do think that there are hypercompetitive nerds that play games hypercompetively even if they don’t earn money for it because they want to be the best. Most of them don’t do it full time, but I don’t see why that’s needed.
I do think there’s an argument that MtG is better for general rationality skills then Go. MtG has a lot more uncertainty and when you cards are released the process of understanding how the new cards interact with the existing ones brings constantly new things that have to be figured out while go is relatively static.
However in contrast to chess or go I think the average magic player puts less effort into becoming a good magic-player currently partly because of how MtG’s culture differs from the culture of the others. Having the skill building centered around Pro Tour’s seems to me like a way to limit the amount of people who focus on skill building.
(MtG and Go are the two games I know best and where I have an idea of how they work)