First stopped after college, no one to play with no store near me. (Weatehrlight)

Started up around Odyssey, and started playing Vintage since I could afford all the cards with my real job.

Stopped around Ravnica, Local store sucked, started playing WoW, didn't like highly competitive magic.

Quit with Mercadian Masques because I had better things to do in high school.

Started again with Torment because some friends started again. Probably because Odyssey and Onslaught were very well designed sets.

Quit again with Mirrodin because the new card frames were the worst mistake they've made since I began Magic. I occasionally bought a few cards I found interesting (and sold my Time Walk/LoA), but I didn't really keep up with the game during this time.

Played a lot throughout my Navy career, some interesting stories are the time on the Ohio when I got up to go to the head during a game in progress, and when I came back couldn't draw land for anything, because my 'buddy' had stripped out most the land from my deck while I was away.

When I floated on Anchorage a friend that played and I decided to only bring cards we could afford to lose if the ship sank, (Anchorage was old) and how Hornet Cannon would save me time and again.

Shortly after I left the Navy my wife left and me I sold out completely before moving to Seattle, sending my entire collection of 10 years to a dealer on the east coast for 6k. Could have gotten 9 or 10k breaking it up and selling it myself, but knew that I would save a deck here, sideboard cards for it there, 'oh, that's cool, I should keep that' to the point of selling nothing of any import.

In Seattle I found a playgroup and bought the cards for the 2005 version of red deck wins and some other cards, only to watch that group dissolve soon after and I could not find another. So I sold those cards at a small loss before emigrating to Europe, at which time I had only 9 cards for the art / emotional attachment. One of them was my signed Veteran Bodyguard, my first 'favorite' card from the times I was still learning the game.

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I picked up the Xbox Duels of the Planeswalkers game...they offered to let you pick up a card and a deck from the local shop...picked it up and started playing FNM at shop. So roughly (1998/99 to 2009) ten years. I went to get all my old cards and half were ruined by water damage

Now I hardly play, been pretty focused on work, but I make the FNM trip (only shop in town closed, have to go ~30 miles to play FNM but shop is better ).

I don't play Standard and most people here do; FNM is always Standard. So I'm stuck with just drafting once a week and the very occasional Legacy (I think once a month there's a tournament). That's actually alright, it cuts down significantly on the time investment and will likely keep my interest more without burning out.

Started at Ice Age/Fallen Empires when i was about 13/14, quit sometime before college and then got back into it after i finished college because there was a store to play at. Took a hiatus for about 5-9 months when i bought my house.

I started randomly buying packs/drafting with friends around Shards of Alara and continued this through Conflux, but didn't ever consider actually getting back into the game at that point. I then looked into Magic Online around the time NPH was coming out, and ended up selling all the cards I pulled through drafting for MODO tickets. About a month after getting back into Magic via MODO, I discovered there was a LGS 10 minutes from where I live and literally a 1-minute drive from where I work. I cashed out of MODO and have been playing ever since.

Its kind of funny looking at my sanctioned event history. There is a gap from 6/4/2001 to 7/16/2011. I missed so much

When the nearest shop banned me on a pretext after I reported them to Wizards for overcharging and under-prizing pre-releases, I stopped paper.

Lately just play MTGO a few times/month, but even that is taking a back seat to other personal projects.

Started going to prereleases in Ravnica. Did well. Continued with this trend until today.

EDH. So fun. Started this up, and this is mainly what I play.