Magic: The Gathering (MTG) is a popular trading card game created by Wizards of the Coast and originally designed by Richard Garfield. A diverse community of players, including actors, musicians, and celebrities, are passionate about the game. In this blog post, we will discuss 14 celebrities who have never played MTG, their interest in the game, and how they incorporate it into their lives.
Some big names who have secretly played MTG include Nathan Fillion, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Post Malone, Patton Oswalt, Alan Tudyk, Geek and Sundry, Brandon Routh, Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon Levitt, MMA fighter Josh Barnett, Felicia Day, Joe Manganiello, Seth Rogen, Patton Oswalt, Joseph Gordon Levitt, MMA fighter Josh Barnett, and Felicia Day.
Some people hate the card game Magic the Gathering (MTG), but some celebrities like Snoop Dogg have played the game and announced their departure from using a favorite deck. By exploring the history of Magic and the player profiles of each class, we can learn more about the game’s history, career highlights, statistics, famous decklists, and videos from past Pro Tours and Worlds.
📹 Top 10 Celebrities Who Play Magic: the Gathering
Ever wonder if your favorite actors, actresses, or other celebrities share your love of Magic: the Gathering? Well, as it turns out, …
What demographic plays Magic: The Gathering?
The typical tabletop player is approximately 30 years of age, with the majority falling within the 13-45 age range. One-third of players have less than three years of experience, while one-third have ten or more years. In the 2022 fiscal year, Magic: The Gathering generated an annual revenue of $1 billion, with a total revenue across all platforms reaching $1. 08 billion.
Which celebrity plays Magic: The Gathering?
Post Malone, Grammy-nominated musician, has expressed his love for Magic: The Gathering (MTG) in an interview with Howard Stern. He admitted to buying an artist print signed by Christopher Rush for $800K. Comedy duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, known for their sketch comedy show Key and Peele, are also Magic: The Gathering players. Alan Tudyk, known for roles in Firefly and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, has also expressed his passion for the game, with several videos on YouTube.
Where is MTG the most popular?
The United States is the country with the highest prevalence of addiction to MTG, as evidenced by the highest search volume for popular franchises such as Star Trek, Star Wars, and D&D. Canada occupies the second position, while Japan ranks third. Malaysia exhibits the lowest level of interest in MTG, thereby claiming the top position on the subsequent list. Both countries are renowned for their profound interest in popular culture.
What age group is Magic: The Gathering for?
Magic: The Gathering is a popular game that children can start playing around 9 years old, as it involves sorcery, magic, and can be scary for younger players. It is believed to develop critical thinking, math, and reading skills. Children who grow up playing the game tend to develop vivid imaginations, as seen in the creators of Stranger Things, Matt and Ross Duffer. Playing the game at a local game store can encourage engagement, socialization, and allow children to express their writing and artistic abilities.
For example, children can create artwork on cards and form online groups to compare their work, influencing their pre-teen and teen drawings. The age at which children start playing Magic: The Gathering depends on their preferences and the child’s age.
Does Snoop Dogg play MTG?
Snoop Dogg has played Magic: The Gathering (MTG), a card game that has gained popularity among celebrities. Celebrities with a large fan base can attract more attention to their hobbies, raising the profile of related concepts like MTG Proxies. This can lead to more people learning about the game and joining in, making it more appealing to a wider audience. This can also create a diverse community around MTG, with new players from different backgrounds, making the game more rich and diverse.
How famous is Magic: The Gathering?
Magic is a card game where players play as powerful dueling wizards called Planeswalkers, using each card from their deck to cast magical spells. Instant and Sorcery cards represent one-time effects, while Creature, Artifact, Enchantment, and Battle cards provide long-term advantages. Players must also include resource or Land cards to cast their spells. To defeat their opponent, they must reduce their life totals to zero through combat damage or attacking creatures. The game has a unique gameplay that differs from tabletop role-playing games but has more cards and complex rules.
Magic can be played by two or more players in person or on a computer, smartphone, or tablet with virtual cards through Internet-based software like Magic: The Gathering Online, Magic: The Gathering Arena, and Magic Duels. It can be played in various rule formats, including limited and constructed formats. Limited formats involve players building a deck spontaneously from a pool of random cards, while constructed formats involve creating decks from cards they own, usually with a minimum of 60 cards per deck.
What percent of MTG players are female?
Magic’s game designer Mark Rosewater reports that 38 of its professional players are female, sourced from online, local game stores, and kitchen tables. Alex Spears, owner of Through the Decades, estimates that around one in 10 customers are female, and even lower for tournament entries. Despite Magic The Gathering’s growth over the years, women’s entries have increased but not at the same rate as other demographics. This small representation of females in the local scene is concerning for the company’s overall representation.
Who is the best Magic: The Gathering player?
Jon Finkel, an American Magic: The Gathering and poker player, is considered one of the greatest players of all-time. Born in Brockport, New York, Finkel moved to Woking, UK in 1992 and learned about Magic: The Gathering at a local game shop called Fun and Games. He made friends with the “OMS brothers” Steven and Daniel O’Mahoney-Schwartz. In 1996, Finkel competed in the Junior Division of the Pro Tour in New York, making it to the Top 8 and winning a $1, 000 scholarship.
He then made his senior debut at the 1996 World Championship in Seattle, where he finished ninth in the tournament, earning him $3, 200. Finkel’s career has been marked by success, including winning three Grand Prix events and making the Top 8 of a record 16 Pro Tour events.
What rapper plays magic?
Austin Richard Post, also known as Post Malone, is an American Magic player whose vocal styles are notable for their diversity and for their blend of hip hop, pop, and R and B genres. He frequently engages in collaborative endeavors with Wizards of the Coast and Magic Streaming channels, which has elevated him to a prominent position within the Magic community.
Who is the richest Magic: The Gathering player?
The top 200 Magic players by career money winnings in premier-play Magic events are listed on this page. This includes activities such as Players Tours, Mythic Championships, Mythic Invitationals, Pro Tours, Grand Prix, Masters Series, Players Championship, World Magic Cup, World Championships (individual and team), Magic Online Championship, Pro Players Club appearance fees, Player of the Year end-of-year payouts, Continental Championships, the 1996 Pro Tour Atlanta Team Challenge, the 2000 Team Challenge, and the 1996 Type 1 Pro Tour. Not included are National Championships, cash awards from Pro Tour Qualifiers or side events, travel/hotel awards, Magic Online PTQs, Junior Super Series, and the Junior Pro Tour.
📹 A Magic Moment with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt joins Geek & Sundry host Erika Ishii to play a game of Magic: The Gathering. Follow them as they dive …
One of the things Seth Rogen did was look through his pockets for something (I believe it may have been notes for his monologue), when he pulls out a folded piece of paper, grumbles to himself “card ideas for Magic…” (or something like that). It’s been 4 years since this vid came out, so it might be online now. Go check Hulu, as one can watch old episodes of SNL on it.
Dude just subbed ! Gotta say your missing probably one of the coolest celebs …. He was in SLC Punk…. Mr. Matthew Lilliard ! He plays mtg and posts about it on Instagram ! What would be sweet is if you can interview some of these celebs somehow about they’re favorite decks or combos etc … Word !
You don’t have to like Wesley Crusher to like Wil Wheaton. That was one of many roles, and in some you may like him, and in others you may hate him (sometimes even by design, lol)- but that is just the role that he is playing. Anyone who is smart enough to separate the actor from the character knows not to hate the actor because they hated one character. And yeah, when he is not playing a character, he seems like a generally nice dude (although one could argue that we are all always playing a role, or the character of ourselves, but that could extra confusing, as Wil Wheaton has played fictional characters named Wil Wheaton on a couple of shows; so yeah, its extra confusing to consider that the actual, day-to-day, real-life husband and father Wil Wheaton is just playing a character/role of himself).
So I’ve never watched one of your articles before, but saw the title and a picture of who I thought was Seth Rogan, but was actually you. I was disappointed for about 7 minutes to learn that Seth Rogan doesn’t play Magic, and just some guy that looks like him, and then I was happily surprised immediately followed by laughing hysterically that you pointed this resemblance out yourself.
I submit to the internet that the speculative act of pairing a character in MtG with the actor most potentially promising in portraying them should be known among the community by a term that (unless someone beat me to it) I’ve literally come to coin mere moments ago: Double Casting. The floor is now open for discussion and debate. Furthermore, would you (yes, you!) be excited by this concept serving as the premise of a weekly podcast?
The premise of Seth Rogan’s SNL monologue is that he wrote it when he was like 13 years old in anticipation of becoming famous. The part about mtg is him basically skipping over a bunch of pages of his scripted monologue and saying “this is ideas for new Magic: The Gathering cards.” It’s just a small bit that lasts about 2 seconds
Man no offense, but a Magic movie is the dumbest idea i’ve ever heard. This just isn’t a game that would translate into a movie. What would be the climax? Someone dark rituals and then giant growths them self? Ya, it does sound dumb doesn’t it? Don’t lie, you know it does. That’s why it shouldn’t be a movie.
I guess your definition of celebrity is different from mine. I wouldn’t consider #9 and #8 celebrities. you just like those people. People that only a smaller percentage of the population barely knows aren’t celebs. An indie developer isn’t a celeb. just like a movie producer isn’t a celeb. even Steven Spielberg isn’t really a “Celeb.” people that know movies by him know him but that doesn’t make him as a celeb. and number 8 is some YouTube host/entertainer. the only YouTube celeb noteworthy enough to be a celeb is sadly PewdiePie and only because he is #1 and popular enough to be in the media spotlight even off youtube. Notch isn’t considered a celeb either. cmon man. If this list was this hard to find good choices for, then shorten the list.
I don’t play mtg anymore, still have my cards. But this is invoking a lot of nostalgia and reminding me of what I love about magic. Not just the old school artwork and card style, which I adore, (the creepy crude artwork is what mtg is meant to be for me) but it was all about being creative and trying out decks that you didn’t know would work or how they’d work. I think the charm of it has been killed for me a bit with web deck building and the over the top themes and crossover stuff. Each to their own, however, for sure. This is such a lovely watch.
I have an incredibly profound new respect for JGL now. I’ve always loved the guy anyway. Because we literally grew up together. In a metaphorical sense anyway. Our age is only a couple years apart and I grew up perusal him on a show that is still one of my favorites to this day. I, of course, speak of 3rd Rock From The Sun. And to now know that during that time of his life, picturing him backstage between takes on set building and working on decks. Playing games. I have new respect. I wanted to be him as a kid… You rock, Joey G.L.!! 🤣 And there’s definitely a difference between bury and remove from game. Bury is just an OG term for destroy, which just means the card goes to the graveyard. Remove from game is an OG term for exile. Which means it is removed altogether from game unless a card can specifically return another from exile. Now I want to know what his argument was and if he was really correct. 🤟🏻🤣
First time seeing your website and I would like to point out how fantastic the conversion was and well Erika carried herself throughout. Very comfortable and relaxed – by the way I’m just pointing out what made this that much sweeter to watch and enjoy, so thank you. According to the comments “someone was missing” but in this case I think you were the perfect person to host with Jo and ultimately the one that got me to sub. This is why I’ve always been a fan of JGL. I have a lot of respect for someone who doesn’t act like they know s**t but actually has the knowledge without pretending. People forget to rather ask the questions and use it as a conversational tool when talking with someone knowledgeable on the topic. While I haven’t seen any in these comments I would like to say that people should always be inclusive of their hobbys, etc. Never criticise someone who doesn’t know or gets it wrong. A lot of people will rather be a d**k and end up pushing people away from that thing because they feel their knowledge makes them superior. Anywho, great work and I look forward to continue perusal this websites content.
You can tell he really liked that deck from all the great lands and support cards he had in it. OG duals and Demonic Tutor! MANA DRAIN! I wonder how much that cost in the 90’s? That Atog deck was pretty cool. I know they weren’t playing to win, but I think Erika probably could’ve won with some creative artifact munching. By the end, it looks like she got unlucky in drawing too many mouths to feed!
I always hate seeing celebrities on talk shows as they’re just there to plug something. You rarely get to see an insight into them. Seeing celebrities talk about their passions always gives you a chance to see the real them. I’ll make an exception for Graham Norton who has the ability to open them up. This was a genuine pleasure to watch and Joey GL comes across as such a down to earth and great guy. Thanks G&S. Great vid.
This is the real spirit of magic, having fun, chatting, smiling, building the game step by step, enjoying it like you would enjoy carefully cooked steak. Unlike how it is done today, trying to win in 1 turn with 1 mega card that wants to do everything with so much text it doesn’t even fit in the textbox.
I have liked Joseph Gordon-Levitt since 3rd rock from the sun. gained a lot of respect when I saw Inception. but now he is a God I think I am gonna worship lol. first, the fact that he is a legit MTG and D&D fan, where he has real memories, actual knowledge, real cards in old school sleeves and not just ‘an actor who bought stuff on ebay with fake manufactured stories.’ second, the guy knows he has valuable cards but it still geek enough to play with them out of the sleeves. third, he is humble enough to let another person play with a 1,500$ card in a deck that would most likely beat his. wow, class act Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
People, get over the fact he let her use an unsleeved Mox. They are his cards and she was careful with it for f*ck sake. I remember back in the day where, for the most part, you didn’t use sleeve (or even had them) and you did use proxies for the really rare cards, but in the end, his card, his choice. Hell, i don’t even think they allow proxies anymore so if you want to play with a rare/expensive card, you’re fucked and hope to high hell you have sleeves and are careful. I am of the same mindset as her, the cards are meant to be loved and played with. I have a ton of old cards (since I haven’t bought new cards in well over a decade or more) that still get played with since I am never going to sell them.
Woah! This was my first time noticing “A Magic Moment” in my G&S feed. At first glance, I thought Erika was subbing for Day. I really enjoy the contrasts and commonalities between Erika and Day. And seeing “Joey” reminisce and play was a total delight. I’d love to see 4-player games where Erika and Sean each bring a guest, taking turns hosting on each other’s sets. I really gotta learn this game sometime…
Joseph Gordon Levitt is a bad ass just grabs his Mox ruby and desleeves it and is like just play with it don’t worry. I’ll just buy like 5 others. He had a diamond valley all kinds of dual lands and rare cards worth hundred of dollars and he could literally care less that was awesome!!! All black boarder beta lands and shit worth 40-60$ each.
We used to use MTG cards in either D&D or Cyberpunk. My DM then used a Dragon deck so he would be playing in the lead role with us, get a curious look on his face, the pull out of the deck one of the Dragon creatures and let us know that in a brilliant flash of light…this giant creation appears. Roll initiative! Good times.
…. wow. been playing since about 1995 so this article was a huge flashback to those early days for me! I’d just missed the ABUR era of magic I only just got in around the time of 4th Edition and Chronicles so I missed all the killer money cards, but most of the rest of those I remember having or seeing at some point!
Joey GL!!!!!!!!! Man he is such a good person. I want to see more of him I’d like to see him play or just talk magic with Kyle hill!!!! I wanna see him play Day9!!!! And I want so badly SO BADLY!!!! Want him to guest star on Critical role and play some DND with them omg. Joseph Gordon Lovett is probably the most humble person and really cool dudes I’ve ever seen in media. Kinda like that dude you always wished was your older brother lol. I remember perusal him on 3rd rock hahah never would have guessed back then that he would end up on my favorite YouTube website 20 so years later 🙂
Ok quick dnd side story about them talking about Tim My friends and I had a miniseries that we played like 5 sessions of while the other dm in the group finished making the new campaign, and in this miniseries we basically had base dnd run the entire game. Loot was randomized, the dm was basically there to facilitate with basic level quests and not much else. I, seeing the opportunity, played a wild mage (we had some home brew stuff with wildmage that made it different from normal wild mages), and, of course, named him Tim. Over the course of the game Tim constantly screwed up his wind magic. Whether it was accidentally turning everyone into rabbits or blowing up a town, Tim’s spells always seemed to go haywire at the worst of times in the worst of ways. He also had an obsession with chaotic items such as the wand of wonder, bag of beans, etc and collected these things almost ruthlessly. So, one day, because the party was bored, Tim decided to let one of his items decide the adventure. He planted a bean from the bag of beans, and it summoned a treant. Tim rolled high on initiative, so he tried to cast fireball. Wild magic. The dm rifled through the list (there were 10000 different effects no exaggeration so it took a minute) and then looked up at us with a perplexed and horrified expression. The party asked them what it was. “Tim… becomes a god, erases the treant from existence, and disappears” Tim rolled an effect that literally turned him into a god, specifically a god of wild magic.
great nostalgia piece. I remember me and my sister ripping into packs of revised and being so sad when are rares were dual lands instead of Shivan dragons. The only duals I even have now are 4 bayous because there was an article in inquest magazine called ” to beat the moxes” it was budget black green deck that uses dark rituals and elves of deep shadow to ramp into early threats ….I spent all money trying to make that deck but could never afford the juzam djinn lol…too much fun
Love the article. JGL is humble nerd and I love him for it. That said; your footnote on Maze of Ith is incorrect. It targets ANY attacking creature. The tap part is to ensure that creatures with Vigilance are tapped as a result. Weird rule in MTG you can tap a tapped creature but you can’t untap an untapped creature. Or at least those were the rules the last time I read the whole rule book. Which was like 8 years ago. It’s is like reading a dictionary. You learn but the process sucks.
possibly the best episode yet.. made me nostalgic about a game I don’t even play (in fact, back in the day I’d sort of scoff at magic the gathering players, for taking away people from my d&d games.. I know, I was stupid). the only thing this could have made it better would have been getting Day to do the episode and have him get emotional about the old days of the game.. but then.. did he play back then? Now I really want Joey GL to guest star on Critical Role Can we make that happen, please??
Having seen this, I found it really fun and down to earth to watch, and I don’t think Day9 would have fared well due to seeing all the expensive cards being played recklessly. With some rounding Underground Sea is $1000 the moxes are $2000+ each, and thats just the tip of the iceberg listing a couple of cards. Since all those cards are so highly sought after/collected now, the decks would have been easily $20,000 or more nowadays
Holy cow! He’s been familiar with M:tG for just a little longer than me! When I started, Fallen Empires had just been released, but the Dark packs were still on sale!! PS – want to trade the moxen or the Diamond Valley, Joey? (Note, apparently, Moxen rather than Moxes) And…you proxied the nightmare but not the Khabal Ghoul?! 18:45 – The ‘Tim by another name’ is Zak, if I remember correctly.
He had like a play set of underground seas and a few moxen in his deck prolly worth 5-10k for a random ass deck that was great. I thought he was going to have a bunch of draft chaff bulk rares and grizzly bears but then when he said he opened the dark I was like that’s pretty old he could have lots of revised stuff and he did. I’m not sure if he ever took the dmg off the black vice but I also don’t know if he ever had more than 4 cards cause he did make a few plays on her turn!!!!
The chick should have sacrificed as many lands with Zuran’s Orb as a fast effect. Tim would not have won quite as quickly. And, as well, she could have sacrificed all other artifacts to pump up the Atogs and dealt more damage. On top of repeatedly missing the triggers from both Ivory Fountain and The Rack. But hey, it’s Magic — Old-School Magic. And yes, “buried” means “dies”, and “removed from game” is now “exile.” But overall, loved seeing the old cards brought out and played — especially the $800 Moxes. Awesome.