yeah, MTG is still pretty big. a couple of us had started playing randomly at school, and wound up getting quite a few others invovled,around 20 people, Wizards had recently released another set called the plains of existance. and an original black lotass still sells for like 500, you local card shop/comic shop problaby…
I don't know about MTG being dead. Conflux just came out and seems to be a big improvement over recent sets. The Alara block in general(most recent) is quite a lot of fun to play on it's own and once the other blocks cycle out of standard things are gonna get shaken up pretty good. But that's just me geekin out about the…