About ten years ago, holy crap I'm getting old, I used to play Magic and played in a couple of tourneys. We were a big group of people who got together once a week or so to play. It was fun. There's the excitement of buying booster packs and wondering what you'll find and there's the element of skill to build a deck and know how to use it.
I enjoyed it back in the day. It was an expensive hobby though and when I moved out of Joburg I stopped playing.