My foray into magic began with the Call of the Kor deck from Stronghold (1998).
However, when I think of my personal magic nostalgia, the picture in my head is of the Lightning Dragon on the cover of those Urza's Saga tournament packs.
Of the cards I own from this generation, some of my favorites were Memory Jar, Rancor, and Deranged Hermit from Urza's Legacy (1999).
Magic as a hobby came and went. There were sets I drafted with my friends again and again like Mirrodin (2003), Champions of Kamigawa (2004), and Ravnica: City of Guilds (2005).
And sets I missed entirely.
While I mostly drafted, I do remember buying singles to get a set of Wellwisher and Llanowar Elves to build an elf deck around Voice of the Woods from Onslaught (2002).
Of the cards I own from this generation, some of my favorites were Isamaru, Hound of Konda from Kamigawa, Skyknight Legionnaire from Ravnica, and Sarkhan Vol from Shards of Alara (2008).
I briefly played Magic Duels in 2015, but gave up fairly quickly.
I posted on reddit about an issue with deck size limits (but never heard from the devs for that bug report).
I played a bit of arena a few years ago. There were two decks I built that I remember really enjoying.
The first was a Brushfire Elemental deck (Zendikar Rising, 2020) that used those landfall creatures to try and win the game quickly (and a few Goldspan Dragons (Kaldheim, 2021) to finish the job.
The other was an Archon of Sun's Grace deck (Theros Beyond Death, 2020) that used enchantments to make a bunch of pegasuses (pegasi?).
This year, I've found myself playing paper magic again, first with the preconstructed Murders at Karlov Manor commander decks and then drafting Bloomburrow and Foundations.
I absolutely love that full art lands have made a strong resurgence in recent sets. So many cool options, from the Phyrexia: All Will Be One lands in the Phyrexian language and the unique art style of the Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty lands to the stained glass Dominaria United lands, the stellar Theros Beyond Death lands, and the negative space Outlaws of Thunder Junction lands.
Of this generation, I've in general enjoyed the art and theme of Bloomburrow, but my runaway favorite card is the Mabel, Heir to Cragflame I drafted.
Another on again, off again game I've played over the years are the various iterations of Final Fantasy (e.g. see me previously trying to replay FFXV in the 2022 epilogue before my son was born (spoiler, he got here 2 weeks early) and looking forward to Dawntrail earlier this year (spoiler, it was great)).
So it's no wonder I'm excited for the upcoming collaboration between these two franchises next year. I can't wait to build a chocobo or moogle deck.