[hnfong]

I have a similar story.

Growing up in a place that's mostly not English speaking, I owe a large part of my English vocabulary to Magic the Gathering. Many of the cards use somewhat obscure words to impart a fantasy theme, and I learned them naturally when playing.

Cool game.

I kind of tried to return to it after like a 2 decade hiatus, but the game these days doesn't feel like the one I played back then.

[jdmoreira]

I recommend you search "Premodern MTG" and "Oldschool 93/94 MTG" ;)

[zavec]

Hell, I grew up with English as my first language and I still learned a lot of obscure vocabulary from magic!

It's definitely not so good these days, but a format called premodern is getting more popular. You may find it worth looking in to that one.