Should our magic-the-gathering tag have subcategories?

Question

As has been mentioned before the bulk of our questions are tagged magic-the-gathering. Would there be any value in breaking this down into subcategories? I'm not a MTG player so I'm not the person to pick the subcategories, but things like this could work:

• deck building
• card interactions
• buying and selling

Does this seem like a good idea? What subcategories would you like to see?

Does this break any site rules about how tags are done? (Apparently no, since they already exist! Dur.)

Edit

Can I made this bad question any better by turning it into: why aren't the more specific tags used more often? Does it make sense for most of the MTG question to be in the general tag and nothing else?

Answer 1

We do have a fair number of more specific tags already, of the form "mtg-something" - go here and search for "mtg" to see things like mtg-commander, mtg-drafting, and so on.

Generally, we could add more tags in that vein if we think they're organizationally helpful, i.e. if the topic meets these criteria:

• people will likely want to search for and browse questions on that topic
• we have a substantial number of questions on that topic
• we don't have so many questions on that topic that it would be nearly equivalent to the main magic-the-gathering tag.
• it will be intuitive and obvious how and when to use the tag.

Given that, I'm not too sure about the tags you've suggested:

• deck building and card interactions - given that we don't get a ton of play strategy questions, these two pretty much divide the topic into two pieces, deck building (i.e. outside actual play), and rules (i.e. during actual play). That makes them a bit less useful, since they're so broad, and even more importantly, it's pretty unlikely that folks posting questions will think to use these tags.

• buying and selling - we just don't get a lot of questions about this, so I don't see a lot of potential added value.