Here's the question:
How should I approach teaching Magic:The Gathering to a new player?
11 upvotes, been around seven months with some good answers. I just posted an answer to point out a new inexpensive way to try the game. The question was closed for being "Too Localized" about the same time as I posted my answer.
This question is unlikely to ever help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet.
Sure, Base sets change every year, and maybe this product won't exist next year, but certainly the question can be answered, will have valid answers for a long time (at least a year's product cycle, the computer games will certainly be on the market a long time as well); the audience of the question is fairly large (ie. anyone with a passing interest in learning about the game); and furthermore the question itself is very similar in nature to:
How much would it cost to get started with Magic: The Gathering?
And it is also the same sort of question as this Go-releated query:
What do you recommend to learn Go?
Before I start a reopen/close war, thought I'd pose the question here. ;) It's a good question, isn't it?