Just getting into MTG. Any Sup Forumsros on here play? Any advice?

Just getting into MTG. Any Sup Forumsros on here play? Any advice?

start with green or white they are the best colors for beginners

which colors would be considered more advanced?

Red/Blue shenanigans are my favorite.

Black and Blue

Learn to draft if you want to have events that will not suck major dick with out an 800 buck deck.

get out of it

i recently did a draft and thought it was lame as shit. next time i'm just gonna save up and buy the box myself, i know it's pricey though

Play comanader very enjoyable!

the wizards of the coast website has some cool shit for local tourny and game nights.

as the other guy said black/blue. blue much more than black thought

Play Yu-Gi-Oh! instead.

Buy box almost never recoups your costs. Buying singles works better 90% of the time. Draft lets you get the opens packs goodness and stable environment but if you are not used it sucks dick.

>read the fucking rules before you start playing
>also sit and watch people play
>i cannot stress this enough
>learn how the game works before you play
Magic is really fun in casual formats like EDH. You can build a cheap fun deck for like $25, or just buy a premade commander deck for ~$30. Just please learn the rules so you don't teach other people the wrong way to play. I spend half my time re-teaching people how combat and the stack works.

Sun Quan, Lord of Wu.
Ulamog, The Ceaseless Hunger
Arjun, The Shifting Flame.
All great generals.

If you want magic without the pricetag, try Epic, made by some of the same people.

Otherwise, infinite zombies. Do it.

On a realistic note, a really solid green ramp deck is fun.

I do. Get an online game and figure shit out there. Then but deck builders on Amazon. God speed bruv

To begin, buying "core sets" and or fat packs are ok, but avoid those and boosters once you get a base to play with.

If you're playing casual, meh.

If you want to do Friday night magic? Buy singles. It helps so you don't spend money on cards you don't need.

Join a forum like MTG Salvation and lurk the fuck out of it. Will help a LOT

play Legacy
best format

>MTG Salvation
This. They have solid rulings on the weirdest interactions you will encounter.

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Quality tier 2.5 m8

what's legacy?

whatever you do dont play standard... huge waste of money

Get some friends to play with. Game is boring as shit unless you go to events regularly.

magic or death niggas

Personally I love green.

Mana on mana on mana. And then you get cards like (pic related) which gives you even more mana, and then you can get a card that literally turns your lands into playable creatures.

Quit while your ahead.
The shits expensive, may as well get into normie board/card games and play CasinoStone on your own.

it's where the guy with the biggest wallet wins

legacy combo

Legacy is a format with few card restrictions. It caters mostly to older players who have the card base or newer players with money to throw at cards. If you want casual, do EDH.

This. Shit is like heroin.

if you play commander,buy this starter deck and use enter the battlefield effects... use dead eye navigator, pact of negation, force of will and misdirection and win easily

format that let's you play with all sets, although there is a banlist
>high power level
>dual land manabase
>spells better than creatures
>rare to find events unless you live in big area
>expensive as hell

FNM- Friday Night Magic!

If you live in a small shit town they might not do this, but they're events held by card shops that promote playing against other players.

A TON of cringe but some good people show up.

Drafting is also pretty fun. You get boosters and play with what you get. Some faggots sneak in cards but ya know, niggers can't win unless they cheat.

Talking to shop owners or people who regularly show up will build your knowledge base on how to make an excellent deck or different modes you can play(Legacy, EDM)

Yu gi oh is shit now, they should've stopped adding new stuff after synchros.

all that mana

commander grixis

Getting an easy deck is stupid. I built my first deck and worked out the shit as I played with it.

grixis is terrible

You are 15 years late for Magic

play this fucker in french turn 3

Learn how to play with green and/or white.

Once you've been playing for a while and understand how everything works, ignore what everyone else says and just go with what feels like the most fun. Doesn't matter all that much if it's viable unless you're planning on competing. Pick a deck and roll with it.

Unless you're dumping a ton of cash into any format you play you are probably going to loose against most decks, regardless the format. People say you can play budget and have fun, but that doesn't mean you aren't going to lose most of the time.

It's just the way the game works.

Run Lantern Control - not the most competitive, but damn if its not fun to run

Blue is either gonna be your favorite or the color you hate the most. Your best bet is playing it with another color (I prefer white because control)

Just don't. Its a lot of money if you get addicted and if you are half cool you end up having to hang out of really scrubby / gross dorks to get your fix.

Shit sucks.

You can play pauper on a budget pretty well. But, no official FNMs or anything.

Don't do this. It's the most expensive, Easily. Commander is expensive as well.

Casual Constructed is the tits IMO. Casual anything is. Commander is nice too

EDH is the shit.

yugioh is literally mtg for children

>read the fucking rules before you start playing
all the rules? or is there a starter guide?
telling someone to read all the rules is a surefire way to never get anybody new into magic

Green for me.

quit when shaddolls came out and I don't regret it one bit tbh

>most expensive
guess we're playing vintage guys

Most of the intro packs come with a basic rules guide. Basically, know the order of the steps, when you can do things, when you can't, how combat works, etc.

Vintage is the more expensive one. Legacy is cards not currently in rotation.

play red

your are bad at magic. board presence means nothing to anyone who is not a retard

order a prerelease pack from your lgs and cry

i legit was worried about this

My nigga

terrible card. this is the type of card that shows why red is the shittiest color in commander

>one card
>is bad

red is the chaotic neautral of mtg that is why i love

hey OP, my advice to you is to understand card advantage and resource.

you can find a lot of in depth articles online by more successful players than myself but it boils down to this:

card advantage is obviously having more cards than your opponent. When you play a spell that destroys an opponent's creature you do not increase card advantage, it remains neutral. (you spent a card, to destroy a card. you both just discarded one.) when you play a spell that destroys all creatures, if your opponent has 2+ creatures, that's advantage. (since you spent 1, to make your opponent spend 2.)

there's also things like Quality to take into account. if you spend a spell to kill three creatures, but they're all 1/1s that's not as good as saving your spell for another turn or two so that you can grab a 4/4 as well. even if it costs you some life, even killing one more creature for the card you had to use can be a huge difference.

this brings me to my next point: resource.

resource is multiple things: the cards in your hand, your battlefield, your graveyard, your deck, your life total.

being a good magic player means understanding the relationships between your resources. if your deck can abuse cards in the graveyard, then playing cards that discard from your deck is not actually depriving you of a resource as much as it is giving you resource. (yes there is a finite amount of cards in your deck but 2 cards out of a 60 card deck isn't nearly as impactful as potentially having TWO more cards you can now cast thru flashback, or resurrect from the dead.)

life is another resource and i used an example above. if you can afford to give away life to gain advantage, you should do it. but you have to be smart. know when you can give up life and when you need to give up cards/board state to protect it.

sorry that was long but once you understand the fundamentals, concepts like this are crucial.

best of luck!

kamigawa killed magic :(

Will I get a gf if I start going to magic events?

used this on a 4v4 and wreked house in 1 turn

lets take a look
6 colorless, one green, 7 cmc,
>gives you 2/2's = to the # of forests you control
>forces you to play it in mono green to gain full potential
>2/2's are easily killed and come out to the battlefield at the same time, causes buffing effects such as door of destinies not to trigger
>sorcery speed summon, basically a shit tier creature card
> not even a creature card you can bounce and abuse to get infinite 2/2's
>kill yourself faggot.

One word: Slivers

Run a Blue/Black mill deck. They are pretty fun to play once you figure it out and you get the satisfaction of knowing that you will piss off everyone you play it with.

>4v4
How many days did the game last?

The real question is... Fetch lands in a mono color deck to thin your deck out?

You also won't win any games

have you heard of bant? what is more chaotic than having infinite hp, infinite cards in hand, infinite counterspells, infinite mana, and infinite cyclonic rifts? learn to play casual scum

ravnica

Mono red vintage land destruction.
It's not that great of a deck, but it makes everyone want to punch me in the face, especially if I get a sol ring first turn

>fucking truth

dont buy a box, you're going to get 97% fucking garbage and 3% cards that you can actually sell, but which will be worth 1/5th of what you spent on the box. unless you get super lucky and open multiple expensive rares/mythics but that is unlikely and even if you do, you're likely to only break even or slightly profit. not worth the risk.

For $120 or whatever a box costs retail you can build anywhere from multiple casual decks, or a lot of very powerful cards.

for example if you play modern $120 can get you all of, or most of, the land base required to have the most efficient mana. you will not get anywhere NEAR that percentage of a completed modern deck by just buying a box.

standard is cheaper but cards rotate out so that $60 you spent on three planeswalkers can't be used in standard tournaments anymore in about 1.5-2 years.

ie = standard is short term cheap but you lose money on investment

modern has a higher start-up cost but cards will maintain value and usability for longer

>play vs mono red
>expect no land destruction
>an hero

Protip: stop being a faggot and try to have fun playing a fucking card game

I think America is more chaotic.

Avoid modern like the plauge. Way too expensive and full of neck beard elitists

if the only purpose of fetch lands is to thin your deck out, NO.

testing has shown there is virtually zero effect of 'thinning your deck out'.

however, paying life is definitely a noticeable consequence.

if there are other reasons for fetchlands, then yes by all means. if you're running grim lavamancer, or tarmogoyf, or some other 'graveyard matters' thing, run fetches. if you are using effects that stack the top of your deck and you don't like what you see and want to reshuffle, fetches can be good too.

don't ever run fetches to thin though. not worth the $, not worth the life.

so basically play with 5-10 more cards than the usual 60?

I want to build a skeleton deck just because I hate myself

Protip: When losing is fun for you, continue with your pathetic autistic attitude

>When you can't even win at a fucking card game you know you are a failure

>For $120 or whatever a box costs retail
Do you live in Thailand or something? Boxes cost around $90. Good advice though. I only broke even with the last few sets because I pulled some expeditions and immediately sold them.

>tcg player for singles
>or ebay if you're a complete faggot

>have big hands
>can shuffle 20000 card deck

Kozmo is a pretty hot deck right now
Also no matter what anybody tells you:MST does negate
>Anyone who tells you otherwise is a nigger

>Chaos
>Winning

Choose one

Having fun is an autistic attitude?
God damn I want to die

I almost never win at magic, but I usually have fun. Isn't that the point of playing a game?

no you always want exactly 60 (for constructed) it maximizes your chance of drawing your best cards consistently.

2 spooky 4 life

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Dont be a faggot and play Magic.

Rakdos (red/black) player here. I love aggro and field control. But honestly those concepts can be found in most color combos in some way. Find your style and the colors will follow. Keep in mind that the colors change their effects from time to time.

Also with style, pick a category: spells or creature heavy. I really like vampire tribe too. In case you were wondering.

well that's retail price after tax in my town, not sure how much boxes are elsewhere. i dont buy them so im out of the loop. last time i checked online it was like $105 but then s/h so meh