>tfw spent $70 on magic cards, trying to rebuild my vampire

>>35343252

How do you know which cards to buy? I used to play a long time ago, but that was back when you just went to a store and didn't have many choices to think about. I kind of want to have a deck again but now everything's so ridiculously complicated and there are a billion cards so I don't have any direction to go with.

>>35343282

research. use the internet to find all the creature types, all the cards... it's like a lego sandbox.

want to make an elf deck? go searching, etc.

want to make a counterspell deck with infinite millage? make one. etc.

i like vampire decks because im a secret emo kid.

>>35343311

Hasn't everything been done already though? Like if I did a counterspell deck it would either just be the same as the counterspell decks a million other people have already perfected over the last twenty-four years or else it would be different and bad.

>playing a pay2win game
>not just making proxies
Do you play in tournaments or something?

>>35343311
>>35343377

Also is there any point to getting real cards nowadays or does it make more sense just to have virtual cards on some magic website?

>>35343377

well its up to you to make the nuances.

counter spell plus whatever you want in it. you can make multi color decks there's a lot of new dual lands for those.

there's great databases on the internet to search for every card ever made.

emrakul is a big bad, for example.

>>35343391

i want the real cards, i'm gonna put them in good sleeves and keep the deck in one of those deck boxes.

no, but i could try going to the local card shop on friday night and bring my deck with me just in case. they usually do drafts though but i would just bring it along.

>>35343402

i like the real cards. there's an app on the iphone and there's a program on the computer but the real magic experience is having the physical cards and playing with people.

i like vampires because they are slightly more powerful than rebels or ally cards and have similar synergy.

>>35343377
>>35343282

First you have to decide if you want to play at some store against other nerds, or online against some other nerds.

Then you decide a "Format". The most common are Legacy, Modern, Standard and Commander.

Legacy and Modern are very competitive formats, in which decks usually cost between 1 and 4 thousand dollars. There's very little space for "innovation", but the decks and strategies are very streamlined and efficient. They're the Formula 1 and the IndyCar racing of Magic, respectively.

Standard only allows you to use the cards released during the last year and a half (it's a little more complicated than that, but you get the idea). This is a format that is cheaper, and there's usually more room for innovation, since every 3-4 months you get new cards to play with that shift the metagame. A deck usually costs between $100 and $1000. It's the Nascar of Magic.

Then you have Commander, which is a 100 singleton card format. Your deck must have exactly 100 cards, and no repeats (except for basic lands), you also must choose a Legendary creature to be your "Commander", and define the colors of cards you're allowed to have in your deck. There's a bunch of specific deck buildings rules and a few game rules you must follow, but he general gameplay is just Magic. A deck can cost from $30 to $10000. It's the Whacky Race of Magic formats.

I remember playing MTG in high school. I always ran a blue/black mill deck with a consuming aberration. Good times.

>>35343927

Of course a /rk9/ user would play an obnoxious, awful deck.

>>35343252

this is a real Magic card? Thought they were against sexy art. Way too much boobage .

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>>35343252
>tfw spent around $350 on magic cards to complete a deck which I'm brewing that probably isn't even good

Its a crippling addiction which burns through more money than my drinking problem does.

>>35343252
>tfw some asshole stole your mtg deck in middle school when you were the best in the school
>tfw literally everyone there must have been ok with it but you because no one told you who it was
I HATE YOU whoever you are, you fucking son of a bitch.
Thank god my best Wyrm cards were in my hand when I was playing that little shit.

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>tfw yugioh deck i want is one of the cheaper ones but still have to spend 90 dollars for a play set of boss monsters or open a thousand boosters