How to begin MTG

Commander is best and only format worth playing.

>>49017002
I guess the first thing to determine is how competitive you want to be/why you want to play, and how much money you can throw at the game.
It also helps to know if you have a group of buddies who can keep powerlevels at around the same.
No one wants to play against(or be) the dude who brings a top tier legacy deck to casual night.
Commander can be super fun too, but if your group doesn't communicate what they want out of it, it can degenerate into a mess pretty fast.
May I make the suggestion that your group puts together a cube? Cubes are fantastic fun for both powergamers and beer and pretzel people.
Where else can you play show and animate tinker against a mirrrari's wake deck.

>>49017080
OP here, see I don't really understand what your saying, but I really want to! Haha I should do more research

>made a mono green deck focusing on getting lands out quickly... is that good?
Green ramp aggro is fun, but not tournament viable. You will typically get dunked on with your weak early game.
But if your friends are not playing tier 1 tournament bullshit, you should be fine.

Really, deck construction is simple.
1. think of how you want to win
2. once you have a wincon, try and find cards to aid in that wincon
3. make a 60 card deck with 22 lands and that wincon+enablers (don't try to fuck with the numbers, it's generally not worth it)
If the archetype has a name, you can do as your friend said and google the name. For example, yours is monogreen ramp. The very first google for monogreen ramp is a casual primer that gives a neat little introduction and recommendations.

>>49017002
Watch mtg vids on yout u be brugh, the community is actually good in mtg

Look up Jund decks, that's how you win

>>49017002
It takes time to get used to the whole mtg scene, but it sure is worth. A cool place to get acquainted with some of the cool stuff is the channelfireball website and youtube channel. also the Tolarian Community College youtube channel

As for how to start, maybe going to your LGS, seeing people play, talking with the people there. I got a lot of friends like that and made some playgroups where we just play for fun and do some drafts now and then

>>49017172
Draft is a format where you and 7 other people each get three boosters. You open up the pack, take one card and pass the rest. Repeat until the boosters are done.

A cube is a collection of cards designed to be drafted, they come in multiple types and sizes. You shuffle the cube, and make random 15 card "boosters" for people to draft with.

>>49017273
My vote is for delver and BUG decks as far as hyper streamlined efficient decks go. As much as I love my Death and Taxes, its not a good deck for understanding fundamentals. Delver is, because it does a little of everything.

>>49017002
Ignore all these people
Just download "Magic: Duels" On steam or Ios or android or a console and play that. It's more or less the best tutorial for the game out there, though the game is simplified for computers

>>49017345
How could I forget that, also this

It may be tough getting lots of cards, but the story mode can be pretty cool sometimes

>>49017336
Jund is cheaper

>>49017362
You can also BUY cards for a lower cost than actual packs, but the in game packs have fewer cards
This is offset by the fact that you can only get a limited number of copies of a card, but once you have a full set of say, evolving wilds, you can put that set in EVERY deck you want

>>49017029
First post best post.

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>>49017002
Forgot to mention, Pauper is a pretty good and cheap way to learn the game too.

Pauper is a way to play the game where only commons are allowed, and because magic has been around forever, a lot of really good cards are commons. Decks are pretty cheap, and powerlevel is fairly high. I think the most expensive deck in the format right now is the Red Burn deck, and that's what, 60 dollars?
I have a Green/Blue graveyard deck, and a Blue/White control deck in pauper.

>>49017366
If they can just knock the price down on goyf and lilly a little bit more, modern Jund enters the almost affordable range. Legacy Jund is still backbreaking, thanks duals.
You may be right though, RTR-INN Jund was one of the most enjoyable experiences I have ever had playing magic.

>>49017446
Legacy jund also wants chains of Mephistopheles

I just started checking out Reddit's MTG pages and they have links to some great resources. Don't count on getting responses though, they're usually too busy circle jerking over new sets and meme cards. Kind of like here, I suppose...

>>49017345
I love that on duels a 4 dollar card pack gets you basically a third of the typical 15 card irl pack

>>49017601
But on the flipside, you'll never get any repeats you don't need and they mostly cut off the commons

>>49017656
True, I've yet to pull a mythic on it though

>>49017672
It happens. You just have shit luck.
There's actually a special animation for opening a mythic too, it's got a little halo of light around it

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>>49017387
>buying virtual cardboard

>>49017796

>buying real cardboard tgat clusters your appartment

>>49018027
>buying virtual cardboard
>that you can easily get for free

>>49017002
Whats the best way to cheat out Marit Lage?

>>49018128
Thespian's Stage.

>>49017002
Go to your LGS, get friendly with people, do some drafts, play Standard, play EDH, try and piece together how the rules work in your head. Don't get into this for any other reason than you're having fun doing it.

>>49017002
It would be easier to give good recomendations if we knew:
>Do you have a local game store?
>How much money are you willing/able to spend on magic?
>Do you want to play against your friends/in tournaments/both?

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>>49018128
>>49018177

>>49017029
This

>>49018424
It's beautiful, anon.

Go to an lgs, talk to people, someone will probably be willing to show you the ropes.
Although they're not brilliant the starter and commander decks give you a pretty solid start (the deck builders toolkit gives you a pretty solid collection as well)

Look up Tolarian Community College on YouTube, the guys autistic but his reviews are top notch.

>>49018247
Which Country are you in is an important question too

It's a lot better buying bulk from ebay in the uk because there's very few game stores here to offload 500 Stitched Manglers at a time, at the same time it's more expensive to start a big collection off singles seeing as all those stores pretty much match card prices to the dollar prices.

>>49017002
decide based on the total budget you want to throw in now or later.

do you have friends playing the game? what do they usually do?

>>49017002
Chinamen counterfeits is the way to go

>>49017002
There is a guide on 1d4chan, use it. Anything is viable, don't buy intro packs, good luck.

>>49017029
This.

Grab a precon commander deck, play it a bit to get a feel for it. What did you like? Dislike? Want to improve? Then go over to EDHrec and look at all the commanders and see what fits you the most.

This way you're spending 35$ on a precon and then eventually just adding in single cards.

And you should make sure your friends want to play commander too. That's pretty important and kind of dumb of me to bring up as my last point.