For players who are new, I highly recommend playing with some of the pre-constructed decks in Magic: the Gathering Arena, since it is free-to-play. Here's what a standard creature card looks like.Įach deck will consist of 1-5 colors, creatures, sorceries, instants, lands and potentially artifacts/Planeswalkers. If you’re playing on Arena, once you have put cards in the deck editor, it will advise what Basic Lands to put in the deck, based on how many colors you are using. These have their own Basic Lands: Mountains, Forests, Plains, Swamps, and Islands. There are five colors: Red, Green, White, Black, and Blue.
Let’s go over that “color” and “cost” part. Many are colorless (you can tap any kind of land for them), but there are plenty with specific costs. Artifacts can be put in any deck, provided you have the right land to cast them. There are five colors of Magic cards, as well as multi-colored cards, and colorless cards (artifacts typically). There’s a lot that goes into making a tournament ready or successfully competitive deck. But our focus will be Standard, which is what you’ll see in Magic the Gathering Arena.
There are times when you’ll have more – EG: specific deck types that require 100-200 cards, or certain formats, such as Commander. Each player will have a deck of about 60 cards, with 45 being the minimum. This is done during the Attack Step with creatures, or by casting spells on them from your hand. The ultimate goal in MTG is to reduce your opponent’s life points to 0, and both players start with 20.
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For those that want to see the game in action, feel free to click the link below for a playlist of my Topdeck Tutor videos, where I go into deck builds, strategies, and in-game commentary. As someone who has played both, I personally prefer Magic: the Gathering Arena with its Wildcard System as a method of acquiring cards to complete a deck (trade a Wildcard for any card of that rarity on a one-for-one-basis). The biggest of these are Magic the Gathering Online and the newer of the two products, Magic: the Gathering Arena. While MTG can be an expensive game to get into, in terms of competing at Friday Night Magic and other tournaments (tournaments held at card shops in your local area), there are other options to learn and grow in Magic the Gathering that can easily shift your eyes to the paper release. Magic: the Gathering seems like an incredibly daunting game to get into – after all there are thousands of cards, five colors, a constantly changing Standard Meta, it can all be a lot to take in for someone who has genuinely never played the game.
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