Minimum you probably want a few hundred dollars. There are some incredibly cheap budget decks but even if you build one youâll probably want to play more than one deck.
Thatâs the thing with Magic, youâre never finished, there are always new projects and decks.
You can hold creatures back in your hand to avoid and play around sweepers, holding back lands in case you get swept would just get you overrun whilst your opponent continues to curve out ahead of you and play better threats than you can.
Also, land sweepe
What do you mean buy a magic set, like you talking singles or packets here?
Also what format you looking at, modern or standard?
Modern would be the best bet to get into. Yes expensive at first but cards hold their value better than standard with itâs rotations.
Or alternatively install xmage and see if thatâs better for you(no $$ involved)
Just 2 cents from a guy who doesnt have a lgs to go to (closest is 2 hours away in 3 of 4 cardinal directions)and just have a playgroup.
It depends, with how viable eldrazi are in modern atm if he builds some kind of x/colourless standard deck using the matter reshaper,thoughtknot,reality smasher package theyâll transfer right over to modern post rotation.
The trick to doing standard cheaply is to not sit around waiting to netdeck but to look at upcoming sets and pre-order the good cards before they appear at a pro tour and the zerg rush pushes the price through the roof.
Also look at standard cards with an eye to âWill this be good in modernâ when dropping any kind of money on them.
As long as you do both of those things itâs possible to play standard without pissing too much money away come rotation.
Basically before even building a modern deck youâre probably looking at a fair whack just for the landbase, even making do with fastlands over shocklands and fetches can be fairly expensive.
Decide if you want to play fast or slow. Fast is easier but not easy. You can build a competitive deck like Burn for 300 dollars in mono red. What colour is your favourite?
Black Zombies or Devotion could be done on a budget.
Blue is probably the hardest colour for new players.
If youâre trying to keep cost down look at what works well in 1 or 2 colours as land drives up the price of decks massively. Mono-colour decks tend to be cheaper.
I donât know how viable an infect deck is anymore post fatal push but blue green infect is fairly budget friendly and was quite effective. Excluding the obvious Noble hierarch for budgeting reasons (like 60-80 a pop).
You remind me of me in 1995. I had zero cards then. My first 60 cards ever was a 4th edition starter deck. It had a Dancing Scimitar.
Long story short; I got into Magic when I saw a group of people playing Magic in our high schoolâs career center during lunch a table over. Our table was playing D&D. Our DM was always stoned so it took forever to get anything done in our campaign. Some of those people playing Magic were in some of my classes as well.
Starter decks and core sets arenât being produced anymore; I would have recommended a core set.
I did hear that Wizards might make core sets again though. Guess Origins was like the last core set.
Quick question about Standard: how cheap and how good are red decks right now?
I ask this as a player who hates to play against RDW style of balls-to-the-walls aggro. The Tarkir days of Goblin Rabblemaster everywhere put me off for years but Iâm tempted to give it a try provided I donât get to play all day against the same 10 dollars deck.
Wizards did stop the core set, and tried to change up the block cycle.
But the whole thing was very poorly received. Magic going back to the old 3 sets per block and core set cycle again after Dominaria.
Itâs been a long time since RDW was this good in Standard, to my knowledge. You might want to run a Chandra in the sideboard, but otherwise everything is pretty cheap. Hazoret is otherwise the most expensive card in most lists.
Infect is G/U and itâs still a top tier deck but it has taken a lot of hits. GProbe ban, Push and now Solemnity. The meta is moving away from it. In a lot of ways Deathâs Shadow is taking itâs place as the win fast pseudo-combo deck.
Okay. Big event next year. Team Unified Modern. Basically you collect results as a group of 3 and you can give each other advice mid-game. Other than that, youâre not allowed to share cards other than basic lands, so basically if one deck is running something, the others canât, includes sideboards.
I donât know exactly what Iâll take because I donât know exactly who Iâm pairing with but Iâll probably run UWR Control or Soul Sistas. Iâm thinking of pairing with Jund and Infect at this stage but we need to sort out teams still. One of the guys is almost definitely taking Lantern, another is almost definitely taking WB Eldrazi Taxes. We might have a guy bringing Ad Nauseum and another bringing Titanshift.
There is a card called Lantern of Insight. It lets you see the top card on each playerâs library. Basically itâs a combo where a bunch of artifacts tap to mill the top card of their library and you stop them drawing what they need. It has other stuff like Ensnaring Bridge to stop them killing you. Itâs a very hard deck to play. Itâs like pro/expert level Magic.