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Magic The Gathering Deck Basics

We’re going to talk about how to build a Magic The Gathering Deck that you can play against other planeswalkers. We’ll start with the basics. What are required in a playable Magic deck?

There is no limit to how many cards you can use in a Magic deck; however, if you use too many cards in a deck, you reduce your own chance of getting a card that you want. Therefore, the optimal amount of cards in a deck should be around 60 which make the probability more even.

When we are talking about a normal playing deck, you can find three different groups of cards to exist. The first one is Lands whether they are basic ones or not. The second group represents assisting spells like Sorcery, Artifact, Enchantment and Instant. The third and the most versatile group is Creature.

The Lands are used to produce Mana for casting spells. There’re cards other than Lands that have the ability to produce Mana. Of course you can use these Mana producing cards instead of lands, but at least a half of this one third of the deck must be free of Mana cost. Otherwise you’ll never get the first Mana.

The next one third of the deck which consists of Sorcery, Artifact, Enchantment and Instant is the tools you can use. You can use these to assist your attacks or to construct combo. If you don’t need too many assisting spells or combo, you can replace them with attacking spells or creatures.

The last but not least portion of a Magic deck is of course Creatures. These are your main focus. They can attack and they can block attacks. Most of the strategies and combos revolve around creatures. Assisting spells and other abilities are used to make your creatures stronger and the opponent’s weaker. There are advanced players who would use less or even no creatures at all, but that very difficult to do because you have find many different methods to attack and to block attacks and to solve all the problems that arise due to lack of Creatures. That’s fun to do though.

An important rule that ensure the fairness of playing is that in a single Magic deck, there must not be more than 4 cards of the same name. Please remember this rule by heart and follow it when building your decks.

An evenly distributed deck is often easier to use for beginners. You should build your first few decks with common methods and play against real players to gain experience. As you become more familiar with the Magic The Gathering, you can develop your own style of playing and strategies.

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