Magic the Gathering

[Aaronock]

Actually if there is a good hobby store in your area, I recommend buying OLDER cards actually.??Go through the older editions or even tenth right now and pick out cards that sound good, also know what color you want to play.??In my area, we have a hobby store where you can buy commons at 10 cents a piece, uncommons at 15 for 5 bucks and rares at 10 for 15 bucks.??Of course, the more sought after cards are worth more but this is a good way to actually start magic.

My bf said the best way to learn is pick up a bunch of stuff of a color you like, then build from there, mono to me is still the easiest to build even to this day.??Though I have explored into multi color decks a little.

I have to admit I fell out of the loop of casual Magic when Alara came out.??I'm not a huge fan of the setup of the colors in this block (I don't find them fun) and I feel the game has really thrown out what each color is suppose to do out the window, or changed them in a way I find not that interesting. Blue getting shrink effects on power for example is just...BLEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHH, or getting more cards dealing with artifacts, which I find pretty darn unnecessary. Green also seems to be gaining in power and having new abilties I'm not use to seeing so often such as more of their creatures gaining haste.

My two favorite decks I made had to beeeee...
Future Sight Deck:??A mono blue deck utilizing the card of the same name.??I looked back into the Urza block to find every decent free monster or spell and slapped them in there.??I never did get 4 treachery for it but it would have been one heck of a deck if I had.??Essentially I would pull out Future Sight, and then play about 3 spells per turn after that, I could deal with creatures on the field till then using typical unsummoning effects and Dominating Licid, and a few cheap counter spells *force spike, mana leak, etc*.??Early game draws of Cloud of Fairies also helped.??I believe I ran Unstable Mutation to speed things up too.??Fun fun deck, oh yah it had Meloku also, that was a blast when I got him for the deck! xD

Red/Green Deck: I dunno how to describe this one, it was some deck my bf made at first he didn't like, told me to fix it and make it more playable.??Looking through his cards I decided to make it mostly a Red burn deck but with a little twist and a bit better capability to deal with an empty hand should it happen.??Howling Mine, Quirion Dryad, Mirri's Guile, these all played a huge part of the deck's capability to draw exactly what I wanted when I wanted it.??I also played pyroclasm, kird ape, basking wootwalla and some other junk I forgot.??I think we broke down this deck though cause my bf wanted to use some of the cards for his black/green deck he has.

Anyway I could talk about deck ideas for awhile, but honestly I haven't been playing that much, I'm more for the older cards, and hope that in the next block mono will be more seen on the field than the multicolor crap they are making right now. Also would like to see power levels of cards go down a little, they are a bit too much right now.