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I've been playing M:tg for almost a year now! (1 year all together in December) I haft to say it been such a great journey so far, I've made so many friends and had so much fun from just a bunch of people playing with cardboard cards, its unbelievable, but i'm happy that I found the game!
Now to get onto the main topic; What was your very first deck and what is your story on why you built it? My very first deck that I build was Golgari Midrange. (I always thought it was Aggro but now I realize it was Midrange haha) Im pretty sure the reason I built the deck was because I got the Golgari Legend (Don't remember name ) and I jut built it off that, after a lot of constructed criticism I took out all the 'One of' cards and made it into Golgari Zombies and played that for 9 months! Long time for sure, but now I would love to hear what you got to say!
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The Rakdos Bloodsport theme deck, modded a bit. So much fun. I know I added Cunning Sparkmage and Deathgreeter, but I don't remember any other changes.
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My first deck was a R\B goblins deck during Lorwyn. Quite janky really but my friends were building jank as well, and mine was slightly less janky than theirs, lol. Once I started understanding the game better, I moved on to a discard deck revolving around Megrim and Burning Inquiry and Blightning. Not much better, but it was much more focused, and the look on peoples faces at FNM when I hit them for 13 on turn 4 was awesome! I then moved on to WW for a long time, with varying success( Quest for the Holy Relic was fun for turn 2 concessions!). I now run Izzet with Guttersnipe, Young Pyromancer, and Spellheart Chimera, and I also have a G/W tokenish deck as well.
My first deck was a three-colored deck built around Treva, the Renewer, which was my first rare. I bought 2-3 boosters and a tournament pack, and my first deck was built from those.
I started playing back in '98-'99 or so, when I was in 8th grade, and tended to keep a handful of decks built from starter decks and whatever was pulled from packs:
One was usually a B/R aggro-burn deck. Looking back over my old cards recently I realized that I owned a Grim Tutor but never played it, likely because back then I thought that losing 3 life was a horrible trade. Oh the things I didn't know.
Another was usually a W/B control-ish life-gain deck. I wasn't aware of any of these archetypes at the time, but it seemed good.
A third was usually R/G beats.
I was out of the game for a LONG time, but when I came back late in the ZEN cycle, I picked up with B/R vampires. I think B/R is just my fav
My first deck I am still playing, although it has been tuned up /heavily/ since then. I started off by buying the "Rush Of The Wild" event deck, and the "Death Reaper" introduction deck, figuring that I could play with them, determine which color combo I liked better, etc.
Right off the bat, even my n00b self could tell that the intro deck was a miserable pile of junk, so I cannibalized the worthwhile looking red cards out of it (Of which there weren't many) and put them right into my event deck. Then I cracked open my boosters, and added a whole bunch more stuff to my R/G deck, including a Garruk, Caller Of Beasts that I managed to pull from my very first booster. Then I dropped in 2 more of one of my favorite cards, Burning Tree Emissary, and some Burning Tree Shamans.
That deck ended up being like 85 cards or so, all told. It was a hot mess. I ended up cobbling together a B/W deck out of cards I had gathered from a fat pack, several boosters, and a few choice singles that played much better, albeit a 70 card deck. The R/G lain dormant until I started getting an idea of what the hell I was doing and tuned it up.
My first deck is a RGW deck, during Invasion. With Rith the Awakener and a Shivan Wurm as the best cards. The deck only has singles of each creature and spell, because the cousin who introduced me to magic said that having more than one of each kind of creature (for example, two Shivan Wurm in the deck) is unfair.. because it would be like having two Batman or two Superman. I used and actually had some fun with the deck in casual play with my cousin (he also used a singleton type of deck) for few months. I started buying precons after that.
My first deck was when my friend got me the 1999 Starter set for my birthday. I built myself a g/w throw everything I had on color into the deck. When I came back to the game around Zen release I played an esper artifact deck.
Started playing right at the tail end of Onslaught. Got some advice at the shop to start playing R so I though together mono R Burn with cards like Raging Goblin, Shock, and what ever else I had around. I even won my first game.
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My first real deck, where I actually put some thought into it, was a Blue/Black counter-discard deck. From what I can remember, it had Hypnotic Specter, Hymn to Tourach, Disrupting Scepter, and Mind Twist for discard, The Rack for damage, and Counterspell, Power Sink, and Spell Blast for counter magic.
When I came back to the game around Rise of the Eldrazi, my first stab at a competitive deck was a mono-blue control deck. It ran something like 16-20 counters, including Cancel, Spell Pierce, Mana Leak, etc., with Contagion Engine/Clasp for removal, and Wurmcoil Engine as the win con. It took down an FNM one week, then defecated the mattress the next.
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My sister taught me to play with some starter decks. I remember feeling like a cool kid for having a Beta Shivan Dragon. A few years later, I realized that the other cards she left me in a binder on my bookshelf that I thought were old and terrible were worth a lot of money. I didn't really trade, so I just kept everything I opened.
Actual first deck was made out of a box of cards I bought from my friend
A lot from the Tempest era, it was a deck with all shadow creatures, my friend and I didn't understand how combat worked so having a deck full of shadow creatures helped with that
When I first started, my first few starter and booster packs of Revised gave me a Taiga and a Savannah, so I went Naya aggro and relied on a Force of Nature, a Serra Angel, and a Shivan Dragon as my beaters.
*sigh* Those were the days.
Anyhow, the best I can come up with myself is a game in the top 8 of a PTQ back during Urza block in which we were starting game 3 with time already expired, so the tiebreaker rule was that whoever had more life after 3 turns would win. And I lost to... healing salve.
Since coming back to the game, the first deck I built was a Pauper deck based around Kiln Fiend and Wee Dragonauts. I didn't even know that it was already a marginal deck. This was right before Innistrad so the deck wasn't as good as current iterations which got a big boost with Delver of Secrets and Nivix Cyclops.
My first deck was a hand-me-down Elf tribal deck my gave me. I still have it and it has evolved over time from Elfdrazi Monument, Genesis please-don't-field-wipe-next-turn Wave ramp and ultimately to Combo Elf.
Mine was the Carnival of Blood intro deck from Innistrad. I slotted in an Olivia Volderan I cracked and a Falkenrath Marauders someone gave me (didn't even take anything out. More monsters is better right?)
The sliver intro deck from Legions. Slivers are were so cool-looking, and seeing them boosting each other made me think they were super powerful, and they were! Well, when I wasn't playing against anyone competitive... I remember thinking that Shifting Sliver was broken...
I've been playing M:tg for almost a year now! (1 year all together in December) I haft to say it been such a great journey so far, I've made so many friends and had so much fun from just a bunch of people playing with cardboard cards, its unbelievable, but i'm happy that I found the game!
Now to get onto the main topic; What was your very first deck and what is your story on why you built it? My very first deck that I build was Golgari Midrange. (I always thought it was Aggro but now I realize it was Midrange haha) Im pretty sure the reason I built the deck was because I got the Golgari Legend (Don't remember name ) and I jut built it off that, after a lot of constructed criticism I took out all the 'One of' cards and made it into Golgari Zombies and played that for 9 months! Long time for sure, but now I would love to hear what you got to say!
One of the few details I still recall to this day is that I had a Hypnotic Specter
One was usually a B/R aggro-burn deck. Looking back over my old cards recently I realized that I owned a Grim Tutor but never played it, likely because back then I thought that losing 3 life was a horrible trade. Oh the things I didn't know.
Another was usually a W/B control-ish life-gain deck. I wasn't aware of any of these archetypes at the time, but it seemed good.
A third was usually R/G beats.
I was out of the game for a LONG time, but when I came back late in the ZEN cycle, I picked up with B/R vampires. I think B/R is just my fav
R.I.P. Sundering Titan (6/20/12) and Braids, Cabal Minion (9/12/14)
Right off the bat, even my n00b self could tell that the intro deck was a miserable pile of junk, so I cannibalized the worthwhile looking red cards out of it (Of which there weren't many) and put them right into my event deck. Then I cracked open my boosters, and added a whole bunch more stuff to my R/G deck, including a Garruk, Caller Of Beasts that I managed to pull from my very first booster. Then I dropped in 2 more of one of my favorite cards, Burning Tree Emissary, and some Burning Tree Shamans.
That deck ended up being like 85 cards or so, all told. It was a hot mess. I ended up cobbling together a B/W deck out of cards I had gathered from a fat pack, several boosters, and a few choice singles that played much better, albeit a 70 card deck. The R/G lain dormant until I started getting an idea of what the hell I was doing and tuned it up.
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When I came back to the game around Rise of the Eldrazi, my first stab at a competitive deck was a mono-blue control deck. It ran something like 16-20 counters, including Cancel, Spell Pierce, Mana Leak, etc., with Contagion Engine/Clasp for removal, and Wurmcoil Engine as the win con. It took down an FNM one week, then defecated the mattress the next.
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we also banned counterspell because it was so overpowered.
A lot from the Tempest era, it was a deck with all shadow creatures, my friend and I didn't understand how combat worked so having a deck full of shadow creatures helped with that
*sigh* Those were the days.
Since coming back to the game, the first deck I built was a Pauper deck based around Kiln Fiend and Wee Dragonauts. I didn't even know that it was already a marginal deck. This was right before Innistrad so the deck wasn't as good as current iterations which got a big boost with Delver of Secrets and Nivix Cyclops.
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arewere so cool-looking, and seeing them boosting each other made me think they were super powerful, and they were! Well, when I wasn't playing against anyone competitive... I remember thinking that Shifting Sliver was broken...