@Narvuntien - Thanks. You're totally right. I need creatures to prevent myself from taking damage and I love the idea of the deathtouchers with some control aspects as well to keep my tied over and safe until my late game engine is running. I'd have to come up with some finishers for said late game situations but I like the anti artifact ideas (my friend runs a pretty diesel artifact deck that needs a proper ass whooping).
@Spicay - I feel like the board wipes would piss everyone off and I'd start receiving attacks earlier than I'd like. Thanks for the site suggestion, once I start getting accustomed to the cards I can use it to easily look up stuff. But I LOVE Wee Dragonauts and Gelectrode. Such great additions to any control deck, especially with the untap ability allowing you to ping ppl for a damage repeatedly.
The only thing I worry about is that a control deck like that may have too many weenies and not enough solidly strong creatures (2/2 , 3/3 with abilities) to hold me over until the late game.
But again, I'm a novice at this so I could most definitely be wrong. It's hard to pick one strategy when there are hundreds upon thousands of cards out there.
Right now I'm leaning towards the Green/Black deck. I played vampires before and found them quite fun (pinging people and having a bit of life gain was awesome, not to mention the creature control).
Thanks for your quick replies I'll wait for a few more before I make my decision and will definitely be posting a prototype for suggestions before buying. I really only have the money to invest in one decent deck that I hang on to and replay quite often (not trying to sink my pension in magic cards :p)
so having said that I want to add that replayability is also a huge concern with this deck creation journey I am embarking on.
Again thank you for your opinions. All advice/types/hints are welcome
I'm really new to Magic. Never owned a deck before in my life. I'm a big fan of the Experiment Kraj General card that they use in ECD formats but am aware that they aren't allowed to be used in standard formats.
Anyways, I play pretty casually (with friends on the kitchen table), usually multiplayer and I was wondering what people thought was the best color combination for a multiplayer deck in the standard format. I know that it really depends on what I'm trying to go for so I'll give a description of what I'm shooting for with my first deck.
Since it's gonna be multiplayer (would be nice if it could hold its own in a duel also) I don't want anything that will make me an early game target from the other players. I was thinking of going red for the burn spells but figured that burning people would only get me killed quicker.
I'm really split between going aggro or control or combo. I dislike swarming, however, if there were a combo that worked well with control that swarmed late game I'd be open to that.
Any suggestions? I kind of strayed from the original question, so to surmise
tl;dr --> What color combo is good for multiplayer? Which is best for first deck of a somewhat knowledgeable magic player who has been using borrowed decks? And which is your favorite deck strategy (aggro, control, combo, burn, etc..)
Thanks and sorry for what is most likely a very common and repetitive question posted on this forum
Just started getting back into Magic. Played for a couple weeks back in the 90s and have just recently been getting back into it. I only play with a couple of friends and have yet to go to any competitions or anything serious like that.
Here are my questions. Sorry if these are trivial, I tried googling for awhile and couldn't find anything.
1) Most of my friends roll with 60-70 card decks (I'm assuming this is standard?) I'm trying to build my first deck ever and have fallen in love with Experiment Kraj. Is it legal/a good idea/fair to play an EDH deck against a standard format deck?
2) Am I allowed to make a standard format deck with Experiment Kraj in it? I'm not a big fan of the 100 card set regardless?
3) Same question as #2 but for all general cards
Thanks for any responses, I've become a bit obsessed (so many cards!!! <3) and can't wait to get started, just need some guidance. P.S. if this is in the wrong section I apologize
@Spicay - I feel like the board wipes would piss everyone off and I'd start receiving attacks earlier than I'd like. Thanks for the site suggestion, once I start getting accustomed to the cards I can use it to easily look up stuff. But I LOVE Wee Dragonauts and Gelectrode. Such great additions to any control deck, especially with the untap ability allowing you to ping ppl for a damage repeatedly.
The only thing I worry about is that a control deck like that may have too many weenies and not enough solidly strong creatures (2/2 , 3/3 with abilities) to hold me over until the late game.
But again, I'm a novice at this so I could most definitely be wrong. It's hard to pick one strategy when there are hundreds upon thousands of cards out there.
Right now I'm leaning towards the Green/Black deck. I played vampires before and found them quite fun (pinging people and having a bit of life gain was awesome, not to mention the creature control).
Thanks for your quick replies
so having said that I want to add that replayability is also a huge concern with this deck creation journey I am embarking on.
Again thank you for your opinions. All advice/types/hints are welcome
I'm really new to Magic. Never owned a deck before in my life. I'm a big fan of the Experiment Kraj General card that they use in ECD formats but am aware that they aren't allowed to be used in standard formats.
Anyways, I play pretty casually (with friends on the kitchen table), usually multiplayer and I was wondering what people thought was the best color combination for a multiplayer deck in the standard format. I know that it really depends on what I'm trying to go for so I'll give a description of what I'm shooting for with my first deck.
Since it's gonna be multiplayer (would be nice if it could hold its own in a duel also) I don't want anything that will make me an early game target from the other players. I was thinking of going red for the burn spells but figured that burning people would only get me killed quicker.
I'm really split between going aggro or control or combo. I dislike swarming, however, if there were a combo that worked well with control that swarmed late game I'd be open to that.
Any suggestions? I kind of strayed from the original question, so to surmise
tl;dr --> What color combo is good for multiplayer? Which is best for first deck of a somewhat knowledgeable magic player who has been using borrowed decks? And which is your favorite deck strategy (aggro, control, combo, burn, etc..)
Thanks and sorry for what is most likely a very common and repetitive question posted on this forum
Hope to become as smart as ya'll eventually.
Just started getting back into Magic. Played for a couple weeks back in the 90s and have just recently been getting back into it. I only play with a couple of friends and have yet to go to any competitions or anything serious like that.
Here are my questions. Sorry if these are trivial, I tried googling for awhile and couldn't find anything.
1) Most of my friends roll with 60-70 card decks (I'm assuming this is standard?) I'm trying to build my first deck ever and have fallen in love with Experiment Kraj. Is it legal/a good idea/fair to play an EDH deck against a standard format deck?
2) Am I allowed to make a standard format deck with Experiment Kraj in it? I'm not a big fan of the 100 card set regardless?
3) Same question as #2 but for all general cards
Thanks for any responses, I've become a bit obsessed (so many cards!!! <3) and can't wait to get started, just need some guidance. P.S. if this is in the wrong section I apologize