MTG Salvation

I'm planning to build two decks to introduce the game to my friends. Red and green can easily explain certain mechanics like the stack so I came up with a simple Goblins vs Elves with no tribal, just for the sake of flavor. These are the main criteria that I followed:

- No rares, pretty much the same amount of uncommons;
- No keywords that are not evergreen, and only the primary ones for that color;
- Both the deck contains each card type except for tribal and planeswalker; I picked an artifact and an enchantment without sub-types for the red one, an equipment and an enchant creature aura for the green one;
- My collection is entirely Modern so I stood within this format.




Thanks for your feedback!

The red deck looks quite similar to the beginners deck I've built several years ago, and I think it's pretty solid. A few things, though. First, I would add 1-2 Blaze instead of Spire Barrage to the deck, to give the player the ability to scale. And second, Raging Goblin is quite underwhelming and loses value fast. I'd rather add a pinger as 1-drop, probably Goblin Fireslinger. Or maybe Bloodlust Inciter to give something else haste, or Goblin Arsonist to introduce a death trigger. Adding a sweeper, even a lesser one like Pyroclasm, is pobably a bad idea, but you could put Arc Lightning/Flames of the Firebrand/Pyrotechnics/etc. into the burn suite to make the deck able to deal with multiple threats and gain some card advantage. The green deck has some means for that, and I think that should be balanced out more.

In the green deck, the 8 mana dorks seem out of place, because there isn't really anything they would accellerate towards. I'd add a few of green's many big creatures, something that has trample even, like Colossal Dreadmaw (or Vulpine Goliath/Moss Kami if you think 6/6 is too much). Or simply something big and vanilla, like Colossapede. With only 20 lands, the green deck is also very much relying on its mana dorks to get to 4+ mana, which is troublesome when facing a burn heavy red deck. I'd simply reduce the dorks to about 6 and run 2 more Forests. Green is also one of the go-to colors for dealing with artifacts and enchantments, and the red deck has some that warrant dealing with, so about two Naturalizes seems like a good idea.

You could add a few vanilla artifact creatures to the decks, to introduce the concept of multiple card types as well as give the artifact hate in both decks some more targets.

For more inspiration, here's a thread, where I helped someone else build beginner decks and posted my own:
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/casual-multiplayer-formats/764583-help-me-build-decks-to-teach-my-kids

Hey sorry for replying this late, really busy these days. I can't deny it, I found that thread while deckbuilding and picked some ideas so thanks twice. Anyway, these are the changes I made:


New entries:
- Goblin Arsonist
- Dragon Hatchling (a more classic firebreather compared to Lavastep Raider, plus gives green a real pretext to run reach)
- Mogg Fanatic (replaces Lavastep Raider cmc-wise and Ember Hauler effect-wise, offers a teachable moment when compared with Goblin Arsonist or Goblin Cannon)
- Boggart Brute
- Stone Golem
- Arc Lightning



New entries:
- Reclamation Sage
- Giant Spider
- Yavimaya Wurm
- Enormous Baloth

Still haven't had the chance to test them though.