I have been considering getting into Magic, and I wanted to use the Free Trial that MTGO offers to get a general feel for the game while I save money to get a real deck. However, every person I play completely wrecks me.
I have been playing the Black/Red Death Reaper deck, because I want to play Black when I eventually get some money, and it seemed like the most Black-themed deck.
My general strategy has been to hope I get enough Swamps in the early game to get some creatures down and attack before the other guy puts down a creature that mops the floor with mine (which is apparently all of them), is a flyer, or is green and puts down 15 lands. Or if I manage to get a Bogbrew Witch, to put out Bubbling Cauldron and sacrifice newts like it is something to do. I have won 1 out of maybe 30 games this way.
Can someone either recommend me one of the other decks or help me form a better strategy with the current one?
I was debating on getting a Mono Black Rats deck that I saw in the Budget Forums, since it was so cheap, but after looking at the Sliver deck, I really want to try it. My friend has a really good White/Green deck (my first time playing was using one of his decks vs him and another friend) that has a couple of creatures with Protect (one usually gets an enchantment that makes it end up with protect against Red, Blue, AND Black!), so that would be a good way to get around it.
In theme, though, I like that Black deck. Sacrificing, deck manipulation, that stuff looks like my kind of play, but from what I've read (which is a quite small amount), Mono color decks are becoming less useful in the modern game. What is your take on that?
which costs a bit more, but it'S not thtat steep of an investment and you should already have a feeling if you generally like the game. Because well, if you lost 29/30 games and still want to play I'd say you're interested^^
Ha, This is a good point. I guess that I AM pretty sure I want to play. I probably should've said that I wanted to practice.
Is Pauper something that is exclusively an online thing? I wanted to play with real cards, and I don't want to put any unnecessary restrictions on my self, as my money is enough of a limited factor :).
Pauper isn't really an online only thing, but I've never seen a LGS invest in it like MTGO does.
Mono color does well in pauper because dual lands have just started to exist at common.
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I have been playing the Black/Red Death Reaper deck, because I want to play Black when I eventually get some money, and it seemed like the most Black-themed deck.
My general strategy has been to hope I get enough Swamps in the early game to get some creatures down and attack before the other guy puts down a creature that mops the floor with mine (which is apparently all of them), is a flyer, or is green and puts down 15 lands. Or if I manage to get a Bogbrew Witch, to put out Bubbling Cauldron and sacrifice newts like it is something to do. I have won 1 out of maybe 30 games this way.
Can someone either recommend me one of the other decks or help me form a better strategy with the current one?
(Also, when is a good time to Mulligan?)
I was debating on getting a Mono Black Rats deck that I saw in the Budget Forums, since it was so cheap, but after looking at the Sliver deck, I really want to try it. My friend has a really good White/Green deck (my first time playing was using one of his decks vs him and another friend) that has a couple of creatures with Protect (one usually gets an enchantment that makes it end up with protect against Red, Blue, AND Black!), so that would be a good way to get around it.
In theme, though, I like that Black deck. Sacrificing, deck manipulation, that stuff looks like my kind of play, but from what I've read (which is a quite small amount), Mono color decks are becoming less useful in the modern game. What is your take on that?
Ha, This is a good point. I guess that I AM pretty sure I want to play. I probably should've said that I wanted to practice.
Is Pauper something that is exclusively an online thing? I wanted to play with real cards, and I don't want to put any unnecessary restrictions on my self, as my money is enough of a limited factor :).
Mono color does well in pauper because dual lands have just started to exist at common.