After a long time, I've decided to return, to this beautiful game of magic, with a few other friends also coming back from scratch.
I used to play from around the Tempest block and quit after the Kamigawa Block. Sold and gave away every single one of my cards.
So... Now after doing a little bit of research, I can easily tell the game has changed a bit, since I last played and I need some of you guys' advice on how to get started again.
Basicly I have 0 cards at my hands right now, same goes for my buddies and eventhough we know that it isn't money efficient to buy boosters/displays, we would all like to experience the good old feeling of opening some packs again, so for starters, we are going to all buy atleast one Display each. Im most likely going to end up buying 2-3 and maybe one of those lands packs ive seen (200 or 400 lands, cant recall)
Then after that i'll form a homebrew of an attempt to make a deck, just to get the old feeling back and then decide on what I want to play, as im curently debating wether to play a Control or Burn/Weenie deck.
However, after seeing the current prices, I don't think we will be heading straight into the whole P9 bulk and seeing that some formats has changed their names(atleast in my local shops calendar) perhaps some of you guys could tell me what the most popular bracket seems to be now? It used to be Type 2 back when I played the last time. Also keep in mind, that we dont have the ability to grab the entire P9 + Duals to get ourselves a functional top tier deck yet, so I assume that the Type 2, which I believe is called "Standard" nowadays? Correct? or maybe Modern, which I haven't got the whole grasp of yet, would be more suited for us.
Anyways, this has turned into a long wall of text, which I apologies for, but if you made it this far through the thread, could you guys point me in a corection of what displays I should aim for? What holds values to trade/sell after somme time or where may I find more useful cards? Keep in mind the displays are the newer versions, so no vintage Legends displays or something like that.
I'm looking forward to see your answers, thanks in advance.
The game has changed more than just a bit since Kamigawa. The legend rule, which was changed with Kamigawa, has changed again (Now every player can have the same legend at the same time, and gets to keep the one of his choice even he ends up with multiples). Combat damage doesn't use the stack anymore. Mana burn is gone. Planeswalkers were introduced and changed over time (the new set War of the Spark brought a lot of them, even at lower rarities). There's the Mythic Rare rarity, which is rarer than rare (about 1 in 8 packs has a mythic instead of a rare). The mulligan rule was changed to let the player do a free scry 1 when he keeps after a mulligan. You have a lot to read up on in regards to the rules. Don't take anything you remember of the rules for granted.
Play formats also changed. Standard (what you remember as Type 2) is still a rotating format, it rotates every year in fall. Still allows the last two years worth of sets. It is the only remaining rotating official format. Extended (Type 1.5?) is gone. Modern is a nonrotating format that allows all cards from sets since 8th edition. Commander is the officially adopted EDH format. Pauper allows only cards that were at some point printed at common. Etc. Lots of variety to explore. But tournament play is expensive no matter the format.
If you guys all go out to buy booster displays, I strongly recommend to do some Limited games with the packs. In Sealed every player gets 6 packs from the same sets, and those cards plus basic lands are the card pool to build 40+ card decks from to then play against each other. In Draft, every player passes around the packs he gets, each time picking only one card to fill up the card pool to then build a 40+ card deck with (again basic lands are free and don't have to be drafted). Limited makes for fun swingy games where everyone is on a much more level playing field, and you get to actually play with many of the cards that otherwise just end up as chaff.
For deck building, keep the basics in mind, and only deviate from them after careful contemlating the consequences and needs of the deck. Land base should be around 24 lands in 60 cards (a little less for aggro, more for control). The deck should stay at 60 or at least not much more cards. Have a plan. Have ways to interact with your opponent. Have something to play at every stage of the game.
I can't comment on value buys and tournament decks, but you can check out the format sections of the forum to get an overview.
After a long time, I've decided to return, to this beautiful game of magic, with a few other friends also coming back from scratch.
I used to play from around the Tempest block and quit after the Kamigawa Block. Sold and gave away every single one of my cards.
So... Now after doing a little bit of research, I can easily tell the game has changed a bit, since I last played and I need some of you guys' advice on how to get started again.
Basicly I have 0 cards at my hands right now, same goes for my buddies and eventhough we know that it isn't money efficient to buy boosters/displays, we would all like to experience the good old feeling of opening some packs again, so for starters, we are going to all buy atleast one Display each. Im most likely going to end up buying 2-3 and maybe one of those lands packs ive seen (200 or 400 lands, cant recall)
Then after that i'll form a homebrew of an attempt to make a deck, just to get the old feeling back and then decide on what I want to play, as im curently debating wether to play a Control or Burn/Weenie deck.
However, after seeing the current prices, I don't think we will be heading straight into the whole P9 bulk and seeing that some formats has changed their names(atleast in my local shops calendar) perhaps some of you guys could tell me what the most popular bracket seems to be now? It used to be Type 2 back when I played the last time. Also keep in mind, that we dont have the ability to grab the entire P9 + Duals to get ourselves a functional top tier deck yet, so I assume that the Type 2, which I believe is called "Standard" nowadays? Correct? or maybe Modern, which I haven't got the whole grasp of yet, would be more suited for us.
Anyways, this has turned into a long wall of text, which I apologies for, but if you made it this far through the thread, could you guys point me in a corection of what displays I should aim for? What holds values to trade/sell after somme time or where may I find more useful cards? Keep in mind the displays are the newer versions, so no vintage Legends displays or something like that.
I'm looking forward to see your answers, thanks in advance.
- Provo
Play formats also changed. Standard (what you remember as Type 2) is still a rotating format, it rotates every year in fall. Still allows the last two years worth of sets. It is the only remaining rotating official format. Extended (Type 1.5?) is gone. Modern is a nonrotating format that allows all cards from sets since 8th edition. Commander is the officially adopted EDH format. Pauper allows only cards that were at some point printed at common. Etc. Lots of variety to explore. But tournament play is expensive no matter the format.
If you guys all go out to buy booster displays, I strongly recommend to do some Limited games with the packs. In Sealed every player gets 6 packs from the same sets, and those cards plus basic lands are the card pool to build 40+ card decks from to then play against each other. In Draft, every player passes around the packs he gets, each time picking only one card to fill up the card pool to then build a 40+ card deck with (again basic lands are free and don't have to be drafted). Limited makes for fun swingy games where everyone is on a much more level playing field, and you get to actually play with many of the cards that otherwise just end up as chaff.
For deck building, keep the basics in mind, and only deviate from them after careful contemlating the consequences and needs of the deck. Land base should be around 24 lands in 60 cards (a little less for aggro, more for control). The deck should stay at 60 or at least not much more cards. Have a plan. Have ways to interact with your opponent. Have something to play at every stage of the game.
I can't comment on value buys and tournament decks, but you can check out the format sections of the forum to get an overview.
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