I'm Cody, and I've just recently got into magic myself, having bought a single Tezzeret, Cruel Machinist deck and a few extra cards for improvement. I think I've gotten pretty invested, my Card Kingdom already has $700 (USD) of cards to buy. If anyone has any suggestions on how to work a little smarter to get cheaper prices I'd love to hear them
I’ve never had any fear of the pre-con decks this season except for the white one (can’t remember the name) and I certainly don’t play the top deck. In addition, I believe that Core 2019 will rotate out this Fall (someone correct me?) so investing $700 in improving a deck whose key components may rotate out might not be the best use of the money.
I would suggest to assemble a (cheaper) deck that shows rotation resiliency such as Red Aggro/Burn or White Aggro or Blue Control that won’t suffer a significant loss of cards on rotation.
Once rotation happens or you hit upon another deck that won’t suffer too much then it would make sense to pump the money into that deck.
I’m also assuming you wish to get into Standard. Non-rotating formats will have different investment rules. In which case I would suggest an entirely different deck regardless.
I think I made my statement about the $700 a bit confusing.
Apologies.
Those $700 are going to be used between 6 different decks, built with the guidance of some articles (I have no deck-building experience in MTG and don't trust myself to make one without more research on it) the most expensive deck being I believe $225.
Otherwise, thank you for the advice!
Since a specific format wasn't mentioned, I moved the post to the casual forums. If the deck is for a certain format like Standard or Modern, feel free to say so and I will move the post to the appropriate forum.
I would suggest to assemble a (cheaper) deck that shows rotation resiliency such as Red Aggro/Burn or White Aggro or Blue Control that won’t suffer a significant loss of cards on rotation.
Once rotation happens or you hit upon another deck that won’t suffer too much then it would make sense to pump the money into that deck.
I’m also assuming you wish to get into Standard. Non-rotating formats will have different investment rules. In which case I would suggest an entirely different deck regardless.
Apologies.
Those $700 are going to be used between 6 different decks, built with the guidance of some articles (I have no deck-building experience in MTG and don't trust myself to make one without more research on it) the most expensive deck being I believe $225.
Otherwise, thank you for the advice!