Back to back board wipes still get me 😂. As players become more experienced, it is also important to try to recognize what type of deck your opponent has and to play accordingly rather than just playing "magic solitaire." For example, if going against a mono blue deck that likely has counterspells, you might want to wait until you have extra mana to play some cards or see if you can wait for an opening when they tap most of their mana. Or when playing against some black decks, save removal for Sheoldred or phyrexian obliterator
There's nothing you can do about that, the grand perspective is rock paper scissors, if you try to answer everything your strategy gets more vague, Your deck is countered by board wipes, and may only have a few answers or none at all
Exactly, I've started playing recently and I have a blue/ black deck build around shoeldred and card drawing.. unfortunately it works only if you get him Early, otherwise the Deck is quite useless tbh 😂
Different color, and color combinations, play very differently. Mono blue, or blue/white plays very differently than mono red or black/red. When making a new deck, or deck style, I like to play against spark a few times to get the feel of it -- then go ladder and make small (1 or 2 card) tweaks as needed. Good vid!
This is brilliant and exactly what I needed. Subscribed. I haven’t played mtg since I was a teen and got into arena a few days ago. I’ve got a dozen hours already and I’ve been getting stomped so hopefully this helps that change 😂
Thank you for these videos! Subscribed! I was introduced to the world of Magic through MTG Arena from last week. My friend thought the intro to Bloomburrow would be the right time - it worked. I’m a huge fan. I’m still making frequent mistakes and my win percentage is laughably low, but I’m loving the learning process. Thanks for all these videos for newcomers - it makes the whole process far less overwhelming. 😁
I know what you mean, but it really isn't. If your first hand is almost unplayable, then playing a more reasonable hand with one card less is much better. And you never know what kind of hand your opponent kept either, so one piece of early interaction can often make them scoop.
Great idea. Have you seen any other guides on how to build decks? Do you feel there's any particular information that's missing? I can do a good general guide for beginners. I'll add it to my list.
I don't know if this helps, and obviously it doesn't apply to commander, or brawl. But I have always told beginning deck builders about the 20/20/20 rule. Just a guideline, but it does help. That means 20 lands, 20 creatures, 20 spells. And it's approximate but if you stick close to that you will find it a little easier to put decks together. Also, don't spread yourself too thin. Sometimes it's tempting to try to much, but typically a deck is better if it does one thing really well. Then play it against a variety of decks to find any glaring weaknesses and see if you can't tweak accordingly. And don't be discouraged by lopsided losses. Objectively consider if it wasn't just a bad draw against a good draw, because it happens and may make you change things that were fine. Last thing is to try to avoid dead card scenarios, like I really have to be blown away by auras (enchant creatures) in a competitive setting because if there are no creatures in play, that card has no possible use! Hope that helps
I would watch these videos about how the rules work a while ago on SCG. Perhaps an idea to redo those as they must be outdated by now. Judges corner it is called. Great stuff
Just want to say that i recently played against several people cast spells bestowing vigilance to a creature, suffering from summoning sickness, until end of turn. Don't do this, please. And for some reason i find newer players struggling with "target player" and hurting themselves or their permanents maybe not realizing that you can direct that part of the spell toward me? Idk. I like a good game, do i appreciate these vids, i also would like to see more videos helping show ways to defend against a$$hole players that really think infinite combos on turn three are fun for anybody. 🤷
Thanks for your comments. The best way to defend against infinite combo decks is to recognise what the opponent is aiming for, anticipating how likely it is, and making sure you use removal or counterspells to stop the combo from happening when they try it. They tend to be decks that are terrible without the combo pieces.
@@gameschooldadMTG yes, I guess I'm asking for a video that shows the most common cards used in Infinite combos that seem innocent by themselves. Like a video on what to look for and maybe how many turns you might have after one piece hits the board
Though reading the cards only gets you so far. I just started arena (last played MTG in 2007 or so and back then we made our own interpretations of rules) and made a cheap mono blue jinn deck (after all bouncing and countering everything still works the same and this way I don't have to read every new ability. Also I am just pure evil I guess) and ran into some weird enchantment deck. They started and put down a 1 drop that gains +1/+1 counters everytime they played an enchantment. I let the next drop as well as I thought as long as I was countering any enchantment I would be good. Low and behold my surprise when they played an enchantment next turn and I countered as planned - just that those pesky one drops still got their ability triggers. However when I want to play a "return target blablabla to hand" card, I can't on the drop, whereas white has a "return spell to hand, draw a card" card. So I assumed that as long as the card is in the limbo of being dropped it just counted as a xyz-spell. So what do they count as when they are about to be dropped? Just spells or spell and e.g. creature at the same time? However why can't I use a "return target creature to hand card" like "fading hope" before it hits the board in the latter case while it still triggers abilities of other cards as if it were already deployed on the field?
Everything point you bring up here is covered in the video. Reading the cards and understanding the rules would help answer all of your questions. The 1-drop in the enchantment deck is Generous Visitor, which triggers the +1 counter on 'casting' an enchantment spell. This triggers before the enchantment resolves and hits the battlefield, so even if you counter the spell, it was still 'cast' and the trigger still resolves. You can't bounce a creature spell as it's being cast with Fading Hope because it isn't a creature until it resolves. That would be countering the spell. When a card is in your hand, it is referred to as a 'card', when it is in the process of being cast, it is called a 'spell' and when it is on the battlefield it is referred to as its type, e.g. 'creature'. I hope that helps to clarify the rules. It's fine to make up your own interpretation when you're playing between friends, but on Arena it's going to carry out the rules as intended and if you understand the nuances between different terms you'll find it much less frustrating.
@@gameschooldadMTG Thank you for the explanation. Perhaps I should change my language setting to English as the confusion seems to be coming from the German translation in which an enchantment is a "Verzauberung" and casting is "zaubern" (spell = Zauber) so the card text reads "wirkst" instead to probably avoid confusion, however this means something along the lines of "bring into effect", which read to me like it would have to hit the board and be, well, in effect. Thanks again for the clarification and explanation =) really enjoying your content as a pretty much total noob
If there is a thing i dont understand too much is blocking because the game chose with who i am going to block first like i have two or three 1/1 but for example one had double strike and i chose to block first with the 1/1 who do nothing and then with the other and the game rearrange the thing the one who is strong block first and die and then the one useless survive why ?
My most error was to invoke crearures before combat, and then I had all my mana tapped.. I've have learned that with the time.. Now my most common error is to not know exactly all about the card with a lot of text, and then I forgot some abilities (or can't be able to anticipate all about abilities that the opponent could resolve). That can make a lot of difference in endgame I think when the board is "closed".
There have been times when I've lost 7 times in a row due to bad luck or just horrible matchups. Is there any particular part that you feel is too complicated?
Just go mono blue, they can't bamboozle you if you don't let them play. Also just started out arena after having played some homebrew MTG as a child/teen 15+ years ago, have gotten to so far to silver in a couple of days with just one loss due to me not understanding some card interaction. (Probably should have lost more but most just quit if after the third counterspell turn in a row you still leave 2 mana open while holding a sneaky land ^^). It's also very cheap, got the required materials just from the fresh account booster and some reward booster packs from the lotr event after 2 days playing (probably could have gotten them even faster if I had spend my gold on packs instead of restarting the event over and over again to get cool new cards, only to discover afterwards that I can't use them in normal play)
Hi game school dad , I'm new to the game (very new) and just started playing and I found your content very useful i want to say thanks for it. Il But I have my concern that I want to play full free to play mode for some time now maybe 1 or 2 years I want to know that is it possible to do so in mtga and if yes then what deck or cards is the way to go
It's definitely possible to be entirely free to play. I didn't spend anything on the game in the first year or two and I didn't have any problems at all building a variety of decks. You have to be more selective with your use of wildcards, but it's not a big deal. The best deck types to use are the ones that tend to use fewer rare and mythic cards. There are some really good deck types in red and blue in particular that work pretty well without lots of rares.
I bought one thing (beginner's intro bundle?) but now get by fine just playing every 2-3 days for free. I do try to check the daily deals every day and refresh quests to 750 gold. I play a few limited games (sealed premium) to get enough gems for the mastery pass, then mostly buy packs, with regards to building your collection, the golden pack rewards means that buying packs is roughly equal to going 3-3 in limited.
Why would someone who thinks playing is a mistake, not worth bothering with, watch this video, let alone leave a comment. Certainly not someone that I would take advice from. Like, why bother indeed?
