Magic 102: Building Your First Deck (Magic Arena) 

Yeah, it's also hard to search through like 5 years of viable magic card sets, and one of them are always going to be taken off by the next season so you need to try to build within the legal meta.

Is your gamer pic the dark sign form dark souls? If so than hell yea my gamer go get them filthy casuals till they git gud!

That's something to figure out for yourself (if you have not yet). You have the foundation, now you have to build upon it. You just have to test your deck following the curves mentioned in the video.

YES

@@cthuluke5570 yes...indeed. it is the dark sign

I agree, I just started a week ago. Been 17 years since I last played magic.

Glad you liked it!

wot

bruh have you even played duels of the planeswalkers of the past 10 years

You're damn right. the algorithms going on in this thing are insane. Same reason the actual tabletop game intimidated me way back when...all those ability triggers and counters and to keep track of.

Guilty as charged

This isn't entirely a joke btw, rat colony deck is pretty decent, just need to put removal, some card advantage in there and some other stuff like the dude who makes them unlockable

Lol, but why though.

@@basicpigeonbee dimir is an option, running passwall adept

@@nv_johan8711 isn't tetsuko umezawa fugitive better?

@@basicpigeonbee oh yeah, but rats buff eachother right?

Thanks!

very help ful ill try to build a red black deck now

Weird flex

@@VinIchiban my first thought lol

Look up untap but I see this is from 8 months ago. Hope you figured it out

He sounds terrible, great, informative video, but his voice cracks are like a chalkboard having its shit pushed in by a racoon.

The easiest way to beat these decks are to, stop playing and run away.

Dang 2 years ago

It’s the vault it puts cards that you open more than 4 of and gives you cards when it reaches 100%

Thanks for your answer , so I guess it will show up when i get 5th of same card or I'm missing some files in my client cuz i can't see it !!

@@Abo3dlY02 Your vault progress is hidden until you get to 100% on your vault. Having a 5th copy of a card gives a "small" percentage of vault progress, a 5th copy of a Mythic is only about 1.2% vault progress and lower rarity cards offer even less progress. Opening packs also progress your vault also.

Thanks Daniel

This is actually the second worst thing about arena (behind only the Vault). Back in closed beta I experimented with a Flame of Keld deck running as low as 16 lands - if I'm not mistaken - and it was way more consistent than it should ever be. I understand trying to minimize mana flood/screw, but I just wish they'd use a regular shuffler/first hand randomizer

@@lucasenraraujo I've lowered my deck's land count by 2-4 for every single deck I run on arena vs the real counterpart and I've had the exact same results as you're describing

Hmm, I don't think it should be that drastic. Best of one matches on Arena have some unique rules about how you get your opening hand, but they should be so impactful that you play up to four less lands than normal.

best of one matches are a different meta, and you can and should take into account the shuffler for that. I can tell you for sure that flame of keld deck couldnt possibly be good in best of 3/competitive constructed

@@SilverAlex92 I still don't see how this warrants land fixing in a best-of-1 meta. Land fixing undermines decks that use more lands and gives unfair advantages to decks that use less lands. Why spend the time to perfectly construct your manabase for efficiency if you can just get it fixed in your opening hand? Land fixing should not define a meta, the decks and ratios should

You won't see them until you select your first spell card. Then they'll appear just underneath it.

Ghalta won't be that good, since you're not running many highpowered creatures. You need some removal. Fight with fire seems perfect, also play something like lava coil. Treassure map would help this deck alot with flooding issues. shaper's sanctuary isn't that good in a deck with this little creatures. pellaka worm is really good, carnage tyrant if you can afford it. Wayword swordtooth won't be that good in this deck, you'll probably get a maximum of 1 extra land drop.

I'll try my best to explain what I think but I'm not a pro so don't take what I say too directly. First of all, I think the ramp shell is ok, not too much things, but you should figure out after each game if it was too much or not. I don't really like any of the enchantment you're playing. They are not part of your win plan. You should really focus on the main goals of your deck : ramp, cast big spells, and don't die. Your big spells are cool, I don't find Ghalta particularly appropriated here, it's easily destroyed or exiled, and I'd rather play a more sticky creature like the Carnage Tyrant. If it drops fast enough, it will still be an enormous threat for your opponent. The don't die shell is clearly not enough there. Drop your enchantment for tools to deal with aggro decks : you need to be able to kill Benalish Marshals, Wildgrowth Walkers, Drakes, etc. Lava Coil and Fight with Fire are good options (lava coil exiles, it's extremely important against golgari). You dont have access to easy life gain against red aggro, check if you can survive in matches. If I could give you one crazy card for you deck, try out Sarkhan's Unsealing. If you can survive one turn after dropping it and cast a Carnage Tyrant after, it's an instant win against all aggro decks (80% of the meta). But playing too more copies is dangerous, don't play more than two I think. Another crazy choice would be Goreclaw, I personally really like these two cards. Oh and also, Etali is crazy bad xD

RedSPINE thanks for the advice I’ll definitely take it into consideration but is Etali really that bad it seems to have a pretty bonkers affect to me XD I mean like casting a teferi off the top of your opponents library sounds like a dream

I think you're going a little too big here. You have almost 20 ramp cards, and the payoffs aren't good enough. I'd drop Grow and Circuitous route, and put in more dinosaurs. Regisaur Alpha is a standout, and Carnage Tyrant gives you a big top end that's hard to kill. You could also go Drover of the Mighty > Elfhame. I would also try and add more removal like Lava Coil and Thrashing Brontodon so you can interact with opposing decks. Shaper's sanctuary is more of a sideboard card, Apex of Power is impractically expensive, and Sunbird's Invocation is a 6 drop that doesn't do anything the turn you play it.

This Deck needs carnage tyrants, maybe instead of the etallis, also you are running way to many rampspells, they are basically dead draws when you have enough lands later in the game. I'd switch some out for removal. Fight with fire would be a good one here. Maybe even banefire. I also would play regisaur alpha in any red-green list. The card is just bonkers

Looks like Ral to me

no it's Ral

@@ClubbingSealCub I was so excited

If I understand what you are saying Wildcards are for crafting new cards and they are stacked next to the gold if you hover over the flower icon it will tell you how many cards you can craft

@@EliDjahn iknow that thanks tho i just saw some early beta content where they were shown as cards in your collection

Me

No....

Lol

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Well you're trading life for consistency

@@redspine2859 life doesnt matter in eternal formats. Ban fetch lands and itll have more impact as people will be forced to change their decks up to manage that change. It also prevents cheating in events that have formats that allow fetch lands. Really isnt a downside to their banning.

"But I just bought 4 scalding tarns, these were expensive, i'd be pretty mad if they get banned now" -that's why they can't ban them

That's not true, there are alot of 1 and 2 mana decks in modern, 3 color is common, but there are next to no decks running more then 3 colors. And fetch lands are just the best designed land cycle in magic, having alot of different usages. If you want to ban sth., ban shocks or original duals if you really if you won't less consistent mana.

Why comment "first"?

brokenswmr cuz why not

Cause it does nothing, hahaha

3rd

6.

You old or something?

the only real difference between magic duels and arena is that when the cards are on the battlefield, arena reduces them to "tiles" that only show the card name and card art but if you hover your mouse over any such tile it shows you the whole card. I think this is better than Magic Duels where you have to use your mouse wheel to zoom into the cards.

What's wrong with that?

lol wtf

@@seankcn He's right, you know. Check out his early vids and it's clear that his voice is an affectation.