New Player - First Deck Build Advice
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Posted on Aug. 5, 2011, 7:25 p.m. by Twince
Hi everyone,, I have only just started playing MTG and I am finding it rather difficult to decide what direction to build my first deck.. I have bought several intro decks and lots of boosters,, I think I would have enough cards to build several ok-ish decks, but would need some advice on where to start?.. Would it be ok if i listed my card collection,, then you guys helped me out with some slections for a deck??
Thanks in advance - Terry
DeckBuilder345 says... #3
Well my thoughts on this matter are several. First i would say pick some of the intro decks that you like and then fish out all the cards of those colors you have and add them along w/ the intro deck cards to a deck here online, and that way we can look at your deck and your available cards and give you suggestions on what to add / take out etc.
I would do this with every deck that you want to build. Be happy to help you out once you get all that data entered. Post here or maybe on my wall to better get my attention so that i can make some comments on your decks to help you narrow them down/ build them once you have them posted.
Ways you can decide how to build your deck.
- Pick a theme you like
- Pick an intro deck you like
- Pick a tribe you like
- Pick two colors you like
Next - visualize based on the constraint you have just given yourself how you want to win the game. Quick creature based agro? Casting an ovverun effect? Stall till late game and hit em w/ some big beater creatures?
Finally flesh out the rest of your deck to allow you to achieve your desired win state.
August 5, 2011 10:50 p.m.
Right,, Here goes. This is a list of every card I have,, as for choices, I would like to build a green creature / ramp type deck, as well as a black red aggro deck... but see what you think and if there is an alternative deck that would be better, please let me know,,, i really really need advice on what to use!!! Thanks all
Red cards
Goblin fireslinger x4
Goblin Grenade
Shock x3
Goblin Arsonist
Furnace Scamp x2
Crimson Mage x3
FIreball
Stormblood Berserker x3
Goblin Tunneler x2
Incinerate x2
Goblin Warpaint x2
Goblin Piker
Fling x2
Whipflare
Slaughter Cry x2
Blood Ogre x5
Manic Vandal x4
Act of Treason x2
Goblin Chieftain
Volt Charge
Vulshok Refugee
Koths Courier
Fiery Hellhound x2
Scrapyard Salvo
Prodigal Pyromancer
Blisterstick Shaman x2
Ogre Menial
Gorehorn Minotaurs x3
Tectonic Rift x2
Chandras Outrage
Tormentor Exarch x2
Lightning Elemental x3
Goblin Bangchuckers x3
Ruthless Invasion x2
Artillerize x4
Scoria Elemental
Lava Axe x2
Bonebreaker Giant x2
Flameborn Viron x3
Flameblast Dragon x2
Volcanic Dragon
Warstorm Surge
FuryBorn Hellkite
Ancient Hellkite
Scrambleverse x3
Black Cards
Surgical Extraction
Taste Of Blood x2
Despise
Disentomb x3
Tormented Soul x3
Reassembling Skeleton x2
Glistening Oil
Geths Verdict x6
Go For The Throat
Onyx Mage
Child Of Night x2
Sorins Thirst x4
Doom Blade
Dark Favor x2
Duskhunter Bat x5
Phyresis x2
Blood Seeker x2
Zombie Infestation
Dismember
Bloodrage Vampire x3
Mind Rot
Hideous Visage x4
Warpath Ghoul
Grim Affliction
Blistergrub x2
Phyrexian Rager x2
Morbid Plunder
Devouring Swarm
Parasitic Implant x2
Entomber Exarch x2
Phyrexian Vatmother
Vampire Outcasts x3
Mortis Dogs
Gravedigger
Instill Infection
Zombie Goliath
Spread The Sickness
Enslave x2
Toxic Nim
Caustic Hound x2
Ichor Explosion
Consume Spirit
Chancellor Of The Dross
Blue Cards
Phantasmal Bear x2
Flight x3
Unsummon x2
Gitaxian Probe x3
Lord Of The Unreal
Jaces Erasure x3
Coral Merfolk x2
Psychic Barrier
Blighted Agent
Mana Leak
Turn To Frog x3
Oculus
Negate x3
Ice Cage
Turn The Tide
Flashfreeze x2
Jaces Archivist
Neurok Commando
Arm With Ether
Neurok Invisimancer
Trinket Mage
Frost Breath x2
Phantasmal Dragon
Vedalken Infuser
Impaler Shrike x2
Amphin Cutthroat x3
Chasm Drake
Mind Control
Sky-Eel School
Corrupted Conscience
Spire Serpent
Jace, Memory Adept
Chained Throatseeker
Chancellor Of The Spires
August 8, 2011 5:44 p.m.
Green Cards
Fog x2
Autumns Veil
Glistener Elf
Mirran Mettle
Rampant Growth x3
Mutaggenic Growth x2
Llanowar Elves x4
Naturalize
Garruks Companion x3
Birds Of Paradise
Reclaim
Lurking Crocodile
Greater Basilisk
Garruks Horde
Acidic Slime x2
Overrun x3
Arachnus Spinner x2
Primeval Titan
Chancellor Of The Tangle x2
Viridian Harvest
Gladecover Scout x2
Titanic Growth x2
Plummet x2
Hunters Insight x2
Lure
Tel-Jilad Defiance
Lifesmith
Death-Hood Cobra x2
Runeclaw Bear x5
Rot Wolf
Mycosynth Fiend
Archanus Web x5
Trollhide x3
Brindle Boar x2
Blightwiddow
Tangle Mantis
Cudgel Troll
Giant Spider x6
Bountiful Harvest
Stampeding Rhino x4
Stingerfling Spider x4
Vastwood Gorger x2
Spinebiter
Thundering Tanadon
Maul Splicer
White Cards
Gideons Lawkeeper
Demystify
Pride Guardian
Stave Off
Lifelink x3
Mighty Leap
Armoured Warhorse
Whitesuns Passage
Celestial Purge
Spirit Mantle
Alavbaster Mage x2
Divine Offering
Divine Favor x2
Leonin Skyhunter
Lost Leonin x2
Suture Priest x4
Stormfront Pegasus x4
Masters Call
Guardians Pledge x2
Roc Egg
Auramancer
Benalish Veteran x2
Griffin Sentinel
War Report
Arbalest Elite
Assault Griffin
Master Splicer x2
Angels Mercy x3
Siege Mastodon x2
Banishment Decree
Shattered Angel
Serra Angel x2
Peregrine Griffin x2
Aegis Angel
Victories Herald
Artifact Cards
Greatsword x2
Quicksilver Amulet
Isolation Cell
Sylvok Lifestaff
Swiftfoot Boots
Crumbling Colossus x2
Pth Driller x2
Myr Reservoir
Pristine Talisman x2
Elixir Of Immortality
Rusted Sentinel x2
Hovermyr x2
Shrine Of Boundless Growth
Vault Skirge x3
Silver Myr
Shrine Of Burning Rage
Tower Of Calamities
Spined Thopter
Bladed Sentinel
Auriok Replica
Dragons Claw
Angels Feather
Thran Golem
Soul Conduit
Rusted Relic
Spin Engine
Hex Parasite
Mycosynth Wellspring
Conversion Chamber
Necropouncer
Skinwing
Piston Sledge
Flayer Husk
Glacial Fortress
Ichor Wellspring
Plague Myr
Rusted Slasher
Shrine Of Piercing Vision
Surge Node
Tumble Magnet
Wall Of Tanglecord
Elixir Of Immortality
Scepter Of Empires x2
Throne Of Empires
Thran Golem
Manalith
August 8, 2011 5:46 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #6
That list is next to impossible to use properly. I put together a list using the deckbuilder that will help everyone give advice, since we can sort it by color, type, etc.
Copy and paste this into your own list and we can get to work:
deck:twince_s-list
August 8, 2011 6:06 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #8
Nothing appears to be showing up. I transferred everything into a list in the description. Copy that and paste it into the mainboard of your list.
Carn13 says... #2
A list would be very helpful.
August 5, 2011 8:30 p.m.