Standard Tournaments [HELP!]
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Posted on July 15, 2013, 4:57 a.m. by UlyssesCant
I'm very new to MTG. I have played many casual standard games and seem to win more than lose. However, I just recently started trying to play tournaments IRL and on Magic Online, and I'm just getting smoked. It seems the opponent just lays 8 different types of land cards and then out of no where I'm dead. Any tips or links to STD Tourny tips?
BURN decks are my favorite, but it just seems out of the question in standard tournaments...?
All feedback is appreciated!
read this article on deckbuilding: http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/rc/188 it will help your deck get to that "out of nowhere they're dead" level and it should help you understand how other decks work.
Watch Starcity game's video stream of their life tournaments on Saturdays to give you a good feeling of how certain decks are played and the various levels of thinking when expert players play against each other.
Read articles from Starcity games or tcgplayer or the mothership (the website the above link sends you to).
Finally play tons of games against tournament players or even just use their deck lists and play against yourself. Experience gains work a lot in real life like they do in video games, you'll always get more xp when you beat a stronger opponent than you do if you only farm the weak, though unlike video games your xp diminishes if you don't keep playing strong opponents or if you try to farm only the same strong opponents repeatedly. (currently I'm experiencing this problem of diminished xp from simply moving and playing at more casual LSG's (local game stores))
July 15, 2013 5:13 a.m.
LeaPlath he's building for standard and I think he's really new to the site and has yet to build a deck here (which the deckbuilder here helps a lot btw UlyssesCant).
MollyMab says... #2
Burn decks can work, just depends on the build.
What format you going for and link one of your burn decks?
July 15, 2013 5:06 a.m.