I’ve recently started playing magic on MTGA, mostly played with a life gain starter deck that I modified using couple suggestions that I found on the internet. Now that the new season has started I thought I should try making my own deck, but after hours of staring at the card list I am lost, it seems like there are both too many cards and too few if you look for specific interactions if I try to theme the deck around it. How do you pick the core cards, where do you draw the inspiration from and how long does it take for you to build a deck?
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Does sound like you would end up with a pretty functional deck. I can see this doing rather well especially in the casual format.
For me it’s usually as follows:
- Find a card or theme I’m interested in
- Add some other cards that go well with the theme or card I chose first
- Add lands and dual lands for the colors I’m using
- My friend tells me that this card is banned or these ones aren’t format-legal
- Start over from step 1
I’ve experienced something similar where I have imported a deck from somewhere because it looked interesting, crafted it on MTGA, played couple matches against the bot to familiarize with it, just to learn later that more than half of the deck is not standard legal… Well at least now I know that I should check what format that deck was built for. Luckily it was a budget deck with no rares.
