• denast@lemm.ee
    7·
    8 months ago

    Recently started to get into MTG. Biggest problem I encountered is that you want to spend money sensibly, but you can’t really grasp the idea of deck power before you play hundreds of games with different decks.

    Because of it I can’t build my own decks since I have no idea how to make them viable, and can’t choose a strong deck online for the same reason. Precons are nice but even in casual setting they only get you so far

    • BillyTheSkidMark@lemm.ee
      2·
      8 months ago

      When I played, back when I was a late teen, I didn’t generally care about winning so much as pulling off cool combos or winning in a stupid way. I just found cards that worked together.

      Depends what your goal is. Like most games, if it’s to win you have to get sweaty.

      I liked how mtg let you get real creative to pull off a semi viable deck with insane mechanics, even if it was strictly worse than “the correct” way to play

    • dirtySourdough@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 months ago

      This is why so many people play drafts at local game shops. It achieves two things: 1) you get experience playing the game with a limited number of unique cards and everyone has similar chances of getting the cards they want and need and 2) you build your collection by keeping the cards you drafted and winning additional packs if you won any games. There are plenty of people at these shops that would be willing to help you with deck building too.

      • Ilflish@lemm.ee
        1·
        8 months ago

        I spent about 3 years trying to get into various tcg and drafts was easily the best. There are still try hards but they height is reading the release list so it’s basically “dude, we got a Dinoraxis of the Tyberior” “Hell yeah, there’s a rosaro here as well”. And then they play similarly leveled decks. Thankfully MTG is way better at intermediate levels then Pokémon or YuGiOh. People who play those games actively don’t want fresh blood the way they play.