https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/budget-beginner-teaching-decks-1-green/
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/budget-beginner-teaching-decks-2-red/
^^ the two decks I used, I played green and the ai was red. Still getting the hang of this game but with over like 50k cards in the library and endless combos it's so deep. The AI is quite smart on Forge too. I've never played MTG in my life so this is all new to me.
Oh hell yeah, nice. I just rediscovered my love for mtg after not playing for decade(s). There's a seemingly endless amount of depth to the game. I have barely touched a video game for months now because I have been spending all my game time working on decks and planning builds or just looking up cards. There's just so much strategy and mechanics to chew on.
I just wish it was more affordable. I forgot how expensive it is
Buy or make proxies, don't play with pretentious assholes that refuse to play someone with proxies because of x, y , or z, make them distinguishable from a real one so you don't get accused of x, y, or z , and have fun. There's no reason to drop thousands on cardboard, ink, and glue.
Edit: also MTG can become an easy allegorical teaching tool for flaws of capitalism, and may or may not be used to radicalize those who are reachable through gameplay and them realizing 9/10 times it's a pay to win game.
I've been trying to use it as a teaching tool and I've had minor to no success so far. One guy is already off the lib train and another two are Reddit gamers but I'm doing my best lol
Forge is free and open source if you're looking to play against an ai and test things out.
That's awesome. I'm going to check that out. The only digital mtg game I've tried was arena. It was ok.
Forge is pretty neat, it's part sim and part game, it's even got a quest mode.
get into Pauper then. Commons only, top tier competitive decks are usually less than $100, and that's assuming you even want to get competitive.
Pauper is cool but a lot of the interesting card interactions for me start at uncommon and above
I play mono red so any card with more than 8 words of rules text is bullshit to me
Yeah the game costs a lot if you're trying to do everything. For the best bang for your buck I'd look at trying Commander with one of the pre-built decks and buy singles to upgrade. Either that or get into Draft. Constructed formats are the real money pits.
Commander is great. That's a new format for me so I just started playing. I started with a precon and have been building from there. I pretty much exclusively play commander now lol