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Had my first Magic: The Gathering games yesterday: Any advice for newbie?
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RE: Had my first Magic: The Gathering games yesterday: Any advice for newbie?
Ok, it sounds like my guide would be too simple for you anyway then. It's mainly to do with common mistakes people make, and general playing strategies. But if you've played loads before it will probably be obvious to you.

Thanks for the heads up about this "wastes" thing, I've not heard of that! I'll check it out.

Edit: OK, I think I get it. I think it sounds bloody stupid at first glance. We'll see I guess. I've been unimpressed with their new ideas for a long time, I think they ran out of juice after the Urza block. It had a lot to do with why I stopped playing, we couldn't even be bothered to buy any singles from new sets for our draft box. But I'm a bitter old M:TG player who has gone through almost all of it, so don't listen to me Tongue

Edit again: Ah bollocks, I forgot the site that used to host the guide in question stopped hosting and it got lost.
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RE: Had my first Magic: The Gathering games yesterday: Any advice for newbie?
Rob... I have an interesting deck. I call it my "Un" deck. It's comprised entirely of cards from the Unhinged and the Cracked series. It's a lot of fun to play with. I put cards like Granny's payback in there. I have a combination of Word Mail and a 2/2 creature called Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made this Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental. Essentially, with that combination, I can bring out a 27/27 creature for a total of 4 mana. I also have a card with denimwalk in it. My daughter begs me to let her play that deck.
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(November 14, 2018 at 8:57 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Have a good day at work.  If we ever meet in a professional setting, let me answer your question now.  Yes, I DO want fries with that.
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#13
RE: Had my first Magic: The Gathering games yesterday: Any advice for newbie?
Lol, that sounds like a lot of fun! Big Grin

Ah yes, I remember seeing those un- cards, although I never got round to owning any.
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RE: Had my first Magic: The Gathering games yesterday: Any advice for newbie?
Well, given that I have a massive stockpile of MTG cards (Over 8000), I have at least 100 "un" cards. I especially love how they have their own set of rules outside of the standard MTG rules.
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(November 14, 2018 at 8:57 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Have a good day at work.  If we ever meet in a professional setting, let me answer your question now.  Yes, I DO want fries with that.
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RE: Had my first Magic: The Gathering games yesterday: Any advice for newbie?
My advice is this:

Buy cards.
Put cards in archival plastic.
Wait 30 years.
Sell cards.

You just won.
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RE: Had my first Magic: The Gathering games yesterday: Any advice for newbie?
I did something similar. I forgot to put them out of reach of my dog and she chewed up one of them. Doh!
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RE: Had my first Magic: The Gathering games yesterday: Any advice for newbie?
I don't know if this is allowed (the person I played against said there is no limit on creatures), but in my third game I managed to get like twelve creatures out. All I have is a beginners Blue/Green deck. The opponent had a high toughness creature - low strength - and was not getting the cards they needed so I kept bring out more creatures until I had a way to overcome their highly tough creature.

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RE: Had my first Magic: The Gathering games yesterday: Any advice for newbie?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Had my first Magic: The Gathering games yesterday: Any advice for newbie?
(May 10, 2016 at 3:35 pm)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: I don't know if this is allowed (the person I played against said there is no limit on creatures), but in my third game I managed to get like twelve creatures out. All I have is a beginners Blue/Green deck. The opponent had a high toughness creature - low strength - and was not getting the cards they needed so I kept bring out more creatures until I had a way to overcome their highly tough creature.

Yeah, there is no limit on creatures, only that you can't have more than four copies of a card in your deck, and there can't be more than one copy of a legendary card in play at a time.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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