Save your set of Wildcards you get as a new player, and keep earning more with gold and the weekly quests.

Research what you really want.  If you get impatient and use your wild cards to buy cards to work your way towards a deck you want, then I think that would be a mistake.  By the team you get all the cards for the deck, the meta may have changed.

Be patient until you know what you really want

saving all my wildcards and gold until new expansion comes out early next year, but was getting tired of playing Merfolks and my Golgari Token deck, so I spent a couple of wildcards to complete the Blue Tempo control deck.

So much fun.  and I get faster wins because once I counter their first spell, many people just concede immediately.

But Merfolk will still kill me, especially if they get to go first.  That deck is just fast and if they got a good draw, just will have too many 3/3 and higher creatures by turn 3.

I can't get it to run on windows 7, if anyone can I would love to know what you did.

bob the builder wrote on Dec 20^th, 2018 at 3:46pm:

There was a time in the Legacy format where Merfolk was a tier 1 deck. And the bane of blue control decks everywhere. Around 2012~. Pumped up creatures with Islandwalk, using Aether Vial to cheat them out at instant speed for free while saving mana to counter anything the opponent can do to interact. Also using Wastelands to cripple your mana and turn the soft counters into hard counters. It wasn't out of control though, just really good.

Then The Miracles deck happened. That era was so bad for the format. It was by far the best deck in Legacy with almost no bad match ups. Then Sensei's Divining Top got banned.

Probably... if you google MTG Arena Mono Blue Tempo then that is likely the same one.

There are some awesome cat decks to be made when they bring Amonkhet back into the game.

Dinos are still fun, I don't care what anyone says.

just been grinding daily quests to build up gold for Jan 17th new release... up to 43K gold, 20 something commons and uncommon wildcards, 12 Rare and 10 mythics... figure with about 50 Packs bought via gold, I'll be able to make 1 or 2 good "netdecks" out of the gate.

So who has the deck to make the top 8

bob the builder wrote on Feb 4^th, 2019 at 4:00pm:


Personal hygiene check.
*sniff sniff, turns on hot water heater*

Revaulting wrote on Feb 4^th, 2019 at 5:05pm:

Friend from invited me to go to a Release Event several years ago with him.  an overcrowded Hotel small convention room reeking of BO and nerd-stench.

funniest thing was this one kid (probably 16-18) brought his girlfriend who dressed in a cheerleader outfit and sitting on his lap until right before the event started.  I just imagine his thought process was "I am a god among the nerds"

I haven't played magic since I was a kid and we used my buddy's cards he nabbed from his dad. I won my first 3 matches in a row and then proceeded to lose 4 in a row. Are the basic decks complete shit? How much dough do I need to shell out to get a decent deck do ya think?

5 Foot Step wrote on Feb 15^th, 2019 at 1:48pm:

For example?

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Feb 15^th, 2019 at 3:08pm:


Merfolk are probably the most potent starter deck. You can make that into a top tier aggro deck with very little work.

Rubbinns wrote on Feb 15^th, 2019 at 6:12pm:


You can choose to do best of 1 or best of 3 for the ladder now.

Of course if you're serious about ranking up, you'll want to optimize for best of 1 since it's faster. But if you prefer best of 3, the option is there.