General_Norris
04-16-2010, 06:20 AM
Hi. Recently I returned to Magic after quitting and a friend of mine has shown a lot of interest in the game and wants to play.
After some time I decided to scrap my Mono-X idea for her deck because she had no room for improvement, the cards will be good but not prone to deckbuilding and so on.
Similarly I think an aggro-control deck is the best choice for a starting player as playing combo doesn't teach you a lot, playing pure control is hard and requires metagame skills lacking in a new player and pure Aggro is too simple.
She doesn't like Blue so I thought The Rock would be a good choice. Keeping the budget at minimun I came up with this:
4 Treetop Village
8 Forest
10 Swamp
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22 Lands
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Hypnotic Specter
4 Kitchen Finks
3 Eternal Witness
3 Wall of Bloosoms
3 Shriekmaw
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21 Creatures
4 Duress
4 Himn to Tourach
4 Putrefy
3 Pernicious Deed
2 Loxodon Warhammer
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17 Other Spells
This adds up to 76 Euro. If you change Birds with Elves of the Deep Shadow or soemthing similar you cut 10 euro and using Disks instead of Deeds saves you other 15 Euro.
Now, as you can see the list is not really perfected. I think it lacks a bit of focus or something big like 4cc spells and so on but I'm sure you can improve on that. Keep in mind I have just returned from a break and my mana curve skills are dead.
However as a whole i like how this is going. She gets Duress, Hymn, Birds and Kitchen Finks, very good carsd than can fit in lots of decks. Similarly she also gets other good cards that can be easily traded or obtained like Specter and Putrefy.
She will also learn about practically everything in the game. She has discard, something that leads to metagame skills. She has creatures and mana acceleration and she has sweepers. Wall of Bloosoms and Specter will teach her the importance of card advantage.
She doesn't have any regenerating cretures though. I think that would be a bonus.
So, what do you think?
After some time I decided to scrap my Mono-X idea for her deck because she had no room for improvement, the cards will be good but not prone to deckbuilding and so on.
Similarly I think an aggro-control deck is the best choice for a starting player as playing combo doesn't teach you a lot, playing pure control is hard and requires metagame skills lacking in a new player and pure Aggro is too simple.
She doesn't like Blue so I thought The Rock would be a good choice. Keeping the budget at minimun I came up with this:
4 Treetop Village
8 Forest
10 Swamp
-------------------
22 Lands
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Hypnotic Specter
4 Kitchen Finks
3 Eternal Witness
3 Wall of Bloosoms
3 Shriekmaw
--------------------
21 Creatures
4 Duress
4 Himn to Tourach
4 Putrefy
3 Pernicious Deed
2 Loxodon Warhammer
-----------------------------
17 Other Spells
This adds up to 76 Euro. If you change Birds with Elves of the Deep Shadow or soemthing similar you cut 10 euro and using Disks instead of Deeds saves you other 15 Euro.
Now, as you can see the list is not really perfected. I think it lacks a bit of focus or something big like 4cc spells and so on but I'm sure you can improve on that. Keep in mind I have just returned from a break and my mana curve skills are dead.
However as a whole i like how this is going. She gets Duress, Hymn, Birds and Kitchen Finks, very good carsd than can fit in lots of decks. Similarly she also gets other good cards that can be easily traded or obtained like Specter and Putrefy.
She will also learn about practically everything in the game. She has discard, something that leads to metagame skills. She has creatures and mana acceleration and she has sweepers. Wall of Bloosoms and Specter will teach her the importance of card advantage.
She doesn't have any regenerating cretures though. I think that would be a bonus.
So, what do you think?