first deck i built

by Dutchman on 03 August 2021

Main Deck (89 cards)

Sideboard (0 cards)

No sideboard found.

The owner of this deck hasn't added a sideboard, they probably should...

Submit a list of cards below to bulk import them all into your sideboard. Post one card per line using a format like "4x Birds of Paradise" or "1 Blaze", you can even enter just the card name by itself like "Wrath of God" for single cards.


Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

4000230

Deck Format


Modern

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for first deck i built

You changed it.
From having just a massive sideboard, into having,
A massive mainboard...
:)

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Posted 03 August 2021 at 21:21

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At the moment it's no big deal as you only have one deck but a link to your deck in the forum would have been great.

When asking for help you should give the users some information to work with, just stating "i need help building a deck" can lead anywhere. I would ask you to write down some informations (In the deck-description for example) on what you want this deck to achieve (the strategy), restrictions (standard, modern, price, editions, and what else you can think of) and any other information you would think that could help the users here to help you.

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Posted 04 August 2021 at 07:47

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You know what ?
I'm gonna bite...
It's not like I would be gaining anything by posting while the troll is busy, so why not get a little practice on helping new people...

User:dutchman
So you want to become better at the game ?
First you need to find out if you are one out of three types of persons.

You will either be a designer or a user or a socialiser.

Think about it like this, the designer is the person who is able to build a new type of gun.
He can do this because he spent a seriously long time at learning how to design and craft things.
The user type of person doesn't need to go through all that learning, he just needs to learn how to point and shoot.
The socialiser is likely to be the guy who got the designer to build the gun for him, so he can sell it to the user.

Magic is a game for these three types of personalities.

If you are the designer type, you will need to learn many different skills before you can actually start to build your own weaponry.

If you are the user type, you will have to learn which kind of gun is the best extension of yourself when you want to point and shoot, and you will need a shooting gallery.

If you are the socialiser you will have an advantage that the other two doesn't have.

So here's where you need to tell me something so I can teach you.

Do you have good grades ?
Having good grades is a sign that you can be taught a lot of knowledge.

Do you like to mingle constantly with everyone around you because you want to learn everything about everyone ?
Those are the signs that you are a socializer ?

Are you willing to shortcut the system by spending lots of money and just learn to point and shoot ?
It's the fastest way to become a player, but you must trade money for time.

You might find that you contain bits of all three personality types, and that's okay, but I need to work with the part of you which is the most dominant one...

So dutchman, which are you ?

There is no trick question about this and no "wrong types"
Your answer will let me focus on how to teach you from here.

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Posted 06 August 2021 at 02:16

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an interesting take on player personality types.

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Posted 06 January 2022 at 22:41

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Thanx :)
I do like to think "out of the game"
Everything that happens at games are part of an already established pattern of human behaviour, and I like to go behind the deeper mechanics of all of that.

Once you understand the context that surrounds the game you can dive really deep into why the metagame is like it is.

One thing I love to study in particular is how older context gets replaced by new.
The meta changes because new cards are introduced to the game, but also because there is a limit to the attentionspan of the average player. In order to memorize new context, players have to forget the old context, and a tremendous amount of magic knowledge gets lost.

The old cards loses their power, not because they are bad compared to the new, but because people focus more on the new context so they remember more new tricks than old tricks.

This is why I'm running my own time capsule experiment.
I keep old playpatterns alive in my mind to be able to one day attack the new meta with "teachings of the archaic" :)

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Posted 06 January 2022 at 22:55

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I think I see potential here. but it is a bit scattered. if you focus the deck a bit, it could be pretty good. or at least a good start.

My advice for a new deck builder is to pick a strategy or common theme that all your cards follow, and build around that. stick to about 60 (but no less) cards, and keep your lands between 20-25 cards.

when you are first learning to build a deck, the simplest way to build a cohesive deck with a theme or strategy is to build a "tribal" deck using all or mostly all the same creature type because they can build on each other and buff each other. like... [[inspring veteran]] buffs other knights or Venerable Knight, that can only give a counter to another knight creature when it dies. and non creature spells that either only work with your creature type, or work better with your creature type, like Joust. makes a knight bigger for a turn, and can kill an opponent's creature.

in the case of this deck I would recommend cards like History of Benalia. it creates knights, and then pumps knights. or Tournament Grounds. it helps you have the colors of mana you need for your knight or equipment spells.

the ideal way to look for cards for a deck like this is searching for cards with the tribe (in this case "knight") in their text. this will find you cards that specifically work with knights. buffing them, giving them abilities, things like that. these will make your deck stronger than just putting in a bunch of creatures because they share a creature type.

In this deck I see several knights, several soldiers, and... a Zubera. if you are looking to build a tribal knight deck (which seems to be the general idea here), having too many non-knight creatures is a hindrance, even if they seem to be good or powerful creatures, they often don't work with the core of the deck. so cutting creatures that are NOT knights would make the deck more consistent with itself. in addition, seeing which knight cards are actually good, and which ones are just ok, and bumping those good ones up to 4 copies if you can, will also help.

for examples of what tribal decks look like:
my Druid deck:
https://www.mtgvault.com/kazzong/decks/druidic-fury/

and
my defender deck:
https://www.mtgvault.com/kazzong/decks/defender-deck/
(strictly speaking it is a "tribal" deck because all the creatures share an ability, rather than a creature type, but the idea is still very much the same)

though these may not be the best of decks, they can give you a better idea of how a tribal deck functions.

hopefully this helps. :)

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Posted 07 January 2022 at 00:58

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The conversation above was from august.
Odds are he will miss the notifications.

If you create a post with the tips you just gave, I'll copy paste a link to it within my own network of stuff.
Just make it public and give me a heads up. I can't copy links on my phone if they aren't public.

Someone liked it, probably one of the trolls because they are running out of comment to downvote.

Since I'm at just -120 reputation I can soon start down voting, and I've kept a list of exactly who I'm going to retaliate at. And with their low reputation score trolls are easy to block from their many fake accounts...

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Posted 07 January 2022 at 11:06

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even if the deck isn't new I like giving advice to new people.

um... sure I can create a deck with this as an article for helping new people.

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Posted 07 January 2022 at 17:10

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I already link to others, but sometimes new players pop up and then I can drop them a link to a team of helpers.

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Posted 07 January 2022 at 17:24

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well, it is called How to tribal deck. it has a mainboard with a scattered attempt at a knight tribal deck, and the sideboard is a more focused and usable knight tribal deck.

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Posted 07 January 2022 at 19:39

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Got it.

I'll use it in conjunction with some other players links.

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Posted 07 January 2022 at 20:45

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