coming back to magic and t2, need a deck

TR1PLE6 · Joined: 17 Nov 2008 Posts: 3

hey everybody. i seem to play magic off and on every year or so, always finding i don't have the extra cash to finance a serious addiction. who knows if this will be the time i stick with it or not, but whatever. i think i'm a moderately good player, I've only ever been to 3 friday night magics, 2 were draft, 1 constructed, and was in top 3 in 2 of them and 1 another. So, what I'm getting at is I'm not an idiot, I just need a jump start into the new metagame, and I'm wondering what a good deck is to start up with in this new t2. Any ideas? Thanks!
-t6

ik · Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Posts: 286

Try mono red... Its relatively cheap (compared to most decks) in addition to being very consistent and pretty good in the meta.

gypsy · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 1118

top 3 in fnm doesnt rly mean much... play mono red its the cheapest deck and its pretty good.

ik · Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Posts: 286

Mono Green Elves is cheaper... dont lie to him gypsy xD

TR1PLE6 · Joined: 17 Nov 2008 Posts: 3

i don't really care about cheapest, as i intend to play mostly online since magic is really just a giant money pit. once testing is done online maybe i'll build the deck and go school some noobs or something.
and i know top 3 in fnm doesn't mean that much, but my point is i know how to play the game. its possible that at least 2 of those were wins too, i just can't remember if i won the constructed one or if i took second to my buddy. i'm pretty sure that when i get into it i'm at least good enough to post good ratings at regionals, i just never seem to be able to make it out to them because of work or other such crap. but thanks for the few pieces of advice so far, i appreciate it.

Timesplitta8 · Joined: 15 Sep 2008 Posts: 7

I'd say mono red is a pretty straightforward place to get back into the game. Kithkins wouldn't be bad either. Check the Magic Decks part of this website.

ACM · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 153

Faeries and Five Coloured Control is also a big part of the metagame, but both of those are relatively expensive.

boeda · Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 79

4 Magma Spray
4 Flame Javelin
4 Incinerate

4 Boggart Ram-Gang
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Figure of Destiny
4 Stigma Lasher
4 Ashenmoor Gouger
4 Demigod of Revenge

4 Ghitu Encampment
20 Mountain

4 Unwilling Recruit
4 Chaotic Backlash
4 Everlasting Torment
3 Hell's Thunder

This is the red deck, you see its pretty straight forward. The magma sprays can be changed to shock but keep the persisting creatures in mind.

If u wanna play on a higher level try any other standard deck, faeries can be good if played right, ultimatum control is a cool deck and the deck to beat at the moment is kithkin.

grz boeda

TR1PLE6 · Joined: 17 Nov 2008 Posts: 3

sweet, thanks for all of the advice. back when lorwyn had just came out i played faeries a bit, good to see that one is still pretty good. i had a no-rare kithkin deck too that was pretty cool too, bet that could use some upgrading now that i'm just using magic workstation. i also used to run black/green elves, is that still any good? haven't seen it in the decks section really. i really like Doran too, 3 cost 5/5s are way cool, are there any aggro decks based on him?

Vedrfolner · Joined: 04 Apr 2006 Posts: 1951