Making a Deck

[CYPHER]

So how does everyone make their decks?

I plan mine usually having around 24 lands and then go with a theme/combo and try to stick with it. If you choose themes/combos care to explain them? I have a zombie (creature), Life loss (combo), control (counter/bounce/steal), soldier (creature)

I know maudy takes the ones with art by john something and anything else that looked cool.

[Drasnighta]

20 / 20 / 20

Lands / Creatures / Others


Unless I'm going for something in particular re: Deck Theme...  For example...  My Angel deck sits around 15L / 30C / 15O, because some of the Others are things like Urza's Incubator (Choose a Creature Type, all creatures of that type cost 3-Unaligned Mana less)...  To get those big Angels out for Less cost in Land Taps...  As well as having a few Battery-Lands that store Mana over turns as counters.

[CYPHER]

Only 15 lands?!?!! You must have the type of luck one of the guys at uni does (11 Land deck yet always get them)

[Drasnighta]

Not really...  Just lands that balloon, so you only need 1 to get going...

[CYPHER]

Are they standard?

[Maudy]

...art by john something and anything else that looked cool.

Raymond Swanland. And Incidentally that also pretty much sums up any form of strategy I have as well; "anything that looked cool" hahaha

[Drasnighta]

Are they standard?

My Magic Decks are either sitting on a Boat in a Crate on their way here now...  Or they're waiting on the Docks in Melbourne for said boat...  When they arrive, I'll pick out the name of the lands for you...

I don't know what you mean by "Standard", and if you are referring to  the current range of Magic, then no...  As I gave up competitive Magic play when they introduced "Indestructable" in the Mirrodin saga...  Until then, I had a wonderful all-brown Artifact deck, made the good old fasioned way - but by then, they'd changed Artifacts to something so damn common, I couldn't be bothered keeping up anymore...  I buy the odd booster here and there, but nothing serious.

I bought a Booster Box of Apocalypse back in the day, and had a ton of Invasion for Multicolour, but I sold all my spare cards before I left, and I'm left with just a few select decks now...

[Flogg]

Well Ive started creating decks from my new cards, have recently collected Core2012 and latest Innistrad expansion.

I create decks 22 land / 18 creatures / 20 spells.

I do prefer themes and so currently have assembled a black vampire deck and a black zombie deck.

Innistrad is very gothic and so I can create a red/black vampire deck or green/red werewolf deck.

Though as a side note, my werewolves were useless against Murray's red dragon deck.

[Maudy]

hahaha yes, but on the same note, I couldn't do jack against your vamps. Though, not being able to snag a land card before you reduced me to 0 life prob didn't help! XD

[Flogg]

You havent responded to my email advising our new cards have arrived and I will have them there this Saturday.

[Maudy]

So I haven't. Should do something about that.

[tyrantguard101]

So how does everyone make their decks?

I need to make one to begin with -.-, i usually go for themed decks though, such as elementals, or vamps.

[SH4DOWSL4Y3R]

step 1: pull out my box of assorted MTG cards.

step 2: pick a few cool cards from 1-2 colours and try to build a rough strategy around them.

step 3: after about two hours of looking through piles of cards and picking cool ones, i realise that the deck i am making has roughly 1 jillion cards in it.

step 4: begin taking cards back out of the deck, until it reaches a reasonable size.

step 5: set deck aside, clean up the cards inhabiting 50-75% of the floor space in my room.

[Flogg]

Sort through my 2012 core and Innistrad cards and choose a theme / or combo etc.

Recreate the deck with Online Magic the Gathering, get my ar..e kicked, modify online deck. Try again, modify, try again. When I think it works then create the deck in real world.

As a side note Online Magic good for learning the rules and how cards work. For example when Flameblast Dragon attacks you can cause additional X mana damage. I have learnt this separate X damage can be used against a separate target and not just anything that chooses to block.