07-14-2012, 06:34 PM
I bought one of the toolkits when they came out for... M11, I think? I don't really remember.
It's a cool idea and I'm glad WotC made them. The booklet it comes with also talks about basic stuff like how many lands-ish a deck should have, what's common for spell-to-creature ratios... stuff that's really cool for people who are not super into deck-building.
Personally, I enjoy deck building almost more than playing the actual game. Type 2 is easily my favorite format, when I'm not just playing Limited, because I like the constant changing of what sets are legal and what cards you have to work with and so on.
I'll probably never devote enough time to MTG to have the encyclopedic knowledge of what's legal to really build some more competitive stuff, but I love trying to find ways of making shit like Knowledge Pool or Gutter Grime playable.
The Theme Decks have also gotten pretty good as Magic has evolved. If someone's looking for ideas on how to make a type of deck, either pick up an intro deck that's trying to do a similar thing, or pull up the deck lists. They're never going to be competitive with actual constructed decks, but they're about on-par with the decks in Duels (on-par in terms of construction, not card quality).
It's a cool idea and I'm glad WotC made them. The booklet it comes with also talks about basic stuff like how many lands-ish a deck should have, what's common for spell-to-creature ratios... stuff that's really cool for people who are not super into deck-building.
Personally, I enjoy deck building almost more than playing the actual game. Type 2 is easily my favorite format, when I'm not just playing Limited, because I like the constant changing of what sets are legal and what cards you have to work with and so on.
I'll probably never devote enough time to MTG to have the encyclopedic knowledge of what's legal to really build some more competitive stuff, but I love trying to find ways of making shit like Knowledge Pool or Gutter Grime playable.
The Theme Decks have also gotten pretty good as Magic has evolved. If someone's looking for ideas on how to make a type of deck, either pick up an intro deck that's trying to do a similar thing, or pull up the deck lists. They're never going to be competitive with actual constructed decks, but they're about on-par with the decks in Duels (on-par in terms of construction, not card quality).
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