Listen to fernin! wait he said ignore me.. so i guess that means don't listen to fernin, and hear me out.

Make sure it's 60 cards. Looks like you're running a dual color deck, see how many cost 2 red or 3 red, and how many cost 2 green etc.. if you have more with 2 reds you may do like a 11-9 split or 12-8. Another tip is include anything that can get out a land, give you mana, or actually is a land as a land.

If you have a llanowar elf, count that as a land as well. You don't list it under lands, but in your mental count of what the ratio is of lands to spells you should count that.

The best place to go for advice is MTG salvation, like fernin said.. make sure when you post your deck you highlight your cards and do the [card][/card] command (they have a button for htem) so people can easily see what the card is by hovering over the name. It's also mandatory by their rules.

There are a lot of things that can be done to that deck, (From the cards I recognize), but just have fun and play it. If you want to play competitively, it'll need a lot of work, but that's with any first deck, so have fun with it, and see how it goes : ).


Edit: Easy tips i can give you that should help you shape up your deck.

1.) Try to go for the minimum number of cards allowable in the format your playing in. Most decks allow for 60 min. So aim for that.

2.)Have lands roughly 1/3 of total deck but this can go up or down depending on deck. (check mana cost of cards)

3.) If you have one of a card you'll likely want multiple. In fact many cards you should just put x4 if possible. If that card deserved it's spot it's likely because it's better than other options so you put 4 of them in.



You obviously have to use your card pool, but those are my basic suggestions.

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Man one of my biggest regrets is selling off my Magic collection, so I hope your friend doesn't experience the same. Since I got rid of my cards, I haven't been able to get back into the game because it's just too expensive to start from scratch. Getting a ready-made collection for cheap though is awesome Ba'al.

ebay it up!

I have one ore tip this one is a bit more advanced... If you can with your current card pool, do what i recommend as best you can. If anyone needs to add anything or correct anything i'm sure one of the 16 year old (not actual actual age, but if you count when you started magic as Date of Birth then that's how old they are) players can come in and correct things.


You honestly probably should refine your deck before reading this tip, and play with it a few times.
Tip #4. Is think about what you want to be doing in your deck by turn 4 or 5, and think about what you don't want to happen to you> What are you afriad of happening? Are you combo based, what woudl you do if your combo got stopped? Are you done? Is it so fast they don' thave time to stop it.. what woudl you do if a key card or creature got destroyed.. things like that.... How are you hurting them or slowing them down to accomplish what you want.
To put it simply how do you envision winning and what can stop you from doing that, based on your current deck?

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I have one piece of advice: do not take Magic advice from JonSnow.

My advice is give specific reasons if what i'm saying is wrong. If you don't have any, don't comment.

Usa, I'm biting my tongue right, now.. because if you draft 1/1 life link or a 0/1 moth over holy str. or think holy str is the same as a card that reads +1/+0. I'm biting my tongue. Jeebus may be right but that's not why.

Me and Usa had a disagreement in magic... If what i said makes sense to you use it, if it doesn't don't. From my experience in the game, and i played heavily for the short time i've played, verse players with many years of epxerience, and verse proxied net decks. So i know what the best decks in the world are. What I said was true... I wouldn't give you information i wasn't very confident about... that i've seen pros do, that makes sense and works for me.. i've followed those same principles. I won't misguide you.

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You don't know a damn thing you're taking about, and your advice is completely flawed. Plain and simple.

You guys are just being bitter plain and simple, fine listen to Jeebus ba'al who said ignore me then copied my 3 bolded rules verbatim.

Listen to Jeebus. He's saying what i wanted to say, in some parts he's more specific, in some parts he's more vague than me, but he's saying true things, listen to him. He's experienced. If you just follow his advice you'll be off to a good start. Good luck and have fun with Magic Ba'al, and don't let this bickering stop you from enjoying the game, most magic players just want to play magic .