Thinking of starting Magic.

[KnightSoul]

New player. Been playing Yugioh for years but i want to try something new. Something fresh. Is this the main and most popular game of Magic? Is there something else? Any advice before starting?

[Minmataro]

You have two options. Magic the gathering Arena (this game) or Magic the gathering Online. Online is a much older harder to use game but it has more cards and modes. MTGA is more streamlined with free2 play mechanics like daily quests and a battle pass.

I would recommend you start with Arena, do all the tutorial stuff.

[BrandonBloX]

I recommend Arena based on the color challenge (tutorial). Walks you through a lot of the mechanics, and this was how I learned to play.
(Put hours into this on EPIC and IOS. Runs much smoother on Steam).

[Skipspik]

Try here, the tutorial is quite well done.
And don't succomb on the forum calling everything is wrong everytime something you don't like happen

[Brother Alpha]

Originally posted by KnightSoul:

New player. Been playing Yugioh for years but i want to try something new. Something fresh. Is this the main and most popular game of Magic? Is there something else? Any advice before starting?

Do the tutorials. If you are having trouble, post your deck list here and people will help fix it. Ignore all of the people who claim the game is rigged, they clearly need therapy.

[Arockalyps]

Originally posted by KnightSoul:

New player. Been playing Yugioh for years but i want to try something new. Something fresh. Is this the main and most popular game of Magic? Is there something else? Any advice before starting?

Learn the basics with Arena then switch over to Magic Online. Magic Online may be an older client, but it has a wider array of formats and actually is closer to playing table top Magic then Arena is.

[Insomniac Jack]

Originally posted by Arockalyps:

Originally posted by KnightSoul:

New player. Been playing Yugioh for years but i want to try something new. Something fresh. Is this the main and most popular game of Magic? Is there something else? Any advice before starting?

Learn the basics with Arena then switch over to Magic Online. Magic Online may be an older client, but it has a wider array of formats and actually is closer to playing table top Magic then Arena is.

He would be missing out on the best part of Magic: Alchemy. Magic Arena is the definitive and optimal way to play, one might say the compleat version.

[Minmataro]

Sadly if you do go to MTGO there are no free to play mechanics. like a battle pass, daily quests and free packs, cards and cosmetics for winning. In MTGO its just like paper. Spend money on what type of format you want to play in and what deck. A good meta deck will run you like $60 to $200 in MTGO. In MTGA you can slowly earn packs and singles for free.

[KnightSoul]

What i like in this game is that it seems consistent and the META (from what i've seen at least) doesn't change dramatically like it does in Yugioh which is entirely different from what it used to be.

[Brother Alpha]

Originally posted by KnightSoul:

What i like in this game is that it seems consistent and the META (from what i've seen at least) doesn't change dramatically like it does in Yugioh which is entirely different from what it used to be.

You'll get new set that add something new and rotation tends to shake up standard. However, it is rare that a new set completely changes standard.

Also, while Historic decks don't rotate out and there's usually something you can tinker with to add or improve decks, so it remains fresh without having to build a new meta deck every few months.

It's a good balance of stability and chance, at least in my opinion.

[Soji]

If you come from yugioh best advice i can give you is overall, mtg and ygo share not too much in common other than fundamental card game things, like card advantage and tempo. Just make sure you read the cards and right clicking on them in client should tell you what keywords do if you dont recognize one of them. Just copy a deck online if you're new, dont fall into the noob trap of 'netdeck bad' because wildcards don't come by so often so might as well actually use them for good decks. Then once you're more comfortable as a player do w/e you want with them and build what you want. The first few turns in magic are typically spent just playing lands and at most 1 or 2 spells a turn, depending on deck, so that alone differentiates yugioh and mtg a ton, where games can end on the 2nd turn the person on the play gets all the time.

[Brother Alpha]

Originally posted by Soji:

Just copy a deck online if you're new, dont fall into the noob trap of 'netdeck bad' because wildcards don't come by so often so might as well actually use them for good decks.

This is excellent advice. Don't be afraid to netdeck, especially early on. However, it is even better if you can find someone playing the deck on YouTube, so you can get a feel for how it should play.

[ZAP]

Originally posted by Brother Alpha:

Originally posted by Soji:

Just copy a deck online if you're new, dont fall into the noob trap of 'netdeck bad' because wildcards don't come by so often so might as well actually use them for good decks.

This is excellent advice. Don't be afraid to netdeck, especially early on. However, it is even better if you can find someone playing the deck on YouTube, so you can get a feel for how it should play.

This cripples you as a player long term, especially in deck building and seeing/creating synergies on your own though. Its a different part of the brain or something and it atrophies faster than a $2 skinjob.

[mwesthoff]

Originally posted by Skipspik:

Try here, the tutorial is quite well done.
And don't succomb on the forum calling everything is wrong everytime something you don't like happen

I wouldn't exactly call a bug that keeps new players from getting their starter decks a good way to get started, but I guess misery loves company. So sure! Climb aboard and bring plenty of Vaseline for the ride.

[Soji]

Originally posted by ZAP:

Originally posted by Brother Alpha:

This is excellent advice. Don't be afraid to netdeck, especially early on. However, it is even better if you can find someone playing the deck on YouTube, so you can get a feel for how it should play.

This cripples you as a player long term, especially in deck building and seeing/creating synergies on your own though. Its a different part of the brain or something and it atrophies faster than a $2 skinjob.

I don't agree with this at all, mostly because the homebrewers who refuse to netdeck tend to overvalue or undervalue cards/synergies all the time because they dont understand yet what synergies are worth going for or card effects that are good. If players can't pick up on synergies from a netdeck while playing it, they won't pick up on them by building a deck themselves.

[Freyr_O]

Please DON't. Stay away!!!! You've been warned.