This is a link to a deck I've compiled over the last few weeks.

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=535041

If you'd like to see what these cards do, they've got convenient links on them in the list through the link above.

Lands
4 Boros Guildgate
8 Mountain
8 Plains

Creatures
2 Rakdos Cackler
4 Suntail Hawk
4 Warclamp Mastiff
4 Goblin Arsonist
4 Trained Caracal

Enchantments
4 Pacifism

Artifacts
2 Elixir of Immortality

Sorcery
2 Immortal Servitude
2 Captain's Call
4 Krenko's Command
4 Act of Treason
2 Wild Guess
2 Gather the Townsfolk

Instants
2 Dynacharge
4 Rally the Peasants
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It's a pretty effective Red/White beatdown deck, flooding the table with 1/1 (Really weak) creatures so that the enemies creatures are unable to attack/block all of them. The card, Immortal Servitude, is an incredibly sexy card that allows me to move all creatures with a specific mana cost back to the battlefield from the graveyard. In my case, all my creatures are a 1 mana cost, so playing that card effectively will win the game for me. The Instants (Quick-Play cards) give all my creatures +2/+0 (+Alot of ATK/+0 DEF), doing an immense amount of damage to the enemies life (which is 20 to begin with).

After properly learning all of the basic rules of Magic through meticulous reading (and deconditioning myself from the Yu-Gi-Oh habits), failing to learn the rules of the cards (being corrected during playtesting), and familiarizing myself with a small part of the card pool, I can say that Magic has the potential to be a lot more rewarding to play than Yu-Gi-Oh. That's not to say that it does not have some of the same flaws, but rather, that it is worth learning to play. I'd recommend (or enforce, had I the power to do so) you, who have not experienced it, to try it. The initial learning curve is not as steep as one might imagine.

Hell, I managed to teach someone, and I'm terrible at explaining things. Give it a go, guys, it's great fun!

Bump, due to possible interest of CCGs and D&D, and any other non-electronic games.

What Wight said. I even manage to beat him sometimes.


When he doesn't run blue in his deck. If he does, say goodbye to your knickers.

Besides that, It's a great, all-around fun game, with so much strategy involved in it. Join us and have fun!

I love M:TG. I haven't played in forever, but it's still one of the first TCGs I ever learned. I think I even learned it before pokemon. And then decided pokemon was terrible because M:TG was more fun.

Relevant, since we have a means of playing chess. First video is most important.

Just for anyone who doesn't know:
www.42.boards.net/

Going off of the beaten path here, I wonder how everyone would fare in Stratego, after being so focused on chess? For the plebians who don't know, Stratego is like chess, but until you come into contact with a piece, you don't know how powerful it is. Though rather than having me give you the basic premise of the game, here's just a wikipedia link to it.

Apparently Stratego has an online version now, http://www.stratego.com/

Wow, I forgot all about this game, it's probably still sitting in the back of my closet from when I was smaller. I was never very good at it, but it sure is a fun game.