Deck building includes discussion of games where you build decks and strategies and methods to build decks. Generally a tag for another game should be included with this tag.
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Is it better to start with M13 and splash in RtR and GTC when building a deck?
I've been doing some reading on deck building and I'm getting the feeling that using the RtR and GC expansions are better mixed in with a solid M13 deck. However, I can't really confirm this ...
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Model Decks for Game of Thrones The Card Game?
I've recently bought the game of thrones card game, and a group of friends and I enjoyed playing the core game so much we've bought all the basic house expansions.
I don't think any of our players ...
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Where can I find price-lists for Star Trek CCG cards?
I have some Star Trek CCG cards from the Decipher game in the 1990s. I'm looking to discover if any of these cards have economic value.
I've tried looking at starcitygames.com and tcgplayer.com, but ...
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What distribution of ICE should I have in my deck?
When building Corporation decks for Android: Netrunner, I've been finding it difficult to get the balance of ICE in my deck right. For instance, in my most recent deck, I've found that I've put a ...
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What's actually good against Jund?
"Jund" is the red-black-green shard from Shards of Alara.
More importantly, however, it's a term for a midrange archetype in those colors, using a mixture of quick disruption, multi-faceted ...
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Are multicolor decks in any color combination viable in modern Magic?
I've just recently regained interest in MtG and was overwhelmed by the quantity of new collections and the amount of cards.
I stopped playing MtG when the Fallen Empires expansion was just out.
One ...
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Why creature enchantments aren't playable?
I've read an article recently about the M 2013 core set and it states that:
Well, everyone knows creature enchantments aren’t playable...
Why exactly creature enchantments aren't playable? I'm ...
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Is there any reason to buy the Ascension base game?
Since Ascension: Storm of Souls is both a standalone and expansion to Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer, is there any reason to buy COTG? SOS adds new mechanics and seems to have better artwork.
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How to counter an aggro deck with massive +1/+1 counter packing
I recently played with a guy who had a deck full of vampires and whenever one of his vampire attacks/deals combat damage/etc that vampire or all of his vampires get +1/+1 counters.
How can I ...
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What cards can be used to cheat Eldrazi creatures onto the table?
I'm constructing an Eldrazi based deck and I'm thinking about possible ways of getting one onto the table. What I already considered:
Summoning Trap
Polymorph
Do you know any other cards like ...
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Becoming better at sideboarding
One of the keys to tournament performance in Magic is proper sideboarding. This seems to be a point of failure with many Magic players that want to move up from casual play and compete in tournaments ...
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Why play Land Grant?
When looking through recent results of Pauper daily events in Magic Online, I noticed that some of the Infect decks are using Land Grant.
For the life of me, I can't figure out what this card is ...
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How can I beat green Tron with a control deck?
I've been building a Modern control deck based around the Gifts reanimator engine. The general gameplan is to slow your opponent using counters and removal until you can reanimate a big creature for ...
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How do I make this zombie mill deck faster?
Although I'm not that bad at sealed deck format (I usually end up in the first 5 places) I suck at draft. This is my first attempt to build a T2 deck.
I need help because I think the deck is too slow.
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What should Mono-B put in sideboard against GW-Tokens?
My brother plays a Mono-Black standard-format deck against me often. He has some big threats in there like Phyrexian Obliterator, Sheoldred, Whispering One and Lashwrithe as well as many cards with ...
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How can I improve a Zombie deck to work faster?
I created a deck with the new expansion (Dark Ascension) using the cards I got from a couple of boosters last week.
My initial deck form is [Zombies Nightmare] (created by me) but I feel like it ...
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Types of EDH mana base
After looking at a number of EDH deck lists I have seen two distinct types of mana bases used by various decks.
Some decks use a large number of basic lands, dual lands and utility lands.
Other ...
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How can I modify an existing deck for a wide-open environment?
Say you've got a fairly competitive Magic: the Gathering deck you really like. It's likely to be tuned to the particular environment it developed in, whether that's what's most popular among your ...
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What ways are there for a Standard Werewolf deck to handle Ratchet Bomb?
What can a Standard (M12, Scars, Innistrad) Red-Green werewolf deck use, either in the main deck or the sideboard, to handle a deck with Ratchet Bomb?
Some back story: When a werewolf is in its ...
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MTG Sacrifice enablers for EDH
I'm building my first EDH deck and have chosen Thraximundar (Grixis) as my general.
My deck has a lot of synergy centered around sacrificing creatures. I find it easy to benefit from sacrificing and ...
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Building a mana base for WGB Tokens in Standard
So Wizards heard my prayers and has given me something to make my favored W/G tokens deck even better. Unfortunately, those somethings are black:
Dark Ascension isn't out yet, so we can't brew ...
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How should I determine how many lands of each different color to put in my deck?
Situation: You've built your at least 2 color deck, know exactly what number of lands you want in it, but don't know how many to put in of each basic-land type.
How do pro-players figure this out? ...
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Is there a limit to the maximum number of each card in a Netrunner deck?
In collectible card games there is usually a maximum number of each card one can use in a deck for constructed formats. As a reference, take Magic: The Gathering where most formats allow for 4 of each ...
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What are effective strategies for playing control against aggro-control?
In Magic, there's a style of deck known as "aggro-control", which plays a mixture of cheap threats and disruption (especially counterspells). Against a pure control deck, aggro-control seeks to set up ...
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How to build a multi-colour aggro deck to be more effective against control
I'm building a vintage deck for my friend, out of our combined pool of cards, which will have 3+ colours (atm it's three). She's a Vorthos/Timmy. She often builds her own deck out of the ...
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Strongest early-game counters for a Modern deck?
Magic's Modern format has a rather large card pool, including 90-ish counterspells with a good variety of mana costs and limitations. Assume you're playing a control deck that can fairly reliably take ...
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What's the strategic advantage of building around alternate win conditions?
In MTG, there are several ways to win that don't involve damaging your opponent. The most prominent is milling (running an opponent out of cards to draw), but there are also special cards like Felidar ...
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What is the fastest MTG Mill deck that can be made?
I have been working on putting together a Mill deck and it occurred to me that there are likely much faster Milling decks out there. So, what is the fastest Milling win condition that can be achieved?
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Different game modes for Thunderstone
While plenty entertaining in the original version, the game Thunderstone looks like it could be played in many more ways.
Besides the most obvious modifications like playing with more (or less) ...
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What makes an ideal “control finisher”?
In Magic: The Gathering, many players talk about a "control finisher" -- some kind of big back-breaking spells that (usually) seals up your victory. I guess you could say that, if you boil down a ...
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How many creatures should be in a draft deck?
How many creatures should the average, typical draft deck contain?
Obviously this depends on a multitude of factors, including the kinds of creatures in your deck, the kinds of non-creatures you have ...
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When should I add cards whose primary feature is drawing more cards to my MTG deck?
It seems like cards that are based around scrying and drawing additional cards would be a nice addition to any deck. But what decks do they really shine in and what decks can safely forgo them? It ...
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What Is The Optimal Innistrad Sealed Deck From This Card Pool?
This weekend I participated in a very casual Innistrad Sealed Deck event with four of my friends. Opening my packs I discovered the following pool:
White
Selfless Cathar
Avacynian Priest
Elder ...
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Is there a conventional way of searching for lands in a mono-red deck?
I'm constructing a mono-red deck and I was wondering whether there are any options for land search / ramp for this kind of deck? I don't want to combine my deck with green for land searching.
I was ...
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How can I mana ramp in a Commander game without helping my opponents?
I'm working on a Commander deck and I'm looking at ways to ramp my mana that won't aid my opponents. I may eventually use all the listed ramp cards, but, I'd like to keep the restriction for the ...
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How many Diabolic Tutors is too many?
Everyone loves the Diabolic Tutor:
But how many tutors is too many? If I'm running a mono-black or black-heavy deck, is there any reason to not just put in four Tutors? What are the possible ...
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How many lands should I have in my sealed or draft decks?
A standard draft deck has 40 cards in it; a 4-booster sealed deck has 30 cards. How many lands should I put in each of these formats? And why do I need this ratio?
The conventional wisdom that I ...
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When should I add life gain cards to my deck in MTG?
One common mistake in MTG is to overvalue life-gain cards (at least in 2 player games) because they don't do anything to actually help you WIN the game, and only make you lose slower. This makes them ...
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How to replace Leatherback Baloth in the post-Zendikar environment in a deck of this type?
Artifacts
2x Birthing Pod
Creatures
2x Thrun, the Last Troll
4x Acidic Slime
4x Cudgel Troll
3x Dungrove Elder
2x Elvish Archdruid
2x Garruk's Companion
4x Llanowar Elves
2x Primeval Titan
Land
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How can I improve my deck building skills?
I've been playing M:tG for nearly a decade now. I understand the rules very well, I've participated in a few draft tournaments, and I've built a few decks that I'm very proud of.
Nonetheless, I seem ...
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Can I use a card with “Add one mana of any color to your mana pool” in any Elder Dragon Highlander (EDH) deck?
I recently tried Elder Dragon Highlander/Commander, and found it to be a ton of fun. I've started customizing one of the pre-cons I got, but I'm a little confused by some of the deck-building ...
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Multi-Game Deck Building Tool
I play Magic: The Gathering, one of my son's plays Pokemon, and the other plays Yu-Gi-Oh!
I got a deck building tool for my iPad to build Magic decks, but I am curious if there is an app for building ...
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What is a good Pokemon deck ratio?
My son really likes Pokémon, and owns a lot of cards. He mostly plays the video games and reads the books, but wants to build a Pokemon deck to play as well. We understand the basic rules. I know ...
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What is a quick way to test or simulate card strategies for deck building games?
Dominion is the specific example I would like to play with but this certainly applies to any game that involves decks of cards being shuffled and drawn.
I often see references to various simulations ...
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Comparisons Betwen Deck-Building Games
I never played Magic. I briefly tried the original Vampire: The Masquerade (V:TM) themed CCG (Jyhad?). I had some Illuminati: New World Order (INWO) cards. I bought and listlessly toyed with a deck of ...
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Building a Blue Deck on a budget?
My daughter is a huge Blue card fan (she loves mermaids especially). How can I build a solid blue deck on a limited budget with easily obtainable cards?
