What deck got you into Magic?
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Posted on Sept. 12, 2014, 8:20 a.m. by veritates1
I'm looking at making deck for my nephew who is very eager to learn how to play. I wanted to make him a deck that was functional as well as fun, something that could teach him some of the basic mechanics of the game. What was your first deck? Why did you fall in the love with the game?
I played my first game of Magic with a Legacy Tron deck. I do not recommend it though :)
I would reccomend a mono colored deck for sure. I made my first deck in Lorwyn block:
Mono B Rogues (sideboard help needed)
Replace thoughtseize in that deck with Duress and bitterblossom with Oona's Prowler or some removal and you will have 20 dollars worth of efficient creatures. Nice and straight forward, has a couple of branching decision trees and is very fun.
I sincerely recommend Tribal as a starting point in Magic.
September 12, 2014 8:37 a.m.
my first deck was a U/B mill/ control deck. I had to make it, because my buddy was running a blue heavy UB control deck that just seemed untouchable to me at the time. Blue black control mill By the time I made it onto tappedout, the deck had gone through much changes since the original build, but this was my first deck.
September 12, 2014 8:56 a.m.
derKochXXL says... #5
Mine was the Introductory Two-Player Set (preferably the Kazz deck)but I'd rather advice a mono tribal deck. I know I liked soldiers and knights when I was small so maybe a white weenie.
September 12, 2014 9:29 a.m.
Mine was the Illusory Might event deck. I liked countering spells.
September 12, 2014 9:49 a.m.
Personally I really enjoyed the duel decks as a place to start. They're balanced and a lot of fun to play against one another. I've only tried Heros vs Monsters and the new Khans duel deck that was just released, but they're very well balanced and both play completely differently and you can switch decks after a game or two.
September 12, 2014 9:53 a.m.
JonathanSamurai says... #10
My friend shadowhark1 kept bugging me to learn how to play. I finally caved in when he said they had samurai. Avacyn was standard at the time. But my friend bought me a cheap simple samurai deck that I have been tweaking ever since. It's funny cause my first standard deck was Rakdos. Since I have wanted to go back and build an Avacyn human tribal and some other decks from the past (I'm a Boros guy now), but my favorite deck will always be that samurai.
September 12, 2014 9:58 a.m.
trentfaris242 says... #11
@Gspot You're the worst kind of person. For me it was Jund Midrange.
September 12, 2014 9:58 a.m.
BorosPlayer says... #12
Mine was the Infect intro pack with a few upgrades. It was pretty fun, cheap and not bad at all.
September 12, 2014 10:02 a.m.
Shards of Alara Primordial Jund Intro Deck, which I reconstructed into a casual devour machine that was tons of fun to play. Devour was just such an interesting mechanic to me. Made Dragon Broodmother my favorite card.
September 12, 2014 10:02 a.m.
EndStepTop says... #14
trentfaris242 when all your friends play goblins or infect, fog sounds great! Plus it's not as bad as what I learned to love: stax and 
September 12, 2014 10:28 a.m.
MattTheNinja says... #15
I teach people with a simple mono green ramp deck. Its fun, not too complicated, and van definately win.
September 12, 2014 10:50 a.m.
TheAnnihilator says... #16
My first experience with MTG cards was the U/B Mirrodin Besieged intro deck. The deck was terrible, lol. I didn't win a single game with it.
September 12, 2014 11:14 a.m.
veritates1 says... #17
Gspot, turbofog?! I might as well hand him a Storm Crow and expect he won't hurt himself.
Thank you all for the great feedback. The first deck I played with was an Ant Queen based deck with plenty of ramp. The first deck I made was an Orzhov extort deck in RTR Standard.
I was thinking of doing big green monsters, maybe with some combat tricks to help with teaching about phases and turns. Maybe a fog or two just to see how he uses it.
September 12, 2014 12:54 p.m.
TheDuggernaught says... #18
I did mono white allies back in the days of caw blade and valakut. It actually worked really well given that most of their creature base shared a color allowing me to swing for game early(or kill their $100 JtMS) with the protection offered by Kabira Evangel .
September 12, 2014 1:44 p.m.
ThisIsBullshit says... #19
I bought a Gatecrash Boros aggro intro pack. It worked pretty well and once I was ready to upgrade, I had enough of a knowledge of how the game worked to create my own deck.
September 12, 2014 1:46 p.m.
Dalektable says... #20
My first deck I played was a competitive mono black zombie tribal deck of my teacher's. It was absolutely awesome, some of the best magic the gathering memories I have are playing that game in multiplayer afterschool at gaming club. Ah, those were the days.
Also, Gspot, I agree. TurboFog is wonderful, but I'm a terrible person lol.
September 12, 2014 9:45 p.m.
Blizzicane says... #21
The deck that made me love magic was a R/B aggro deck I love it because it had fast creatures and it packed enough removal to get rid of anything that would get in my way. >:3
September 12, 2014 11:51 p.m.
nighthawk101 says... #22
Gruul aggro, featuring Ruric Thar, the Unbowed .
Along with his crappy buddies, the Ruination Wurm quadruplets.
This was at the tail end of the Ravnica block, when Oblivion Ring was standard legal.
September 13, 2014 8:44 p.m.
My first one was a red green deck before fallen empire's. Gacass liege and forest walk creatures domanated .Ive had that deck for almost twenty years and im bout to teach my kids with it. No lie
September 14, 2014 12:07 a.m.
Didgeridooda says... #25
White Weenie is a great start.
Serra, and Friends. My 1st deck. This was mine.
September 17, 2014 9:26 p.m.
chicagobearz says... #26
Merfolk!
I had Lord of Atlantis
Merfolk of the Pearl Trident
Darting Merfolk
Vodalian Merchant
Merfolk Looter
Counterspell
and a combo of Opposition
and Static Orb
. Since i have picked up a set of FoW and made a pretty decent legacy deck with it. I still have some oldies though, oneof my 3rd edition lords had a rip in the corner that i scotch taped up years ago so i replaced it with a new copy from time spiral with the merfolk text, other than that one i've been playing some of the same cards for over 15 years. It is likely i'll be holding on to them another 15.
September 18, 2014 2:01 a.m.
my first deck fatured Lyev Decree me and my friend were brand new to magic and spent the whole time drving each other nuts with Lyev Decree s it was fun but since i've moved more towards simic, gruul and temur decks that deck was an azorius control deck just as M14 was released
September 18, 2014 12:04 p.m.
I started playing Magic in standard late in Innistrad/RTR (shortly before M14).
I had a mono green deck that used Strangleroot Geist , Wolfir Avenger , Rancor , Predator Ooze and finished off with Wolfir Silverheart . Pit Fight was used for main removal tool. Scavenging Ooze came in to clean up the scraps the wolfirs left over.
The deck won FNM once and beat Jund (which was Tier one deck at the time that used Huntmaster of the Fells Flip and Olivia Voldaren ) twice in a row on the same night.
Almost one twice, but Amercian burn/control was a really tough match and went into overtime and had to draw.
September 18, 2014 2:24 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #29
My first deck was a Saviors of Kamigawa starter deck. It was a 
moonfolk deck with Soramaro, First to Dream
as the lead card.
weisemanjohn says... #2
The first deck I played with was my friend's elf deck. I played it a few tomes in a 3 man game trying to learn all the rules and ended up winning (definitely encourage purposely miss playing to let your nephew win a few games)
When I bought my first cards they were, of course, standard so I had a lot of block mechanics to learn.
If you are big into standard and are planning on buying a box, you may try putting together a abzan deck as they cover quite a few mechanics. (Life link, first strike, flying, death touch, trample) you may also try jeskai for (double strike, haste, vigilence, life link, flying, first strike) I think all that would be missing is reach after that... As far as basic mechanics are concerned...
September 12, 2014 8:29 a.m.