What can I do to make my White magic deck better?

What's the best way to start a new Magic: The Gathering collection/make a White/Black deck?

• I've played MTG several times with other people's decks, and I'm now looking to start a collection of my own. Preferably, I want to make a White/Black deck (and not spend ...show more

• Answer:

  It depends on your budget mostly and what you consider not a ton of money. 1. Both of the recent event decks from theros and born of the gods are in your listed colors. The cards included are usually worth the cost if not exceeding the cost so this is a bonus. Alternatively you could get the monsters vs. heroes duel deck instead of the white event deck (same price) and trade all of the good green cards to improve your deck. This option is ~ $40. 2. Buy a deckbuilders toolkit. On amazon these usually cost about $17 (free shipping if you buy $35 or more) It includes 4 packs, a handy box to store cards, a good amount of lands so you can make decks, and over 100 commons and uncommons from recent sets. To make shipping free and have a good place to start from I would consider getting two of these and an intro deck ( the black one is like $9) this will give the ability to make your own custom decks and get random cards instead of a deck somebody else built. The value here all depends on what you get in your pack you could gain $80 in value but most likely the cards will be about equal or less than what you paid. This option costs ~ $20-$45 3. Just buying intro decks, intro decks usually suck compared to a fully customized deck but they are often $12 or less and you will be able to play and learn. They also give you enough mana to make a deck in those colors and come with 2 booster packs. Use google and search intro deck decklist to see what cards you are garunteed to get and buy the one (or two or three) you like the best. Cost of this option is $10-$45 depending on what you buy and where from. 4. Drafting, go to friday night magic or other draft events at your local store. Usually for the price of three boosters or less (~$10-$12) you get 3 booster packs, a chance at winning prizes, have a good time, and meet new people. Note the meet new people is one of the most important parts, many people will help new people get into the game by giving them any commons or uncommons they don't want because they might not use them/need any more and because they like to grow the community. Just include black or white as one of the colors you draft each week (ie. draft pure white one week then maybe black red one week, then black white one week) and you will soon have enough cards to buld a decent deck. Cost for this is probably around $20 (for two tournaments) to infinate because it is fun and addicting and you will want to go every week.