7 Magic: The Gathering Quick Tips For Becoming A Better Player!

"the most conplex game"
This man's never played yugioh

I know it's an old video but I think it is very useful. The only thing, and this is maybe if a language barrier, I did not understand is the "draw a better hand" thing. How do I draw a better hand in a mulligan?

the no shoes is hilarious

"This is some real Art of War shit here." I love this guy

Surely the fastest way to see whats in my opponent's deck is a 1mana counterspell or discard, followed by Surgical Extraction

Haha and then you went on about using my life as a resource 😂
Ehm guilty as charged 😁
Though i play blue these days, but black taught me well

Love the socks ☺️

as a mythic player im triggered by this intro

This man isn't wearing any shoes

I don't know if someone else has said this here but I love your socks

Good tip. Just learn around 27000 cards 😅

With the play deck to learn how it works, I’ve also found if you play the deck, you’re gonna quickly learn where the very weak spots are, because other players might exploit it and you’ll figure out real quick to get destroyed and extension to destroy.

With the Mulligan, I have to keep telling myself when I get good, but expensive, cards “this is a good card, if I drew it on turn 10”

Work on getting better! 😁

My favorite deck im playing right now is a demon commander deck i am not afraid to lose life lol in fact i describe it as "punching myself in the face until it hurts eceryone else more"

I peaked at eight edition, I have .1% win rate despite watching these videos

Been playing for 20 years and this is still good information to come back to and just remind yourself of. Too easy to get lazy from time to time and get into bad habits

4 years later and Mr House decks laugh at that last part

I too always play Negate upside down

God damn that intro had me sweating for a second

Skill and observation is so important, but the actual first step is definitely willing to spend at least $1000. Just like most card games.
I can only buy 3 packs per month to the point where i think i wasted my money and time, since none of my deck is anywhere near completion. But i still absolutely enjoy watching people playing the game.

2 hours before my first tournament (first time ever playing)

Hey! I have those socks!

Yeah just try the deck
The deck: Jude 1k 😅😂

Is it me or do the first opening lines have a bit of a p*rn vibe? 😂

That last point is why i hate the SNC fetch lands, they auto sac, which gives you less control over information, your opponent knows what land you grab, thus knows what color(s) you needed, it runs counter to the wisdom of waiting until the last second to take actions... all because it saves one click on arena.

One of the things I really love and enjoy doing with my Krenko deck is establishing a style of play within the group. I built the deck mainly because games at my local card shop would take too long due to players being too casual and wanting to build up boardstates. So to counter that, I built the deck to focus on growing my army, using the size of the army to do things like generate mana (brightstone ritual), using the size of my army to deal damage (mod justice), and even doing damage from it growing and shrinking as well (impact tremors, bogart shenanigans, voracious dragon).

I would on occasion swing out a single creature or two in the beginning to someone who was still open, and then spend a lot of time just being passive and sometimes attacking here of there with a small portion of my army to whoever was doing the most stuff at the time. However, the moment anyone did anything substantial in my direction, being hitting me for 5-10 damage, killing some of my creatures, or swinging out in my direction in general, I'd outright aggro against them. It would cost me games half the time, but it created a strong reputation that I wasnt someone you wanted to swinging on to the point where people would outright go into combat, look at my boardstate, and out loud proclaim "yeah, im not swining in your direction at all become i know what's going to happen if i do."

I would also sometikes spend turns not doing anything at all as well in mid to late game other than building my boadstate, and then would check my land count, look at my hand, and then process what I can or cant do with what I have or imagine what my actions would be if I had certain cards. This, combined with my playstyle of smashing people in the face for trying to go at me has caused people to pause and sweat over what I was doing, and I'd do this so often that either I was one piece away from comboing off and winning the game or just outright didnt have shit yhat I could do during the turn. And them torn between the two, and knowing how id react when swung on, would cause people to not attack me in fear of it costing them the game.

My favorite line to use when people declair anything in my direction is "Are you sure you want to do that?" Because im either going to dump off 2-4 spells and kill you off before you can swing or im going to punch you in the face harder in return when it comes back to me.

Step 3: just know all 20k cards. Great advice eyeroll

I'm pretty against scooping in anything but the most dire scenario. I have seen so many people come back and win games an even tournaments from a situation that looked bad.

lol glad I watched this considering I’ve been doing the opposite of all these

A classic must-watch. Thank you, Professor.

Do you have a video just on attacking and blocking?

Commenting because it was 999 comments

This helped me out a lot. Thank you Professor sir!

Well that closer solidified that Magic isn't for everyone

Corollary to the winning at 1 life: pay lots of attention to the games where you lose against an opponent who ended up going down to 1 life against you.

Like, really comb over them right after they are done and do your best to analyze every significant play and decision point that happened. It very often means they outplayed you in some very significant way and it's quite possible there was a decision point in the game that would have allowed you to win.

Meanwhile my friends and i are complete arses the whole time. We're loud, we cheer for our hero Wretched god damn throng! Ordering food, drinking. We do blatantly dumb things just to screw one of us over even if it cost the win. Its alot of fun. Dont worry this is at my place and not the local store.

I have a little ocd so organizing my board already comes naturally. But it's honestly pretty annoying when players just slap cards in weird spots. Like creatures where lands may sit, artifacts in a spot that looks as if it should be the discard, commanders "command zone" resting somewhere near the battlefield (most infuriating) and I've even met a couple players that felt comfortable having their deck rest right in the center of their whole plating field...

just draw better land!

It petty and trite but I am Dogging those socks dude! outstanding!

I'm sure we can find a way to improve my performance-oh you really going to-oh I thought this was something entirely different. Let me just button up and get something to write

Play a red mana. End turn. WOW ItS sO cOmPlIcAtEd!!

Top G

2000 new unique cards printed per year in 2022 and only accelerating, gl keeping up with new cards, forget all cards

video : 20/20
socks : -10000/20

1. Have a big bank account,
2. Watch pros play and find a deck you like
3. Netdeck
4. Play a lot

This is all incredibly good advice and was mostly stuff I had to learn the hard way, through experience, when I was getting better at MTG.

Never stop professor, you make the magic cummunity fun and cozy 🤗