Something right now is pissing me off. The new generation of Magic The Gathering player. For some reason in the past years I have been playing which isn't long. I've noticed an increasing demand of "We want cheaper decks so we can play competitive!" Said in a little screaming kid voice.
What you don't understand is a cheaper deck does not always mean a winning game.
I Have been playing magic since 2013. Not very long right? My good military battle buddy is the one who introduced me into the game after finding out I was interested in card games. He has been playing since 1993. Since the card games
release. Everything I have learned about playing the game was lesson after lessons of mistakes, miss plays and just dumb stuff. One thing he taught me that so many younger players do not understand is that. NOT EVERY CARD IS MEANT TO PLAY COMPETITIVELY! I Started playing magic in draft. A game mode I believe to be the most skilled magic play there is. For someone to take random cards and make a deck and win first place is good skill in my book and even good luck. (oh but you can not say that because players now do
research before drafting so they know what cards to draft!!!!!) Bull. Just because they do does not mean they will get those cards. Any way back to the point. In draft being a new player and all. I would try and take the biggest freaking cards and put them all in one deck making no since what so ever. Wrong answer! For the first 6 months I never ever won a match. EEEVVVEEERR! The reason why. Because I didn't understand the game fully AND I didn't understand the value of cards. So my best friend said "no more! You will becoming better then this!" So we began play testing and my lessons of becoming a better player began.
So a month later I'm making top 8 drafts in local stores. Now it is time to get into some standard. My friend is a big legacy fan. He doesn't hate standard it is just boring to him, but for me I love all formats! So I asked him one day lets build standard decks and SHOOT FOR THE GODS! Because that was the new set. Theros. So I put together some crap B/G deck and got my ass handed to me.
"but why did you lose? I thought you became a better player?" The person reading this says out loud.
I lost because I was a freaking noob to standard. My friend on the other hand made it to the top 8 with a R/B boss sligh deck. I was pissed on the inside. Why do I keep lossing??? WHHHYYY!!!! So now I'm serious. I'm going to go at this like Goku went after freeza! Bam pulled out my debt card. Went to the store front desk and said! Give me mono blue dev. Tom ross build Mother fucker! No I didn't do that, but I did build mono blue in 2014 after a year of horrible
defeat.
Then at that point it all changed. The deck cost 200 bucks but I didn't care because I was winning my money back in packs. and this is why I think the new generation is making magic worse. actually the modern players. Yep I said it modern. not new or young. Modern.
In magic there is a reason Tom Ross, BBD, CVM, that one guy who won the championship and everyone thinks he will win this year. Are really good players. They understand the value of cards and the player skill skill is amazing. Tom Ross is my favorite pro player out there. (fan boy much?) Because he took a freaking 40 dollar deck and whooped some butt at invitational Columbus with boss sligh. Reason why? He understood the value of the cards and how effective they could be, but it was 40 dollars not 9. This is a version of it right here:
Deck: Boss Sligh //Lands17
Mountain //Spells4
Coordinated Assault 4
Dragon Mantle 4
Lightning Strike 3
Magma Jet 4
Titan's Strength 4
Wild Slash //Creatures4
Akroan Crusader 4
Firedrinker Satyr 4
Foundry Street Denizen 4
Lightning Berserker 4
Monastery Swiftspear //Sideboard3
Smash to Smithereens 3
Rending Volley 1
Rouse the Mob 1
Blinding Flare 4
Spite of Mogis 3
Searing Blood Display deck statisticsSo yes a cheap deck can win, but it will not win for ever. It took everyone by surprise he was playing a mono-red build like this because it wasn't your standard build. People look at mono-red as a deck with just haste and burn. Bull. With this build it is all about the pump and kill fast. Burn is just a bonus. Now. If you take a cheap deck right. You with me? and play vs a 2000 deck. Who do you think will win? and why? I will just leave it at this and respond to this question with your reason why. Because I'm pretty sure a deck that cost 5 dollars wouldn't beat a well put together deck with the most efficient cards even in casual play.
So My point is this. Stop complaining that magic is expensive because it always will be. That is why they have different arch types. Legacy, modern and standard then draft. If your mad because you think your an amazing player and you can't compete because decks cost so much. Then just play draft.