Today we are going to talk about Magic the Gathering Deck Building. We would discuss about the methodology of building a deck of your own that suits your strategies and style. So we are not giving deck examples here, but focus on how to build your very own deck. As I said there are infinite number of types of deck one can build, so the aim of this article is to give the reader a glimpse of the vast ocean of Magic the Gathering decks.

Today we are going to talk about Magic the Gathering Deck Building. We would discuss about the methodology of building a deck of your own that suits your strategies and style. So we are not giving deck examples here, but focus on how to build your very own deck. As I said there are infinite number of types of deck one can build, so the aim of this article is to give the reader a glimpse of the vast ocean of Magic the Gathering decks.

A Magic The Gathering Deck can hold up to 200 cards or as little as 60 cards. By simple mathematics, we know that there are so many ways to build a deck that we can spend the whole life building decks without creating 2 same ones. However, there is only one aim that is to win and not to lose. But how can I win a Magic game?

The most common and normal way to win is to reduce your opponent's life to 0 or less. Another method is to drain opponent's library so that he has no cards to draw. But this method can only be applied with a few special decks and mainly Blue cards (as well as some Artifacts). The last method is to increase opponent's Poison Counters to 10 or above. But there are not too many poisonous creatures and most of them are very weak. Moreover, 10 Poison Counters is a bit too demanding. Every player has 20 life counters. Creatures' Power and Toughness range from 0/1 to 12/12 even X/X, while each Poison attack hits Poison Counters with 1 point only plus there is no spell that can increase opponent's Poison Counters. Therefore, this method can be ignored basically.

You can pick whichever way you would like to use to defeat your opponents. But the majority of the Magic players out there uses the first method which is to decrease other players' life to 0. In order to do this, you can try one or more of the followings: 1. attack your opponents directly with spells. You must work your way out in order to achieve this because the creatures on the battlefield can be used to guard the players. And there are limited number of direct attack spells. 2. use your creatures to attack. This is the most common as it gives good results. 3. use spells to limit your opponent so that he can't cast his spells or attack you. 4. make his library goes out so the player has no cards to draw.

These are the 4 seperate ways. But you can choose a combination of them and work out a tactic to win most efficiently.

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