November 28th, 2009 
Mike Wong So you want to learn building a Magic the Gathering deck? I am going to teach you step by step about the method of building your first Magic The Gathering deck according to your style of playing. If you are looking for deck examples, go somewhere else, but if you want to know how to create victorious Magic decks, you are in the right place. You can build as many different decks as you want. Let’s now look at how to win a Magic The Gathering Game.
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.
Therefore, you can already see that the main way of winning is just to hit the other players until their lives fall to 0. But How? The first method is direct attack. This is not easy as creatures on the Battlefield can be used to guard that. There are not many direct attact spells. The second method is to initiate creature attacks. The Third method is restrain the other player from attacking you or even use his cards. The forth method is to make the other player goes into a situation which he has no card to draw at all. At I mentioned, this method is difficult and you must use Blue cards.
Here I introduced four different ways to win. You can choose your favourite one or you can choose a few and build a deck according to your strategy.
Learn more about Magic The Gathering decks. Stop by Magic The Gathering Guide to get the information you need.
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