https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/budget-beginner-teaching-decks-1-green/

https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/budget-beginner-teaching-decks-2-red/

^^ the two decks I used, I played green and the ai was red. Still getting the hang of this game but with over like 50k cards in the library and endless combos it's so deep. The AI is quite smart on Forge too. I've never played MTG in my life so this is all new to me.

  • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]
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    7 months ago

    Yeah I might be off by a zero here. I'm just thinking if a player comes to me, says they want to play serious Modern tournaments, and wants to know what Red and Blue cards they should know, off the top of my head:

    Counterspell

    Murktide Regent

    Spell Pierce

    Force of Negation

    Preordain

    Subtlety

    Ragavan

    Lightning Bolt

    Dragon's Rage Channeler

    Uhh... Flame Of Anor?

    That's 10 cards. There's others, but if you want a competitive Modern deck in Blue/Red the Murktide deck isn't far off from this list + lands.

    • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
      ·
      7 months ago

      Maybe the truth is somewhere in between (radical mtg centrism). There's tons of different decks on moxfield using tons of different cards, but the card pool does shrink the higher up you go, depending on the format.