So I barely know anything about MTG but I want to get cards for myself and a couple friends. What's the easiest way to get into this? (I know there's the video game but I wanna go real cards). I see there are two deck starter kits which seem cool, maybe I get one of those for each of us and then some booster packs? Like $30 per person is what I'm going for. Are the starter decks balanced against each other? Is there other stuff I should know?
Yeah a starter kit is what you're looking for since you seem to not know very much to start. I've never played them but newbies seem to be happy with them.
If you know anyone who plays you could ask them to make you a pauper deck which can still be very fun to make and play but costs next to nothing.
If you have like done reading and think you understand the basic mechanics or whatever game stores that host tournaments often have like a ton of "commons" (cheap, basically worthless cards) that they're usually happy to just give away in bulk. When I was starting an MTG club at a school I told a game shop I was looking for commons for kids to use and they just gave me like a thousand cards for free lol. Kids loved them.
But yeah you're probably looking at one of those starter decks.
Appreciate it, I'll keep this in mind :inshallah:!
And yeah basically we all played hearthstone for a bit in like 2015 and understand that it's a simplified version of magic + we play this korean card game called go-stop with quarters once a week and want to switch it up.