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?
a really fun way to get cards and practice playing is doing a draft booster box. booster boxes are $100 for 36 packs, so among 6 people you pay $17 each and you each get 6 booster packs. everyone takes a pack, opens it, selects one card to keep, and passes the pack to the next person, you rotate those 6 packs until there are no cards left, rinse and repeat with the entire box. then you make decks with the 90 new cards you got. you can play a bunch of matches with ur draft decks for a night of fun and you get a bunch of new cards!