How much does it cost? For a casual player, to build up one or two decks, how hard would that be?
Just to add on to what Tom said, the pre-made decks that you can buy for the most part won't really be competitive against any custom-built deck by a competent player. However, if all you're looking for is a cheap intro to the game or just want to mess around, they can be fun. I have an out of town friend I only see every couple months, and we are extremely casual players. Every time we get together we'll each grab another deck from the local card shop and add them to our growing pile of decks to choose from, and it's a blast. They're anywhere from 5 dollars on up for a complete deck, so it's hard to go wrong.
The topics are woefully PC-skewed around here...I built a new Magic deck
07/11/2009 04:42:02 PM
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Just a question from a complete MTG-n00b...
08/11/2009 03:09:31 AM
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It's not hard to build decks. Really, really good decks, on the other hand...
08/11/2009 03:54:03 AM
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Re: Just a question from a complete MTG-n00b...
08/11/2009 11:10:42 AM
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From a MTG midbie...
08/11/2009 05:11:50 AM
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I find Elf decks limiting on their own, but good as a component of a two-color deck
08/11/2009 06:17:44 PM
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From a 10-year Magic Player
08/11/2009 05:27:13 AM
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Those get shut down pretty fast by a good blue/white deck
08/11/2009 06:25:57 PM
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Back when I played my two favorite decks I ever built were a...
13/11/2009 03:50:45 AM
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I have an Infernal Spawn of Evil card around here somewhere... *NM*
10/11/2009 06:49:01 PM
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I tend to hang around blue/white/green
10/11/2009 11:16:46 AM
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I joke with my friends that I wanted to make a red/white deck and it turned out all black.
16/11/2009 03:26:32 AM
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Ah, see, that is my problem.
16/11/2009 09:44:37 AM
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God that card annoys me
16/11/2009 09:50:10 AM
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Re: God that card annoys me
16/11/2009 09:55:56 AM
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It's a cheap creature. I'd kill it as soon as it came out or counter it. *NM*
20/11/2009 02:00:05 AM
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Alternatively I could "borrow" a turbo-opposition deck from my man
20/11/2009 08:46:44 AM
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My favorite is my Dragon Reyanimator deck
10/11/2009 12:24:50 PM
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That sounds like a good deck. I might have to try something similar.
16/11/2009 03:28:08 AM
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