Red: "I cast my everything at you." Green: "I summon Bigger Fish." White: "I attack you with my elaborate, well organized army." Black: "That dies, screw yo.u" Blue: "No you don't..."
Blue is all about making sure you are the only person having fun. It's about breaking you down and making sure you feel like you can never do anything right until you break down and cry:(
why do people give blue so much crap o.o a counter spell is just a different type of removal. its like how red has damage, white has exile, black has destroy, blue has counter spells.
Yes a lot of things can play control, but nothing can do it like blue can. This is especially true for amateur players such as myself. Right when i started playing, i felt bad going against blue, and i did not need a push from the magic community to feel that way. It's just anti-fun!
i just view it as the color specialization but i guess some people just dont like control while others dont like aggro. I guess coming from ygo where everything is over powered and games last 5 turns tops i welcome blue since it makes games go on longer lol
TheTruesonicfan3602 That's why you don't put all your buffs on the same creature. To not make the choice of which creature to kill obvious. Unless you're playing a Voltron deck. As with anything, there is always an exception.
+Senny Bee Haha yea, Blue White Control FTW. But Most Of The Time I Play Green Red Horde Style, But Control Is Fun Too, Also Blue Black Mill, Or blue Black White Control, Its A Lot Of Fun To Watch Somebody Try To Win When All They Can Do Is Place Lands, Green & Red Seem To Be More Creature Related, And Blue, Black & White Seem To Be Spell Related. But That's Just My Opinion.
McMaxer Minecrafter Blue Black creature stealing is how I roll nowadays. It's just a deck that is supposed to be fun (for me) but unfortunately, people always take my thievery the wrong way and I end up being ganged up on cos no one likes a thief in MTG.
Lol, yea, especially when its like ulamog. The first time i played mtg ever it was against a modern mono red creature-stealer. I think the first time i won a mtg game was like my 30th time playing. lol.
After looking past the surface: Green-Mid game spike, Based on Board presence and safe power. Creatures often grow over time. Can be tweaked for early or late game strength. White-Common theme of gaining life and having many creatures. Usually a mid game color, but can play for the long game by gaining absurd amounts of life. Can be very restricting of the opponent. Blue- Prevent the other person from playing the game by casting many many inhibiting spells. Slow progress, very tactical, and probably most skill intensive color. Red-Deal fast damage. Spikes early game at turn 4, but Goblin decks can hold out til mid game. Likely the simplest color to play due to having few utility spells. Black- Gives you anything you want for a price, or puts a price on everything your opponent wants. You decide who lives and who dies. Usually a mid game color, but black is by far the most flexible.
I love playing Black-Blue decks. Opponent discards some cards, you draw some more. You keep them at bay for a while with your blues and wipe the board with a Languish, then suddenly there's a 7/8 kraken on the board, or an 8/8 octopus and your opponent has no cards to deal with it. :D
This is actually a pretty good introduction to people who are new to the game. And FINALLY someone takes some time to explore the attitudes and emotions behind each of the colours, and not just name a bunch of cards that do mathematical combos! I think MTG is a wonderful game, not just because of the game itself (which is great!) but also because of the narrative you can build with it. In fact, two years ago I wrote an essay about how MTG can be effectively used as a tool to categorize personality traits, like the Meyers-Briggs Inventory. So yes, I'd love to see more videos like this, maybe about different combinations of colours next time. Nicely done!
This was the best description of MTG colours I have ever heard! I've really only had them explained to me maybe once before but this still stands as a compliment.
I literally just played MTG for the first time today. My friend let me use his White and Blue deck and I gotta say I loved dropping those blue badass enchants. Though it was my White Monster(some heroic dude with double tap) that ended up owning the field. I actually won my first match ever in a 3 player match. I was surprised. I'm super excited to get into Magic, there's such a community for it and making new friends through it is already happening for me and I just played my first game today. Any good Noob/beginner videos you think I NEED to watch let me know. :D I don't even have my own deck yet so nows the time to educate me.
No Name Works Now I'm doing a little better. My friend who's given me a bunch of cards and has helped me build my deck says I'm learning the game faster than anyone else he's seen. Its super fun I'm having dreams about magic now. XD I'm on my second deck build and it's a little faster now but its working. Building a deck is about repetition. Keep playing it against other people, keep tweaking it, rip it apart and examine what you have, side board if you have the cards to, and just keep revising your strategies. My first build was too slow and too unfocused. Now it's a lot faster and its modeled after my friend's blue and white Deck, when mine is Blue/Green (need to get Simic Synthesis off T&T). All and all I'm learning a lot from just playing around other people. If you don't have a deck buy a starter deck and go from there, but above all else KEEP PLAYING!!!
3rdeye88 are you playing standard? I've bought 3 booster boxes a fat pack and two intro packs within my first 3 weeks of playing already lol, 5 decks, all sleeved, about to start going to the magic nights at the local card shop :)
Excellent descriptions of the colours. And wholly accurate! BTW if you're looking for an outro, "may your next bowl of cereal remain crunchy" is pretty much unbeatable.
I also hope your next bowl of cereal is wonderful. So excited to see Day[9] on Geek & Sundry, this video was also the perfect representation in my mind of the game and makes me kinda wanna start playing again if it wasnt so darn expensive.
I don't think he did Green justice.. Green is all about Ramping your Mana, having Mana Dorks, and making use of the metric shit ton of Mana you've generated faster than is normally possible, and just play some really degenerate big things and go all in with them. Green also hates artificial things, like Artifacts. I think Day[9] plays Golgari/Mid-Range. Good stuff. :P
Day9 doesn't know much about Magic... this is just a general intro stuff. For example, there's a lot of decision to be made in a red deck, it's just too subtle for new players.
Long story short, green is when you use your brute strength within your creatures. For example, usually a green creature is like 3/3 or something. A green deck is strong, but the defense system is weak because there is no real use for sorcery or artifacts. And white is all about equality like he said. Everything is balanced and neutral. It is good for beginners. Red is for quick players. Some creatures are fast and weak and some are slow and strong. It is a little boring though because game are over way to fast since every creature pretty much has haste. Black is pretty much just the god of cards since a lot of cards have a lot of very effective abilities including lifelink and many others. And blue is for artifact creatures and more magical based spells like instants and stuff like that. I hope this helped you.
That's why I love Izzet decks. It's just all about fucking with your opponent. They have no idea what's going to happen EVER. "So, I'm going to cast this creature. They didn't counter it!" *Next Turn* "Sweet, now I can attack with that creature! Oh... They blew it up... I'll summon a new one. Oh..."
Is Black/Red good combination? i feel it might work since black has a lot of mean stuff but not necessarly tons of quick damage, which is where red would be great backup
Almechik I run all colors and i'd say the best deck I have is a legacy blue and white containment deck. It pisses the shit out of people. Add some oblivion rings into it and 4 frost titans than the games over. And if you really wanna get your milk and honey get isperia and 4 mulldrifters. Add 4 riftwing cloudscapes and you''ll be drawing cards out the wazoo. Its a pretty cheap deck compared to other legacy. And when you whoop a 500$ deck they'll ask how you made it hahaha.
+Almechik I play a red/black, It is very good for example: I play a horde of 1/1 goblins, I summon a revenant after they all die, which happens to be a 12/12. Red black ftw also try black green that shit's op
I have had a crush on Day[9] since they started the show (that sadly has ended) MetaDating and this, both this vlog and the news of his new show on here, makes me giggle with glee. Perfect way to end my day.
lol DayJ "If you caught that reference, you probably shouldn't be watching this video" from the guy who gave the reference in the first place :) Really looking forward to watching this series, keep it up!
I play blue/black faeries and blue/red delver. god I love blue. I like feeling like I have control over what happens more then they do. blue play is just the best. I love my faeries. just make them discards their win conditions out of there hand counter what you don't discard, then kill what they manage to get out. all while all of my faeries are hitting them hard through the air every turn. also blue can be very aggro my delver stomps face pretty fast. like I guess its technically tempo (because I haven't given into treasure cruise super aggro everything is a fucking one drop delver yet) but it still wins game quickly is things go my way.. which blue is good at making happen.
i prefer my bant enchant deck. green/blue/white unblock able dudes with lots of removeabilty and counter spells fairys have neat tricks but if im playing black blue im using my marit lage deck which has a turn 0 win condition in it 40 percent of the time ive only lost wiht that deck to blue if im 2nd to go with an early sac for my 20/20 indestructible flying
"I hope it stays crunchy" hahahahahah. I am new to Magic and I have been searching online a lot for useful tips and tricks. This is all I got from the video, lol. Very witty and clever. Well done man.
I'm gonna try Black / Blue... Because I borrowed my friends Black / Green deck, only got black cards, and fucked shit up, and blue sounds evil + awesome. I'm new though so I'll probably lose a lot still.
***** Well I did just start then, I did get a Blue / Black Inspired-themed deck and successfully beat my brother and friends a couple times... But against people who knew how to play the game I didn't win much, because well, I was new and it was an intro deck... Point is though I started out a while ago and I am somewhat "experienced", got a couple of decks since then that I can beat some people I know that are amazing at Magic, and am actually ordering a bunch of cards for a milling deck right now lol.
A full artifact deck seems like the kind of thing you play if you can't find enough matching land cards to make a colored one, and I always enjoy having a sprinkle of white or red and end it with non-colored eldrazi or whatever.
Oh my gosh this made me laugh so hard. My husband and I just picked up Magic and he plays Blue/White. I thought I was just being a sore loser but I'm SOOOO thankful that I'm not the only one who HATES FRIGGIN BLUE!!!!! The only games I've won have been the 2 times he couldn't draw lands.... Do I even have hope people?!
Lol. I was waiting for you to get to blue because it what iplay. And my main strategy in monopoly is also to buy the first side of the bored and bankrupt by monoplizing the houses,
easy explanation in one sentence for each colour: - play white, if you like little, effective creatures and lifegain. - play green, if you like big creatures and spells that make them even bigger. - play red, if you like to attack as fast as possible and inflict direct damage with spells. - play black, if you like to corrupt your opponents strategies, by let him/her discards cards or destroy creatures directly. - play blue, if you like to control the game, by playing counter/bounce-spells and getting additional card-draw. (or just beeing an ass...)
+Kodo Elder-Groebe How recent was it? Because if you had to deal with a Hedron Crab you probably wanted to flip the table. I have a Notion Thief deck with 2 of those and 2 Bloodchief Ascensions, vicious combo once Ascension is activated..
Worked! I do very much like what he is doing with this & hope it can help 'connect' the other vloggers--like he should play all of them since Magic is clearly the thing that ties G&S together!
Blue is the colour of nope. Oh you have a 10/10 Hydra? Nope, it's a 2/2 swine. Oh, you have a field clearing spell? Nope, you just spent all your mana on air. Oh, you have an indestructible creature? Nope, I do. You have a 1/1 vaporkin. I started playing blue because all my friends had far better decks than I did and I decided that if I couldn't win I would at least piss them the hell off before they killed me. But you know what? People make stupid decisions when they're mad. It's also hard to enact a strategy when nothing you play will stick to the field. Blue is the reason I won my first ever MtG game with a deck I built myself, it's a deck David would take to play against Goliath. I love your hate, your tears nourish me >:3
Sir Ernest Blue is a very hard color to learn, especially for beginners. If you want blue, you should look up some good cards to make sure your ensuring the right direction with blue, because if not, blue will be a horrid jumble. It is very powerful if you can build your deck right.
All colors can be good for beginners, but the great cards in blue are costly, even for the commons. Green is definitely good for beginners, but black has the exact same style as blue, except less control and more beginner-friendly. White is good mostly in combinations with other colors (so if you really want a good beginner set, white-blue is OP.) Red is thoughtless, with the biggest plan in building attempting to kill the player as fast as possible. I'd say black is a more beginner-suited alternative to blue, with friendly prices to your wallet (good cards in blue can cost $2-15 bucks, while good cards in black can cost 0.5-3 bucks.) Also, if you really want blue, I can help you with building a beginner-suited budget deck. I've had lots of experience building with the blue type, mostly in combination with other colors :).
***** Thanks for the help, I'll try a Blue/White Hybrid :) But first I want to play the game extensively, to get a good understanding of mechanics etc. before really thinking of changing my deck too much, though I highly appreciate your offer, I might come back to it later :)
Just a tip: I've played U/W, so these are some staple cards if that's your starting point: - Detention Sphere [cheap] - Sphinx's Revelation [costly] - Supreme Verdict [slightly costly] Detention Sphere can get rid of powerful creatures or planeswalkers people send out. Sphinx's Revelation is expensive, but it gives massive healing. Supreme Verdict gets rid of all creatures [including yours] but it can't be stopped by a counterspell. I find my prices at MTGStocks.com, though there are other websites that can do this too.
Pretty accurate description of the color personalities. I always played black and was fascinated by blue. No matter how hard I tried or how well I traded I could never build a winning blue deck. Green, white, and red were always boring to me. Haven't played in years and sold all my cards but I do miss it.
Permission blue doesn't really exist in standard nowadays with the mediocre spell power and high creature power. Blue in the current standard is the real zerg style creature swarm.
well blue devotion is the winningest deck atm but its still one deck all based around one token producer. each color has its own ways of macro but im saying white has always been based on THE macro style.
I was talking about mono blue in standard. Legacy blue can do control pretty well because of the "overpowered" blue spells back in the days (Brainstorm, FoW, etc.) UW control is standard relies on straightforward removal, not permission tricks as Day9 said.
Funny beecause I play Izzet (blue&red) which are opposites the way sean describes them in this video xP also they seem like his 2 least favorite colors
Ryo Akira I'd say as of now its white or black. Blue, red, green, and multicolored whites are really prominent. Even though one of the most popular decks is the gray merchant.
So if i play a 5 color deck i'm a suave ahole who doesn't like to make decisions and loves to stomp your face with big green men, but does it in the name of equality and always by the rules?
true. Slivers tend to mix up the boundaries between colors, but they have the same basic principles Predatory Sliver- Green, and all about making your army as big as possible Steelform Sliver- White, but all about boosting your defense Blur Sliver- Red, and all about boosting your army's speed so that it can mow down the enemy the moment it arrives.
+Moreth The Rogue Thinking of getting into Magic, and honestly have no allegiance yet, but something about black makes me think it will be in heavy rotation. I like you're style Jet.
+Ryan Sizemore Haha this goes to show just how fucked up i am. Black and Red are my favorites. Which describes me perfectly. But for the love of god don't play blue. Hate those guys.
This is one of the best descriptions of the color pie ever. I, too, am a black mage--that is the correct choice. However, you will be sad to hear that I like playing Dimir and Grixis (also GOlgari and Jund, though, so fear not). But I don't care if you're sad, because I'm a black mage, and your sadness does not affect my success. By the way, discard your hand.
This is the first time I've seen you... And I like it. Good pacing, nice humor, very accessibly & vivacious presentation-style... And WHATTA OUTRO. Man. : ) 7:20 - 8:14
To a degree, yes. Though the colors do bleed into each other. For example you'll find some red cards with green, or black abilities/flavor. Because of this there is no rock-paper-scissors sort of thing with the colors. The cards do however tend to favor their particular color more so than others, so it's more common to find big creatures in green than other colors. It's also just fun to play multi-color decks. Personally I like to do 3 color decks.
I just realised that I am the same kid he describes as blue. I always buy up Mediterranean and Baltic avenue in Monopoly and steal everyone's GO money.
Lol, the zerg analogy is quite striking. A lot of little creatures in white you can buff the heck out of and heal back up, sounds about right? Which color deck does the best snowballing or would be best suited? You know, fastest to reach that point in game where board control is almost something inevitable because every card is designed around buffing another? Not asking for a entire deck suggestion though, just wondering which color to look into for this style.
Starting to make a Red/Blue burn and draw deck with a strategy based around both Niv Mizzet, Dracogenius and Niv Mizzet, the Firemind. Sounds like a very nice combo.
I'm just getting into Magic and so far I got an intro Blue/Red pack and some really cool green cards in booster packs. I wanna have a secondary of blue just because I think it suits me but idk if I should have primary of red or green? They are both awesome powerhouses but with red, whenever the game goes on too long, I feel disadvantageous. Green interests me just because the spells look really fucking powerful, but some of the red instants are awesome because they can just deal direct damage and I'm kinda undecided. I wanna kill the enemy quick but not too quick.
I played some years ago when I was in middle and high school and I used to completely kick butt with a green deck. Now I'm trying to get back to the game, and black and blue sound really appealing. Except I've tried playing blue a couple times and I could not play well.
I too hate playing against a blue deck. There's no strategy that works, other than trying to dupe them into countering all you good spells so that they can't counter your REALLY good spells and hoping for the best. My friend has a blue/black deck where, after about turn 5 or 6 anything you do (draw, cast a spell, discard) makes you lose life, and then it makes you draw and discard over and over. Great video! I'm really looking forward to the new show!
I totally agree on blue with Sean. As I love to play with the graveyard I am devoted to black and green. In the end the card advantage overwhelms blue if the game doesn't drag on too long before blue ends in infinite extra turns or card draws in combination with infinite mana.
I had a red/black direct damage deck I really liked. The biggest creatures in it were vampires that just got bigger as they took other creatures out or immune to black so they kept Pestilence in the game.
The reason I play black isn't because of any of that, it's because I have a box of 200 zombie tokens, and I haven't had a game yet where I've had more than 80 of them on the battlefield, but I have had 80 zombie tokens in one game, which is fun.
Aw, Shawn, you really would have LOVED to play my Azorius Control deck last rotation, I was playing playsets of Sphinx's Revelation and Jaces alongside Elixir of Immortality before it "was cool" (aka became the norm). My biggest Sphinx was for 14 and that feeling, THAT FEELING when you do that and then only play a land for your turn and ask your opponent how many cards, get the answer "2" and then keep 4 counterspells when you got to discarding (just in case) - man, I'll always love that. And my friends actually said I had a bit of a smug look on my face whenever I cast a Sphinx for 10 or more, but how can you not, it's just sooo awesome. ;-)
"and if you play blue, I hate you"! THANK YOU, MAN! I hate playing or playing against blue! Those guys excel at buzz kill! Seriously though, thanks for doing this series and this show - the way you've handled it, it's almost as much fun to watch as it is to play! Do you plan to have guests like Wil & Felicia on Spellslingers?
Depends on the cards you have. White can gain life just to flip Red the middle finger. Plus there's also protection from a color or damage. One of the older broken cards from white back in the day was COP (insert Color). For red the enchantment allowed you to pay 1 mana to prevent damage from a Red permanent or Red spell. If you have the right cards, you can drain your opponent for the life points they took from you. :D. Green, ramp and say, you burn me, I crush you.
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Blue: "There is a finite amount of fun in every game of Magic, and I intend to have all of it."
Red: "I cast my everything at you."
Green: "I summon Bigger Fish."
White: "I attack you with my elaborate, well organized army."
Black: "That dies, screw yo.u"
Blue: "No you don't..."
Blue is for cucks
Watched this solely to get to his part about blue.
I love blue decks until my opponent has them.
Okay listen, have you ever countered a counter that was countering your counter?
@@Nylon-xj9ml I have
I thought blue was the colour of the prolonged tears of your fallen enemies ?
+rage5110 What about Esper? Even more tears?
(OvO)
+The BlackCoated Man Esper is the color of dickishness
Well thats kinda dark.
It's true
Blue is all about making sure you are the only person having fun. It's about breaking you down and making sure you feel like you can never do anything right until you break down and cry:(
why do people give blue so much crap o.o a counter spell is just a different type of removal. its like how red has damage, white has exile, black has destroy, blue has counter spells.
Gentasu968 cause blue is all about control and makes you feel bad.
a lot of things can play control o.o the only reason blue makes people feel bad is cause it has such a bad name in the magic community
Yes a lot of things can play control, but nothing can do it like blue can. This is especially true for amateur players such as myself. Right when i started playing, i felt bad going against blue, and i did not need a push from the magic community to feel that way. It's just anti-fun!
i just view it as the color specialization but i guess some people just dont like control while others dont like aggro. I guess coming from ygo where everything is over powered and games last 5 turns tops i welcome blue since it makes games go on longer lol
7:20
"... blue... "
The look on your face was PRICELESS!!!
I played a blue deck vs my brother's blue/white deck. Nobody lost any life for like 20 turns.
As a Black/White deck player with a Friend with a Mono Blue player, I agree with your look on Blue. *IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE*
(I got one of my White creatures with flying up to a 13/15, And he put it onto the top of my deck, Turning it back to a 1/1. Like fuck you too.)
TheTruesonicfan3602 That's why you don't put all your buffs on the same creature. To not make the choice of which creature to kill obvious.
Unless you're playing a Voltron deck. As with anything, there is always an exception.
CyberDagger
Yea, I know, I usually dont, But I just, Kept drawing nothing but damn Lands and Damn buffs.
TheTruesonicfan3602 As a blue player, I also agree with his outlook :)
Real players play mono grey decks. Get all of your cards to be colorless and then shove in a random assortment of nonbasic lands. It's glorious
You know the best part about blue? Taking another turn when you're not supposed to.
+Senny Bee Haha yea, Blue White Control FTW. But Most Of The Time I Play Green Red Horde Style, But Control Is Fun Too, Also Blue Black Mill, Or blue Black White Control, Its A Lot Of Fun To Watch Somebody Try To Win When All They Can Do Is Place Lands, Green & Red Seem To Be More Creature Related, And Blue, Black & White Seem To Be Spell Related. But That's Just My Opinion.
McMaxer Minecrafter Blue Black creature stealing is how I roll nowadays. It's just a deck that is supposed to be fun (for me) but unfortunately, people always take my thievery the wrong way and I end up being ganged up on cos no one likes a thief in MTG.
Lol, yea, especially when its like ulamog. The first time i played mtg ever it was against a modern mono red creature-stealer. I think the first time i won a mtg game was like my 30th time playing. lol.
McMaxer Minecrafter Maybe I should add Ulamog to my stealing deck. Thanks for the idea :)
anytime
The explanation for Blue is amazing. As a dude doing computer science I couldn't stop laughing at the analogy.
You either love or hate blue.
And I love blue ;)
Can I do both?
After looking past the surface:
Green-Mid game spike, Based on Board presence and safe power. Creatures often grow over time. Can be tweaked for early or late game strength.
White-Common theme of gaining life and having many creatures. Usually a mid game color, but can play for the long game by gaining absurd amounts of life. Can be very restricting of the opponent.
Blue- Prevent the other person from playing the game by casting many many inhibiting spells. Slow progress, very tactical, and probably most skill intensive color.
Red-Deal fast damage. Spikes early game at turn 4, but Goblin decks can hold out til mid game. Likely the simplest color to play due to having few utility spells.
Black- Gives you anything you want for a price, or puts a price on everything your opponent wants. You decide who lives and who dies. Usually a mid game color, but black is by far the most flexible.
Really selling that blue deck
He was realling showing his bias in this video, I think. But hey, that's okay.
There's a reason why people say Island is the strongest card in the game.
I love the description of mono-red as an elaborate coin flip. I've never thought of it that way before, but it's perfect.
I love playing Black-Blue decks. Opponent discards some cards, you draw some more. You keep them at bay for a while with your blues and wipe the board with a Languish, then suddenly there's a 7/8 kraken on the board, or an 8/8 octopus and your opponent has no cards to deal with it. :D
This is actually a pretty good introduction to people who are new to the game. And FINALLY someone takes some time to explore the attitudes and emotions behind each of the colours, and not just name a bunch of cards that do mathematical combos!
I think MTG is a wonderful game, not just because of the game itself (which is great!) but also because of the narrative you can build with it. In fact, two years ago I wrote an essay about how MTG can be effectively used as a tool to categorize personality traits, like the Meyers-Briggs Inventory. So yes, I'd love to see more videos like this, maybe about different combinations of colours next time.
Nicely done!
Skip the D
1:00 Green
2:29 White
4:07 Red
5:28 Black
7:20 Blue
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This was the best description of MTG colours I have ever heard! I've really only had them explained to me maybe once before but this still stands as a compliment.
I broke out into an evil laugh during Sean's denunciation of blue.
...Am I a bad person?
Dude I was crying laughing on that part too. It's totally me.
Dylan Tunmire I was laughing the entire time too since one of my good friends has at least some blue in his deck.
I'm thinking of getting into the game. Blue seems to be calling my name.
I literally just played MTG for the first time today. My friend let me use his White and Blue deck and I gotta say I loved dropping those blue badass enchants. Though it was my White Monster(some heroic dude with double tap) that ended up owning the field. I actually won my first match ever in a 3 player match. I was surprised. I'm super excited to get into Magic, there's such a community for it and making new friends through it is already happening for me and I just played my first game today.
Any good Noob/beginner videos you think I NEED to watch let me know. :D I don't even have my own deck yet so nows the time to educate me.
I am in the same boat as you. I need some beginner deck building tutorials.
Starstrike Gen and now?
No Name Works Now I'm doing a little better. My friend who's given me a bunch of cards and has helped me build my deck says I'm learning the game faster than anyone else he's seen. Its super fun I'm having dreams about magic now. XD I'm on my second deck build and it's a little faster now but its working.
Building a deck is about repetition. Keep playing it against other people, keep tweaking it, rip it apart and examine what you have, side board if you have the cards to, and just keep revising your strategies. My first build was too slow and too unfocused. Now it's a lot faster and its modeled after my friend's blue and white Deck, when mine is Blue/Green (need to get Simic Synthesis off T&T). All and all I'm learning a lot from just playing around other people. If you don't have a deck buy a starter deck and go from there, but above all else KEEP PLAYING!!!
3rdeye88 are you playing standard? I've bought 3 booster boxes a fat pack and two intro packs within my first 3 weeks of playing already lol, 5 decks, all sleeved, about to start going to the magic nights at the local card shop :)
Spellslingers is actually great for beginners.
That is true! This is just Day[9]'s guest vlog...we thought it'd be a fun way to lead into the show premiere tomorrow!
Its all about that mana searching big creature green deck
Red is for people who don't actually want to play Magic and just want to get it over with as quickly as possible.
green = jock
white = pretty boy
black = goth kid
red = school yard bully
blue = nerd
Kavewolf1989 D&D classes version:
white = cleric
blue = wizard
black = warlock
red = berserker
green = fighter
white/blue = psion
white/black = runepriest
blue/black = necromancer
blue/red = monk
black/red = assassin
black/green = rogue
red/green = ranger
red/white = paladin
green/white = shaman
green/blue = druid
More like
Green - nerd
White - nerd
Black - nerd
Red - nerd
Blue - annoying nerd
White is the class pressident.
Excellent descriptions of the colours. And wholly accurate! BTW if you're looking for an outro, "may your next bowl of cereal remain crunchy" is pretty much unbeatable.
I do hate white. I really do. Your annotation is CORRECT SIR.
I also hope your next bowl of cereal is wonderful. So excited to see Day[9] on Geek & Sundry, this video was also the perfect representation in my mind of the game and makes me kinda wanna start playing again if it wasnt so darn expensive.
I don't think he did Green justice..
Green is all about Ramping your Mana, having Mana Dorks, and making use of the metric shit ton of Mana you've generated faster than is normally possible, and just play some really degenerate big things and go all in with them. Green also hates artificial things, like Artifacts.
I think Day[9] plays Golgari/Mid-Range. Good stuff. :P
True.
Day9 doesn't know much about Magic... this is just a general intro stuff. For example, there's a lot of decision to be made in a red deck, it's just too subtle for new players.
While explaining blue he had these mind-absences, which made me think that he remembered some hurtfull memories :D
Long story short, green is when you use your brute strength within your creatures. For example, usually a green creature is like 3/3 or something. A green deck is strong, but the defense system is weak because there is no real use for sorcery or artifacts. And white is all about equality like he said. Everything is balanced and neutral. It is good for beginners. Red is for quick players. Some creatures are fast and weak and some are slow and strong. It is a little boring though because game are over way to fast since every creature pretty much has haste. Black is pretty much just the god of cards since a lot of cards have a lot of very effective abilities including lifelink and many others. And blue is for artifact creatures and more magical based spells like instants and stuff like that. I hope this helped you.
His description of blue made me decide to play blue
That's why I love Izzet decks. It's just all about fucking with your opponent. They have no idea what's going to happen EVER.
"So, I'm going to cast this creature. They didn't counter it!" *Next Turn* "Sweet, now I can attack with that creature! Oh... They blew it up... I'll summon a new one. Oh..."
I can say, as somebody who has played Magic since '95, these descriptions are completely accurate. Awesome video!
Is Black/Red good combination? i feel it might work since black has a lot of mean stuff but not necessarly tons of quick damage, which is where red would be great backup
Almechik It's very fun to do. Mix of burn spells and sacrificing creatures and heavy damage :)
Almechik Try red green. That's what i play and its pretty fun.
nintendofan707 Or even go Jund, and do a Green/Red/Black deck, because why not
Almechik I run all colors and i'd say the best deck I have is a legacy blue and white containment deck. It pisses the shit out of people. Add some oblivion rings into it and 4 frost titans than the games over. And if you really wanna get your milk and honey get isperia and 4 mulldrifters. Add 4 riftwing cloudscapes and you''ll be drawing cards out the wazoo. Its a pretty cheap deck compared to other legacy. And when you whoop a 500$ deck they'll ask how you made it hahaha.
+Almechik I play a red/black, It is very good for example: I play a horde of 1/1 goblins, I summon a revenant after they all die, which happens to be a 12/12. Red black ftw also try black green that shit's op
I have had a crush on Day[9] since they started the show (that sadly has ended) MetaDating and this, both this vlog and the news of his new show on here, makes me giggle with glee. Perfect way to end my day.
IZZZZZZZZET TIME TO PARTY?!
lol DayJ "If you caught that reference, you probably shouldn't be watching this video" from the guy who gave the reference in the first place :) Really looking forward to watching this series, keep it up!
I play blue/black faeries and blue/red delver. god I love blue. I like feeling like I have control over what happens more then they do. blue play is just the best. I love my faeries. just make them discards their win conditions out of there hand counter what you don't discard, then kill what they manage to get out. all while all of my faeries are hitting them hard through the air every turn.
also blue can be very aggro my delver stomps face pretty fast. like I guess its technically tempo (because I haven't given into treasure cruise super aggro everything is a fucking one drop delver yet) but it still wins game quickly is things go my way.. which blue is good at making happen.
i haven't played MTG, but blue seems great for trolling the crap out of enemy :D
i prefer my bant enchant deck. green/blue/white unblock able dudes with lots of removeabilty and counter spells fairys have neat tricks but if im playing black blue im using my marit lage deck which has a turn 0 win condition in it 40 percent of the time ive only lost wiht that deck to blue if im 2nd to go with an early sac for my 20/20 indestructible flying
What deck(s) did you get to get the faeries? :0
Day9 is just awesome ! Being following him for his Sc2 stuff and basically all his talk in between :D
OH MY GOD.
IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW.
I WAS DESTINED TO PLAY BLUE SINCE THE START.
I believe I made the right decision.
Ty Day9 ;)
"I hope it stays crunchy" hahahahahah. I am new to Magic and I have been searching online a lot for useful tips and tricks. This is all I got from the video, lol. Very witty and clever. Well done man.
I'm gonna try Black / Blue...
Because I borrowed my friends Black / Green deck, only got black cards, and fucked shit up, and blue sounds evil + awesome.
I'm new though so I'll probably lose a lot still.
I play black blue and i win most of my matches its a good co?bo
Yeah dude black blue is awesome and the way to go especially if running library depletion. :D
If you mill them, they will lose.
*****
Well I did just start then, I did get a Blue / Black Inspired-themed deck and successfully beat my brother and friends a couple times... But against people who knew how to play the game I didn't win much, because well, I was new and it was an intro deck...
Point is though I started out a while ago and I am somewhat "experienced", got a couple of decks since then that I can beat some people I know that are amazing at Magic, and am actually ordering a bunch of cards for a milling deck right now lol.
I play white/black/blue and some times I play white/red/black or blue.
A full artifact deck seems like the kind of thing you play if you can't find enough matching land cards to make a colored one, and I always enjoy having a sprinkle of white or red and end it with non-colored eldrazi or whatever.
Oh my gosh this made me laugh so hard. My husband and I just picked up Magic and he plays Blue/White. I thought I was just being a sore loser but I'm SOOOO thankful that I'm not the only one who HATES FRIGGIN BLUE!!!!! The only games I've won have been the 2 times he couldn't draw lands.... Do I even have hope people?!
Oh man, this was brilliant. Can't wait for the new show. Love MTG and Day9 always cracks me up.
Lol. I was waiting for you to get to blue because it what iplay. And my main strategy in monopoly is also to buy the first side of the bored and bankrupt by monoplizing the houses,
easy explanation in one sentence for each colour:
- play white, if you like little, effective creatures and lifegain.
- play green, if you like big creatures and spells that make them even bigger.
- play red, if you like to attack as fast as possible and inflict direct damage with spells.
- play black, if you like to corrupt your opponents strategies, by let him/her discards cards or destroy creatures directly.
- play blue, if you like to control the game, by playing counter/bounce-spells and getting additional card-draw. (or just beeing an ass...)
my very first magic game was against a u/b mill deck. It was sooo brutal.
+Kodo Elder-Groebe How recent was it? Because if you had to deal with a Hedron Crab you probably wanted to flip the table. I have a Notion Thief deck with 2 of those and 2 Bloodchief Ascensions, vicious combo once Ascension is activated..
necrogenesis1981 it was right after RtR came out, and yes I had to deal with those hedron crabs. Plus all the Glimpse and Mind Funeral...
Kodo Elder-Groebe What colors do you play? You could always fight fire with fire lol.
That's was years ago now. I later beat that friend during a modern tournament with a delver deck
Worked!
I do very much like what he is doing with this & hope it can help 'connect' the other vloggers--like he should play all of them since Magic is clearly the thing that ties G&S together!
Blue is the colour of nope. Oh you have a 10/10 Hydra? Nope, it's a 2/2 swine. Oh, you have a field clearing spell? Nope, you just spent all your mana on air. Oh, you have an indestructible creature? Nope, I do. You have a 1/1 vaporkin.
I started playing blue because all my friends had far better decks than I did and I decided that if I couldn't win I would at least piss them the hell off before they killed me. But you know what? People make stupid decisions when they're mad. It's also hard to enact a strategy when nothing you play will stick to the field. Blue is the reason I won my first ever MtG game with a deck I built myself, it's a deck David would take to play against Goliath. I love your hate, your tears nourish me >:3
Polymorphists Jest is the one card I absolutely love drawing in a blue deck right now. It is the one card that can break through my poker face :P
Oh of course. The sideboard helps you keep your options open a bit if you need any areas covered that your deck may not originally cover.
I'll soon start to play MtG and you just reinforced my decision of starting off with a blue deck :P
Sir Ernest Blue is a very hard color to learn, especially for beginners. If you want blue, you should look up some good cards to make sure your ensuring the right direction with blue, because if not, blue will be a horrid jumble. It is very powerful if you can build your deck right.
***** Hmmm.... I see, what colour is the easiest to learn with? I have heard green is good for beginners
All colors can be good for beginners, but the great cards in blue are costly, even for the commons. Green is definitely good for beginners, but black has the exact same style as blue, except less control and more beginner-friendly. White is good mostly in combinations with other colors (so if you really want a good beginner set, white-blue is OP.) Red is thoughtless, with the biggest plan in building attempting to kill the player as fast as possible. I'd say black is a more beginner-suited alternative to blue, with friendly prices to your wallet (good cards in blue can cost $2-15 bucks, while good cards in black can cost 0.5-3 bucks.)
Also, if you really want blue, I can help you with building a beginner-suited budget deck. I've had lots of experience building with the blue type, mostly in combination with other colors :).
***** Thanks for the help, I'll try a Blue/White Hybrid :) But first I want to play the game extensively, to get a good understanding of mechanics etc. before really thinking of changing my deck too much, though I highly appreciate your offer, I might come back to it later :)
Just a tip: I've played U/W, so these are some staple cards if that's your starting point:
- Detention Sphere [cheap]
- Sphinx's Revelation [costly]
- Supreme Verdict [slightly costly]
Detention Sphere can get rid of powerful creatures or planeswalkers people send out.
Sphinx's Revelation is expensive, but it gives massive healing.
Supreme Verdict gets rid of all creatures [including yours] but it can't be stopped by a counterspell.
I find my prices at MTGStocks.com, though there are other websites that can do this too.
Pretty accurate description of the color personalities. I always played black and was fascinated by blue. No matter how hard I tried or how well I traded I could never build a winning blue deck. Green, white, and red were always boring to me. Haven't played in years and sold all my cards but I do miss it.
Permission blue doesn't really exist in standard nowadays with the mediocre spell power and high creature power. Blue in the current standard is the real zerg style creature swarm.
i think he means zerg macro as in tokens and white weenie combos. blue did get more small drops this format but is still focused on spells
Master of Waves is all about small tokens. We're talking about 10+ creatures on turn 4.
well blue devotion is the winningest deck atm but its still one deck all based around one token producer. each color has its own ways of macro but im saying white has always been based on THE macro style.
There is one blue aggro deck. There are 3 blue control decks atm: UW, Esper and Team America.
I was talking about mono blue in standard. Legacy blue can do control pretty well because of the "overpowered" blue spells back in the days (Brainstorm, FoW, etc.) UW control is standard relies on straightforward removal, not permission tricks as Day9 said.
Thank you for perfectly describing green and blue!!
Funny beecause I play Izzet (blue&red) which are opposites the way sean describes them in this video xP also they seem like his 2 least favorite colors
Ryo Akira I'd say as of now its white or black. Blue, red, green, and multicolored whites are really prominent. Even though one of the most popular decks is the gray merchant.
I wish there were more videos like this. I can't wait to see more of you.
So if i play a 5 color deck i'm a suave ahole who doesn't like to make decisions and loves to stomp your face with big green men, but does it in the name of equality and always by the rules?
You don't want to play with all five in one deck because its harder to summon stuff.
Christopher Winsor
You're funny. I run a 5-color Sliver deck, and it functions just fine.
willalwaysloveOHIO LUCKY SOB!! that combination must be hella fun to mess with!
Personally, I'm the blue-red counterburn player
true.
Slivers tend to mix up the boundaries between colors, but they have the same basic principles
Predatory Sliver- Green, and all about making your army as big as possible
Steelform Sliver- White, but all about boosting your defense
Blur Sliver- Red, and all about boosting your army's speed so that it can mow down the enemy the moment it arrives.
Edward Blademonk I play a 5-color bringer deck just fine
Wow! That was hilarious!
I have tears from laughter, Sean. Thank you!
I like espur colors
Just got into Magic two weeks ago. I'm really looking forward to this show!
I started playing MTG about a week ago (damn addictions). I gotta say I love playing an all black deck. It's great way to piss off my friends.
+Moreth The Rogue Thinking of getting into Magic, and honestly have no allegiance yet, but something about black makes me think it will be in heavy rotation. I like you're style Jet.
+Ryan Sizemore Haha this goes to show just how fucked up i am. Black and Red are my favorites. Which describes me perfectly. But for the love of god don't play blue. Hate those guys.
+Tristan Cash red-black buddies!
Would love him to do a video explaining the guilds
so wait blue is like the ultimate troll deck --_--
Yup. I love playing blue just to troll my friends. Anytime I create a blue deck I ask myself "How can I maximize the chances of them rage quitting?"
megothier I faced a planeswalker deck that made me concede faster than any blue control deck ever could. Unlmtd mana and a never ending turn.....
It can be
In my opinion blue feels very safe. You're in full control of the playing field.
This was great, helped me understand the 'feel' of each color.
BLUE ALLL DAAAYY!!! that being said, everything he said is completely true.
Wonderful description of what MtG is. Love the dialog, if the show has half the witty banter as the vlog the show will be awesome. Flashback deck ftw
I loved blue. Now because of your rant on blue... I like it even more
This is one of the best descriptions of the color pie ever. I, too, am a black mage--that is the correct choice. However, you will be sad to hear that I like playing Dimir and Grixis (also GOlgari and Jund, though, so fear not). But I don't care if you're sad, because I'm a black mage, and your sadness does not affect my success. By the way, discard your hand.
Me playing my blue deck. Oh you play a 5/5 monster and it has haste well i am just in a pickle i don't know what to do oh wait i know UNSUMMON!!!!!
This is the first time I've seen you... And I like it. Good pacing, nice humor, very accessibly & vivacious presentation-style...
And WHATTA OUTRO. Man. : )
7:20 - 8:14
I don't really play Magic.... but now I really wanna give it a go just to try blue ^_^||
To a degree, yes. Though the colors do bleed into each other. For example you'll find some red cards with green, or black abilities/flavor.
Because of this there is no rock-paper-scissors sort of thing with the colors. The cards do however tend to favor their particular color more so than others, so it's more common to find big creatures in green than other colors.
It's also just fun to play multi-color decks. Personally I like to do 3 color decks.
Bahahaha!!!
BLUE ALL DAY!!!
9:15 feels like I can see him putting his hate for blue on a shelf! Way to be the bigger man!
I just realised that I am the same kid he describes as blue. I always buy up Mediterranean and Baltic avenue in Monopoly and steal everyone's GO money.
Lol, the zerg analogy is quite striking. A lot of little creatures in white you can buff the heck out of and heal back up, sounds about right?
Which color deck does the best snowballing or would be best suited? You know, fastest to reach that point in game where board control is almost something inevitable because every card is designed around buffing another? Not asking for a entire deck suggestion though, just wondering which color to look into for this style.
UW bros where you at
Right here brother
Here's my UW deck
deckstats.net/decks/60901/444744-uw-midrange-control/en
Starting to make a Red/Blue burn and draw deck with a strategy based around both Niv Mizzet, Dracogenius and Niv Mizzet, the Firemind. Sounds like a very nice combo.
I hate blue
Nice explaination, when are we going to get some more spell slingers. I need something to when I am at work and doing my work is not what I do.
Hey... I can totally get that reference and still love listening to the sound of your voice Sean Plott!
As a player of Monored, I feel like you have hit its description spot on XD
I'm just getting into Magic and so far I got an intro Blue/Red pack and some really cool green cards in booster packs. I wanna have a secondary of blue just because I think it suits me but idk if I should have primary of red or green? They are both awesome powerhouses but with red, whenever the game goes on too long, I feel disadvantageous. Green interests me just because the spells look really fucking powerful, but some of the red instants are awesome because they can just deal direct damage and I'm kinda undecided. I wanna kill the enemy quick but not too quick.
***** Thanks for the advice I definitely think Green looks awesome and I think now I want temur, gruul, or simic.
***** in that deck style yeah it can do that if you want but you are generalizing the colors far to much. Green doesn't have one good way to play it.
that.... was probably the best description of each color I have seen.
I played some years ago when I was in middle and high school and I used to completely kick butt with a green deck. Now I'm trying to get back to the game, and black and blue sound really appealing. Except I've tried playing blue a couple times and I could not play well.
I too hate playing against a blue deck. There's no strategy that works, other than trying to dupe them into countering all you good spells so that they can't counter your REALLY good spells and hoping for the best. My friend has a blue/black deck where, after about turn 5 or 6 anything you do (draw, cast a spell, discard) makes you lose life, and then it makes you draw and discard over and over.
Great video! I'm really looking forward to the new show!
Is a blue/white deck any good because i like playing strategically
I totally agree on blue with Sean. As I love to play with the graveyard I am devoted to black and green. In the end the card advantage overwhelms blue if the game doesn't drag on too long before blue ends in infinite extra turns or card draws in combination with infinite mana.
Well you could also do green ramp into Eldrazi or something. But that's usually better with blue added.
I had a red/black direct damage deck I really liked. The biggest creatures in it were vampires that just got bigger as they took other creatures out or immune to black so they kept Pestilence in the game.
The reason I play black isn't because of any of that, it's because I have a box of 200 zombie tokens, and I haven't had a game yet where I've had more than 80 of them on the battlefield, but I have had 80 zombie tokens in one game, which is fun.
When I was a kid I didn't like blue. My favorite was white or black. But red and green was super fun too. :)
Try watching this with closed captioning. Awesome!
Aw, Shawn, you really would have LOVED to play my Azorius Control deck last rotation, I was playing playsets of Sphinx's Revelation and Jaces alongside Elixir of Immortality before it "was cool" (aka became the norm).
My biggest Sphinx was for 14 and that feeling, THAT FEELING when you do that and then only play a land for your turn and ask your opponent how many cards, get the answer "2" and then keep 4 counterspells when you got to discarding (just in case) - man, I'll always love that.
And my friends actually said I had a bit of a smug look on my face whenever I cast a Sphinx for 10 or more, but how can you not, it's just sooo awesome. ;-)
"and if you play blue, I hate you"! THANK YOU, MAN! I hate playing or playing against blue! Those guys excel at buzz kill! Seriously though, thanks for doing this series and this show - the way you've handled it, it's almost as much fun to watch as it is to play! Do you plan to have guests like Wil & Felicia on Spellslingers?
Depends on the cards you have. White can gain life just to flip Red the middle finger. Plus there's also protection from a color or damage. One of the older broken cards from white back in the day was COP (insert Color). For red the enchantment allowed you to pay 1 mana to prevent damage from a Red permanent or Red spell. If you have the right cards, you can drain your opponent for the life points they took from you. :D. Green, ramp and say, you burn me, I crush you.