An easy middle ground would be to have magic make pauper dual decks for like $10.

I'm a MTG player and i agree. Nowadays, it's super complicated for anyone to actually start playing the game for a reasonable price. The game got super "elitized". And it's hard to just sit in a kitchen table and actually play a simple game.

Really appreciate your enthusiasm and well structured discussion points. I would love a return to 60 card magic and some support for magic as Garfield intended. I have a love for ck battle decks for just that reason.

When I saw that you only have 200 subscribers I was very suprised. This video is very good. There are some weird green flashes towards the last 4 minutes of the video but besides that, amazing video!

When playing modern, I have several decks and I roll a dice to see which one I'll use. Sometimes my playgroup and I all pick from my decks and Sometimes they use their own whereas very seldom will we use their decks only, as in precons that were made to go against each other for instance. There has been quite a bit of power creep as we all have over time adjusted and tuned our decks to go against one another, much like you did with your guild budget decks, but some of my decks are significantly more complex or have a more specific wincon than others (Soul sisters or niv mizzet/ophidian eye vs artifact affinity, angels battlecruiser, or r/w or r/g aggro for instance). When people see some of the more complicated actions they are more turned off from learning and in that regard if introducing them to the format I would certainly start with the decks that have the least opponent interaction beyond things like permanent destruction or burn spells. Card that allow changes globally like mycosynth lattice or require constant trigger evaluation like rhystic study would not be helpful as they require more attention than say, playing a raging Goblin, and have the potential for much more novel interaction. I've been thinking of getting into pauper so we could expand our deck pool tremendously without the same explosive budget that modern often entails but have not yet gotten by in from my play group. It WOULD be great if WOTC had a vast assortment of highly tuned and relevant precon pauper decks for sale so my sales pitch might Land better than, "our decks are really powerful and let us do a lot of things but let's put a cap on our power level and see what we come up with." So far the reply has been "I built these decks so I could do these ridiculous things, if I have to build a deck with low power what's the point, I may as well just buy precon decks if I don't want them to be payable against anything in the meta."

Digimon TCG printed a preconstructed Advanced Deck made specifically to pilot in a competitive environment out of the box. It was a fun archetype that had a respectable win %, high meta representation, with enough leeway to adjust for meta calls. Most importantly, it was affordable, even offering themed card sleeves in the box. Wizards absolutely can make strong, meta-shaping competitive decks for any format. They choose not to.

Long time player here. I tell everyone new not to buy decks to avoid absolutely wasting money.

The issue is that MTG isnt focused on standard anymore they are highly focused on EDH / Commander which in all honesty is a easier way to learn the game vs standard + its so much cheaper, you only have to buy x1 card instead of a play set of that $20 card you really enjoy.

Card Kingdom's rookie decks are the best I found so far for teaching new people, but they still have problems. The only issues with them is that they lack instants to cut down complexity I think (bad idea imo) and can grind down to a snails pace. Their Battle Decks may be fine too. I've had fun with those.

Hello! I found your channel bc I’m a fresh noob that wants to get into magic bc of my dad and friends, so I came to this video after countless others and this seems to have great points Where I live my local players are either commander or Kitchen table players but mostly kitchen, so I wanted a way to buy a product to play with friends in the 60 card format of kitchen but every store I went is all just commander So to ask advice would it just be better to try build a deck with singles from a site like TCGplayer or would their be a good product for me to start, I wanna try the archetype of either Dragons, dinosaurs, or goblins if this helps with budget and products to purchase

I recently got the 2 player intro starter decks to introduce my girlfriend to the game. They were boring! No synergy or even enough randomness. I played magic when revised came out and a bit here and there afterwards. It was pretty disappointing so then I got 2 commander decks and those didn't work either for introducing a new player. I agree that they need to start making better starter decks for magic.

This is exactly the reason i dont start playing Mtg. I have no idea where to start and i dont want to go online and just buy all the singular cards for a tier 1 deck for like 200€. Thats what i really liked about yugioh. Its so easy to just buy a structure deck 3 times and start playing

Man I really love your videos but other than the intro music they're REEEEAAALLY quiet. I see that you aren't micing yourself which is fine but in that case I think it would be really beneficial for your viewership if you make some adjustments to the audio in post before uploading.

They did it with pioneer decks, shame that the format is shit... They should just do the same for modern decks, they were really good and you can still play them out of the box and compete with other pioneer decks (and even compete seriously after upgrading a bit) Btw you have some malfunctions at the point where you talk about the blue white bird deck