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[Harrison H]

Ok so I'm Harrison H and I know what magic is but have no fudging idea how to play so can someone explain the rules in an easy to understand fasion

[Deathdwarf]

Magic is a game about mostly but not forced two planeswalkers (players) who bring their libraries of knowledge (card piles) to an epic battle.

 

First off, you build a deck consisting of at least 60 cards. You have have as many as you want in your library as long as you can shuffle it without help, but four copies of each card only.

 

You will want the basic lands of the five mana colors to make out around 35 to 50 percent of your deck, because when tapping a basic land, you earn the pictured Mana for your Mana Pool.

 

After the game starts, each opponent draws 7 cards. They may mulligan if they want.

 

In your first turn, the starting player does not draw a card, but everything else is the same. He deploys one basic land (and one per turn ONLY) and then he may have to pass the turn, unless he can already afford a card.

 

You may play out the cards with a Mana Cost to the top right by tapping the given mana. Grey circles with numbers in them mean colorless mana of that amount, you may tap any mana to play those cards.

 

 A game is divided into several Phases with Sub Steps. First off, you untap all of your basic lands and your other tapped permanents (Everything except Sorceries and Instants is considered a permanent). Then you draw a card. Then your Main Phase #1 starts. You may now use your Mana to play out cards.

 

Then there is a combat phase. You only declare the attacking creatures, and your opponent declares the blockers and with what creatures he wants to block creatures of yours (it is up to him who faces who, essentially) if he wants (he may take the damage to his normally 20 Life Points if that is better for him). When creatures come to combat, you look at the P/T (Power / Toughness). Does the ones creature's power > the others creatures toughness? The other creature is destroyed at the end of the fight. Is the others creatures power > the one creatures toughness? The one creature is also destroyed.

 

Then there is another Main Phase.

 

Then there is End Phase, specifically the Cleanup Step. You remove all damage dealt to creatures. In Magic, there is no HP system. You kill the shit this turn, or you do not at all.

 

The only card type that may be played out outside of your Main Phase and hell even during your opponent's turn is the Instant, a spell type. The other one, the Sorcery, is a card type bound to your Main Phases. The Spells are instantly sent to the Graveyard after their effect is fulfilled.

 

There are several piles: Library (You draw from there), Graveyard (Dead creatures, destroyed Artifacts and Lands and your casted spells go there) and the Exile. Exile is a kind of special Graveyard where it is harder to revive your cards from.

 

The first player to beat his opponent to 0 or less Life wins!

 

Have fun

[Harrison H]

Thank you