MTG - Is it worth it to buy an Ixalan Deck Builder's Toolkit for Magic: The Gathering?
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For the cost of a Deck Builder's Toolkit, you can check out great decklists for Friday Night Magic gameplay like this $20 G/B deck from SBMTG: czcams.com/video/zgRGZbrgJpk/video.html
Tolarian Community College Dev is absolutely one of my favorite MTG CZcamsrs. Glad to see him getting a shoutout from The Prof. The guy deserves it.
why not build the best possible deck from the toolkit and post the decklist so we can trust your advice that the deck is not able to compete in FNM?
Yes i like this guy!!! His video quality are minimum but the content is great.
nice to see Dev get a shout out from the professor. would be cool if you guys could do a video together.
Igor Della Pietra because a deck with majority one of and two ofs will not be good at FNM. you want good cheap decks check out devs channel ive taken three of his budget decks to 3-0 finishes at FNM. also his dynavolt tower deck i 3-0 everytime i played it. his decks are cheap but powerful.
challenge: watch the entire channel, take a shot each time the proffesor says "many magic the gathering players ask the question"
This kills the viewers
Dreznin Nah.
You'll be sober because it'll be at least 10-15 minutes before you take another shot.
Videos are too long. :
Robo 1234 Or just count the videos with "Is it worth it" in the title?
You get a break when he says Pokémon Trainers
Miramu the average liver takes an hour to process one drink
Thanks Professor! You, sir, are too good for this world. Cheers my wizard!
Strictly Better MtG So the Prof finally went bananas for your deck techs!
I always thought mtg youtubers should get along lol I am surprised that prof is nice enough to shout out sbmtg though, another lesser known mtg youtuber you can check out is Mtg Muddstah, he makes commander gameplay videos, just like game knights except he started 7 months before game knights (so don't try to say he ripped them off) anyway, I really enjoy his videos and if you like commander you should like him, ps His videos are really short like 10-15 minutes
That's cool you plugged SBMTG, love his decks, and that is where I always start when making a deck.
You both have taught me so much and I've been playing for 20 years! Thanks gentleman for the information. I plan on teaching my dad on the next introduction tourney. 😀
So glad the prof plugged you! That mono-red munitions deck wss myv first ever standard build!
Hey, prof!
Odds are you won't read this through the 162 comments before it but hey, it's worth a shot.
I'm a huge fan of the toolkit. It helps me figure out some new deck options for standard, sometimes (more on that in a sec). Therefore, I have learned a good number of things about it:
The deck builder's toolkit is a little more complex than I think you give it credit for. The 4 non-booster packs each serve a purpose. The one with the rares in it is the guaranteed pack (semi-randomized has a semi in it for a reason). The abrade, cast out, doomfall, etc. are guaranteed. Those are cards that every deck builder's toolkit has in it.
The evolving wilds pack is something else, however. It is my personal favorite part. Between each of the evolving wilds is a set of 10 cards (5 uncommons and 5 commons) that act as a basis for a deck. In Ixalan, specifically, the 4 are seperated into 1 vamprie deck, 1 merfolk deck, 1 of 2 dinosaur decks (Either RW or RG), and 1 of 2 pirate decks (Either UB or BR). There is also a chance of getting an off-tribe deck, which is UG ramp.
The rest of the packs are just lands.
That, in my opinion, is the great part of the deck builder's toolkit, to new and old players. It shows people how the new set translates into standard! What cards go into what decks and what decks are viable, etc.
My friend just entered Magic the week before prerelease and he got a toolkit last weekend. With a little help from us and the cards from the toolkit and his prerelease pack, he made a really good RW All-in Dinosaur aggro deck for the budget he has.
I think the toolkit's imperfect decks are a good thing: they teach players what aspects of a deck are important and what to improve upon. Nobody learns from a perfect deck nearly as well as they do from a bad one.
So, to answer your question at 8:08, yes. You're not gonna make a perfect deck out of a toolkit, but nobody can learn what a feast is without first knowing what famine is. (Eh, get it?)
Holy cow! A carnage tyrant in a deckbuilder toolkit booster pack?! That card alone pays for that toolkit box!
shotokankun haha as soon as I saw that mythic I told my girlfriend the same thing
shotokankun not anymore. Dropped in price.
from my knowledge most toolkits have at least one mythic in the packs
It's still WELL above the $20 MSRP of the kit. >.>
Jonathon Smith I just checked the price and it’s still $25-$27 from at least 4 card shops in my area. The price is $25 on mtggoldfish
What a wonderful shoutout to SBMTG. He's really a great guy who makes some entertaining and quality content.
optimusWII incredibly accurate. I love that the professor did that. Increases their credit at the same time.
Amen! Definitely a channel that needs more love.
Ich love Dev. He's amazing
M A N Y M A G I C T H E G A T H E R I N G P L A Y E R S A S K T H E Q U E S T I O N
Number one. Burgerking Foot-Lettuce
Why he always says that
Lukas thank god im not the only one who thought that
Oh my god hearing the prof mention another favorite mtg youtuber of mine makes me sooo happy
SBMTG is so worthy of a shout out, happy to hear Dev mentioned in your video and his deck techs and always awesome!
Love dev's decks! I've played a few of his decks and done surprisingly well with them!
He does make some good decks!
Upvote for mentioning Dev, his decks are always interesting!
Yay, nice shout out to SBMTG, his videos are such a great way to learn about the standard meta, and his passion for the game in general is infectious! Love your vids too prof, I always suggest new players to check out your content to get a better understanding of the game :)
I support the prof's endorsement of Dev from Stricter Better MtG. A very honest & cool MtG content uploader.
Hadn’t realized they’d come out with an Ixalan version of the Deckbuilders toolkit. I think the conclusion was fair. Nice to see the SBMtG shout-out!
I’ve been paying attention to the cards this whole time and you could actually build a decent green ramp deck with the cards he got from this kit
My 3 favorites MTG Channels:
-Tolarian Comunity College
-Strictly Better MTG
-And La Biblioteca de Minamo - Minamo's Library - (Para los que hablan español)
I feel like I'm always in the vast minority when I say that the Toolkit is the best sealed product for new MTG players. I just wish they only contained boosters from the advertised set. Also the best boxes WOTC makes as well!
Affinity for MTG yeah toolkit boxes are the best.
Agreed!
I got an Amonkhet Toolkit about a month ago, and each of the 4 boosters were from a different set so I had no cards with mechanics that worked well together. Only after I played at the Ixalan launch sealed tournament did I have enough cards from a single set to properly get started.
Yeah I've always been of the opinion that they should be released with the second set of a block and give you 2 boosters from each. Cos at the moment the 100 fixed cards you get with the pack end up being a mix of the most mediocre commons/uncommons from 3-4 disjointed sets. Whereas if they just waited to the second set you'd at least have mediocre cards that synergise properly and if you've got 4 boosters from the same block you're 2/3 of the way to a pre-release pack anyway. This is especially the case for a tribal set like Ixalan given that tribal synergies from it don't really work with Amonkhet/Kaladesh whereas a load of mediocre tribal cards together can at least do something
when I started I got an intro deck and found out from friends it was really bad. This made me mad because I thoght it would at least allow me to play thus the name intro deck. I came to find out the only Prebuilt product that was even close to being playable at a Friday Night Magic were event decks and they do not even make those anymore.
I like the fact that they contain older boosters as well
Since you mentioned them, I wanted to say that I got a set of the Rookie decks a little while back and had some games with my brother and a friend with them. It was scary going in because I had the most recent experience with one entire hour of Duels playtime under my belt, my brother was astounded that the card backs are the same as they were in Ice Age, and my friend had never even heard of MTG before. We taught her the flow of the turn with the aid of the inserts, taught her about the different kinds spells from memory, and had a jolly good time of things!
I had yet to watch the video you made on how to go about teaching friends to play Magic, but I think my brother and I would have done ya proud. We advised her on better times and targets for Unsummon, how to assign damage in such a way as to maximize her creatures' effectiveness, and even ended up letting her win. Not because we had the means to stop her but chose not to, but because we all took care to split damage between the three of us so nobody was getting ganged up on and she ended up with too many flyers to deal with.
Of the lot, Red was the most inconsistent. Blue and Green featured 4 of each card it included, Black and White had mostly 4 with a couple of 3s and 2s, but Red was entirely 3s and 2s and none of the 4s were particularly powerful relative to the other decks. I know each deck is made with what they have on hand and they can't guarantee a deck with specific contents, but I was hoping each would be equally consistent.
As a teaching tool and as a kitchen table funsies product, they were great! Certainly better than buying an equivalent cost in packs and hoping to stumble into something decent, thanks to each deck having a theme it was built around. The cases are greatly appreciated since we have a lot of board and card games to keep track of, and hard plastic defends against our cat's attempts at murder much better than thin cardboard. I do think a third insert explaining the card types would be a fantastic addition, but our little group didn't happen to need it.
The way Tolarian Community College does the outro reminds me of PBS. TCC is now the PBS of MTG content production, congrats Professor.
Your channel is where i go every single time I think about buying a product for my cards, and for just general guidance with this stuff. Don't know what i'd do without you prof.
Dev deserves all the shout outs, good mention professor
Hey prof, just wanted to say thanks. I started playing magic 8 years ago, and set it down about 3 years ago. Picked it back up when i stumbled onto your channel. I now have a circle of friends at work i play activity with, and am building a red green build of your infect concept for modern, and am enjoying being a much better deck builder and player thanks to you!
$19.99 cost- pulls a $27 card
Robert Fryer Won't be that high for many more days.
Veikko Elo I hope so!! I want a playset of these!!
The only one in the set though.
I love seeing mtg content creators not only helping each other out but also working together to make this community what it is, thank you for being here for all of us
I also think that getting only a few cards, not a playset, that are the good tools are helpful for a new player due to exposure. First, it shows some options which helps if you may not have friends who play Magic or something. Next, if they know they can put multiple of those cards in a deck (I remember when I just started, I probably would have assumed it was more similar to commander, where you can only have one of each) it helps give a little push to seek out singles. Not all new players might go along with it, but the community helpful, giving pointers to new players. It's a way to learn what I've learned, that it's difficult to go anywhere in this game alone (outside of playing, of course), so make some friends and the level of fun will rocket up exponentially. It provides help and a lot of opportunity for casual games to learn from.
One of my local stores runs a DBTK event once a month. You come in, buy a Tool Kit, get 45 minutes to make a deck from said Tool Kit and play a single elimination tournament. The winner gets a few prizes that make it worth it, in my opinion. Even 2nd and 3rd place get some stuff, if more than 12 people enter the event. My wife and I participate regularly and it's always good fun. I would highly recommend going if your local store does this.
Love the shout-out to Dev; he's a great CZcamsr who puts out fun lists at every budget level. Thanks, Prof!
I was at Target, and my school has a Magic club that I want to join, so I picked one up (2 days ago), I finished organizing it, am gonna build a deck, and hopefully be able to play at a gamestores before school, just need to learn a bit more, your really helpful with the learning curve
I bought an Ixalan bundle as my introduction to MTG, I used some of the cards and bought singles to build the SBMTG B/W Vampires deck mention here. It taught me how to think when building a deck, and won a few games at FNM. I hope other newbies see this video and take the same approach. Thanks for the great content.
When me and my friends first started playing last years we all bought Deck builders toolkits and it was awesome. There was four of us and we were all on the same level. Would recommend for kitchen table players.
*NOTE* ... imo some things were missing from this review ! ...
1. The stack of cards that have the evolving wilds in them are NOT random, this is a stack with (what i would call:) a suggested start for a deck. SO this toolbox holds 4 different 'semi-pre-constructed starter decks', and you would use the cards from the actual pile of semi random cards (with the rares) and the 4 boosters, to add to these suggestions (here we saw: "merfolk, pirates, vampires & dinos").
2. Then when it comes to starting off with magic, when more then often you end up with budget decks, the toolbox holds some budget duals and the evolving wilds (if you check Dev's budget lists these are almost always in there, though noted will be that replacing the tapped dual with non-budget lands will be the likely first place for upgrades). And there are plenty a competitive decks that see a use for Evolving Wilds !
3. Would also like to mention that, as a starting player you will likely want to go to pre-releases, and having your own (pre-sleeved) basic lands to take to this event is something i personally value pretty high. And lets face it, every deck will have some basic lands.
4. Imo. the toolbox seems to be designed to point new players towards the various synergies that are to be achieved when building a deck, which is likely also why the aforementioned 'deck-suggestions' are in the kit.
5. I think that if you were to combine the cards from a deck-builders toolkit, and actually understood the packaged lesson within it, and were to attend your first draft (using the (pre-sleeved) basic lands to save yourself some deckbuilding time). You could end up with a solid base for a fairly nice budget deck (yes you would likely still need to buy some singles, but at least you have a base collection to add cards to).
End-closing, and this was in this video, i still think that for a beginning (or returning player that sold his/her collection) the toolkit is packed with value (mainly the lands and evolving wilds), seeing that as a 'budget player' (don't think i classify as starting anymore) i find myself grabbing these elements of these toolboxes every time i build a deck.
It should be noted re. The semi random aspect that the first pack of cards that prof opened after the "iconic rares" are not random. These will be identical in every toolkit (so you are guaranteed to get that abrade, uncharted territories etc.) The semi-random aspect relates to the cards between the evolving wilds. These are divided into ~8 themed groups of which you will get a random 4 of those possible 8 groups. The cards in each group are fixed so if someone else's toolkit happened to have the treasure, vampires, dinosaurs and merfolk groups those would be the exact same cards that prof got. The only truly random aspect is what comes in the boosters
The sheer fact that you can get just about all the dual lands you could need makes me want one of these
I bought a toolkit in 2010 when I started playing with some high school friends. I had only had bought a box of eldrazi boosters and an intro pack at the time. This gave me the extra lands I needed to make something outside of just the red/green deck I bought as well as some of the important commons and uncommons in the core set. Casually getting back into magic now, I still use the box it all came in.
Meanwhile... Me (A Competitive Yugioh): *_“I’M WAAAAY OUT OF MY LEAGUE...”_*
Hey prof, there's an audio hiccup at 13:00.
Great video nonetheless though! ♡
You're pretty spot on. I used the merfolk I got to bolster my current deck, same with the white/black vampire cards. I liked the dinosaurs but mainly for the aesthetic
Loving the new UHD camera! Great video, as always your opinion is highly valued. Thanks Prof!!
Where's the sleeve for that $30 mythic prof?
gotac88 You mean the $7 jank rare, Carnage Tyrant?
Veikko Elo I don't know where you live but here in Canada the cheapest prize for our online stores is $32 Can
Carnage Tyrant is Currently $19.21 on TCG Player so i dont what the fuck you talking about dude. But hey if you got one and willing to trade for $7 i wont question it.
Word. I read that comment and I began to judge him so hard. Carnage Tyrant was a pretty good pull considering how random it is. It is one of the best cards in Standards too and for good reason.
I started playing MTG in this set and I bought one of these! I hold this set near and dear to me since it was my first. In fact I bought this box after watching this video years ago! Ah sweet memories :)
I love it when he does the awkward throwing thing to show how it doesent come out.
Just started collecting and built my first deck "mountains and plains" using the Hualti, Dinosaur Knight planeswalker Deck. I purchased 2 Ixalan booster packs with the Planeswalker deck and made my first deck. Played it for first time today and it's so much fun. I hope to stay into MTG for awhile
I bought a toolkit back when I started playing during dragons/khans of Tarkir. Made an Izzet deck first, with the help of a friend who had been playing for a decade, then made a Selesnya deck when I explored the other cards and found a dramoka and Ajani in it.
Nice shout out to Dev
I think that you missed something worth mentioning. Only 40 of the cards are semi-randomized, so if you wanted to, you could in theory build play sets of cards by buying 2 or 4 of them. Many of the uncommons included are worth over $1 as well such as blossoming defense and gifted aetherborn, one of each which is guaranteed in the toolkit. The pack containing the evolving wilds contain 4 10 card blocks outlining a strategy to build a deck around such as bw vampire tokens in one of the sets you got and +1/+1 counters BG Merfolk in another.
As of this post, some of the guaranteed included uncommons prices per TCGplayer:Gifted Aetherborn: $2.68Blossoming Defense: $1.32Cast Out: $1.16Chart a Course: $0.55Supreme Will: $0.93Walk the Plank: $0.81Abrade: $1.58Unclaimed Territory: $1.96Just including the guaranteed uncommons over $0.50 we add $10.99 in value
Professor, I hope that you take into account the guaranteed value of the uncommons in this set.
Quite a few standard playables in the stack. I saw blossoming defence, Abrade, walk the plank and supreme will, among others
Thanks Tolarian I am diving into MTG. Got this toolkit And a few boosters. I sleeved them by color which was probably a bad idea because I don't what to sleeve the mix color cards by.
Also did a prerelease kit for the next upcoming expansion
Showed Dev some love, I'll show it back 👍... SBMtG might be a little "long winded" when explaining his decks, but he DOES give you as much info about why each card is included into his builds (and also why he included X amount into them)
Just watched one of your 2015 deck builders toolkit, and wow this video has improved a lot. I really enjoy the videos!
WORD! That's what I'm talking about! I love the way you support the magic community by directing people to sound resources like Dev, and suggesting buying singles from your local game store. You're the man, don't ever change. Whenever you guys shout each other out it is like a Marvel team up 😂
The M15 Toolkit was the first product i ever got, not only did it get me addicted but i still use it today as my Limited Box; sleeves, land, dice etc. And it's pretty much fine. Just keep the sleeve the box it comes in and it will never come open and the box will last even longer.
11:24 That's exactly me, after 10 years i'm a returing player although i haven't bought a single card just yet. I was totally lost because there are no more theme decks. Back then, me and my friends used to buy them to sorf of stablish a THEME to go on, and slowly strenghten it by trading or buying singles or booster packs. It was a blast and pretty straight forward.
I still have my Ixalan toolkit box that I use for my land box! My first introduction to magic (along with an Ixalan fat pack). I never knew it could fit a deck box, my mind would have been blown at the time lol
I love your videos, but your bias towards FNM is more than a little prevalent. You need to consider that not everyone's goal is to play FNM. Suggesting a new player to buy the singles they need for a constructed deck is an awful way to experience magic for the first time. They will not learn about deck building, just copying. They will not learn keywords, they will not learn how to discern the value and potency of a card just by looking at it, they will not get any chance to EXPLORE cards. In essence, players are being robbed of everything to do with MTG except playing competitive matches which, in my opinion, has been one of my least favourite experiences with MTG.
You underestimate people's enjoyment of cracking packs, exploring new cards, figuring out for themselves what makes a strong card, enjoying art or flavour text. Most of my MTG fun comes from going through a bunch of cards I've never seen before, and thinking to myself about how I can make use of this card, what I can combo it with. Without looking online or anywhere else for a deck list, I constructed my own Black/White Allies deck back in the Zendikar/SOInnistrad era. Turns out, this was already a competitive FNM deck, and I had just come up with it all on my own. I later looked up a list and found a couple of helpful additions to my deck, but nevertheless, I was able to compete with pride with what I - and nobody else - had created. And it was all possible with the Shadows over Innistrad Deckbuilder's Toolkit. Of course, I had to buy the singles to fill out full playsets instead of having just one or two Kalastria Healers and Zulaport Cutthroats for example, but the foundation was created by EXPLORING. I learned how to discern good cards, I saw the value in the synergy of Ally cards, and I bounced with excitement watching all these lifegain effects ricochet all over the place.
Not only that, but I don't believe a brand new player should jump into FNM right away. So if we are talking about a BRAND new MTG player, a Deckbuilder's Toolkit should be an A+. It may not build you a competitive deck on its own, but it will build you a foundation for one if you feel so inclined to compete. What holds a DBTK back in your eyes is lack of competitive play, which brand new players most often aren't interested in right away, therefore, there's nothing holding this back from getting a better rating.
I hope you take this into consideration for future videos, as you appear to be of the mindset that Friday Night Magic is the end all be all of every single MTG fan new and old. I promise you, it is not.
Love your MTG videos professor, and your non-MTG videos. You're a great person to listen to and a fantastic human being. My favourite videos I think are the ones where you talk about how great the MTG community is, and about parenting with MTG.
*What i actually mis as a product for Magic* ... *Starter Kit* ... would be interested to know what 'you' think of this?
Holds:
8x every color basic lands
4x evolving wilds
1x tapped duals of every color combo
10x common of every color
3x uncommon of every color
1x rare of every color
Accompanying rules:
0. Sort all cards in piles of each color, put evolving wilds and dual lands aside
1. Role a dice to determine whom starts
2. Starting player chooses a color and takes all cards of this color
3. 2nd players chooses a color and takes all cards
4. 1st player chooses a second color
5. 2nd player chooses a second color - last color is put to the side
6. Each players gets 2x evolving wilds and the dual color land of the two colors (s)he chooses.
7. Build a 40card deck from the cards you have.
~8. Add boosterpacks to your collection of cards to have more interesting options for deckbuilding.
I pulled a foil Chandra, Vraska, cataclysmic gearhulk and a foil Search for Azcanta, among a bunch of other cool stuff from a toolkit this week. Pretty happy with it, given I'd started playing MTG the day before. :p
I bought this pack as I have only started in the last few months and was outstanding lucky and pulled a Chromatic Lantern Masterpiece out of one of the boosters. That has paid for at least a few good decks.
Awesome plug for SBMTG. I love them and many other channels that come up with $30 or less standard and modern decks.
As for the tool kits, I've thought of picking some up for my kids to put them in a spot to build on their own.
While you left in a noticeable repeat near the end of your conclusion, I think it's still fine and enjoy your analysis and recommendations. Also, that toolkit at least gave that new player a valuable way to gain some tools with the Tyrant :)
Woohoo! Giving Dev some love is awesome. He is such a great personality on CZcams. TCC and SBMTG are both great resources!
As a returning casual player from 10 years ago i am amazed by the budget fetches of the recent years. Evolving wilds does A LOT for csual multi color decks. They bedome so much more consistent just by including 4 evolving wilds and so cheap! I Genuinely think cheap fetches like those are the best thing wotc ever made for us casuals.
Back in my day only green could do reasonable mana fixing below the 200$ per deck price point.
Man, Dev helped me so much when i came back to magic in AER. I made his pummeler list and got some glorious victories :D
Also as a small side note the 5 "rare cards" from the toolkit are also found in the free welcome decks that are found at most local game stores.
I still carry around my 2014 toolkit box with a commander deck and a couple 60 card deck boxes. I also bought a Shadows of Innistrad one just because. I would definitely recommend the Ixalan one if someone thinks they will like it.
Love that shoutout to SBMTG! The most fun $20 can buy in standard for sure!
Something about this video makes me smile. You just seem so happy in this one and I love it
Nice!!Great shout out for SBMTG love him been buying his lists for over a year!!
The planeswalker decks and intro decks have always been good to me as well. I got a lilly of the dark realms, a growing rites of Itlomac, and several other high value items from the packs that come with. Don't know if thats just luck, but I've never lost money just buying the decks and i always net something.
You have a video for just about every question i ever have for this game.
I'm a complete new player and some friends are playing since years.
to get me into the game they bought me a 100 euro "fat deck" meaning 250 rare 2500 uncommon and 2500 commons and 250 lands
last weekend we spend a a whole day constructing decks. was great fun to play 2v2 :)
It's worth pointing out that the only "semi-randomized" pack is the one with the Evolving Wilds in front of it. Every other pack, including the one with the Abrade, Lightning Strike, Walk the Plank, etc. is fixed in every box.
(And I'm not sure that the "semi-randomized" pack isn't fixed in the Ixalan box either, since I'm not sure what else you'd get instead of 10x Merfolk, 10x Pirate, 10x Vampire, and 10x Dinosaur cards. In other sets, there'd be a bunch of little themes like 'W/U flyers', 'R/U spells', 'R/G aggro', and so on, and you'd get four of those out of a possible pool of 11 or so. That doesn't seem to fit the themes of Ixalan, though.)
I got mine at my door like a hour before this video was uploaded, let's hope it's not bad
pyro 4sub Update please?
I really like the lid on this box. I got a huge box of cards for Christmas and recently ended up dropping my entire collection, still haven't gotten around to reorganizing.
This channel is life. None other like it. Keep on enlightening us, professor. :)
Look at that Tanuki figurine in the background! Love it
One addendum. I collect one of every standard playable card, and this was one of the few ways to get the Welcome Deck cards, so there is that for collectors.
I love the boxes. I find them much better than bundle boxes whose joints give out after about a year. I wish bundles had this style of box too!
Rubber bands are a great invention. I think Wizards of the Coast sells purple and green ones for $1 each, it’s a great investment.
Great video, as always. Just discovered SBMtG this week myself. Another great info source in this very enjoyable community.
Here's my take
Any new player just getting into magic
The tool kid is by far best bang for your buck as a starter cause
Most starters are gonna be doing casual to get the hang don't need in-depth decks to go head it head with tournament decks.
Now my first deck was a pre-structured battle deck (kiora vs goblins)
I took merfolk and my friend took goblins. (Three years ago)
And over the years we tweaked a bit and with ixalan coming out, we took our tweaked decks and actually came in third and fourth place (he had a goblin burn deck that relied on impact tremors and mass goblin tokens while attacking directly with instants.)
My merfolk was very good with Nimbus swimmer getting 40/40 at one time (got lucky with that one time play) and really gave a guy a run for his money.
So structured pre made decks or tool kits are great for new players (buy two or three boosters or have a friend who has a bunch of spare cards and are willing to help you re build.)
I once bought a deck builders toolkit and made 4 decks out of it and had lots of fun with it. I don't mind the bulk. I don't have anyone to play against anymore and I got bored playing against myself a long time ago.
$20 product
$16 for 4 packs
$4 for 100 basic lands, 125 cards from recent sets, a deckbuilder's guide, and a non-flimsy card storage box.
Alright, so that being said, I think this product is absolutely worth it just monetarily. Now, into usability:
the four packs: for building your collection and playing with cards, packs are a very fun product on their own in my opinion. However, each pack is from a different set, so there will be a lot of 1 or 2 ofs. Not that big of a deal to me. Packs are always great in my opinion. There's always a chance you'll get a $60 mythic out of a toolkit and be able to get three toolkits for essentially free.
card storage box: honestly, I love these boxes that WotC makes for bundles and toolkits. I've owned a lot and they have a lot more space than what is needed for the product and fits sleeved cards. Absolutely a win and a reason to buy this product.
125 recent cards and 100 basic lands: pretty good inclusion here as well. If you don't have a giant collection already, lands are very much needed and the 125 other cards are great for building fun decks to play with friends. Again, totally worth it.
Guide: for people that know how to play and make decks of their own, it's completely useless. However, if you're a new player, this is fantastic.
Overall, an A+ in my books. One of my favorite products WotC makes. I love bundles/fat packs, booster packs/boxes, and preconstructed decks too, but this would be the product I'd recommend to a new player. Absolutely worth it.
I mostly draft for FNM at my local gamestore, where the prizes are a pack per match one. Even as an experienced player, I buy a tool kit here and there for the full art lands. I've never felt cheating by the cheap rares cause I save them for Halloween treats, sleeving them and dropping them into my pumpkin for kids. I've actually scored quite a few good or better rares within these kits. Buying singles and draft is better value of course, but I never feel money wasted when I purchase one of these. 😀
I love the way mtg youtubers recommend other youtubers!!! That's why I'm subscribed to most of those channels. If people want my subscription, I want them to recommend more material from other sources, it shows good values and good will.
I started collecting paper on a Toolkit (Amonkhet) and it was great but the one thing that really brings it down is that you only get 1 or 2 of cards when you want 3 or 4. That's really the only issue I had with them.... Amonkhet toolkit had a full art land stack as well which was cool.
Prof since Core 2019, the toolkits have been fixed, no randomization.
I used a starter pack and a few cards from the new Jace deck and went 4/7 for my first few games ever, and that was a Friday Magic Night.
I'd consider that pretty good
Dude been watching your for 2 years now :D and i remember the first toolkit video, this was just as nice, thank you :)
If you are new to this game and are interested in playing standard at your local game store, I strongly suggest SBMTG decks. Honestly they are the best deal for the money and the decks are actually decent and fun to play. While you won't have the best deck money can by, You will defanently have a fighting chance. With magic decks, diminishing marginal returns quickly plateau following the ratio of money spent to power level
I love your channel so much! I've been playing Strictly Better MTG's U/G Merfolk budget deck lately online and win or lose, it never fails to be a fun game.
The five iconic rares are the five rares that come with each of the colors from the 2017 Welcome Decks.
I normally just give the landpack to my LGS and then toss those jank rares into the Jank Rare box. I did buy a really old Shivan Dragon though because I find the alpha-fifth edition art looks so much cooler.
Totally agree professor, I always direct new players towards one of the recent budget decks from SBMTG
Throwing SBMTG some love! Nice!
what i used to do for my old lgs was go into the set boxes and build decks for newbies the price hit around $20 and the way we described it was it could put in a good match but modification would make it better
Dang! Don't forget about those uncommons, i saw an abrade, blossoming defense, gifted aetherborn, lightning strike, kitesail freebooter, siren stormcaller, unclaimed territory. All worth something
I have bought 3 deck builder's toolkits and they really are best for new players. When I was getting into magic and bought one for me and one for my husband and we each built a deck out of ours and had a lot of fun then much later I was in walmart and they had the ones from theros block marked down to $15 because the new ones had come out and they still had 2 of them left. I probably should have bought both of them since that was less than the cost of the boosters and hard to pass up.
I kind of wish that wizards made a product like this but geared to pauper and made it just commons. 3-4 copies of pauper staples perhaps still semi random. a chance to reprint some of these staples that are way too high just because they were printed in only one set and wizards doesn't want to reprint them into standard. land pack and I'm thinking you don't even throw in any boosters though it feels like blasphemy to say that. MSRP should be as low as possible on something like this 10-15 tops. Magic feels like it has such a finical wall to entry to it it makes it harder for someone to start playing a constructed product like this might help.
I've never gotten a Deck Builders toolkit without something nice in the booster packs. Most recently, a masterwork from Kaladesh and Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet from the Amonkhet one. Hopefully Ixalan will continue my tradition...
My first Magic purchase was the 2010 or 2011 toolkit, I still use a lot of those cards to this day, maybe they were better back then. Then again at least 1/3 of the deck is newer cards.
You are a pleasant, polite gentleman and I appreciate you!