[Ducky]

MTG has an official youtbe channel, and there's some pretty helpful turorials on there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GadqHggATe8

It may seem pretty simplistic and obvious what they're teaching, but they helped me out a lot.

[Airina]

I saw those on the magic website. I need to go over it still. And just checked Steam does not have any Magic games for Mac.

[Ducky]

If you were to build a deck from scratch, what color/s would you go for? Also, any ideas on what sort of direction you'd like it to go?

[Airina]

None right now. I just finished cataloguing all of my cards. And putting them in a binder so i didn't have them flying everywhere in my room. And the idea for the colors is green white blue. i think....

[Ducky]

My card collection is pretty much just sitting on my floor in piles of colour. I make so many different decks that it's inconvenient for me to have them stored in any way. Just quick access to anything i need on the floor <3

If you're just starting I would recommend going for a mono coloured deck as your first venture into deck building, and then once you've had a bit of time to get use to it you can introduce a second colour, or a third if you're that confident.
I personally have yet to get to the point where i feel like i could pull off making a 3 coloured deck. that's with 2-3 months of regular play Dx

[Airina]

Its just that I feel like mono colored decks can get to be really cheap and frustrating for whoever i am playing with.

[Ducky]

I wouldn't say that's true at all. there's absolutely nothing wrong with mono coloured from what I've seen. Plenty of the people I play against have been into magic for years and still run some mono-coloured decks.
the main issue i see with mono coloured is that it can a weakness sometimes.
say you had an all black, and they had creatures with protection from black. you're screwed.

I personally run a black/blue, blue and green.

[Yokuutsu]

Mono-colored is best for newbies, no offense. They're easier to work with.

Hell, except for my sliver deck, I do not go beyond two colors. And I've been playing for over 10 years.

But remember, mono-color doesn't limit you really. You can still have artifacts which many do not require a certain type of mana. Any will do. Also, with multi-colored decks, you might have mana problems-not having enough or not being able to get the color you need.

[Airina]

Ok thanks for the input guys.

[Ducky]

yeah, the hardest part of building a deck for me is making sure I have the correct balance of mana. Being mana starved, or the exact opposite can be a real issue. and the balance becomes harder and harder to sort out when adding extra colours.

[Airina]

That makes sense. And you just asked what kind of deck i was wanting to build in the future. Right now I'm just sticking with a green infect deck that i got. I'm gonna be slowly trying to build off of that one for now.

[Ducky]

If you're worried about being a pain to other players.. infect is a bad way to go :P It annoys a whole lot of people. We even have a rule where infect based decks aren't allowed when we play >_<

[Airina]

That's my point. That's the only monocolored deck that i have. Which is why i've been trying to figure out how to build a different deck. I love the infect deck, but the people i play with hate it, because it is really cheap, which is why i've been trying to figure something else out.

[Ducky]

infect is annoying and cheap, but that doesn't reflect on mono-coloured as a whole. It's very possible to make complex and fun decks with the one colour. It's also easily possible to make decks that can win.

I made a dual coloured infect deck once, but it even annoyed me >_<

[Airina]

I only have enough cards to make a green monocolored deck and most of my cards are infect and at the moment i dont have the money to get more.

[Obbiesan]

I have a mono red deck that can do 20 damage in one turn /swag XD