How To Be A Better Magic: The Gathering Player | Tips For Those New To The Game

[mols]

Me (having played Magic for 7 years): The Professor has a video about how to be a better magic player for newbies? Sweet! (proceed to watch entire video)

[MrNoob_]

One of the important things for me was realizing that Magic is not a race to widdle your opponents life to zero, but a race to create a board state where you cannot possibly lose. Any player can tell that cards like Ancestral Recall and Black Lotus are probably useful, but it becomes clear how broken they are once a player has this mindset.

[mizzogames]

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[shanelietzke]

"Life needs management"-professor

"Forsure" -me with my life in shambles.

[Andrew_Venn]

I think the hardest part of learning magic, isn't the turn based phases, and basic mechanics. It's the rules, and differentiation of state based, and stack.
Even those that know, don't always get it right.

[GatheringTheMagicYT]

Me, an experienced MTG player: Still misplays every game ever 😅😭

[kvetchenfinks]

"You know how to tap lands for mana" nah my dad was charbelcher and my mom was manaless dredge

[darthstigater]

The big thing I have found that new players need to get a good grasp on is the idea of holding creatures that can tap for abilities so they can block if needed and then tapping for abilities just before your turn, such as creatures like Imperious Perfect that can tap to create tokens and such. This keeps creatures open to block and when you create creature tokens before your turn they lose summoning sickness when your turn starts. The idea of creatures being able to block and then tap for an ability is also one that gets left out of a lot of explanations before it comes up in gameplay and can cause a lot of frustration.

[ptodd]

Sequencing... the bane of my magic career. In the words of my commander pod "imagine if he stopped and thought before he did something, he'd win alot more"

[tomascorreia]

Been playing for almost 20 years. Still watch this videos. Pure charisma!

[jamest]

The stack is still the thing I struggle with the most. For instance, here, I thought giving Jhoira hexproof didn't matter because she'd already been declared a target to Lightning Bolt. So much to learn...

[anlize]

One thing very important about sequencing is to keep a cool head. When you have a great number of triggers or actions happening in your turn you must stay calm to not mess up your play and eventually fizzling some of your triggers. This can happen a lot with value generation deck engines, for example.

[julesramsden]

Understanding the stack and sequencing is what helped me turn my Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose deck into the formidable beast that it is. Thanks, Prof!

[Thingymabob]

Honestly I love the inclusion of using second main phase more than first. Had a few friends get into the game a year or so ago and that was a thing I tried to hammer home. "If it won't affect combat then cast it later." They kept dumping in 1st main and then were upset when I would deal with what they did and were blown out.

[serrotnodnarB]

thank you professor! i just started playing about a month ago and i have been learning so much from your videos. this video is exactly what i needed!

[jacobmar]

Be humble during wins and during losses.

[nichmiller]

I've been into MTG since I was 5 ('97) and I can safely day that I don't know squat. Nice breakdown, Professor!! Thanks!!

[_claymore]

"Reading the card explains the card" is such an iconic mtg sentence and everyone I know knows it.. I wonder where it originated? I personally first heard it from Prof, but I am not sure if he was the origin of it?

[cheezyatease]

I’ve been playing Magic on and off for 10 years, and I still love how helpful these videos are.

[igorlemes]

1:40 the choice of cards for this example took me right back to the time when I first played magic... well played!