To play Magic you need a deck of 60+ cards 1/3 of them should be lands 1/3 creatures and 1/3 enchantments/auras. The lands are the cards that allow you to play other cards. You get 7 cards in your hand to start off with unless you mulligan. If you mulligan you go down to 6 cards then 5 if you mulligan again... The lands come in 5 different colours, green, white, blue, red and black. There are costs for each creature, enchantment and aura cards. Some cards e.g. Molimo Maro Sorcerer it cost 4 of any land and 3 must be green. It also has an ability that it's power and toughness is equal to how many lands you control. If you play Molimo Maro Sorcerer as soon as you can he will be a 7/7. The power and toughness, Power is how much damage that creature can do and toughness is how much hit points it can sustain without dieing e.g. if I have a 2/4 and a 4/1 decided to stop my creature from damaging my opponent it would be called blocking, so if the 4/1 blocked my 2/4 they would both die, because the 4/1 has 1 hit point and 4 damage, and my 2/4 has 4 hit points and 2 damage and both creatures attack at the same time, therefore 2 damage to 1 hit point kills that creature and 4 damage to 4 hit points kills my creature. To play creatures like Molimo Maro Sorcerer if you have the required land cards to play him you will need to tap your lands, to tap lands you need to turn them on there side to signify that they are tapped. Enchantments can be placed on your/there creatures e.g. Blanchwood Armor gives that creature +1/+1 for each green you control. The 5 different lands are mountain for red, forest for green, swamp for black, plains for white and islands for blue. There are also two types of cards, foily cards and normal cards. The foily cards are shiny as shown below.
On my first tournament this is My first card I ever owned was
what I got. Molimo Maro Sorcerer
Excellent post. This is the standard of post I expect from you, Josh. You explained the key aspects of the game clearly. Thanks for including photos showing what the cards look like. Sounds like you are an awesome player.
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