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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 2704701" data-attributes="member: 17296">It's pretty expensive... but on the other hand, you're asking in this forum, so I'll tell you that 3.X was based largely on the card game. So you could look at it as a two-player 3.X game.You can play without continuously buying cards, of course. And it's a lot less expensive than smoking even if you do keep buying cards (depending on how many packs a week/day you go through, of course). Plus at the end you'll still have the cards. While admittedly with smoking you could keep the butts and it can be argued that you still keep at least some of the lung damage, those comaparisons aren't really the same."So, how many cards are there in a deck?  Does it vary?"There is usually a minimum to a deck, standard games have a min of 60. Generally you won't see decks bigger than the min, as you want the best chance of drawing the cards you really, really want to finish the opponent off as soon as possible. It does vary some. There's a style with a min of 40... and, of course, there is no maximum. There you're only limited by the fact that the more cards you have the less likely you are to get the card or the card combo that you want/need. A newbie mistake is to have a large deck. Note that there is also generally a limitation on the number of copies of a single card you can have."What is the advantage of limiting the number of colors in your deck?"Basic land cards only produce a single color of mana. A spell is "colored" by the mana required to use it, so the fewer colors you have, the less chance there is of NOT having the appropriate color of mana in the amount needed. "How many sets have there been, and how many cards in each set, ..."Go to the WotC site and look up the decks in the area devoted to that game. They've got a list of every card ever made."and how much do they cost?" Goto a game store and look at their prices, they do vary some. A game store that sells magic cards is likely to have a book with the listed prices of every card ever made, for pricing and buying/selling older cards."What the heck is a Black Lotus?"It's "The Most Expensive Spell". Meaning, I think, that it costs you the most money to buy that card. I dunno, there might be a more expensive one out there now... but it would be a very powerful addition to many decks, and it's out of print, and it was from an early edition whith a more limited number of prints... so it's probably still the most expensive card. For what it does, that's already been answered above.It can be really fun. Deck build is indeed very important, moreso important than the individual components (although add good components with a good build for the best, of course). And, as has been stated, you can actually make money playing if you try hard and are good at it. I did for a while.</blockquote>

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