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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8958429" data-attributes="member: 6877472">So Magic isn't especially hard to learn, but there are nuances to the rules (of which there are many, to deal with a lot of edge cases) that even masters of the game can be surprised by.  If you play casually with friends, this won't be a big deal (unless your friends are ultra competitive jerks, lol).I can't speak to how balanced the set will be for new players, but bear in mind that Wizards wants people to buy cards, so there are definitely going to be rare powerful cards that will be miserable to play against if someone plays one.There will definitely, however, be preconstructed decks; I'd use these to play the game.As for the cards themselves, honestly, I wouldn't buy boosters.  It would take a lot of money to collect them all that way, or get the ones you want.  Best to wait until the set comes out and purchase anything you want on the secondary market on a website like Card Kingdom or something.And for play purposes, unless you plan on going to some sanctioned event, I suggest looking into proxies.  There's no reason to pony up 50 bucks or more for a card to play a game for fun.</blockquote>