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Magic: The Gathering: The Official Deckbuilders' Guide

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This is a must read if you love to play magic but you either A. Cant build good decks, or B. you can't find a deck you like. If I had one of those problems then the book would get a 5, but I dont so it just gives me deck lists to tinker with.

WARNING!!! THE BOOK IS JUJT DECK LISTS AND 1/2 PAGE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PLAY THEM. IT PROVIDES NO DECKBUILDING INSTRUCTION OR PERSONAL HELP FOR CERTAIN DECK IDEAS!!!

Sitting at night in my room for hours on end, sorting through cards, and trying to think of different card combos. Finally, after a couple of hours, I would get a nice deck that I liked. I would use it, and sure enough, I would lose.

That WAS me until I bought the deck builders book. If your a serious magic gamer, this is the book for you. In only a short amount of time, DeckBuilders shows you valuable combos, and various others in deck building. It gives you ideas, and goes really "in depth" into what you put into your deck.

In 10 minutes, I had an awesome deck, and have not lost yet.

I recommend this book to anyone, beginner or expert. You won't be sorry, but your dualing partners will be.

The decks include 5th edition, Portal, Type I, Type II, Theme decks (like a deck of cards by 1 artist), Multi-player, Extended, and Classic-Restricted Type 1.5. Each deck is given 1 full page of coverage, with the card list to make it, including sideboard. A helpful touch is that there is a quick info box on top of each page with: Type of deck (beginner deck, tourney deck,..); Colors (green, red, ...); Strategy (...use weenies to crush your opponent); Cost (category of price to buy and make the cards in the deck (very low through very expensive); DCI Tourney Category (Type II ..); and the card count (60 main deck, 15 sideboard). This little info box is handy. If you are looking to make a competitive red/green Type II deck from all common cards, you'll quickly find it. If you want to make a Type I deck that will cost you $1500, that's here too. The remainder of each page is dedicated on the strategy for playing the deck.

If you are into building and testing a variety of decks, you'll love this book. Simple and straight-forward.

I have read almost all the Magic books.

This book was very good back when it was first published, unfortunately it only gave decklists and not advice on mana curve, the land:spell proportions, or things like that. So, as of 2004, it's not fit unless you're playing type 1, or extended.

This book provides you with 120 different decks, and gets your creative juices flowing. However, I started Magic three years ago, but I still don't have even a quarter of the cards that are in these decks! This is way, way out of date, and made with cards that you can't get anymore, unless you already have them. So if you started Magic after 1998,

DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!!!!!

It is a cool book , lots of different decks and types. Unfortunatly it has alot of errors (like a mono blue , marked as mono black) and the opinions of the author aren't that good. Loved the intro , with the enviroments and stuff. The book is cool ,but could be much better.

This collection of decklists is appropriate for an intermediate player who wants a springboard to better play. However, each deck can be greatly improved; core combos are excellent, but the support cards are not the best. A good reference of deck patterns and tournament types.

It's a good book, and has lots of preconstructed decks. It's too bad it doesn't have deckbuilding techniques.

I thought this book was really good. It had several different decks to chose from to build, a brief description of each deck, and would let you know if it was expensive to build. I was pretty impressed.

The book was written in 1997 and well its a total waste of money im sad to say. Its just out of date...it could maybe give someone some ideas of how to build a deck but again its old.