Let's face it—we've all been quarantined for a while. Chances are you're quarantined with at least one other person, and you've been trying to figure out ways to pass the time. If you've been itching to get your quarantine buddies into the best game ever made, I've designed some decks that will help you get them to dip their toes into the wonderful game that is Magic: The Gathering.
While teaching them the basic rules of the game is up to you, the idea behind each deck is to aid your teaching by exploring the different keywords and mechanics highlighted in each color. I tried to balance the power levels of the decks for maximum replay value between all of them.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - White Lifegain by Jessica Estephan
'White Lifegain' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Jessica Estephan
Event:
Rank:
Freeform (Casual)
Market Price: $20.62
Speaker of the Heavens
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.46
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/215680_200w.jpg
Vigilance, lifelink
{T}: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if you have at least 7 life more than your starting life total and only as a sorcery.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/215680/magic-core-set-2021-speaker-of-the-heavens
Serra Angel
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.09
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/216563_200w.jpg
Flying, vigilance
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Ajani's Welcome
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.25
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/169106_200w.jpg
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.
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Sky Tether
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.03
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/216375_200w.jpg
Enchant creature Enchanted creature has defender and loses flying.
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Leonin Vanguard
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.13
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/169217_200w.jpg
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control three or more creatures, Leonin Vanguard gets +1/+1 until end of turn and you gain 1 life.
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Charmed Stray
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.07
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/188870_200w.jpg
Lifelink When Charmed Stray enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on each other creature you control named Charmed Stray.
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Pacifism
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.03
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/216154_200w.jpg
Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block.
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Glaring Aegis
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.01
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Enchant creature When Glaring Aegis enters the battlefield, tap target creature an opponent controls. Enchanted creature gets +1/+3.
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Fencing Ace
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.01
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/227122_200w.jpg
Double strike
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Angel of Vitality
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.02
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/192522_200w.jpg
Flying If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. Angel of Vitality gets +2/+2 as long as you have 25 or more life.
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Castle Ardenvale
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $2.92
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/199390_200w.jpg
Castle Ardenvale enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains.
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/199390/magic-throne-of-eldraine-castle-ardenvale
Serra's Guardian
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.28
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/192926_200w.jpg
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) Other creatures you control have vigilance.
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Ajani's Pridemate
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.26
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/72018_200w.jpg
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Ajani's Pridemate.
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Bond of Discipline
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.09
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/188604_200w.jpg
Tap all creatures your opponents control. Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.
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Plains
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $0.05
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/235540_200w.jpg
({T}: Add {W}.)Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/235540/magic-strixhaven-school-of-mages-plains-366
Soul Warden
Color Identity:W
Market Price: $1.04
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/128953_200w.jpg
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life.
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The white deck is all about gaining life, but also give you an opportunity to cover vigilance, lifelink, auras, double strike, flying, and defender. Most of the cards in this deck either gain life or provide some sort of payoff for gaining life. The remaining flyers and removal spells offer the deck some reach in the late game since it doesn't have a real way to generate card advantage. New players will also get to experience activated and triggered abilities—namely, the joys of having an obscenely large Ajani's Pridemate.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Blue Skies by Jessica Estephan
'Blue Skies' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Jessica Estephan
Event:
Rank:
Freeform (Casual)
Market Price: $5.95
Mistral Singer
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.01
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/215710_200w.jpg
Flying Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
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Castle Vantress
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $2.12
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/199284_200w.jpg
Castle Vantress enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}{U}, {T}: Scry 2.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/199284/magic-throne-of-eldraine-castle-vantress
Dungeon Geists
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.11
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/192567_200w.jpg
Flying When Dungeon Geists enters the battlefield, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control Dungeon Geists.
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Spectral Sailor
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.12
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/254074_200w.jpg
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Flying
{3}{U}: Draw a card.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/254074/magic-commander-innistrad-crimson-vow-spectral-sailor
Tide Skimmer
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.03
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/215475_200w.jpg
Flying Whenever you attack with two or more creatures with flying, draw a card.
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Lofty Denial
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.10
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/215611_200w.jpg
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. If you control a creature with flying, counter that spell unless its controller pays {4} instead.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/215611/magic-core-set-2021-lofty-denial
Essence Scatter
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.02
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/212042_200w.jpg
Counter target creature spell.
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Winged Words
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.10
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/216058_200w.jpg
This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a creature with flying.
Draw two cards.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/216058/magic-jumpstart-winged-words
Witness of Tomorrows
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.01
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/207142_200w.jpg
Flying
{3}{U}: Scry 1.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/207142/magic-theros-beyond-death-witness-of-tomorrows
Cloudkin Seer
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.21
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/192686_200w.jpg
Flying When Cloudkin Seer enters the battlefield, draw a card.
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Sage's Row Denizen
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.04
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/192878_200w.jpg
Whenever another blue creature enters the battlefield under your control, target player mills two cards.
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Warden of Evos Isle
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.05
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/226144_200w.jpg
Flying
Creature spells with flying you cast cost {1} less to cast.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/226144/magic-commander-legends-warden-of-evos-isle
Soul of the Rapids
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.02
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/155812_200w.jpg
Flying Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
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Gust of Wind
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.02
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/212783_200w.jpg
This spell costs {2} less to cast if you control a creature with flying.
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Draw a card.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/212783/magic-ikoria-lair-of-behemoths-gust-of-wind
Opt
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.10
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/215840_200w.jpg
Scry 1. Draw a card.
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Island
Color Identity:U
Market Price: $0.05
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/215718_200w.jpg
({T}: Add {U}.)Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/215718/magic-core-set-2021-island-265
Blue introduces players to counterspells, hexproof, mill effects, and scrying. The main plan for this deck is to beat down with fliers while countering key spells along the way. However, Sage's Row Denizen offers a secondary mill plan should the board stall out. Countermagic is the primary method of removal in this deck, but bounce spells and Dungeon Geists should be able to handle the threats the deck's countermagic misses.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Black Vampires by Jessica Estephan
'Black Vampires' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Jessica Estephan
Event:
Rank:
Freeform (Casual)
Market Price: $26.34
Bishop of the Bloodstained
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.09
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/145359_200w.jpg
When Bishop of the Bloodstained enters the battlefield, target opponent loses 1 life for each Vampire you control.
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Sorin's Thirst
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.11
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/192924_200w.jpg
Sorin's Thirst deals 2 damage to target creature and you gain 2 life.
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Epic Downfall
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.29
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/198972_200w.jpg
Exile target creature with mana value 3 or greater.
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Bloodthirsty Aerialist
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.25
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/236557_200w.jpg
Flying Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodthirsty Aerialist.
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Blood Burglar
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.02
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/192646_200w.jpg
As long as it's your turn, Blood Burglar has lifelink. (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
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Dusk Legion Zealot
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.25
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/161788_200w.jpg
When Dusk Legion Zealot enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
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Thirsting Bloodlord
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $3.47
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/192760_200w.jpg
Other Vampires you control get +1/+1.
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Child of Night
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.02
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/216034_200w.jpg
Lifelink
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Deathless Ancient
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.04
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/144791_200w.jpg
Flying Tap three untapped Vampires you control: Return Deathless Ancient from your graveyard to your hand.
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Witch's Cottage
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.28
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/198390_200w.jpg
({T}: Add {B}.)
Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/198390/magic-throne-of-eldraine-witchs-cottage
Epicure of Blood
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.08
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/236562_200w.jpg
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
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Kaya's Ghostform
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.41
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/187181_200w.jpg
Enchant creature or planeswalker you control When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.
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Swamp
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.07
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/215720_200w.jpg
({T}: Add {B}.)Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/215720/magic-core-set-2021-swamp-267
Cast Down
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.32
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/226354_200w.jpg
Destroy target nonlegendary creature.
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Mire Triton
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.16
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/215956_200w.jpg
Deathtouch When Mire Triton enters the battlefield, mill two cards and you gain 2 life.
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Bloodbond Vampire
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.11
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Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodbond Vampire.
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Knight of the Ebon Legion
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $2.18
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/192642_200w.jpg
{2}{B}: Knight of the Ebon Legion gets +3/+3 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, if a player lost 4 or more life this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Knight of the Ebon Legion. (Damage causes loss of life.)Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/192642/magic-core-set-2020-knight-of-the-ebon-legion
Marauding Blight-Priest
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $0.25
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/222184_200w.jpg
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
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Vampire of the Dire Moon
Color Identity:B
Market Price: $2.08
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/192612_200w.jpg
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
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The black deck is a vampire tribal deck that features flying, deathtouch, lifelink, exile effects, and recurring creatures from the graveyard. The fliers and removal make it easy for this deck to maneuver around your opponent's board state. I found Castle Locthwain to be too powerful and opted for Witch's Cottage instead since it seemed to be more "on theme" for the deck.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Red Burn by Jessica Estephan
'Red Burn' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Jessica Estephan
Event:
Rank:
Freeform (Casual)
Market Price: $3.42
Dwarven Mine
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.17
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/199542_200w.jpg
({T}: Add {R}.)
Dwarven Mine enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Mountains.
When Dwarven Mine enters the battlefield untapped, create a 1/1 red Dwarf creature token.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/199542/magic-throne-of-eldraine-dwarven-mine
Chandra's Pyrohelix
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.01
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Chandra's Pyrohelix deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets.
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Opportunistic Dragon
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.08
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/243822_200w.jpg
Flying When Opportunistic Dragon enters the battlefield, choose target Human or artifact an opponent controls. For as long as Opportunistic Dragon remains on the battlefield, gain control of that permanent, it loses all abilities, and it can't attack or block.
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Mountain
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.06
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/196580_200w.jpg
({T}: Add {R}.)Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/196580/magic-commander-2019-mountain-298
Lightning Strike
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.10
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/168474_200w.jpg
Lightning Strike deals 3 damage to any target.
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Burning-Fist Minotaur
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.08
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/136679_200w.jpg
First strike
{1}{R}, Discard a card: Burning-Fist Minotaur gets +2/+0 until end of turn.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/136679/magic-hour-of-devastation-burningfist-minotaur
Volcanic Dragon
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.04
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/227198_200w.jpg
Flying, haste
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Ember Hauler
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.02
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/192598_200w.jpg
{1}, Sacrifice Ember Hauler: It deals 2 damage to any target.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/192598/magic-core-set-2020-ember-hauler
Fanatical Firebrand
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.11
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/216498_200w.jpg
Haste
{T}, Sacrifice Fanatical Firebrand: It deals 1 damage to any target.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/216498/magic-jumpstart-fanatical-firebrand
Chandra's Spitfire
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.08
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/192537_200w.jpg
Flying Whenever an opponent is dealt noncombat damage, Chandra's Spitfire gets +3/+0 until end of turn.
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Shock
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.02
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Shock deals 2 damage to any target.
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Tin Street Dodger
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.10
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/183406_200w.jpg
Haste
{R}: Tin Street Dodger can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with defender.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/183406/magic-ravnica-allegiance-tin-street-dodger
Scorch Spitter
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.05
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/192912_200w.jpg
Whenever Scorch Spitter attacks, it deals 1 damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.
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Chandra's Pyreling
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.02
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/215586_200w.jpg
Whenever a source you control deals noncombat damage to an opponent, Chandra's Pyreling gets +1/+0 and gains double strike until end of turn. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.)
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Fight with Fire
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.07
ImageURL: https://tcgplayer-cdn.tcgplayer.com/product/162158_200w.jpg
Kicker {5}{R} (You may pay an additional {5}{R} as you cast this spell.)
Fight with Fire deals 5 damage to target creature. If this spell was kicked, it deals 10 damage divided as you choose among any number of targets instead. (Those targets can include players and planeswalkers.)Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/162158/magic-dominaria-fight-with-fire
Chandra's Outrage
Color Identity:R
Market Price: $0.01
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Chandra's Outrage deals 4 damage to target creature and 2 damage to that creature's controller.
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The red deck is built on the fundamentals of a traditional red deck: haste, first strike, burn spells, and one kicker spell for good measure. Most games will involve attacking with critters and finishing opponents off with some burn spells. While the late game doesn't often fall in your favor, if you're able to hit your opponent low enough the spells will easily do the rest of the damage. The instinct for newer players when it comes to red decks is that they have to constantly attack. Through repetition and maybe some swapping, this deck should help show them that there are multiple roles available to aggressive players and they are not always the aggressor in any given matchup.
Magic: The Gathering TCG Deck - Green Beef by Jessica Estephan
'Green Beef' - constructed deck list and prices for the Magic: The Gathering Trading Card Game from TCGplayer Infinite!
Created By: Jessica Estephan
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Freeform (Casual)
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Nessian Hornbeetle
Color Identity:G
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At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control another creature with power 4 or greater, put a +1/+1 counter on Nessian Hornbeetle.
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Giltgrove Stalker
Color Identity:G
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Giltgrove Stalker can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less.
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Gigantosaurus
Color Identity:G
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Centaur Courser
Color Identity:G
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Ghastbark Twins
Color Identity:G
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Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Ghastbark Twins can block an additional creature each combat.
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Gargos, Vicious Watcher
Color Identity:G
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Vigilance
Hydra spells you cast cost {4} less to cast.
Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of a spell, Gargos, Vicious Watcher fights up to one target creature you don't control.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/192785/magic-core-set-2020-gargos-vicious-watcher
Barkhide Troll
Color Identity:G
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Barkhide Troll enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
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Rabid Bite
Color Identity:G
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Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature you don't control.
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Giant Growth
Color Identity:G
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Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
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Forest
Color Identity:G
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({T}: Add {G}.)Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/235549/magic-strixhaven-school-of-mages-forest-375
Greenwood Sentinel
Color Identity:G
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Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)
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Netcaster Spider
Color Identity:G
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Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Whenever Netcaster Spider blocks a creature with flying, Netcaster Spider gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
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Bristling Boar
Color Identity:G
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Bristling Boar can't be blocked by more than one creature.
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Wildwood Tracker
Color Identity:G
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Whenever Wildwood Tracker attacks or blocks, if you control another non-Human creature, Wildwood Tracker gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
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Hunt the Weak
Color Identity:G
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Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Then that creature fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
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Hashep Oasis
Color Identity:G
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{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {G}.
{1}{G}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.Buy This Card! https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/135086/magic-hour-of-devastation-hashep-oasis
Since every other deck contains fliers, the green deck has a lot of reach creatures to help it interact in combat. Castle Garenbrig didn't offer too much to this deck, so we've gone with Hashep Oasis which will allow players to learn more about activated abilities and differentiate between instant speed (Giant Growth) and sorcery speed. If you're teaching on Arena, I'd strongly consider cutting Bristling Boar for Baloth Packhunter.
While building and testing these decks, green got nerfed the most. The large creatures, fight spells, and card advantage green generated was simply too difficult for the other decks to compete with.
There you have it—five cheap decks to help get your loved ones into Magic. Good luck and I hope they love it as much as you do!