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Javasci, who I’ve talked about before produced another “duh” article over at puremtgo. Titled “A New Player´s Guide to Constructed Tournament Deckbuilding“, the article is nothing more than a waterfall of blah, blah, blah, don’t play bad cards.

The best way of steering new players in the tournament direction would probably be sitting them down and blasting intense magic theory inside their newbie brains. Then giving them a netdeck to play while you watch and provide advice and tips. Subject to the limitation of a website article, this strategy would ultimately fail.

So what then? What kind of advice would you give a new player who is about to enter their first constructed tournament?

Find a good netdeck with solid results, don’t change a thing, watch others play it, then have a go. -or- ( my personal favorite ) Don’t play in tournaments until you know what your doing.

Javasci’s constructed rating at the time of this post? 1591. Which if you don’t know, is bad.

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I’d like to leave this post with a little positive note.

A super sweet article over at MTGsalvation.com rocks my world with this bit of text:

“I run him ( Orgg )because I remember him when he was beautiful. (Orgg has been in my spell check dictionary for about ten years now. I didn’t get around to adding my last name until two years ago.)”

Beautiful stuff, there is even a clever deck idea to boot!