Name: Magic: The Gathering: Foundations Beginner Box Design: Reggie Valk (lead) Release date: November 15, 2024 Plane: Multiversal Expansion code: FDN Contents: 2 Insert-Play Decks, 2 Learn-to-Play Guides, 16-page reference booklet, 2 Game board playmats, 2 spindown life counters, 8 JumpStart Decks The new Standard for learning Magic: The Gathering Previously, you would learn how to play Magic: The Gathering in a few different ways: Go online and learn via MTG: Arena Buy a preconstructed deck and jump into the standard game on a Friday night Get dragged along to a prerelease event and learn via drafting Someone gets you to join Commander/EDH because they hate that you have money You get lucky and get to learn with a mentor/teacher at a convention like PAX The Foundations Beginners Box gives you a chance to learn in a very structured style
As special thanks for sticking around to the end, here are my top-rated commons to look for in each color for those early-pack-one picks when youre trying to figure out direction: WHITE: Fate of the Sun-Cryst, Gaelicat, White Auracite, Aerith Rescue Mission, Weapons Vendor BLUE: Stuck in Summoners Sanctum, Retrieve the Esper, Ice Flan, Combat Tutorial, Sahagin BLACK: Vaynes Treachery, Black Mages Rod , Sephiroths Intervention, Fight On!, Ahriman RED: Red Mages Rapier, Thunder Magic, Hill Gigas, Suplex, Summon: G.F
Thats almost everything you need to know to sort your collection properly
Gavin Verhey used todays episode of Good Morning Magic to explain how the Commander Legends preconstructed decks came to be
Cube is a wonderful way to play MTG with veteran players, teach drafting to newer players, or even reintroduce friends that want to get back into the game
