Tolarian Tutor: Deck Archetypes - Aggro, Control, Combo - A Magic: The Gathering Study Guide

lifegain midrange has always been my favorite it feels the best for me because i dont like aggro so lifegain is the exact opposite of aggro and midrange can give me the control pieces i enjoy playing as well its a good MIDdle ground

6 years later, this is still valuable for us noobs. Hope this the views are still providing some coin for the college and its faculty.

awesome video thank you

Lol no one came to this video made to teach people the basics for you to explain it like a college professor. I just want to know the basics man

I'm looking forward to watching the next episode on Midrange decks

Super helpful. Thank you

The college I would take notes for

Wow, such a good video <3 Good work man, you're killing it

Thanks!

i feel guilty being high during class

Eternal tutoring format gold :)

I have built a grand total of 1 combo deck, I built it to be as fun as possible to play with/against and almost immediately upon playing it I found that it could also do a surprisingly good impersonation of a "try to make them throw their deck at you" deck.
the deck had a bunch of different cards in it that did weird things to the gamestate on their own and comboed with at least 2 other cards in the deck to do something else weird, nothing in it was useless but none of the combos were a win condition in and of themselves, just a bunch of helpful interactions that could make a huge difference in the right conditions. what made the deck so fun to play with/against is that almost none of these effects had anything to do with eachother which made it very unpredictable and very interactive with the opponent: because everything you had on the board interacted so much with everything else everything the other guy did to it MATTERED so it was on the person playing it to make use of whatever resources they had available to matter MORE

I did have a card engine and mana engine built in there to make sure that the deck could play reliably but I intentionally left out any form of go-get-the-thing because I wanted everyone involved to be thinking on their feet as much as possible and for it to be next to impossibe for any 2 games played with it to look anything alike, I suceeded to the point where it didn't even play as the same archetype from one game to another or even playing the exact same draw order against the same draw order for the opponent with both players making different decisions.

Is your deck aggro, control, or combo?
me: yes

The worst feeling for me is getting out my really big monster and then it dies so i just switched to mono white or white/green aggro decks

My first deck (and currently only one) is a red white artifacts deck, I have to play aggressively but my deck is mostly combo, everything finely tailored to work together to create leverage even my commander specializes in targeted creature/planeswalker removal or direct player damage (even has a nifty scry with it). Aggro in a 1v1 setting is the bane of my existence.

Production value on these is insane

Any of my ramp value engine controllers out there shout out! Lol

I generally don't enjoy combo decks. Anyone have any budget combo decks that would turn on a non combo player?

A big reason people say aggro requires less skill is because objectively control decks in comparison have significantly more chances to make mistakes than aggro decks due to the higher number of turns per game resulting in higher number of chances to make mistakes.

You gave a great list of MTG tools.. what about Arena?

what a sweetheart! my son is learning magic and he loved this video! thank you

Every card in my main deck has a combo with like 5 other cards in the deck so you never know what it's doing

I would like to take a second to commend your suit, good sir. Very classy indeed.

Tolarian tutor: search your library for a legendary card or merfolk creature

are you acturaly a profesor

Thank you so much for these videos! I missed so much in terms of sets and wanted to brush some knowledge up and maybe even get a little better, and your stuff just helps with that. Also, with cheering up at the end, I had some warm feelings remembering my saproling deck. Was it the most efficient? No. Was it fun as heck to toss a ton of tokens right in my opponents face? Heck yes! Also double that when you meet another fellow token army-maker

Thank you for the information.

Why is it when he smiles, I get Christopher Lambert vibes in this video?

He talks like a father who really have a favorite son haha

This is the info i was looking for. Trying to pin down my style of game play. After 20 years i finally decided to figure my game style cause man im still a noob lol

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I never quite knew what type of archetype I played, I just knew it worked well for me based on my playstyle

5 days into Magic.
I learned so much more than my deck can spit out.

Bruh I’m actually writing down key factors in my notes bcuz I lose allot

Is it ok to have 20 creatures in a Control deck?

Cool!

Super video! I applauded for $2.00 👏

My cousin has two cards which can make infinite forest mana and one of them becomes an infinite/infinite creature with flying. The cards are Devoted Druid and Quillspike.

I want to make a goblin tribal deck

can pearl lake ancient be returned to the hand from the graveyard if you discard three lands? i ask because there are cards coming now that do stuff like that

I am still thinking about that frog :-(

I even do not play MTG yet, but I love your videos :D

nowadays noticing certain patterns is almost illegal.

no longer true. colors now have almost inf ways of removal of all types

I still use this video and your other videos for references and refreshers when im stuck building a deck.

By the time my opponent plays torrential gearhulk I've already beefed up my Elite Vanguard.

How many Instants and Sorceries do you recommend for a Combo Commander deck?