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How many cards in a 60 card mtg deck?

A regular deck needs a minimum of 60 cards and there is no maximum number of cards of a deck.
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How many cards in a 60 card magic deck?

First, what's even better than playing 61 cards with a card that functionally makes your deck 60 is playing 60 cards with a card that functionally makes your deck 59.
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What should a 60 card MTG deck consist of?

You'll generally always want between 20 and 26 lands in a 60 card deck, so it's all about understanding your plan and figuring it out from there.
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What is the 60 card rule in MTG?

Your deck must be at least 60 cards. Up to fifteen cards may be included in your sideboard, if you use one. Include no more than four copies of any individual card in your main deck and sideboard combined (except basic lands). There's no maximum deck size, as long as you can shuffle your deck in your hands unassisted.
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How many cards should be in a MTG deck?

Mechanically speaking: you each have a 60 card deck (although the number of cards in a deck can change depending on what Magic: The Gathering format you're playing).
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How to Build Your First Magic Deck

Can you play MTG with 40 cards?

Deck and Draft Guidelines

Once you have 45 cards in your pile, it is time to build your deck. Booster Draft rules allow you to add as much basic land as you want to your deck, and require that the deck you end up with be at least 40 cards. The standard number of lands in a draft deck is 17–18.
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How much mana should I put in a 60 card magic deck?

A good formula for the number of lands in your 60-card deck, counting MDFCs partially in this fashion, is: 19.59 + 1.90 * average mana value of your spells – 0.28 * number of cheap card draw or mana ramp spells + 0.27 if you have a companion.
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Should you always have 7 cards in your hand in MTG?

402.2. Each player has a maximum hand size, which is normally seven cards. A player may have any number of cards in their hand, but as part of their cleanup step, the player must discard excess cards down to the maximum hand size.
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Should you always have 7 cards in magic?

What is the 7 card rule for Magic? In paper magic there are litterly hundreds of cards that will allow a player to have more than seven cards in hand during their turn. The rule in actual magic is that at the end of your turn you must discard any cards you haven't played if you have more than seven.
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How many creatures in a 60 deck?

In a 60-card deck, that's 24. If your mana curve is at the low end, meaning you have a lot of 1, 2, and 3-cost cards, you can probably cut it down, depending on if you have any card draw or ramp cards. If you have any cheap card draw or ramp spells, you can cut down on your land.
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Is it good to have 60 cards in a deck?

By increasing the deck count to 60 cards you can greatly reduce the odds of seeing those poor draws, while maintaining the chance to open with various good combinations of starter and extenders.
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What is the best ratio for a magic deck?

You can have more, but I recommend sticking as close to 40 cards as possible while aiming for a ratio of 24 playable cards to 16 lands, adjusting for your curve as you see fit.
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How to build a MTG standard deck?

How to Build an MTG Deck – Full Guide!
  1. Step 1: Choosing a Deck Type. Before you start putting cards in your deck, you need to know your deck type. ...
  2. Step 2: Choosing Your Color(s) ...
  3. Step 3: Choosing a Theme. ...
  4. Step 4: Picking Your Lands. ...
  5. Step 5: Picking a Ratio of Creatures and Spells. ...
  6. Step 6: Tuning Your Mana Curve.
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What is a standard MTG deck?

A Standard deck contains 60+ Standard cards and can optionally have a sideboard of up to 15 additional such cards. Apart from basic lands, the combined main deck and sideboard cannot have more than four copies of any card.
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What is the minimum number of cards in a magic deck?

Standard games are one-on-one with a 60 card minimum for the main deck (up to 15 card sideboard).
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What is the strongest card in MTG?

The Most Powerful Creature Cards In Magic: The Gathering, Ranked
  1. 1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. Emrakul, the Aeons Torn is the mother of all Eldrazi cards, figuratively.
  2. 2 Progenitus. Progenitus by Jaime Jones. ...
  3. 3 Blightsteel Colossus. ...
  4. 4 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice. ...
  5. 5 Snapcaster Mage. ...
  6. 6 True-Name Nemesis. ...
  7. 7 Griselbrand. ...
  8. 8 Tarmogoyf. ...
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Is it bad to go over 60 cards MTG?

Yes, there's no rule that restricts any deck to 60 cards, tho that being said it's generally optimal to run a 60 card deck. You are however (in a normal deck for casual play) only restricted to 4 of the same card, except for basic lands, and cards that specify that you can have more than 4.
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Can you run out of cards in MTG?

When your deck runs out of cards, every attempt to draw another card will deal you 1 cumulative damage. This means: Any attempt to draw a card will deal you damage. Not just when you start a turn.
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How many Planeswalkers can you have in a deck?

There's no limit to the number of planeswalker permanents you can have in play! It may hurt your head trying to manage 100 passive and loyalty abilities, but that's completely fair game. The only restriction is that you can't have two copies of the exact same planeswalker card in play.
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What is the most expensive mana card in MTG?

When people think of the biggest creature in Magic, they always think of Emrakul. Sitting at a converted mana cost of 16, however, Draco is technically the most expensive card in Magic.
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What is the ideal number of lands in MTG?

The typical number of mana sources you should run in your EDH Deck is 43 to 55. Your land base should be between 33 to 40 lands and your Mana rocks should be 10 to 15. These numbers can change if your deck is full of low cost cards or if you have other sources of mana slotted in like mana creatures or cost reducers.
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Will MTG 40K be legal?

Warhammer 40,000 Commander cards with the 40K set code numbered 1–176 are permitted in the Commander, Legacy, and Vintage formats. Cards with the 40K set code numbered 181–317 and 322 are reprinted cards legal for play in any format where a card with the same name is permitted.
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Can you go over 20 life MTG?

Nothing in the rulebook about a max limit either. There's no upper limit, and it's not that uncommon to go over 20 (at least temporarily).
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Is it too late to play MTG?

Absolutely not. As a matter of fact, the local MTG group I play at is run by two people in at least their 50s, maybe even 60s, so 30 is definitely not too old, by far. Yes, there are times where you can be too young or old to understand MTG, which is somewhat complex, but that's an extremity.
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