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What is the 100 card deck ratio in Magic The Gathering?

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Commander is a series of supplemental Magic: the Gathering card game products. Its mechanics are derived from a fan-created format known as "Elder Dragon Highlander (EDH)". The official Commander format is "the only sanctioned format maintained by an outside entity" other than Wizards of the Coast.
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decks are exactly 100 cards: 1 commander + 99 other cards (or two partner commanders + 98 other cards). Only one copy of each card (by name) can be included, aside from basic lands. All cards within the deck must match the commander's color identity.
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How many lands should be in a 100 card MTG deck?

MTG Commander deck building ratio

As a general rule of thumb, you want somewhere between 33 and 42 lands in a Commander deck. Naturally, you want as many special lands as you can find. Lands that generate more than one colour of mana or that have special abilities are always a great shout.
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What is the 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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Can you have 100 cards in a magic deck?

With the exception of Commander and Brawl, which each have a maximum (and minimum) deck size of 100, your deck has no maximum hand size. In theory, you can put as many cards in your deck as you want! Here are the exact rules for Standard (the same rules apply to most other Constructed formats).
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How many of each card should be in a MTG deck?

Now you'll need to decide on how many of each card to put in. You can have up to four of any card, such as creatures and spells, in your deck. It's important to note the 'up to' part of that rule because you won't always want four copies of a card in your deck.
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What is the rule of 8 MTG?

The rule of 8 – As a general rule of thumb for deck building: a deck list with four copies of a certain type of card has weak consistency (39.9% to draw at least one in your opening hand) while eight copies give reasonable consistency (65.4% for your opening hand).
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What is 75% deck MTG?

Basically, a 75% EDH deck is a deck that is built optimally, but purposely avoids being built for a 100% flawless game. Sometimes it's for the sake of fun, sometimes it's for the sake of budget.
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What is the maximum deck size in magic?

There is no maximum deck size, however, the player must be able to shuffle their deck unassisted. Players may have a sideboard of up to a maximum of 15 cards, and exchanges of cards between games are not required to be on a one-for-one basis, so long as the player adheres to the 60 card minimum deck size.
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Is it bad to have more than 60 cards in a magic deck?

You can play as many cards as you want in a Magic deck. So why don't people generally play more than the minimum? After all, playing more gives you access to additional different cards and can even prevent decking if the game comes down to that. It's all about card quality.
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What is the ratio of Commander decks?

Commander decks are exactly 100 cards: 1 commander + 99 other cards (or two partner commanders + 98 other cards). Only one copy of each card (by name) can be included, aside from basic lands. All cards within the deck must match the commander's color identity.
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What is the best land ratio in magic?

Traditional knowledge is that lands should make up a touch over 40% of a deck. This means about 17–18 lands for a 40-card deck and about 24–25 lands for a 60-card deck. This is a tried-and-true structure that's worked for many players for many years.
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What is a good ratio MTG?

Quick and dirty rule generally 1/3 land, 1/3 creatures, 1/3 spells with the majority of those costing 4 or less will make for a deck that plays well. That said you can rarely go wrong with a few extra creatures (especially if they have good effects attached).
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What is the golden ratio deck of cards?

The golden ratio is not particularly magic in aesthetic pleasure; playing cards are in fact made with a ratio of 7:5, being 3.5" high and 2.5" wide.
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Can Commander decks be over 100 cards?

Size: A Commander deck must be exactly 100 cards, including the Commander. In other words, an EDH deck consists of one Commander (or two if both have Partner) and 99 (or 98) other cards.
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How many lands in a 99 card deck?

You have 99 cards to work with here, or 98 if you're playing with a partner commander. You'll be trying to fit about 42 lands into your deck at the most and roughly 33 at the least.
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Does the Commander count as one of the 100 cards?

Each deck must contain exactly 100 cards, including the commander(s). No cards in any player's deck may have a color identity that does not match or is not a subset of the color identity of the commander(s).
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Should you always have 7 cards in Magic?

Limiting hand size to seven at all times goes against the rules and flavour of 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.
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What is the longest card effect in Magic The Gathering?

It probably won't surprise you to learn that Endymion, the Mighty Master of Magic has the most words in its effect text of any card in the game. Endymion's Pendulum effect alone has the most words of any Pendulum monster in the game.
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How many planeswalker 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 strongest deck in Magic?

These are the top decks in Standard as identified by deck aggregation site MTGGoldfish.
  • 8 Rakdos Midrange.
  • 7 Five-Colour Invoke Justice.
  • 6 Jund Midrange.
  • 5 Azorius Soldiers.
  • 4 Mardu Midrange.
  • 3 Grixis Midrange.
  • 2 Esper Midrange.
  • 1 Mono-White Midrange.
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Can you have a 40 card Magic 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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What is a midrange Magic deck?

Midrange decks are aggressive decks that flip the standard aggro-control deck archetype by attempting to control the early game, then closing the game with efficient creatures in the mid to late game.
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What does level 7 deck mean?

At Level 7 your game plan is set to use multiple strategies, account for other players in the game, and have a win-condition in mind. The majority of finely tuned casual decks will peak out at this level.
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What is a meta deck MTG?

Simply put: "what everyone else is playing." The decisions the players make in what decks they play and what cards they put into those decks in acknowledgement of their predictions about what potential opponents might choose themselves is what is called 'playing the metagame'.
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What is Rule 9 in Magic?

Basically the Rule of Nine says that they way to begin a deck design to start with a list of just nine cards. Each of these cards becomes a full play set (4 cards) yielding 36 cards in your deck. After that place 24 basic lands and you have a deck that will consistently use your ideas to win or lose.
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