I'd also recommend playing with hands revealed (but pretend they are hidden), saying out loud the name of each step every turn and creating puzzles (like PossibilityStorm ones, but far simpler) to explain card interactions, mechanics and/or combos. And it's important to let them play after you think they got the basics and let them decide on their own plays, but let them undo actions for a while if they are struggling.
If you've only one friend available, make two decks that have a bad matchup. And give your friend the better one. For example, a blue fliers deck against a green stompy deck with 4 clip wing and 4 plummet. It'll make you leverage your knowledge of the game to win against the odds, thus hopefully making it more interesting. You should also plan some key interaction in there for example my friend casts a plummet on my last creature with flying and flash, and i unsummon it, cast it again to delay my inevitable demise by 1 turn.
I 💯 agree with these tips. I just taught my wife how to play and she's getting the hang of it. On the part where you both spoke on teaching one on one if you don't have another beginnger. I find that since I have more of a handle on the game, I put myself into "tutorial mode" in where I hold back and let them play things out. My wife had a blast with me because she felt the success of doing a move and seeing it work. I would only punish as a moment for education as in "this is why you don't want to play this card like that." Having fun and not getting obliterated had my wife wanting more out of the game and now wanting to challenge me and the homies.❤❤❤
Great video, my 11 year old nephew asked me this week to play some games. It was hard teaching him with my decks. I will make some decks out of commons and simple higher rarities and try and teach him and his friends together. Great advice!
love your attitude. Cover it all! with your attitude and determination, theres no doubt you are going to grow a lot bigger!! :D awesome videos. I always smile, laugh and have a great time ^-^
i am german and always run into the problem of most of my cards being english ones. Some keywords sound and look very similiar to their german translations (i.e. "flying - fliegend"), while most of them do not (i.e. "Menace - Bedrohlichkeit", "Haste - Eile"). I think that causes a lot of confusion for newer players, especially since it seems to me like english cards are prefered here over german ones (probably due to resaleability).
I wouldn't recommend Commander as a way to teach brand new players, I'd leave it until they've gotten the hang of Magic more. Commander decks usually have a lot of complicated cards that lead to complex board states, and because it's singleton there are so many more cards for a new player to learn and keep track of. Then you also have the special Commander rules in addition to the regular rules of Magic. I think it would be extremely overwhelming for someone trying to learn the game.
Having taught magic at conventions and schools for the better part of a decade, I disagree strongly with using monocolour decks. Using a two-colour deck takes at least 10 minutes off of explanations and clarifications regarding generic mana, something a lot of people have difficulty with, especially when there's only one colour. Why pay 2 mana for a card that has 1 red written on it if there's only mountains in the deck? If they can see that they can pay with red+green, or red+red that makes it much more grokable.
Can we get a video about teaching people who come from a yugioh background or another card game instead of people who come into the game workout card game experience
Sorry, but it is becoming problematic how all mtg-content creators are white or white passing. Is it really to much to ask for a black/brown body of color as a mtg player?
I'd also recommend playing with hands revealed (but pretend they are hidden), saying out loud the name of each step every turn and creating puzzles (like PossibilityStorm ones, but far simpler) to explain card interactions, mechanics and/or combos. And it's important to let them play after you think they got the basics and let them decide on their own plays, but let them undo actions for a while if they are struggling.
Great tip!
I'll keep that in mind
If you've only one friend available, make two decks that have a bad matchup. And give your friend the better one. For example, a blue fliers deck against a green stompy deck with 4 clip wing and 4 plummet. It'll make you leverage your knowledge of the game to win against the odds, thus hopefully making it more interesting.
You should also plan some key interaction in there for example my friend casts a plummet on my last creature with flying and flash, and i unsummon it, cast it again to delay my inevitable demise by 1 turn.
I 💯 agree with these tips. I just taught my wife how to play and she's getting the hang of it. On the part where you both spoke on teaching one on one if you don't have another beginnger. I find that since I have more of a handle on the game, I put myself into "tutorial mode" in where I hold back and let them play things out. My wife had a blast with me because she felt the success of doing a move and seeing it work. I would only punish as a moment for education as in "this is why you don't want to play this card like that." Having fun and not getting obliterated had my wife wanting more out of the game and now wanting to challenge me and the homies.❤❤❤
Great video, my 11 year old nephew asked me this week to play some games. It was hard teaching him with my decks. I will make some decks out of commons and simple higher rarities and try and teach him and his friends together. Great advice!
love your attitude. Cover it all! with your attitude and determination, theres no doubt you are going to grow a lot bigger!! :D awesome videos. I always smile, laugh and have a great time ^-^
Bold of you to assume I have friends
We believe in u
Thank you for the rookie set idea!!!!!
When I was a kid, tried to teach my sister to play magic...
Ended up playing with her like it was UNO...
i am german and always run into the problem of most of my cards being english ones. Some keywords sound and look very similiar to their german translations (i.e. "flying - fliegend"), while most of them do not (i.e. "Menace - Bedrohlichkeit", "Haste - Eile"). I think that causes a lot of confusion for newer players, especially since it seems to me like english cards are prefered here over german ones (probably due to resaleability).
I thought a long time shroude is Fluchsicher
Also, some of them are translated in a very inelegant way "Trample - Verursacht Trampelschaden"
Don't buy german cards...
you guys get friends?
even more than one?!
Would you consider the commander format a good starting point for new and returning players?
I wouldn't recommend Commander as a way to teach brand new players, I'd leave it until they've gotten the hang of Magic more. Commander decks usually have a lot of complicated cards that lead to complex board states, and because it's singleton there are so many more cards for a new player to learn and keep track of. Then you also have the special Commander rules in addition to the regular rules of Magic. I think it would be extremely overwhelming for someone trying to learn the game.
I learned how to play just online, because my friends couldn’t teach me
Nice to know magic is that accessible nowadays, are you still playing?
Having taught magic at conventions and schools for the better part of a decade, I disagree strongly with using monocolour decks. Using a two-colour deck takes at least 10 minutes off of explanations and clarifications regarding generic mana, something a lot of people have difficulty with, especially when there's only one colour. Why pay 2 mana for a card that has 1 red written on it if there's only mountains in the deck? If they can see that they can pay with red+green, or red+red that makes it much more grokable.
what a Great tip! I was about to make monocolored decks, but that made me reconsider
Can we get a video about teaching people who come from a yugioh background or another card game instead of people who come into the game workout card game experience
3:45 - $7 now in 2020 :)
Sorry, but it is becoming problematic how all mtg-content creators are white or white passing.
Is it really to much to ask for a black/brown body of color as a mtg player?
What's a body of color?