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I would buy one of the Dark Ascension Event Decks. One usually costs between $20 and $25. Each comes with a general how to play pamphlet, a pamphlet that gives more specific help on how to use that deck, and a twenty-sided die to keep track of your life total.

To play you need a sixty-card deck, a way to keep track of you life total, such as dice or a pen and paper, and some extra dice or beads for certain cards.

You can read the basic rulebook, which is on this page. Here is a direct link to the PDF. You can also try the interactive demo on this page. It lets you play through a simple sample game.

If you want to play in a tournament, I would ask your store about Standard tournaments, because I think that they are easier for new players. In a Standard format tournament, each player brings their own pre-constructed sixty-card deck and uses that to play.

Mar 22, 2012 -- 1:45AM, zammm wrote:

*shrugs* You don't have to keep up with it if you don't want to. While it's true that keeping up with Standard play can get fairly expensive if you try to keep perfectly up to date, you don't have to do that if you're playing mostly for fun--I have a number of friends who come to our local tournaments with whatever deck strikes their fancy that week, regardless of whether it's likely to be highly competitive or not.

Heck, you don't even have to play in tournaments at all. A lot of people just play casually with whatever decks they happen to have on hand, things they built out of random cards they just happened to have on hand. I have multiple decks I built six or seven years ago that I still use on a regular basis, and the vast majority of my decks don't cost even half of the figure Gideon cited to build--in fact, I'd be surprised if a significant number of them cost more than $20 to build.

If you head to the tournaments and ask around you're quite likely to encounter some players who'd be happy to play more casually with you.

the onley reason I said that is cuz it can get expensive sorry if I turned you of the game Zammm I have a kaalia EDH deck thats worth over 200$ 

Mar 22, 2012 -- 2:31AM, MoiMoi wrote:

LOL @ failure to introduce to magic

The majority of players will have 20 to 100$ decks, the minority will have +500$ decks.

The majority of players will play in the casual format and the minority will play competitive (tournaments)

I love competition, I thrist for victory, I have a vintage competitive deck (very costly) and yet the decks I love the most are the ones I use at a friend's house when we gather and talk just as much as we play multiplayer games and no one really cares if they win or lose since no one keeps track of anything and we even play games that are already lost for the fun of it (aka someone purposely changed the target of his destruction, from lands to creature to not completely cripple a player in multiplayer, we awarded the team a victory and we played for fun... they won again... bastards )

My point is, competitive play isnt for anyone, casual play is for anyone.

Why I said 500$ is cuz of caw blade if you read my post you would have seen that