Hey guys, been out of the game for a good while now and I just learned about JumpStart from another post. Basically it’s 20 card precons, each player picks two, shuffles them together, and that’s your deck. This sounds like an amazing party game as well as a great teaching tool! I would totally put together a pseudo cube of like, 50 packs in a box and run a small tourney over drinks.
More importantly, this sounds like a fantastic way to teach my little family! 40 card games are fast, I can keep the mechanics simple and slowly add in more variety as they get good, and I can make reminder cards for each pack to help them get the hang of each mechanic.
I’d love some suggestions for themes and packs to make myself. Rules are:
- 7 creatures
- 4 spells
- 1 mana fixer
- 8 basic or common lands
- a maximum of 3 rares
This really gets the juices going! I can probably make a match for those easy enough.
Back when I was teaching others regularly I used tribal to teach synergy in deck building. 9 out of 10 elves can go in an elf deck and have things that help elves. Walking through a tribe helps the subtypes make more sense and once you havea handle on those you have a better understanding of how things work together.
You should rangle them into a game, if anything it gives you guys a little bonding time.
They know I’m always up for a game, if they’re interested. I never want to force my hobbies on them, they’ve found their own.
I can see how a tribal deck would be good at teaching synergy. Maybe I should’ve swapped the suicide black deck for a tribal one. Ah well.