BinderLoot

Mistakes every new player makes

Every warning of the guides in one place, each under the guide that explains it.

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Your first game

  • The starting player does not draw on turn one

Reading a card

  • A creature waits for your main phase

Mana and colors

  • One land a turn, in your own turn
  • Mana does not wait

How a turn runs

  • A sorcery cannot be cast in combat
  • Damage does not stay on a creature
  • You discard only at the end of your own turn

Attacking and blocking

  • A new creature cannot attack, but it can block
  • Blocking taps nothing
  • The attacker splits the damage
  • A blocked attacker stays blocked
  • Instants before damage, even with no block

Abilities and keywords

  • A trampler whose blocker leaves hits the player
  • A flyer can block a creature without flying
  • Vigilance changes attacking, not blocking
  • Lifelink gains the damage dealt
  • Indestructible is not immortal

The stack and responding

  • Last in, first out
  • Nobody can respond to a land

Building your first deck

  • Sixty is a minimum, and the best count
  • Mistakes in a first deck

Colors and mana base

  • A third color needs fixing

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