For instance, a deck built around morph, which involves playing lots of creatures that cost three mana, will likely play more 1mv ramp spells, just like a deck with a commander that costs three mana
It doesn't matter if youre an MTG rookie, a seasoned player, or collect and re-sell MTG cards - the Collector booster boxes offer a sure-fire way to quite literally stack decks and add heaps of new, rare cards to existing piles of MTG goodies
You can try to be an aggro-token deck, flooding the board with tokens, pumping them with Dramatic Finale, and trying to win with a quick go-wide beatdown, or you can play it more like a combo deck, where you focus on staying alive, sacrificing things for value, chipping in for damage, and eventually winning with Bastion of Remembrance and Plumb the Forbidden
These two are the simple and reliable "no frills" options that set the mark for the other contenders wish to gain a cube slot
On Turn 1, even if you're on the draw, and you saw your opponent's first turn land play and one-drop, do you really have enough information to select the best cards to keep and return yet
One thing that really helped me when I was a new player was to stop thinking of removal as only boardwipes and creature removal such as Infernal Grasp
