Magic The Gathering 2022 Starter Kit, 2 Ready-to-Play Decks, 2 MTG Arena Code Cards, Multicolor (D05660000)

The starter kit is great value for money. To demonstrate, a Dominaria United Set Booster costs £5.99, 5 of those are £25.97 (the price of two 2 booster sets plus one single booster), so you get 5 booster packs worth of cards for £18.52 less than what you'd usually get plus an extra 6 cards for good measure.For the non-lands, you get about 56 commons and 10 rares, with two of the rares being foils. For the lands, you get 54 lands total, 8 being multi colour lands (very useful) and 46 being regular colour lands (all the lands are common). All of this is divided between two decks, one red green and another white blue.The starter kit also comes with two codes that each unlock both decks from the kit in MTG: Arena. You can use one of the codes to get the decks and give the second one to your friend so both of you can play both decks in the game.Now for the not so good parts of this product.This product was released in 2022, but it was released on the 3rd of June, so any magic set released after that time, Commander Legends: Battle For Baldur's Gate, Double Masters 2022, and Dominaria United so far, won't be in the kit.A more noticeable flaw is how the play guide in the kit doesn't teach you as much as it should. While it does teach you a good amount of basics and keywords, I was surprised that there was no mention of summoning sickness or how creatures restore their defence at the end of the combat phase since both of those are quite important basics to know of when playing magic.Additionally, the guide didn't even touch on the stack or the turn phases, which, while not exactly basic knowledge, are very useful to know for beginners and intermediate players alike.Even with the basics it does cover it doesn't explain them in detail, which might not seem necessary, and yet, my Mum, who I've introduced mtg to, still feels confused by the mechanics, despite playing just fine, which might not have happened if the guide went in more detail on what you can and can't do in magic.To counter the guide not explaining all the rules I'd recommend starting MTG: Arena alongside buying the starter kit (if you're playing by yourself) or having someone who knows magic play with you (what I did for me Mum). Besides, you get a free code for the decks in MTG: Arena so you're incentivised to play Arena anyway.Overall this was a great product (if I don't have any other decks I'll play the starter decks I got with a local mtg group) and was 100% worth the money. I just wish it could've been a little better

Bought this after a friend showed me his collection and teaching me the game.This is a good set of decks to learn the basic game, however after learning from my friend, there's a number of things missing from the manual that would leave questions for a new player:1. It doesn't say how many cards you start with typically in the "starting a game" section. You only learn this in the glossary of terms, at the end of the manual.2. You don't learn about summoning sickness at all. It's mentioned once in the glossary under a different section but never elaborated on.3. No indication of how the first turn would usually play out (typically unless you have a card with 1 cost, you'd play your land and it would be turn over).4. No breakdown of the card layout, or colour types. There's a lot of info on some cards and it's not clear what each part means.5. Two pages dedicated to planes walkers, with one page just being an illustration! This info is meaningless to a new player for two reasons; you don't get any in the starter kit, and they're extremely rare cards to get! These pages could've been used to cover missing info.6. You get vehicles in this pack, but no info on how/what the crew ability means.The glossary of terms is good to refer to though, and two full decks for the price is good value for money.

Good pack for beginners

Bought as a beginner myself, the price was very good and all the cards were in perfect condition, it came with carrying cases which are good for travel, this pack is great for beginners.

It’s a great start to play and learn with friends.It’s not possible to use in a tournament or something like that.You can also use the code on magic arena to unlock the deck there

Good value for money.The product is perfect to get 2 people started to learn how to play MTG.Cards are exactly the same in every bundle,no randoms.

Reading the other reviews, I'm happy to see that this set isnt the best at teaching complete beginners lol.Still, seems like good value, and I'm enjoying msyelf looking through the cards and seeing how they actually work on MtG Arena.Between this set, and MtG Arena I hope to learn to play well enough I can turn up at a local meet and not look like a complete idiot who doesnt know how to play(probs still going to happen haha).I like that two codes are included, just in case one of my friends want to try the game, but as a total single player just using MtG Arena with no experienced player around to teach me...all the terminology is a bit daunting and I'm not really sure when I'm doing each tuen yet lol.

Like most reviewers say this pack lacks a lot of basic rules a beginner requires to play.I'm also not keen on the mixed decks, single coloured decks would have been much better.Otherwise Magic is a fairly simple game once you know the basics. Personally I'm not overly bothered about expanding my sets from the basic 4 x 60 card sets i now have. Thats enough for an enjoyable quick game. However for deeper games with more skilled people you may want to expand your decks. Mind you I've noticed some of the expansion sets are not that easy to get on with, Unfinity looked fun but added confusing rules.Buy a basic starter deck and look up Google for the rules.