Tarmogoyf | Illustration by Filip Burburan CreaturesĬreatures are usually the main ways you deal damage, as well as the way you defend yourself from your opponent’s attacks. But, there are a bunch of different types of cards that you can play, so let’s have a look at some of the most common types of cards. This Mesa Cavalier is a creature card, one of the main building blocks of Magic.

Power and Toughness: A creature’s power and toughness represent how strong it is in combat (more later).

Many cards include flavor text to help flesh out the world and provide a context for what the card represents.

Flavor Text: Magic has a rich and interesting lore, which you can read over at.

Mesa Cavalier has flying and gains you 2 life when you play it, but we’ll talk more about what this means later. Cards can do a wide variety of things in this game, so it’s important to read every card to see what it does.

Card Abilities: This tells you what the card actually does.

Black/white for common, silver for uncommon, gold for rare, and orange for mythic. The color of the symbol also tells you its rarity. This symbol tells you that Mesa Cavalier is from the set “ Dominaria United”. Each set has its own unique symbol, shown here.

Set Symbol: Magic cards are printed in several expansion sets.

This line tells you what type(s) the card is, and some extra information, like that Mesa Cavalier is specifically a human knight creature.

The Card Types: In Magic, there are nine types of cards that can go into your deck, like creatures, sorceries, and enchantments.

The Art: Every card needs a cool piece of artwork.Mana Cost: Nearly every card in Magic has a mana value, which is the amount of mana you need to spend to cast it.Card Name: This is simply the name of the card.

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