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Teaching Magic™ To Prospective Players
Is Fun And Easy.
Here’s what you need to know to get started:
• Read through the demo to familiarize yourself with it before you begin.
• If you are not familiar with Magic, don’t worry. Visit MagicTheGathering.com for
videos and a downloadable Duels demo application that will teach you the basics.
Each sample deck also contains a “How to Play” insert.
• Have enough sample decks and rules reference cards for your audience. Also, have
a way to track life totals, such as dice or pen and paper.
• This demo guide is not a script. Skip ahead or back up as needed.
Let the new player explore and ask questions.
• Up to five players can play in this demo. All players play with their hands revealed.
• Focus on fun and keep up the tempo. Explain what
you are doing during the game, but remember to
make jokes, smile, and have fun.
Learn to PLay
• Don’t worry too much about being precise with
the rules. The goal of the demo is simply to teach
people that Magic is awesome and they want
to learn more.
• You might explain that these are the basic rules
of the game and that many cards and abilities
provide exceptions to these rules.
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DISCUSSION POINTS
In Magic™, you battle other players using decks like the ones we have here.
Each one is filled with fantastic spells and powerful magic.
There are five colors of magic:
• White magic focuses on protection and teamwork.
• Blue magic focuses on intelligence and deception.
• Black magic seeks power and domination at any cost.
• Red magic is aggressive and destructive.
• Green magic embraces nature and growth.
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• Introduce yourself, and learn the names of the
other players.
• Each player should now choose a sample deck.
It’s okay if several
players play with the same color.
• The sample deck boxes have more information
about the colors and their themes.
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DISCUSSION POINTS
• To begin a game, you first shuffle your deck and draw seven cards.
DEMO INSTRUCTIONS
• Each player should shuffle their deck and draw seven cards.
• Give each player a way to track his or her life total. Each player starts at 20 life.
• Check to make sure each player has between three and five lands. Any player who
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• The land cards each have a symbol on them. This is a mana symbol, and
it represents the color of mana available from that land.
• The demo decks are all one color, but there’s no limit to how many
colors a deck can be. But, you must have the correct land to have access
to the correct color of mana.
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DISCUSSION POINTS
• You can play one land during each of your turns.
• The more lands you play, the more mana you have access to, and the
more powerful spells you can cast.
• When you play a land, it is placed on the battlefield, the area between
the players.
• Lands are tapped to generate mana. To tap a card, turn it 90 degrees.
This signifies it has been used for the turn.
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DISCUSSION POINTS
• The other cards in your hand that aren’t lands have mana symbols in
their upper right corners. This is the mana cost.
• The mana cost is the amount of mana you need to pay (by tapping lands)
to cast the spell.
• Shivan Dragon has two red mana symbols in its mana cost. You must
tap a Mountain for each of these symbols.
• The other symbol means you must tap four other lands.
• To cast Shivan Dragon, you must tap six lands: two Mountains and four
of any type.
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• If any player has a creature card that costs one mana,
ask them to cast it now by tapping their land and
putting the creature card onto the battlefield.
Other cards that aren’t lands have a
mana cost in the upper right corner.
To cast that spell, you must pay that cost.
• If no player has a creature card that costs one
mana, choose a card from another player’s hand
and review mana costs in the same way you just did
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3: Play a land and/or cast other card types.
4: Attack your opponent!
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• Now each player has completed their first turn. To begin the next
turn, first untap all tapped cards. This means they’re ready to use
again this turn.
• Players draw one card per turn, after they untap.
• The next part of the turn doesn’t happen in a set order. You can play a
land or cast spells. Now you can also attack with any creatures that you
have that are able to attack.
• After this, the turn is complete and the next player takes his
or her turn.
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artifacts and enchantments, sorceries and instants,
and combat.
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4: Attack your opponent!
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• Creatures are the minions, armies, and beasts that fight for you.
• You can attack your opponents with your creatures, and you can
also defend yourself from your opponent’s attacks with them.
• Before the slash is power, which is how much damage a creature
deals in combat.
• After the slash is toughness, which is how much damage is
required to destroy a creature.
• Damage to creatures heals at the end of every turn.
• Creatures exist on the battlefield until they are destroyed. If one
of your creatures is destroyed, it’s put into your graveyard (discard
pile). Your graveyard is a face-up pile near your library (deck).
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• The Quick Start Guide
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glossary for keyword abilities. Other abilities will
explain what they do.
• Activated abilities have a cost and an effect,
separated by a colon. The cost may include a mana
cost (just like casting a spell), or it may include other
instructions, like “discard a card” or “pay 1 life.”
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• Artifacts represent magical weapons, devices, and constructs that you
can use in your duels.
• Artifacts usually don’t require a specific color of mana to cast, so they
can be used in any deck.
• There’s a special type of artifact called an Equipment that can be
equipped to creatures once the Equipment is on the battlefield.
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DEMO INSTRUCTIONS
These spells have an effect, then are
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They are never on the battlefield.
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• You do not have to attack each turn, nor do you have to attack with
all creatures. You might decide to hold some back for defense.
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that attacks.
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• After you declare which creatures are attacking, your opponent may
block attacking creatures with any untapped creatures he or she has.
• Your opponent may also choose not to block.
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DEMO INSTRUCTIONS
• Review the possible outcomes of combat based
on whether the defending player chooses to
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