u/Jabroni19

Hey there - I did not see a daily/new player questions thread so hopefully posting here is okay.

I have the Foundations Beginner Box and have ordered a Foundations JumpStart booster box arriving Monday. I picked up some penny sleeves for now but want to order something nicer and then will give the penny sleeves to my kids for their Pokemon cards.

It looks like for 1000 sleeves on Game Nerdz I can get Dragon Shield Perfect Fit Inner Card Sleeves for $43 or Gamegenic Sleeves: Clear Standard Size Inner Sleeves for $24. I know Dragon Shield is the better brand but do you recommend paying basically double for their inner sleeves?

At some point I will most likely double sleeve so maybe going with the cheaper inner sleeves is sufficient. Thanks in advance, really looking forward to seeing which theme decks I get in the booster box.

Hey there - new to Arena as of last week, completely overwhelmed but I've got 20+ hours already and really enjoying it. I owned a bunch of MTG cards back in the 90s (mostly for collecting and trading, very little actual play time) and logged hundreds of Hearthstone hours back in 2014-2016 so that is the extent of my TCG experience.

I did all the Arena tutorial stuff and have been playing starter deck duels to complete daily quests (re-rolling 500 gold ones to 750 gold ones in the process). I tried my first quick draft event and quickly went 0-3. I wanted to try standard ranked so I searched for a mono black deck to craft. This is the one I settled on and yes I am an idiot... don't drink and craft I guess is the lesson.

So I wasted 20+ common and 20+ uncommon wildcards on a budget deck that it seems I can only play in certain non-standard formats? Fair enough, I signed up for Untapped to make sure I don't make the same mistake and it looks like I can still craft the following decks in standard. They are listed below in order of required wildcards, so Lifegain would use up the least and Landfall the most.

Mono-White Lifegain (two slightly different versions)

Mono-Red Aggro

Mono-Blue Elementals (two slightly different versions)

Mono-Green Landfall

In my limited experience I think I prefer black and green decks, so I am leaning towards the landfall one. But I know that aggro decks are good for quick matches and usually easier for beginners. Any advice for my situation? I really want to focus on black decks so maybe there is a better option that wouldn't waste my wildcards on other colors I am not as interested in playing.

Is there a website that would help me determine which cards will be rotating out of these decks in 2027? Thanks in advance.

Edit - fixed the craftable decks that are available to me

New to JumpStart, inner sleeve question.

I am new and an idiot.