r/MTGJumpStart

Im trying to decide between marvel jumpstart and foundations jumpstart and wanted to hear what people think

how much better is marvel jumpstart compared to foundations jumpstart

is marvel jumpstart more complicated or are they about the same diffculty I want harder

Are the two sets actually very different in how they play

which one do you think is personally more fun

and should you use sleeves for jumpstart or is it no neccesary

I have a bunch of the original jumpstart and sleeves up all the unique decks I had plus several duplicates. I make sure to mix up the sleeve colors, especially with the duplicates. The goal is to be able to slap any 2 together to play and easily separate after.

I like roling dice sometimes to decide which 2 each player gets to use. And I like choosing also to mix it up. I like seeing which decks become more powerful as two different decks synergize and also which ones paired with themselves do well.

It all feels like exploring the mechanics of magic in a repeatable lab or arena and learning new things. I haven't tried a 3 decks mashup but I'd imagine there may be too many lands and a rule coule be made to allow land editing/removal before play.

I have been storing them with 3x decks in each dragon shield box, which fit perfectly. And I'll often make a sleeve color sandwich like red, black, red by color so they're easily separated.

When selecting I set them all out in a grid on the table and number them for rolling or just pick.

How do you like to play Jumpstart? I'm looking for new ideas to enhance my game.

Also, do you mix decks from different sets too?

Set JumpStarts are like mini time capsules of how overall lower tier themes in Standard looked like and now that they all have long rotated, it's kind of sad to see the wasted potential. They could easily release a beginner box-like product at the end of the year that includes 10 themes of the 6 Standard sets that represent the Standard year in some way but the absolute horror that was the set JS product killed that idea completely.

Mid Standard cards that were just good enough to be played in Standard but are ass in non-rotating formats see no love after rotation. Like the only format where people would actually see a horrible card like Mite Overseer is in JumpStart and that's kind of it. If we had something like a beginner box for Standard every year, older Standard format cards would've seen use in JS cubes/battle boxes to this day.

It'd also be the perfect product for old Standard format glazers that talk about older versions of the format non-stop and with a product like that, they could play it now as well.

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Anybody working on putting some hobbit themes together? If so, care to share what you've got so far?

Hello everyone! Long time lurker, first time topic starter. I've been collecting as many JS themes as I can (only one variant per theme at the moment, still working on storing them all together properly too) and had a question about the packs that come in the beginner box. I know there are two per box that are designed to be played together, and not to be shuffled the first time. BUT: are those two packs identical to ones you could conceivably get in a regular jumpstart booster box? Or are they unique to the Beginner Box, and even if the THEME is present in a booster, that particular variant is unique?

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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.