I’m still somewhat new to MtG, and have mainly played commander, along with a bit of modern which was a little too intense for me. What are some good formats to look into for kitchen table, 2 player mtg with my wife? Commander is great but tends to want a 4 player format.
Bear in mind we’d rather not buy new cards, but used cards and proxies are fine, got no major price constraints since I’m happy to print up a card if it’s going to be too hard to find.
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Forgetful Fish aka Dandan
Oathbreaker is kinda like a mix between commander and standard. The games are quicker, so it can work better as a 1v1, but can also scale to multiplayer games.
One other option might be to pick a time period and run the standard decks of that time. So if you pick something like a decade ago you would be playing with the original Theros and the Return to Ravnica blocks. Some cards from that time might have held their value, but cards like Boros Reconer switched from $30 while in standard to like $0.6 after they rotated out.
Cube is lots of fun! A tailored 2-person cube is customizable and you can play over and over and have new experiences.
I used to have a “Sudden Death” cube where you start at 1 life that was a lot of fun
You could try duel commander, also called french commander. Basically it is commander but with a diferent banlist. For example there is NO Sol Ring, Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, things like that. And some commanders are also banned.
You can also play 1v1 commander with unmodified commander decks, but you need to go into it knowing that some things will be pretty broken while some others just won’t work at all. I do this pretty regularly with my fiancee when we just want to jam a few games or if I want to test a deck.
Winston Draft! Me and my brother did Winston drafts for years. We also built a Winston cube where we each “controlled” 50% of the card pool and changed stuff for drafting. Essentially like a cube for 2 people, it was a blast. Then we went to college and moved away, maybe we should get another Winston cube going it’s been a bit.
Why not just play standard? It’s faster than commander and decks are smaller.
I don’t know much about standard tbh, what’s the best way to learn about it? Or is it not much different from commander?
I’ve played a great deal of commander in the last year and a bit, but because I don’t have a lot of friends who play, my experience is otherwise quite insulated and I don’t know what I don’t know.
If you want to get a taste of standard, it’s sort of the default format on Arena. If you download the client you get a couple of starter decks with it to begin and you can run a few games.
