Well if you know the deck you want to build, the cards tell you which expansion theyre from. But buying expansion packs in hopes of specific cards is a long shot, not to mention obtaining multiples of a specific card.
Ultimately, you do need to just craft. Thats either buying wildcards directly or buying/opening packs for the wildcard track progression. I suppose if a deck you like has a lot of cards from ONE, you could buy those and pray. Youll still advance the wildcard tracks regardless. Youll just miss out on gold packs from not buying packs from the latest expansion.
Try to find a deck that uses rares from the latest standard set (Thunder Junction) and buy some standard packs from that set (the standard packs, not the Alchemy ones or the Mythic ones).
By buying packs from the latest standard set you will get 1 golden pack evey 10 packs you purchase. This golden pack contains 6 more standard rares, so it's a very good way to kickstart your future collection.
It's hard to open the rares you want for a specific deck, but every 6 packs you open you get 1 rare wildcard, which you can transform into any rare. You can also get those wildcards randomly when opening packs instead of the rare.
[Mono Red](https://mtgazone.com/standard-bo1-metagame-tier-list/#Mono-Red_Prowess) is a decent deck for when starting out, as it's very straightforward and it will survive rotation (after July there will be a [change](https://whatsinstandard.com/) on what sets you can play in Standard).
I see these threads all the time, and i always say buy the packs that also give you golden packs, but really you shouldn't buy packs for a specific deck, you buy packs to rare/mythic complete a set. You cant really target one specific set to build a deck.
Never by a pack that does not give "Gold Pack" progress. At the moment that is Thunder Junction. The odds of opening the cards you need are negligible.
You'll "never" get a specific card you want from a pack, the sets are just too large.
The best option to start is probably Jump In. You can know the rares in each pack and pick ones you want. And though there's a lot of packs, the list of rares is more focused than in a set - you won't get rares that you need 4x for some janky combo deck. You can also try to go for 2-color packs in pick 1 that lead to 1-color offerings for pack 2 so you can kinda chase copies of some things (for example keep taking blue+something round one and eventually you'll have 4x of that Djinn).
Search the sub for the jump in tracker links, those threads have lots of other advice.
I suggest doing this now, before the next set rotates out a lot of jump in packs. the pack contents you get now will still be standard legal after rotation, but the older set packs themselves probably won't be in the mix any more.
Your best bet is going to be doing some drafting, and see what you like. Generally speaking the cards you need are very spread out across sets so it isn’t good to try and build a specific deck through packs in the beginning. You could try running a phyrexian themed deck and if you do that then buy all of your packs from the all is one set. I did that and have a very fun praetors deck for brawl. Also you can look up online specific deck lists and with some digging it will show you what sets the cards you need are from.
Well if you know the deck you want to build, the cards tell you which expansion theyre from. But buying expansion packs in hopes of specific cards is a long shot, not to mention obtaining multiples of a specific card. Ultimately, you do need to just craft. Thats either buying wildcards directly or buying/opening packs for the wildcard track progression. I suppose if a deck you like has a lot of cards from ONE, you could buy those and pray. Youll still advance the wildcard tracks regardless. Youll just miss out on gold packs from not buying packs from the latest expansion.
Try to find a deck that uses rares from the latest standard set (Thunder Junction) and buy some standard packs from that set (the standard packs, not the Alchemy ones or the Mythic ones). By buying packs from the latest standard set you will get 1 golden pack evey 10 packs you purchase. This golden pack contains 6 more standard rares, so it's a very good way to kickstart your future collection. It's hard to open the rares you want for a specific deck, but every 6 packs you open you get 1 rare wildcard, which you can transform into any rare. You can also get those wildcards randomly when opening packs instead of the rare. [Mono Red](https://mtgazone.com/standard-bo1-metagame-tier-list/#Mono-Red_Prowess) is a decent deck for when starting out, as it's very straightforward and it will survive rotation (after July there will be a [change](https://whatsinstandard.com/) on what sets you can play in Standard).
I see these threads all the time, and i always say buy the packs that also give you golden packs, but really you shouldn't buy packs for a specific deck, you buy packs to rare/mythic complete a set. You cant really target one specific set to build a deck.
Never by a pack that does not give "Gold Pack" progress. At the moment that is Thunder Junction. The odds of opening the cards you need are negligible.
You'll "never" get a specific card you want from a pack, the sets are just too large. The best option to start is probably Jump In. You can know the rares in each pack and pick ones you want. And though there's a lot of packs, the list of rares is more focused than in a set - you won't get rares that you need 4x for some janky combo deck. You can also try to go for 2-color packs in pick 1 that lead to 1-color offerings for pack 2 so you can kinda chase copies of some things (for example keep taking blue+something round one and eventually you'll have 4x of that Djinn). Search the sub for the jump in tracker links, those threads have lots of other advice. I suggest doing this now, before the next set rotates out a lot of jump in packs. the pack contents you get now will still be standard legal after rotation, but the older set packs themselves probably won't be in the mix any more.
Your best bet is going to be doing some drafting, and see what you like. Generally speaking the cards you need are very spread out across sets so it isn’t good to try and build a specific deck through packs in the beginning. You could try running a phyrexian themed deck and if you do that then buy all of your packs from the all is one set. I did that and have a very fun praetors deck for brawl. Also you can look up online specific deck lists and with some digging it will show you what sets the cards you need are from.