MTG Starter Decks
A starter deck is a ready-to-play deck designed for learning the game. Look here for an MTG starter deck to buy, or sell one you no longer use. It ranges from the Alpha and Beta Starter Decks to the Welcome Decks of Marvel's Spider-Man and the Bloomburrow Starter Kit.
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FAQ
Starter products teach the game with a deck you can play at once, and the name varies by era. The first were the 1993 Starter Decks of Limited Edition Alpha, Beta and Unlimited. Later come Sample Decks for Magic 2013, Arena Starter Kits from 2020 to 2022, and Welcome Decks, one per colour, such as the Welcome Deck 2024 and the Marvel's Spider-Man decks of 2025.
Starter Kits such as the Bloomburrow Starter Kit sit on this page too.
Besides the 1993 decks, the page lists starter products from many eras: Magic 2013, with Sample Decks for Chandra Nalaar, Garruk Wildspeaker, Liliana Vess and Ajani Goldmane; Return to Ravnica with its Booster Battle Pack; the 2021 and 2022 Arena Starter Kits; and licensed sets such as The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth and Assassin's Creed, each with a Starter Kit.
For a learning deck, the language matters most. The Welcome Decks of Marvel's Spider-Man are listed in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese, the Core Set 2021 Arena Starter Kit also in Korean, Russian, Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese, and the Alpha and Beta decks in English only.
Then check the colour or the name (the Welcome Deck 2024 exists in five colours), and whether it is the regular kit or the Amazon edition, as with the 2021 Arena Starter Kit.
A starter product, such as the Magic: The Gathering Starter Kit 2023, is made to learn the rules. The Magic kits page holds tools for building your own decks, such as the Deck Builder's Toolkit and the Land Station. Once the basics are clear, the precon decks offer ready lists for a given format, such as the Challenger Decks.