This book was very good back when it was first published, unfortunately it only gave decklists and not advice on mana curve, the land:spell proportions, or things like that. So, as of 2004, it's not fit unless you're playing type 1, or extended.

This book provides you with 120 different decks, and gets your creative juices flowing. However, I started Magic three years ago, but I still don't have even a quarter of the cards that are in these decks! This is way, way out of date, and made with cards that you can't get anymore, unless you already have them. So if you started Magic after 1998,

DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!!!!!

It is a cool book , lots of different decks and types. Unfortunatly it has alot of errors (like a mono blue , marked as mono black) and the opinions of the author aren't that good. Loved the intro , with the enviroments and stuff. The book is cool ,but could be much better.

This is a must read if you love to play magic but you either A. Cant build good decks, or B. you can't find a deck you like. If I had one of those problems then the book would get a 5, but I dont so it just gives me deck lists to tinker with.

WARNING!!! THE BOOK IS JUJT DECK LISTS AND 1/2 PAGE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PLAY THEM. IT PROVIDES NO DECKBUILDING INSTRUCTION OR PERSONAL HELP FOR CERTAIN DECK IDEAS!!!

I thought this book was really good. It had several different decks to chose from to build, a brief description of each deck, and would let you know if it was expensive to build. I was pretty impressed.