I eventually won my three Starter Deck Duels in M:TGA, but it turns out that still doesn't unlock the full game. It puts you in "spark rank," and you have to rank up out of that before you can participate in events or play other formats. I haven't yet been able to bring myself to even try playing a ranked match, because the whole concept of ranked anything intimidates me. I hate competition. I can handle a casual game of Magic where nothing is on the line, but as soon as there are stakes, it's too much pressure. So, I dunno, unless I have a change of heart, I might be done playing Magic again. I keep opening the client and then being like "enh... not now." I got a bunch of cards from promotional codes and stuff, but I don't know how to build a decent deck. I could just copy one from online somewhere but that feels like it kind of defeats the purpose. I dunno. I just feel like I'm too dumb for it now.
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in reply to @czircon's post:
there have been all of like, 4 vanilla creatures printed in the last few years
you're not too dumb, the game has gotten Bad
That's a shame. I did enjoy the single-color decks they give you for the color challenge, but all the two-color starter decks I've tried feel like they're each based around one particular gimmick and you have to know how to exploit it the most efficiently, which isn't that interesting to me.
I believe you can go to the settings and under "Account" there should be an option to "Skip Tutorial", and that should bypass the Spark Rank system as it's part of the tutorial/NPE.