Lafiel: ''I can imagine you waste your mana too much on futile moves , because that's what I did ,when I was new to the game.''
Same here, I'd use up most of my mana each turn trying to destroy enemy creatures. I always felt like I never had enough mana, although the computer usually had plenty saved up. I lost all the time when I first started playing.
twesterm: ''It seems like the player who goes first has a pretty large advantage and once you get two squares ahead of the opponent, it seems like an easy win from there one.''
That's not true. I've built a biolith deck and I'll let the computer take over four squares before I even start taking out it's creatures. As soon as the summoning lock is broken (at which point I'll have a huge amount of mana) then I'll start putting my creatures into play. It's risky, but it actually works very well. I beat the computer no problems on normal difficulty, and I win a lot on harder difficulties as well.
Also, I've not noticed a large advantage to going first. It's not as bad as Magic The Gathering anyway, I can get a turn one lock-down in that game!
