I recently got my boyfriend into MTG. He was super excited when he saw some of the themes(Assassin's creed stuff) and wanted to play.

I got some Jumpstart boosters for the both of us since it had been a while since I played.

Anyways, I got the LOTR(Black and White) Jumpstart and he got another one(Red and Blue). Our first game was a lot of talking about rules and watching some videos, it took us about 40 minutes but I still won. He didn't seem too happy and even started to say he didn't want to play anymore/wasn't fun.

Later tonight he watched another video and that seemed to make the game click for him. When we started to play again he was confident in what he was doing, got me down to 9, but the moment I started killing off his creatures I could see his soreness. I won the second game.

The third game took us about 20 minutes, and we were both at 20 health until I started getting lots of tokens and 1/ 1. I took him out really fast towards the end. He had 1 health left and was immediately like, "there's nothing else to do so I quit, I don't want to play anymore."

He said his deck can't go against mine. Which I told him that he just needs to learn how to attack. He was attacking me with one creature when he had multiple. My early game is slow and takes time to build up but for some reason he won't attack me in the beginning. I want to help him but anytime I try he gets a little sassy.

How do you guys deal with sore players? I don't want to baby him so he wins every game, but I do want him to get better at the game. Any videos you recommend?

(He only likes games when he wins)

Edit: Many of yall have made me realize I was teaching the game improperly. While I am guiding him through plays and various cards, I'm still discouraging him because of how quickly I can remove his creatures.

I will most likely take an open hand approach and switch decks.

Edit 7.12.24: Asked him last night if he would prefer to play open hand and switch decks. He said no because then he's not really winning if I help him.