There are 7 main types of cards in magic, Lands, Creature, Instants, Sorceries, Enchantments, Artifacts, and Planeswalkers. To play magic you will need to understand how these different card types interact and what effect they have on the game. There are two main groups of cards, spells and lands. Lands are just lands and everything else is a spell. There is another grouping of cards that is important to know. Perminants and instants and sorceries. Permanents are all card types except for instants and sorceries. Permanents are cast from your hand and stay on the battlefield until they are destroyed. Instants and sorceries are a type of spell that never enter the battlefield they only go onto the stack and once they resolve or are removed from the stack they enter the graveyard. Each one of these card types can have a variety of effects that when paired together in the correct way will win you the game.