patching, and general basic knowledge help

[scottyrocks88]

first i would like to say hello. I havent posted before but in the past couple months i stumbled upon manalink and have since tinkered with it ever since. Please forgive me, if this has been addressed somewhere, but i havent stumbled into direct answers. after trial and error, i have what i hope is a basic understanding of the installation process an am currently runnin the manalink csv. I recently put together a draft deck in which i noticed knight exemplar wasnt buffing the other knights. so in the forums I saw that it has been addressed and fixed. so, maybe i didnt patch correctly. question #1 i thought i was up to date on the patches and i have installed the july. however im not clear, do i need to install EVERY patch in order or can i simply use the latest one and get up to date? i have a copy of the base install on the harddrive, but ive kinda gotten burned out on the trial and error method. #2 should i scrap my current installation since it appears to be missing something, or can i repatch somehow, whatevers easier is good. #3 my deck building skills are in their infancy so ive been using the limited for draft and sealed deck and have been learning what works what doesnt, which card sets are going to give me the widest variety of cards and is there a post that details what cards are in what set. i noticed when i would play sealed deck if i picked say m11 for the large pack and both boosters, it had alot of the same cards pop up, and it seemed a little limited in variety. id like as much exposure to different cards so i can learn a lil. #4 i understand theres some fundamental difference between the limited and constructed version....i cant get custom or the editor to run on either my vista or win7 os. but im not clear as to what the difference is...why is limited for sealed deck\ draft. and the other for construction. why is one better than the other for those formats? sorry once again, im sure this info is here somewhere. thanks

[stassy]

1 You only need the latest patch (july v2), then the latest graphic pack (july 15th), then if you want to use the GY mod a copy of the result with the latest GY v4.

2 You could start with a fresh install but you can still override files with the patches but the graphic pack which require you to delete entirely the graphic folders.

3 Sorry I don't play much sealed and limited, can't help you for this but limited is supposed to be a best of from constructed and a better filter for card set

4 If you can't use custom mode you better drop it until someone make another version, since it require to use old and manual version to make it work properly.

[scottyrocks88]

got it. and thank you.