MAGIC THE GATHERING DUELS OF THE PLANESWALKERS 2013

chewey · June 22, 2012, 10:13:08 AM

Anybody playing it? On PC? If you are we should play it together. Okay!!

tSwitch · June 23, 2012, 02:29:55 AM

Quote from: chewey on June 22, 2012, 10:13:08 AM
Anybody playing it? On PC? If you are we should play it together. Okay!!

I never got the games because I used to play the cards IRL, but now I can't go to the shop as often as I used to. I may get it.

Holkeye · June 23, 2012, 02:39:09 AM

I bought 2011 and played it twice.

tSwitch · June 23, 2012, 03:00:44 AM

Wait, I can only modify the 10 decks, I can't even make my own?

chewey · June 23, 2012, 03:15:17 AM

Of course you can't, that's the point of the game. They aren't going to eat into their MTGO money with a $10 game.

tSwitch · June 23, 2012, 05:15:27 AM

Yeah I'll pass then.

SirJackRex · June 23, 2012, 10:17:23 PM

Thats kinda how I felt with DoTP 2012. I liked the idea of a pick up and play MTG, especially because I wanted to get back into playing to go play some real games, but I couldn't get into the decks that were available. I played about a third of the campaign and stopped. The decks were way too safe, and offered too little core augmentation.

It also had its fair share of bugs and bad shuffle randomization. (4/5 games I got no land in the first few hands, or no creatures, or just land.)

chewey · June 24, 2012, 02:32:25 AM

I like the idea of MTG that doesn't cost a fortune.

2013 fixed a few of the bugs and rules that were incorrect in 2012, but it's still a bit of a mess.

firerain · June 25, 2012, 04:19:31 AM

magic the gathering is for casuals

chewey · June 25, 2012, 07:20:00 AM

Want to play some Yugioh then?

tSwitch · June 25, 2012, 10:02:39 PM

Yugioh is for scrubs.

Arrow · June 28, 2012, 08:29:20 PM

And Pokemon is for babies.

Gracie · June 29, 2012, 12:05:53 AM

Quote from: Arrow on June 28, 2012, 08:29:20 PM
And Pokemon is for babies.

Rich babies.

Arrow · June 29, 2012, 04:27:19 AM

About playing magic online though, Redshark was based on a program called Apprentice that does, well, exactly that. Has all the features, typically has all the new cards pretty quickly too. Simple interface, easy to connect... I need to get that again.

tSwitch · June 29, 2012, 04:32:37 PM

Apprentice is goddamned fantastic.

chewey · June 30, 2012, 12:38:32 AM

Quote from: Arrow on June 29, 2012, 04:27:19 AM
About playing magic online though, Redshark was based on a program called Apprentice that does, well, exactly that. Has all the features, typically has all the new cards pretty quickly too. Simple interface, easy to connect... I need to get that again.

There's a couple other ways to play MTG for free now, from what I understand. Cockatrice is one of them. I would say they all have pretty bad interfaces, though. Even MTGO itself could do with some updating.

And, for some reason, I don't find Magic fun when I have access to all cards for free. It feels like I'm playing ghetto Magic or something.

tSwitch · July 01, 2012, 11:50:33 PM

I usually don't play premade because that just leads to rich-kid syndrome, so I tend to do draft tourneys and that's it.

chewey · July 02, 2012, 01:43:30 AM

What do you mean? Are you talking about DOTP?

tSwitch · July 02, 2012, 06:48:14 PM

Quote from: chewey on July 02, 2012, 01:43:30 AM
What do you mean? Are you talking about DOTP?

No, I meant real magic.
You were talking about 'all the cards for free' which I get about Apprentice. I just meant most of my Magic playing wasn't premade anyway. Which is what Apprentice does.

chewey · July 03, 2012, 12:31:49 AM

Oh, yeah I misread what you were saying. I get ya now.

Arrow · July 03, 2012, 04:06:52 AM

Wait not apprentice, Cockatrice is what I used. It was a good way for me to try new cards and I loved playing it against my buddies who were too far away to play in real life.