MAGIC THE GATHERING DUELS OF THE PLANESWALKERS 2013

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

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.

I bought 2011 and played it twice.

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

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.

Yeah I'll pass then.

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.)

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.

magic the gathering is for casuals

Want to play some Yugioh then?

Yugioh is for scrubs.

And Pokemon is for babies.

And Pokemon is for babies.

Rich babies.

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.

Apprentice is goddamned fantastic.

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.

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.

What do you mean? Are you talking about DOTP?

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.

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

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.