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Magic: The Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 |OT| Tapping All Day
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Bahahaha I was playing a Planechase game and the guy before my turn planeswalked through that temporal eddy thing that casts Show and Tell and I dropped a Felidar Sovereign and everyone else dropped creatures while I had a Soul Warden out. One guy drops Siege Gang Commander and the two others drop creatures as well. It bumped me up to 40 life exactly (I had gained a few already in the past turns) and I instawin the game.
Planechase is too chaotic.
Planechase is too chaotic.
Milling has always been a terrible strategy. Its simply too slow.
archnemesis
Member
In this game it's very effective if you're playing against a single opponent. I beat Nicol Bolas in both campaigns on the highest difficulty with the mill deck on my first attempt. It's not as great against a fast deck, like goblins or burn.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
The fundamental problem with milling is that its literally doing nothing until they have 0 cards in their library.
Basically you can spend 2 mana on removing an opponents creature, counting an opponents spell, putting your own creature onto the field, getting more land onto the field or putting some of your opponents cards from their library into their graveyard.
Only one of those things does you nothing in directly winning you the game.
archnemesis
Member
Yay! I love me some Ravnica. Do you have a link to the decklists?
The Xtortionist
Member
Izzet (U/R)
Selesnya (G/W)
Rakdos (B/R)
Azorius (U/W)
Golgari (G/B)
Ravnica is also the best block I've ever seen and Kamigawa/Ravnica type 2 is hands-down my favorite format ever. I actually played IRL back then pretty hardcore and Magic honestly isn't high up on my list of favorite TCGs. The format was just that good.
Impeccable
Member
What does the Gold or Silver emblem mean when you beat a level?
I thought it was to beat it with 20 or more life but I got gold on one and that wasn't the case. Just curious how to "gold" all the levels.
I thought it was to beat it with 20 or more life but I got gold on one and that wasn't the case. Just curious how to "gold" all the levels.
Game is great, but only thing I wish is that ranked matches were best 2 out of 3 and you could sideboard between rounds.
This would cut down on having to try to build a deck that can deal with everything instead of an optimized deck that works well against who you are actually playing. I feel like I'm including and cutting cards just to deal with certain matchups even if they are not the best cards overall. My decks all seem way too generalized and suffer because of it.
This would cut down on having to try to build a deck that can deal with everything instead of an optimized deck that works well against who you are actually playing. I feel like I'm including and cutting cards just to deal with certain matchups even if they are not the best cards overall. My decks all seem way too generalized and suffer because of it.
Emerson
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The difficulty you beat it on, I think.
charlequin
Banned
FUCK YES
sounds like Archenemy, minus the forever part
I agree with you, I don't find it particularly fun either (also the netcode is terrible and makes it impossible to play)
Agreed. The core game is super entertaining but the implementation is mostly amateur hour.
Its actually fun to play with friends IRL, though we just have one planar deck instead of one for each player (not sure how DotP2013 does it since I havent tried it yet, but the official rules is a planar deck for each player), we also take out the shitty or unfun planes out as well.
That deck seems seriously fucked up.
Gillian Seed
Banned
How do you aquire the Promotional Unlock Cards for your decks on the 360?
I agree, Archenemy was 10x times better :/
That's the thing; no one yet knows for sure here on the consumer side. There is an option at the bottom of the screen to press a button (X on the 360) which allows you to enter a promo unlock code. How those are distributed is the real question, it seems.
Please tell me these in-game ads go away...right?
I've seen 2 ads already for the intro pack...
edit: hahahahaha, no clue how I just won that game, but I was playing Planechase with 9 lives vs someone with 180+....somehow he rolled something that auto-won me the game. Can't stop laughing
I've seen 2 ads already for the intro pack...
edit: hahahahaha, no clue how I just won that game, but I was playing Planechase with 9 lives vs someone with 180+....somehow he rolled something that auto-won me the game. Can't stop laughing
IllumiNate
Member
This is Wotc, welcome to 10 years of digital mtg
zerokoolpsx
Member
Picked up my promo boosters last night. Got Krenko's command, Captain's Call and Talrand's Invocation from one promo booster. Hello Vampire Nocturnusx2! Murder should have creature can't be regenerated for its cmc.
I tried Liliana's deck in planechase. Having a really hard time winning. Haven't unlocked all the cards. Lacked good board sweeper until I unlock Mutilate.
I tried Liliana's deck in planechase. Having a really hard time winning. Haven't unlocked all the cards. Lacked good board sweeper until I unlock Mutilate.
divisionbyzorro
Member
Probably because they put, what, 25 lands in a 60 card deck, regardless of archetype?
What's WotC got against control? Nerfing it in the paper version, not even putting in a control deck in DotP '13. Makes me sad, but then I just play the goblin deck and make people feel like this:
And I don't feel so sad.
And I don't feel so sad.
archnemesis
Member
Unfortunately the other two campaigns aren't any more difficult.
divisionbyzorro
Member
The first thing I did was look at the blue and black decks to see if any of them could be morphed into a control deck. The closest is the Talrand deck, which can get into some really awesome shenanigans with Penoptic Mirror (infinite turns!), but even that doesn't quite get you there.
The problem is that DotP is meant to be welcoming to newcomers, and a proper control deck would just frustrate the hell out of someone who's new to the game. I can't ever play any creatures! My guys always die! Everything I do gets countered! So unfair!
I did the same, and while it's a fun deck after tuning, it's not a control deck. The mono blue deck in DotP '12 wasn't abusive at all, but it was still a fun control deck. You know DotP has it out for blue when they buff all the other mono colored decks relative to their power level from '12, and rather than keep blue on the same level, they just make it the worst. Which is why I'm having fun being as abusive as possible with goblins.
After, euhm, testing the game out for a few campaign rounds and one Planeschase round with the Reborn from Fire deck, I just bought it on Steam.
The Fire deck seems great, although I did have some trouble versus Garruk and Liliana. But I will be testing other decks really soon.
Also, I knew _nothing_ from MTG walking in, and I still did pretty well. It's also pretty deep, which I like. So yeah, cool game, will play more.
The Fire deck seems great, although I did have some trouble versus Garruk and Liliana. But I will be testing other decks really soon.
Also, I knew _nothing_ from MTG walking in, and I still did pretty well. It's also pretty deep, which I like. So yeah, cool game, will play more.
Beat the regular campaign on the hardest difficulty. Game is super simple if you have any real magic chops at all, the AI is awful.
The AI is basically the one from the original one isn't it? It's like the most basic thing ever. I think a single guy programmed it like eight years ago and they're still using it.
Also after playing some online of this man -- the game could be so much snappier. vs. PC you should be able to play the games at least twice as fast. These guys could really learn a lot from Playdek.
Beat the regular campaign on the hardest difficulty. Game is super simple if you have any real magic chops at all, the AI is awful.
I must be terrible at MtG. I am constantly getting my ass handed to me at the highest difficulty, I either get 1 or 2 land or nothing but land.
Edit: And I have yet to play a duel on the highest difficulty where the AI didn't put out a land every turn for at least the first 8 or 9 turns.
archnemesis
Member
Don't be afraid to mulligan if your opening hand isn't aggressive enough. You need a good balance of lands and playable spells.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Mulligan aggressively. You get a free mulligan in this game (at least in offline, I havent touched multiplayer yet).
They really need to fix that zoom in UI crash bug. Ive gotten that LOADS of times (i cant help myself from zooming in
As for the gob deck, it definitely is powerful, but it just gets destroyed by Chandra or Liliana. Garruk will destroy it too if he outlives the first couple of turns
As for the gob deck, it definitely is powerful, but it just gets destroyed by Chandra or Liliana. Garruk will destroy it too if he outlives the first couple of turns
I always use the free mulligan if I should, I guess I should be willing to go past that if the starting hand looks really bad. Am just very reluctant to give up a card.
In single player there is no reason to take a bad hand or go to six cards. Just restart the match.
divisionbyzorro
Member
Except that doesn't teach you how to mulligan if you want to start playing multiplayer. Learning when a random 6/5 is better than your current 7/6 is an important skill.
I was just thinking the exact same thing. Please give the license to Playdek. The game could be so amazing on this platform.
The Xtortionist
Member
No luck. Trying with Garruks as i type, i almost defeated it just with Garruks Companions. Dumb as shit a Creature can exalt itself.
edit: did it with Garruks, i got lucky: i had first turn, Nefarox barely summoned creatures and i have Garruks Companion with that 1+1 for each forest you control enchatment. So Trample with a 7/6 enchanted creature won it for me.