-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers |OT| Expansion 3 Out Now!
- Thread starter Gowans
- Start date
Would anyone be interested in a 2 headed giant battle later? Tried to get one going yesterday with randoms but everyone kept leaving the lobby. Probably won't be until 7 or 8 Eastern, but if you're interested my gamertag is orellio. Send me a PM, friend request, whatever.
FYI I'm only halfway through the campaign with the green deck so anyone playing with a 'complete' deck might have their way with me..
Edit: Wait, what's the gamertag that was set up for this? GAFMagic or something?
FYI I'm only halfway through the campaign with the green deck so anyone playing with a 'complete' deck might have their way with me..
Edit: Wait, what's the gamertag that was set up for this? GAFMagic or something?
D
Deleted member 10571
Unconfirmed Member
BenjaminBirdie said:
Try pressing the left trigger to zoom in (doesn't work with R, if you can't zoom, push the stick randomly until it zooms) and then go back with B - Helps everytime for me
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
The regeneration (and thus the removal from combat) won't happen until lethal damage is actually dealt to the creature, so yeah.
PedroLumpy
Member
I don't mind the limited pools of cards, but it would be nice if down the road they allowed us to swap cards. Just make separate rooms for pre-con decks and decks you've made. I can live with not being able to make really mind bogglingly kooky decks, but some of the half assed themes in some of these decks makes me cringe.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Haaa! I had like 21 damage sitting in wait on the table and the dude quits. I would like a patch to avoid this but I have to say, I at least consider it an internal victory, and was quite pleased, especially since he had 73 cards in his deck, which meant he'd unlocked quite a bit more than I had.
Run, motherfucker! RUN!
Run, motherfucker! RUN!
charlequin
Banned
Kifimbo said:
It's this one:
Real shitty for you when your opponent who drops this on you is playing mono-white and you're playing something else.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Gowans007 said:Up to 10 in the capaign & rematching that black deck bitch, Christ! She's destroying my green deck at the same time increasing the strengh of all her cards & increasing her health.
I'd been hoping to play through campaign sticking to one deck the whole time but it gets tough. Luckily you do unlock new cards along the way, which is KIND of like leveling up.
I'm loving this game, but I'm also finding lots of bugs. I've had it freeze during online play quite a few times. There's also some lag, but it's manageable. The worst part, though, is all the people who quit right before you play a winning turn. I play very few games online, mostly due to stuff like that, and this just reinforces it.
No, and it's unforunate. Also even when you play local afaict your friend can't use any of your unlocked cards.Llyranor said:
ps i wanna play with some gaffers some time. drop me an invite if you see me online astrothelad. i have to say i feel i've been lucky b/c i've had very few disconnections even in ranked
Ugh, the final fight in campaign is horribly unfair.
I've gone through every other fight with the knowledge that if I play correctly I can win, but it seems like an impossibility with this last guy.
Most of the mosters in his deck have some form of +1/+1 buff when an artifact card is placed on the board, and his deck is FULL of artifact cards! The most annoying part of this is they cost so little for him to summon, so I have very little chance at an early strike. If you guys have beaten him, what deck did you use to do it? I'm leaning towards white or red at the moment.
Edit: Still really enjoying this game though. Great addition to XBLA.
I've gone through every other fight with the knowledge that if I play correctly I can win, but it seems like an impossibility with this last guy.
Most of the mosters in his deck have some form of +1/+1 buff when an artifact card is placed on the board, and his deck is FULL of artifact cards! The most annoying part of this is they cost so little for him to summon, so I have very little chance at an early strike. If you guys have beaten him, what deck did you use to do it? I'm leaning towards white or red at the moment.
Edit: Still really enjoying this game though. Great addition to XBLA.
charlequin
Banned
jedimike said:
Here's a hint:
you need to use the Boomerang on one of your own cards.
Suburban_Nooblet
Banned
My wife still can't stop playing. I'd say she has logged a good 7-8 hours since yesterday.
Seriously, the Green-Black deck is insane. Only the Mono Black comes anywhere close to it and even then it will still have difficulties. The synergies are truly massive and they give you a shitload of opportunities to turn/win the game in one turn.
I'm not sure about the other decks but for the Black-Green deck, the unlocks added immensely to the power of the deck.
I'm not sure about the other decks but for the Black-Green deck, the unlocks added immensely to the power of the deck.
Shit I thought I'd play this game maybe a couple times a week over a few months while I listened to records, but I can't stop playing. Glad I never discovered the actual game when I was teenager or I might never have gotten laid.
Beat the black deck lady first try, then the blue deck guy second try, then the green deck lady first try, feeling really good right now.
Beat the black deck lady first try, then the blue deck guy second try, then the green deck lady first try, feeling really good right now.
PedroLumpy
Member
The last deck is pretty annoying, if just because you're limited to a gimped deck while he rocks all these shit kicker cards. If I had access to all the standard green cards, yes I could slap in some kick-ass cards to slap him around him, but as I'm stuck with this crappy pre-con deck all I can do is hope for mana screw.
Open Source
Banned
ElyrionX said:
Yeah, the elf deck is pretty sick. The only people who have beaten me online have just been lucky (like white drawing 3 angelic blessings). It's a bit vulnerable to fliers (unless you unlock and draw the archer) and the white board clear but in my opinion is the strongest deck out of all of them.
final beat it. played every battle with green deck. My friend who used to play magic says that people usually don't combine all the different colors in real life, they usually might only combine 2 decks. I'm wondering why this is? Is it because most of the cards need mostly a specific color of mana? I'm thinking in real life I'd like to combine green and blue or green and white. Mostly just using some instants or spells from the blue or white deck.
Timedog said:
Because if you use more than 2 colors, you will often have mana problems. You will need a land of one color, but it won't come and you'll lose many turn doing next to nothing. Using three colors also doesn't bring many advantages.
Two colors is alright. Back in the days, I had a really good blue/white deck.
Can someone tell me if this is a bug, or just part of the rules?
I'm playing with the blue deck currently. On several occasions, I've played Boomerang (or another type of instant unsummon/destroy creature card) on an opponent's creature after they set it up to block me. The spell seems to work: the opponent's card goes back in their hand (or graveyard) and the attack arrow from my creature goes to the player. But, the attack never registers. The little animation plays, but nothing is taken off my opponent's life.
I'm playing with the blue deck currently. On several occasions, I've played Boomerang (or another type of instant unsummon/destroy creature card) on an opponent's creature after they set it up to block me. The spell seems to work: the opponent's card goes back in their hand (or graveyard) and the attack arrow from my creature goes to the player. But, the attack never registers. The little animation plays, but nothing is taken off my opponent's life.
So, I still haven't picked this up, but I'm tempted. My 360's disk drive may not be working but that's no reason to pass up a good downloadable game- what's the consensus from the Magic vets? Should a still-playing-the-TCG fan pick it up or just stick to the cardboard?
Not to diminish your victory, but 60 cards is, generally speaking, the ideal size. You want to figure out the exact cards you need and play only those- adding more simply dilutes the deck and reduces the chances you'll get the cards you really need. So, in summation, bigger is not always better.
Part of the rules. The damage doesn't go through because you placed an unsummon on the stack before it could resolve, but the creatures is still counted as having been blocked. (To think of it in metaphorical terms, your creatures were halted before they could strike the enemy player by his creatures, preventing him/her from getting hurt, but, before they could duke it out with said creatures, you unsummoned them and preventing any actual combat damage from going through)
Is the Alara block in this game? It's built around 3 color decks and has the mana fixing to back it up. If it's not, I'd agree with you. (Unless he wants to try and brave a 5c deck.)
BenjaminBirdie said:
Not to diminish your victory, but 60 cards is, generally speaking, the ideal size. You want to figure out the exact cards you need and play only those- adding more simply dilutes the deck and reduces the chances you'll get the cards you really need. So, in summation, bigger is not always better.
mattoz85 said:
Part of the rules. The damage doesn't go through because you placed an unsummon on the stack before it could resolve, but the creatures is still counted as having been blocked. (To think of it in metaphorical terms, your creatures were halted before they could strike the enemy player by his creatures, preventing him/her from getting hurt, but, before they could duke it out with said creatures, you unsummoned them and preventing any actual combat damage from going through)
Kifimbo said:
Is the Alara block in this game? It's built around 3 color decks and has the mana fixing to back it up. If it's not, I'd agree with you. (Unless he wants to try and brave a 5c deck.)
George Claw M.D.
Member
I'm sure you understand the rules in practice, but this could use some clarification. Even without bouncing the blocking creature, the damage would not have gone through, to the opposing player. It would have been dealt to the blocking creature, assuming said blocker didn't have a way to kill the attacker via first strike, or protection from the attacker. With the blocker removed from combat, however, there is no longer any target to assign damage to, so the attacking creature deals no damage. Like you said, sinced the attacker was already blocked, the damage cannot be assigned to the opposing player. However, had the attacking creature had trample, then that creature would have had all of it's combat damage dealt to the opposing player.traveler said:
Open Source
Banned
George Claw M.D. said:
That's a little wordier than necessary. The basic idea is that once a blocker is assigned, the creature counts as blocked no matter what happens to the blocker after that.
Like you said, if the attacking creature has trample, it will still deal full damage to the player in this case, because during the damage phase, there's no creature to absorb any of it.
George Claw M.D.
Member
Heh. I tried to make it as little "wordy" as I could. I guess I'm a stickler for details in the rules, coming from a heavily competitive background in MTG. I can't help myself, sometimes.Open Source said: