I need to pick up DLC on one of these titles. If you are beyond a beginner player the base sets they give you are kind of boring. I'm glad that the stuff coming up is going to be Ravnica related. I love mixing mana colors.
Favorite decks so far are the white Humans deck (forget the name, it's got that one card that lets you choose how your opponents block. Once I was fighting Arjani and brought him down from 60 life by making him suicide all his creatures into mine) and the Jace deck (Mill deck that is not only viable, but fucking scary? In my magic? It's more likely than you think). But I'm starting to like the goblin deck too.
I was talking with my buddy on Steam while playing this game and I love how everybody has problems at different bosses. In the normal campaign my problem was with Liliana while my friend had lots of problems with Arjani who I steamrolled.
I got most jealous of the challenge deck that was rocking R/W ravnica stuff, especially lightning helix. Although my love of Ravnica probably comes from my playing magic competitively during that time.
The second post of the thread is meant to contain the gamertags/ids of the players. Some of you have multiple ids on your signature so post here the one you play DotP if you want to add contacts and I'll update the list.
XBL - ArchSilversmith
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
Hmm I liked the previous games except for the bugginess. When I tried playing with my friend online, one or both of us would crash out of the game pretty frequently. I'm a bit skeptical about buying a new version when stuff like that was never fixed as far as I know in the previous ones.
Aaaand the demo crashes when I click "Start". Yeah.
Favorite decks so far are the white Humans deck (forget the name, it's got that one card that lets you choose how your opponents block. Once I was fighting Arjani and brought him down from 60 life by making him suicide all his creatures into mine) and the Jace deck (Mill deck that is not only viable, but fucking scary? In my magic? It's more likely than you think). But I'm starting to like the goblin deck too.
I once beat Arjani down from 99 life. It was on planechase and I got the plane that makes you discard tonnes of cards into the graveyard, followed by the plane which brings all your cards out of the graveyard and puts them into play. So many monsters, and a 53/53 chromothingy.
A few of the challenges are legit difficult, but several of them are fairly easy to figure out though so long as you're already familiar with the game's mechanics. My favorite is probably the one involving the Praetors for its multiple solution shenanigans.
But yeah, I've been playing this on PS3 some here and there. I'm not terribly impressed by the balance of the decks, though. Several match ups feel more rock-paper-scissors than anything else, and there's a couple of decks that are clearly above the rest in each format (1v1, 2HG, free for all, etc). Still a fun buy for the low cost, though.
i picked this up on ps3, if anyone wants to play some rounds. i havent played magic since like 1995, and even then i only ever played a little with my older brother (all the cards were his). so im what you might call totally inexperienced. if that sounds fun to you hit me up?
Just beat Nicol Bolas on my first try with the Jace deck. It was fucking laughable.
I got 2 Jace's Phantasms in my opening hand, and got lucky with drawing mill cards. On turn 4 I swung in for 10 with both of them. Nicol's turn, he summons a 5 strength creature with haste and hits me for 5. Turn 5, I swing in for another 10 and win.
i really like the not-garruk green deck. midrange-y green with a bunch of shenanigans involving bouncing and replaying your guys (often at flash speed!) plus some cool high end if i want to play it. similar feelings for the not-jace blue deck. clog up the ground until i can have fun with future sight/cast through time/dragon time/rite of replication.
i'm working my way through the planechase campaign
using only the milling deck
fuck you arjani you might have 250 health (plane conditions gave him the "when enchanted creature hits a player, double your life" card on turn 1) but you have 9 cards in your library
I find that I keep switching around decks to try different things. So far Nefarox keeps kicking my butt though. Chandras deck is the one that I play the worst with I think. Also, I wish I could play MTGO from my iPad.
Primordial Hydra encounter can suck it. Just sayin'.
I have beaten every encounter but this one. I can't figure it out. Also, as soon as they release that DLC, I will pay for it instantly.
Beat it first try with Garruks deck, have the tracker make the 4/4 hydras fight your creatures every turn.
I got him down to 2 life, but then he smashed me over the next two turns. Exponential growth in damage levels! You really need plenty of direct damage. A big swarm of 'tap to deal 1 damage' critters would be best.
Or some of the decks from earlier games. Elves would obliterate the encounter due to they ALSO having exponential creature growth. Vampires too. Or that crazy one which could sacrifice little creatures to put the Eldrazi things into play?
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I've been playing the bajesus out of this on steam. Really love Nefarox and the Ancient Wilds deck. One thing I like is that some decks are just straight up counters to others. In 2012 I could steamroll the whole game with just ancient depths (except 3xblue archenemy boss). This game I keep finding that to get through revenge I'm having to switch my decks. Nefarox is awesome but gets rocked by agressive weeny decks who just block away and then roll in on you. (Orec or Goblins). I also have found that this makes me play decks I normally wouldn't and finding how strong they are. Chandra's deck is just so good. Soooo many of the decks I had problems with counted on 2 toughness cards staying in the game. Nefarox? burn out all the exalteds, Orec? /burn, Talrand's annoying ass fog walls? /burn. I'm definitely gonna start unlocking a LOT more of Chandra.
But I'm still obsessed with the Ancient Wilds deck right now. Its so fun. But damn if you fight anyone with flying or don't get some good card draw early.. it is rough.
I've only really got experience with Goblins in this game, but it does feel like whichever deck gets Pyroclasm has a pretty good leg up. Chandra? Is there even another red deck besides those two?
Oddly, I keep not posting ideas for other people in the thread because every problem I've hit I found Goblins to be the solution. Revenge Bolas with double Pyroclasm? Goblins. Exalted triggers? Goblins. My only multiplayer game so far against the mono-blue mill deck? He got Goblin Guide/Piledriver/Piledriver then quit with three land in play and Chieftain on the stack.
I've only really got experience with Goblins in this game, but it does feel like whichever deck gets Pyroclasm has a pretty good leg up. Chandra? Is there even another red deck besides those two?
Oddly, I keep not posting ideas for other people in the thread because every problem I've hit I found Goblins to be the solution. Revenge Bolas with double Pyroclasm? Goblins. Exalted triggers? Goblins. My only multiplayer game so far against the mono-blue mill deck? He got Goblin Guide/Piledriver/Piledriver then quit with three land in play and Chieftain on the stack.
I hope it is just an early unlock. From the forums.
The list of promotional unlock cards, some of which were seen in the dotp2013 previews.
From the game, it seems that you get the unlock codes by attending certain magic events, which I seriously hope is not the case.
Events for promo code
July 12-15, 2012 - Magic at San Diego Comic Con
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XBL - ArchSilversmith
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
I hope it is just an early unlock. From the forums.
The list of promotional unlock cards, some of which were seen in the dotp2013 previews.
From the game, it seems that you get the unlock codes by attending certain magic events, which I seriously hope is not the case.
Events for promo code
July 12-15, 2012 - Magic at San Diego Comic Con
Jesus christ, multiplayer is a buggy fucking mess. I've gone one game without the board glitching and becoming unresponsive. I'm glad the design sense of MTG:O has transferred over to the casual fan product.
Jesus christ, multiplayer is a buggy fucking mess. I've gone one game without the board glitching and becoming unresponsive. I'm glad the design sense of MTG:O has transferred over to the casual fan product.
That's too bad. It worked great for me on Xbox Live last year. Now I'm a PC player.
On the PC does anyone ever have a problem joining a quick match? My client will just hang for a few seconds and then tell me I was unable to join a match. Its gives me a bit more detailed response but I'm at work right now. I can still do multi if I create a match. It just irks me that I can't use quick join.
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I was talking with my buddy on Steam while playing this game and I love how everybody has problems at different bosses. In the normal campaign my problem was with Liliana while my friend had lots of problems with Arjani who I steamrolled.
I got most jealous of the challenge deck that was rocking R/W ravnica stuff, especially lightning helix. Although my love of Ravnica probably comes from my playing magic competitively during that time.
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I wanna fight Bolas on revenge. I hope I don't have to change the difficulty to beat him.
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
I have beaten every encounter but this one. I can't figure it out. Also, as soon as they release that DLC, I will pay for it instantly.
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
Aaaand the demo crashes when I click "Start". Yeah.
I once beat Arjani down from 99 life. It was on planechase and I got the plane that makes you discard tonnes of cards into the graveyard, followed by the plane which brings all your cards out of the graveyard and puts them into play. So many monsters, and a 53/53 chromothingy.
I beat that one with a lucky draw using Odric's deck. I had a bunch of fiend hunters and the like and just exiled the hydra he put out each turn.
Steam: MightyPotatoKing
Beat it first try with Garruks deck, have the tracker make the 4/4 hydras fight your creatures every turn.
I have been trying to beat it with the Goblin deck, and I keep getting within 1 life of killing them off.
Karn in the previous one
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
I paid to unlock his deck first thing (Because I love W/B decks) and I can't seem to get him with it.
Milling + Phantasm being flying 5/5 + Mind Control + Bounce made it laughably easy.
That or Talrand's deck. Mana Leak + A bunch of flying tokens + Bounce (really bounce is the key) just destroyed that encounter.
But yeah, I've been playing this on PS3 some here and there. I'm not terribly impressed by the balance of the decks, though. Several match ups feel more rock-paper-scissors than anything else, and there's a couple of decks that are clearly above the rest in each format (1v1, 2HG, free for all, etc). Still a fun buy for the low cost, though.
I got 2 Jace's Phantasms in my opening hand, and got lucky with drawing mill cards. On turn 4 I swung in for 10 with both of them. Nicol's turn, he summons a 5 strength creature with haste and hits me for 5. Turn 5, I swing in for another 10 and win.
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
Nah just normal mode.
using only the milling deck
fuck you arjani you might have 250 health (plane conditions gave him the "when enchanted creature hits a player, double your life" card on turn 1) but you have 9 cards in your library
I got him down to 2 life, but then he smashed me over the next two turns. Exponential growth in damage levels! You really need plenty of direct damage. A big swarm of 'tap to deal 1 damage' critters would be best.
Or some of the decks from earlier games. Elves would obliterate the encounter due to they ALSO having exponential creature growth. Vampires too. Or that crazy one which could sacrifice little creatures to put the Eldrazi things into play?
But I'm still obsessed with the Ancient Wilds deck right now. Its so fun. But damn if you fight anyone with flying or don't get some good card draw early.. it is rough.
Liliana's Specter and Underworld Dreams hurt them bad.
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
Oddly, I keep not posting ideas for other people in the thread because every problem I've hit I found Goblins to be the solution. Revenge Bolas with double Pyroclasm? Goblins. Exalted triggers? Goblins. My only multiplayer game so far against the mono-blue mill deck? He got Goblin Guide/Piledriver/Piledriver then quit with three land in play and Chieftain on the stack.
There is a Rakdos (BR) in the DLC on the way.
community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29195093/D13_Expansion_1_-_Rakdoss_Grinning_Malice_Decklist__Unlocks?pg=1
Looks really fun.
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29193605/Promotional_Unlock_Cards_List?pg=1
I hope it is just an early unlock. From the forums.
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
That's quite a load of crap.
"Mine's bigger."
"We have years of struggle ahead, mostly within ourselves." - Made in USA
That's too bad. It worked great for me on Xbox Live last year. Now I'm a PC player.