Do the expansions have more of the puzzles? That was really the only appealing aspect of the single player to me.
Yes. I really liked the puzzles.
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Some of them need more turns to complete.
Overall, I like this expansion.
The 3 new decks are nifty, except the new red deck could be considered very cheap and easy to play.
Some of the extra cards unlocks are just stupid. I keep the nicol bolas and landfall decks almost devoid of extra cards just to keep the mechanic behind the deck running smooth.
The extra cards from the older decks are hit and miss, but green finally got some enchantment removal, and white just upped the ante with a great new angel. Most decks get 1/2 usefull cards from this expansion.
I just hope they fix the bugs real soon: loading time are much looooonger, Ai became stupid and I love to be able to tap my own lands when playing the nical bolas deck: it always taps the wrong ones leaving me hung up to dry...
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I just hope they fix the bugs real soon: loading time are much looooonger, Ai became stupid and I'd love to be able to tap my own lands when playing the nical bolas deck: it always taps the wrong ones leaving me hung up to dry...
Yes. This. Glad they sped up some of the animations and stuff, but the loading screen's killing me.
Enjoying the new stuff so far, though frustrating at times (I admit to being a bit of a novice). First several games I was ready to swear up and down that they doubled the number of land cards in my decks :P Enjoyed empty-decking the vampire (both times! Thanks for bringing only 60 cards the second time, dude). Traumatize and Memory Erosion.
Do we know what unlocks the avatar clothing awards? If it's 100% completion I'll be most annoyed as the two headed giant offline campaign is a tad dull and clunky on your own, juggling two controllers.
Do we know what unlocks the avatar clothing awards? If it's 100% completion I'll be most annoyed as the two headed giant offline campaign is a tad dull and clunky on your own, juggling two controllers.
Unlocked cards for one deck, three decks, and six decks. I am up to 5 decks with all cards unlocked and I saw two black shirts with the Planechase logo on it. Not sure what the third unlock is but I'm getting it tonight once I finish unlocking everything for the Elf deck.
EDIT: For anyone having trouble with the final campaign, use the Chandra Ablaze deck that you unlock along the way and burn all his vamps.
I eeked out a win with the wings of light deck against him both times, but that is probably my favorite deck for whatever reason. I only have it maxed so far but have a couple others close from unlocking them previously. Now to decide to cheese my way through on single player or take it like a man on XBL for unlocks.
I had issues with him getting Nocturnus out. The Blue/White deck is too slow and the AI is quite aggressive with his Vampire Nighthawks so your walls are pointless. The White (Wings of Light) is really good but he can cancel out your expensive flyers with destruction and deathtouch. I found it easier to manage him with controlled burns (waiting for those Nighthawks and Nocturnus' to come out) and then got lucky with a couple of Lava Axes.
I still need to complete the co-op campaigns since the last expansion.
Yeah, my Blue/White wins over the Vamp deck certainly involved some luck in that he didn't draw a ton of his kill cards. A few walls and an air elemental were able to keep him from attacking. I persuaded Nocturnus and forget what I traded him for. I spent a good chunk of the game simply sitting still with cancels to keep him from making a big move while traumatize/memory erosion won the game.
Probably not as lucky as my win over Red though, which was almost entirely a Deft Duelist slowly knocking her down, 2 at a time. She had a hand full of spell cards and nothing to target. I sat with cancels at the ready, just chipping away at her.
Most obnoxious way to win: I've got two Deathbringer Thoctars in play and my green opponent decides to play Howl of the Night Pack. Seven 2/2 creatures emerge and I terminate one. My thoctars each get a counter which I can remove to deal one damage. I use two counters to destroy another 2/2. Repeat. It almost felt like work and it took me so long the game decided I had to continue in my own turn...
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The third avatar unlock is a neat doodad for your dude. Your av gets plays around with 5 cards (with mana symbols) and then drops them on the ground and then a dragon flys out of one of them.
I didn't realize how powerful the white deck was. 2 Voice of All means mono-decks are done for (except for itself and the new red deck) and Baneslayer Angel either has pro against or First strikes most big creatures of other decks. It's ridiculous.
P.S. Also Sorin Markov is a deck-stacking silly goose.
White is awesome, but needs more artefact removal. Thank god the new expansion gave it some more. Thinned out nice and you get a strong hand most of the time.
I'm very curious about your favorite decks and what sideboards you keep in the decks?
Mine is the blue/black artefact deck.
I play with everything except the life giving artefacts and the font of mythos. The howling mines are tricky enough as it is. The lifegainers clog it up too much. I always prefer drawing more defence or aggro compared to a few life.
Most other decks I play are thinned out more for me to be convinced they are effective. Thoughts?
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I like this nasty stalling deck, though i only play it when i'm not in a hurry to win, but I win more just attacking with my/his/her creatures. Succesfully milling someone happened 2 out of 10 games.
You play with all the unlocks? I'm not sure if I remember correctly but I believe I did not like the 3 new unlocks enough to include them.
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I like this nasty stalling deck, though i only play it when i'm not in a hurry to win, but I win more just attacking with my/his/her creatures. Succesfully milling someone happened 2 out of 10 games.
You play with all the unlocks? I'm not sure if I remember correctly but I believe I did not like the 3 new unlocks enough to include them.
The instant-counter that only costs an island seemed useful to me. Situational maybe, but the situation came up and I had it handy, so I call it a win :P
I like this nasty stalling deck, though i only play it when i'm not in a hurry to win, but I win more just attacking with my/his/her creatures. Succesfully milling someone happened 2 out of 10 games.
You play with all the unlocks? I'm not sure if I remember correctly but I believe I did not like the 3 new unlocks enough to include them.
The instant-counter that only costs an island seemed useful to me. Situational maybe, but the situation came up and I had it handy, so I call it a win :P
Forgot about Dispel. Yeah, that's a nice addition. I just checked: I run this deck with all the walls, traumatizes, Dispel and dispellers capsule and counterbores.
The other creatures, lifegainers seemed redundant, and the white destroy all nonland permanets to(o?-english is haaaaard) expensive and situation dependent.
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Do we know what unlocks the avatar clothing awards? If it's 100% completion I'll be most annoyed as the two headed giant offline campaign is a tad dull and clunky on your own, juggling two controllers.
Unlocked cards for one deck, three decks, and six decks. I am up to 5 decks with all cards unlocked and I saw two black shirts with the Planechase logo on it. Not sure what the third unlock is but I'm getting it tonight once I finish unlocking everything for the Elf deck.
EDIT: For anyone having trouble with the final campaign, use the Chandra Ablaze deck that you unlock along the way and burn all his vamps.
I only see avatar awards for 100% 3 decks, and 6 decks. Am I missing something?
So.. any word on when the Window XP version of this game is going to come out?
I don't want to have to buy an Xbox to get my nostalgia.
It's pretty doubtful they'd release it for Windows considering that Magic Online exists and all new accounts come with all the cards contained within DotP.
So.. any word on when the Window XP version of this game is going to come out?
I don't want to have to buy an Xbox to get my nostalgia.
It's pretty doubtful they'd release it for Windows considering that Magic Online exists and all new accounts come with all the cards contained within DotP.
You don't even need to set up an account to play with the Duels of the Plainswalkers cards - I have Magic Online installed on my work computer and I just use the trial account whenever I'd like to play. It's limited to those cards, give or take.
Does this include the six new decks, new cards for the old decks and online play?
if it does... i'm missing out!
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Does this include the six new decks, new cards for the old decks and online play?
if it does... i'm missing out!
Ummm, I think it's just the first ~200 cards that were in the initial release.
But yeah, online play. And real rules. With deck-building.
That's quite awesome! Especially the deckbuilding! Not sure what you mean with real rules though. Am I missing something? And if it misses the six decks and new cards its a tough tradeoff at the moment...
If deckbuilding ever becomes available on the xbox version (with its own rankingsystem perhaps) that would be soooo awesome.
Tough call.
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Does this include the six new decks, new cards for the old decks and online play?
if it does... i'm missing out!
Ummm, I think it's just the first ~200 cards that were in the initial release.
But yeah, online play. And real rules. With deck-building.
That's quite awesome! Especially the deckbuilding! Not sure what you mean with real rules though. Am I missing something? And if it misses the six decks and new cards its a tough tradeoff at the moment...
If deckbuilding ever becomes available on the xbox version (with its own rankingsystem perhaps) that would be soooo awesome.
Tough call.
DotP heavily streamlines a lot of the timing rules and the such. It's nothing too serious.
I'm just afraid of opening the MTG Online can of worms.
Let's not. I like what I have and what I pay for. MTG Online has its own thread already. I just hope this game gets a few little upgrades.
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Did anyone else lose all their unlocked cards after downloading this new expansion. Kinda pissed right now.
This happened to me as well. My primary profile is fine, but I have a second profile on which I've been completing decks, and this profile's decks and cards got wiped out. I was able to actually play some games in the expansion on this profile before my data was wiped out, so it's not obvious what event triggered the loss of all my data. Even though I lost all decks and cards, I was still able to play against any deck. So it remembered my progress through the campaign, just not my decks or cards.
I was sad for a second, but then I realized I don't mind rebuilding all the decks again, and that I actually look forward to it.
So.. any word on when the Window XP version of this game is going to come out?
I don't want to have to buy an Xbox to get my nostalgia.
It's pretty doubtful they'd release it for Windows considering that Magic Online exists and all new accounts come with all the cards contained within DotP.
You don't even need to set up an account to play with the Duels of the Plainswalkers cards - I have Magic Online installed on my work computer and I just use the trial account whenever I'd like to play. It's limited to those cards, give or take.
Can anyone explain the second last challenge from the DLC to me? I beat it but I want to know how it works and looking for an explanation online has led me to believe that perhaps the mechanic that lets you win is a flaw in the rules that they sort of force you to learn.
Can anyone explain the second last challenge from the DLC to me? I beat it but I want to know how it works and looking for an explanation online has led me to believe that perhaps the mechanic that lets you win is a flaw in the rules that they sort of force you to learn.
Not sure which part you're talking about...
The part where it allows you to tap land cards, or where you bring the octopus in during the opponent's main phase?
(I'm by no means an expert on Magic's ruleset, but figured a bump might help you out)
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Yes. I really liked the puzzles.
Minor Spoiler:
Overall, I like this expansion.
The 3 new decks are nifty, except the new red deck could be considered very cheap and easy to play.
Some of the extra cards unlocks are just stupid. I keep the nicol bolas and landfall decks almost devoid of extra cards just to keep the mechanic behind the deck running smooth.
The extra cards from the older decks are hit and miss, but green finally got some enchantment removal, and white just upped the ante with a great new angel. Most decks get 1/2 usefull cards from this expansion.
I just hope they fix the bugs real soon: loading time are much looooonger, Ai became stupid and I love to be able to tap my own lands when playing the nical bolas deck: it always taps the wrong ones leaving me hung up to dry...
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Yes. This. Glad they sped up some of the animations and stuff, but the loading screen's killing me.
Enjoying the new stuff so far, though frustrating at times (I admit to being a bit of a novice). First several games I was ready to swear up and down that they doubled the number of land cards in my decks :P Enjoyed empty-decking the vampire (both times! Thanks for bringing only 60 cards the second time, dude).
Unlocked cards for one deck, three decks, and six decks. I am up to 5 decks with all cards unlocked and I saw two black shirts with the Planechase logo on it. Not sure what the third unlock is but I'm getting it tonight once I finish unlocking everything for the Elf deck.
EDIT: For anyone having trouble with the final campaign, use the Chandra Ablaze deck that you unlock along the way and burn all his vamps.
also how to play 8 land cards in one turn?
I still need to complete the co-op campaigns since the last expansion.
I think my victory was mostly luck I was about to lose when I got off a mass calcify and then just whittled him down with a Serra Angel or something.
but still, VICTORY OVER DARKNESS!
Probably not as lucky as my win over Red though, which was almost entirely a Deft Duelist slowly knocking her down, 2 at a time. She had a hand full of spell cards and nothing to target. I sat with cancels at the ready, just chipping away at her.
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I didn't realize how powerful the white deck was. 2 Voice of All means mono-decks are done for (except for itself and the new red deck) and Baneslayer Angel either has pro against or First strikes most big creatures of other decks. It's ridiculous.
P.S. Also Sorin Markov is a deck-stacking silly goose.
I'm very curious about your favorite decks and what sideboards you keep in the decks?
Mine is the blue/black artefact deck.
I play with everything except the life giving artefacts and the font of mythos. The howling mines are tricky enough as it is. The lifegainers clog it up too much. I always prefer drawing more defence or aggro compared to a few life.
Most other decks I play are thinned out more for me to be convinced they are effective. Thoughts?
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I like this nasty stalling deck, though i only play it when i'm not in a hurry to win, but I win more just attacking with my/his/her creatures. Succesfully milling someone happened 2 out of 10 games.
You play with all the unlocks? I'm not sure if I remember correctly but I believe I did not like the 3 new unlocks enough to include them.
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The instant-counter that only costs an island seemed useful to me. Situational maybe, but the situation came up and I had it handy, so I call it a win :P
Forgot about Dispel. Yeah, that's a nice addition. I just checked: I run this deck with all the walls, traumatizes, Dispel and dispellers capsule and counterbores.
The other creatures, lifegainers seemed redundant, and the white destroy all nonland permanets to(o?-english is haaaaard) expensive and situation dependent.
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I don't want to have to buy an Xbox to get my nostalgia.
I only see avatar awards for 100% 3 decks, and 6 decks. Am I missing something?
It's pretty doubtful they'd release it for Windows considering that Magic Online exists and all new accounts come with all the cards contained within DotP.
You don't even need to set up an account to play with the Duels of the Plainswalkers cards - I have Magic Online installed on my work computer and I just use the trial account whenever I'd like to play. It's limited to those cards, give or take.
if it does... i'm missing out!
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Ummm, I think it's just the first ~200 cards that were in the initial release.
But yeah, online play. And real rules. With deck-building.
That's quite awesome! Especially the deckbuilding! Not sure what you mean with real rules though. Am I missing something? And if it misses the six decks and new cards its a tough tradeoff at the moment...
If deckbuilding ever becomes available on the xbox version (with its own rankingsystem perhaps) that would be soooo awesome.
Tough call.
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DotP heavily streamlines a lot of the timing rules and the such. It's nothing too serious.
Let's not. I like what I have and what I pay for. MTG Online has its own thread already. I just hope this game gets a few little upgrades.
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This happened to me as well. My primary profile is fine, but I have a second profile on which I've been completing decks, and this profile's decks and cards got wiped out. I was able to actually play some games in the expansion on this profile before my data was wiped out, so it's not obvious what event triggered the loss of all my data. Even though I lost all decks and cards, I was still able to play against any deck. So it remembered my progress through the campaign, just not my decks or cards.
I was sad for a second, but then I realized I don't mind rebuilding all the decks again, and that I actually look forward to it.
and that original red deck is crappier than I remember it being.
We stand corrected!
Duels of the Planeswalkers is coming to Steam next month!
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Nah it's with the Green-White deck.
Not sure which part you're talking about...