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Re: Magic:The Gathering
I don't have an archenemy deck of my own yet but I might look into it.
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Re: Magic:The Gathering
I wouldn't go out of my way to get them at a premium, but keep an eye out for the next wave. They are popular, so they'll more than likely keep coming.
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Re: Magic:The Gathering
I’ve played Magic: the Gathering for a couple of years now. I played it because my friends played it. After the cancellation of Heroscape, I didn’t want to support Wotc, so I considered dropping the game. To help me decide, I wrote a review. I figured I might as well post it here for those in a similar situation. Here it is:
Game System: The system looks pretty good, the use of mana is an interesting idea to allow for varying levels of power in the cards. However, mana takes up a large portion of your deck (usually 40%), and it is annoying to lose because you don’t draw enough. The rules for this game are extremely complicated. They take a very long time to learn (and are changed every 5 or so years), and there are still rule arguments almost every game (even though I’ve read the rules multiple times and have been playing for a long time). Game Quality: All you get is cardboard. You could print them off if you wanted to. But chances are you won’t even be allowed to use proxies. You’ll let a friend borrow some cards, or leave some lying around, and they could get bent, and they’ll have to be replaced for a high cost. Game Price: M:tG is a very expensive game. You pay up to $80 a card if you want to play competitively. It is a blind purchase game, so you are tempted to blow large sums of money on most likely worthless cards. Competitive decks are around $400, and even casual decks can be expensive. Your group will start with $20 decks, but, to beat one another, will eventually end up buying multiple $60 or more decks. Game Balance: There is no balance at all in this game. You can have a 1 / 2 with an average ability for 5 mana, and a 2 / 2 with a good ability for 1 mana. There is a ton of power creep in Mtg. The cards just keep getting better and better when new sets are released. (and there are about 5+ sets released every year) Cards are frequently banned as well. Different formats do not solve this issue. It's hard to follow formats in casual play, and in competitive, most of the cards are still not used, and only a few select deck types are competitive. The cards in those decks will go up high in price. Is it fun?: There are hard counters to almost everything, and with people buying decks just to beat yours, the games become more annoying than fun. Rules arguments are never fun, getting owned by a more expensive deck isn’t fun, getting owned by a counter-your-deck deck is never fun, and owning someone with a more expensive deck is never fun. It’s only fun when you are playing someone with a balanced deck that doesn’t counter yours, which happens very rarely. “This is the oldest TCG, and it is still around, therefore it is good”: Old =/= good. It’s around because it’s very addicting and has massive support from WotC (weekly tournaments and big prizes), countless numbers of websites, and lots of players. It’s players are almost always people new to gaming that don’t realize there are better games out there, those that have the money to keep up with new sets, those that are addicted, and/or those who play because their friends play. “One person not buying a game won’t impact sales at all”: Yes, it will. If everyone says that, will any boycott work? If everyone says: “my vote for president won’t matter” are they likely to get the candidate they prefer? The only way to have balance in this game is if you play as the new sets are released, and you have the money to keep up with it. On top of that, you have to learn a bunch of rules, and deal with bent/torn cards. If you want to be good at it, you have to buy more. The game is very addicting, so you buy deck after deck, and even some blindly purchased cards you didn’t want. Even if you don’t like the game too much, you’ll still want to use what you wasted all your money on. I can play better card games like Summoner wars, which is very balanced, or Dominion, which, by its game system, has to be balanced. (They’re also both a lot cheaper) If you really want to play this game and have fun, you’ll have to spend a while figuring out the rules, but the duel decks series is often pretty balanced. Of course, then you only have 2 decks to play with. So, after writing my review, I am confident that stopping playing Magic is a good decision. I see no reason to play; it looks like it’s a pretty bad game. Now, I’ll be playing Summoner wars and Dominion more often. I just need to convince my friends. (the first thing they did when ‘Scape was canceled was buy more Mtg decks, get 2 new people into the game, and now they mock me for not playing and say “HAHAHA, I just blew $35 on Mtg, what now?”) Last edited by TurtleKing99; January 3rd, 2011 at 11:22 PM. |
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Re: Magic:The Gathering
"Dominion is a lot cheaper."
That is an obvious lie since you just spent $40 dollars on an expansion set WITH JUST CONTAINS CARDBOARD CARDS! Dominion is a good game, but it is greater than or equal to pricewise then Magic. p.s.- Stop being so grudgemental. ~~Trolling IRL~~
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Dominion is a one time buy game. With magic, you have multiple decks of cards that cost at least $20, you buy more over time, from boosters etc. It'll end up being much, much more than the total cost of Dominion. Check the prices of all the Magic you have. I'll bet it's already much higher than the total cost of Dominion.
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Re: Magic:The Gathering
I have to agree with Turtle King on the cost of Magic. The game is designed so that you have to continuously pump money into the game.
Between the expansions being released four times a year, the formats updating with each new expansion, rotating old cards out forcing you to buy new ones, the draft/sealed deck formats forcing you to buy new cards just to play in that specific tournament and the game of Magic is practically a money printing organization for WotC. However, I think the game has alot of merit. You only need to spend as much money as the people playing with you. If it is just you and your friends, you don't need to spend tons of money everytime a new expansion comes out. I have never been a pack buyer. I have bought them, but typically, I just buy singles as I need/want them. Of course, I huge amount of money invested into Magic. 10k just in the P9, so my opinion is prolly biased. |
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But, my friends and I don't buy the 40$-400$ decks. We make it more fun buy each buying some of the new sets and trading for what we like. I enjoy Vampires alot and have a rather good deck that beat Brad's elf deck 2 out of 3 times. I traded my extra Elves for his Vampires we made decks and had a great time. I don't ever plan on going to a Magic tournament(I never planned on going to a heroscape tounament either but I've gone to 3 now.) Got to go put away Christmas decorations. ICE As in the words of rednax.What does neg-rep accomplish that a kindly-worded PM can't, besides possibly angering the recipient? |
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Re: Magic:The Gathering
I got Ascension: Chronicles of the Godslayer for Christmas and it's already provided hours of fun. It's created by Magic professional gamers.
http://www.ascensiongame.com/ |
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As in the words of rednax.What does neg-rep accomplish that a kindly-worded PM can't, besides possibly angering the recipient? |
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Re: Magic:The Gathering
Spoiler Alert!
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