As you know, I have been playing a lot of Magic Duel: Origins. Wizards even gave me some free boosters. The card collection I have assembled is sort of a giant sealed deck. That gave me an idea and I issued a deck building challenge.
You can participate. What deck would you build with the cards from this pool?
Me and Sam go through the card pool from 19:55 in the video.
Here are some suggestions I have received from viewers on the YouTube channel:
Mono White Aggro
Creatures (33)
1x Annointer of Champions
3x Elite Vanguard
1x Kytheon, Hero of Akros
4x Perilous Myr
4x Kinsbaile Skirmisher
2x Topan Freeblade
1x Runed Servitor
2x Relic Seeker
2x Knight of the White Orchid
1x Knight of the Pilgrim's Road
2x Stalwart Aven
3x Skyhunter Skirmisher
3x Ampryn's Tactician
2x Juggernaut
1x Kytheon's Irregulars
1x Archangel of Tithes
Other (4)
1x Kytheon's Tactics
1x Knightly Valor
1x Alchemist's Vial
1x Veteran's Sidearm
Lands (23)
2x Foundry of the Consuls
21x Plains
Blue Black Control
Creatures (15)
1x Sigiled Starfish
2x Harbinger of the Tides
2x Jorubai Murk Lurker
3x Jhessian Thief
2x Darkslick Drake
3x Grave Digger
2x Whirler Rogue
Instants and Sorceries (20)
1x Bone Splinters
2x Reave Soul
1x Displacement Wave
2x Read the Bones
1x Talent of the Telepath (for the fun of it :-))
3x Disperse
3x Telling Time
3x Calculated Dismissal
3x Inspiration
1x Cruel Revival
Lands (25)
2x Drowned Catacombs
2x Foundry of the Consuls
4x Dimir Guildgate
2x Evolving Wilds
9x Island
6x Swamp
What deck would you build with this card pool? If your deck is good, it may be played on stream on twitch.com/magicgatheringstrat next Tuesday night (stream starts at 9PM PST with the MagicGatheringStrat podcast live recording)
I very much want to build Elves but I am not sure it is possible.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Magic Duels: Origins
Today a new product called Magic Origins is released on iOS (and soon it will be available for PC on Steam). Today I will tell you a little about what it is.
I did not notice that Duel of the Planeswalkers was cancelled and you probably did not either. This is the replacement for it but it seems that the ambitions with Magic Duels is much more, well, ambitious than Duel of the Planeswalkers ever was.
Don't quote me on this but I have the feeling that this is the product intended to take on Hearthstone.
Magic Duels is free-to-play with micropayments, so no more $10 per copy of the old game. It is also a platform intended to be upgraded with new card sets so in that sense it is closer to Magic Online than Duels ever was.
Coins
The thing you can buy for real money is Coins, the in-game currency of Magic Duels. These coins can also be earned through gameplay so in theory every aspect of the game can be enjoyed without ever putting any money into it.
Play modes
Story mode - you get to learn the story of the five Origins planeswalkers. You have to play with a fixed deck that is charasteristic for the planeswalker you are currently playing. Gideon is the one you start with.
Solo mode - Play against the AI
2-player mode - I am definitely not sure what this is.
Two-headed Giant - awesome, I love 2HG!
Platforms
IOS, Steam(PC) and Xbox One. No cross-platform support. You can, however, play off-line, which is nice.
This will be a new way to play Magic. I guess it depends on the quality of the product how successful it will be. I will be sure to try it. I am sure it will be a great entry level product, just like Duels was. The question remains how much more advanced players will enjoy it.
My only intial fear/disappointment with the product (before playing it) is that its relationship to Magic Online is very unclear. Will there be an effort to port players over to Magic Online (which I really missed in Duels)? Will this eventually replace Magic Online? What does that mean for the value of our investment. There is no opportunity for botting in this product. It just looks like a really neat way to play Magic from the comfort of your own home, which is kind of what Magic Online could have been.
The Magic Duels official page: http://magic.wizards.com/en/content/magic-duels
Download Magic Duels in the Apple store: http://bit.ly/1NTmx9k
I did not notice that Duel of the Planeswalkers was cancelled and you probably did not either. This is the replacement for it but it seems that the ambitions with Magic Duels is much more, well, ambitious than Duel of the Planeswalkers ever was.
Don't quote me on this but I have the feeling that this is the product intended to take on Hearthstone.
Magic Duels is free-to-play with micropayments, so no more $10 per copy of the old game. It is also a platform intended to be upgraded with new card sets so in that sense it is closer to Magic Online than Duels ever was.
Coins
The thing you can buy for real money is Coins, the in-game currency of Magic Duels. These coins can also be earned through gameplay so in theory every aspect of the game can be enjoyed without ever putting any money into it.
Play modes
Story mode - you get to learn the story of the five Origins planeswalkers. You have to play with a fixed deck that is charasteristic for the planeswalker you are currently playing. Gideon is the one you start with.
Solo mode - Play against the AI
2-player mode - I am definitely not sure what this is.
Two-headed Giant - awesome, I love 2HG!
Platforms
IOS, Steam(PC) and Xbox One. No cross-platform support. You can, however, play off-line, which is nice.
This will be a new way to play Magic. I guess it depends on the quality of the product how successful it will be. I will be sure to try it. I am sure it will be a great entry level product, just like Duels was. The question remains how much more advanced players will enjoy it.
My only intial fear/disappointment with the product (before playing it) is that its relationship to Magic Online is very unclear. Will there be an effort to port players over to Magic Online (which I really missed in Duels)? Will this eventually replace Magic Online? What does that mean for the value of our investment. There is no opportunity for botting in this product. It just looks like a really neat way to play Magic from the comfort of your own home, which is kind of what Magic Online could have been.
The Magic Duels official page: http://magic.wizards.com/en/content/magic-duels
Download Magic Duels in the Apple store: http://bit.ly/1NTmx9k
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