Trying to revive the general edition.
Who's hyped for Oath/Innistrad in a few hours?
Feel free to link anything that should be added in future OP.
What are you guys going to play?
>>137857943
I'd like to get into Magic. Does Duels have a good introduction or am I going to be alt tabbing to google to look up basic mechanics?
>>137858357
its pretty well explained. When you'll start, the game will suggest tutorials to you. Do them, its helps. Also, feel free to ask here for timing questions.
Has this game been fixed in any way besides card updates?
>>137858738
As of today's update: no more AI takeover when the opponent concedes. There's also some bug fix here and there for specific things
>>137858357
that is actually one of the good aspects of the game, it explains every mechanic very detailed.
It actaully takes some time to do it though, but you get gold for it to buy boosters.
>>137858357
This game is literally "MTG - The Tutorial", especially the single player campaign.
>>137858262
this is madness....
Yeah, i think i played this game on release day. Is it still completelly screwed up with extremelly small card pool and different rules from the official game (that rarity limit bullshit)?
Also, you can still cheat yourself a load of gold with Cheat Engine?
For those who dont know:
- You get quest everyday for gold
- There's always a community quest going on.
- The first ranked win gives you 20 extra gold (so 50 total for first daily win)
- Tutorial/campaign gives you gold
- When you open packs, you ALWAYS get new cards/cards you dont have full copies of. This means that you will unlock a full set after a while.
- Rarity is the same as normal magic BUT its used differently here for deck design:
+ Mythic: 1 copy of a given Mythic per deck
+ Rare: 1 copy of a given Rare per deck
+ Uncommon: 1 copy of a given Uncommon per deck
+ Common: 1 copy of a given Common per deck
This means that its like its own format of magic, own meta.
>>137859472
on release the sets was: Origin
Now they added Battle for Zendikar.
And after today's maintenance, we will also have Oath of the Gatewatch and Shadows over Innistrad in, for a total of 4 sets + basic cards.
>>137859492
>+ Mythic: 1 copy of a given Mythic per deck
>+ Rare: 2 copy of a given Rare per deck
>+ Uncommon: 3 copy of a given Uncommon per deck
>+ Common: 4 copy of a given Common per deck
I fucked up, here the real numbers
>>137857943
Avacyn looks a lot like Taylor Momsen
Someone have a Modern Land destruction deck list.
> come back after a half-year break
> general is dead
> game is dead
> new set looks meh
> rally theme looks boring
> all eldrazi look boring
> where are my annihilator "I Win" eldrazi creatures?
> new campaign is short and shit
> can't enjoy the game even though it looks better in most aspects than the coin flip simulator for children which is Hearthstone
At least I still have my perilous memes. Will give it another try with the new set, I guess.
>>137861231
>At least I still have my perilous memes. Will give it another try with the new set, I guess.
anon...
>>137861231
>At least I still have my perilous memes. Will give it another try with the new set, I guess.
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/magic-duels-starter-box-changes-2016-03-11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyasMhKZHa8
>>137857943
A little hyped, banked ~1800 gold after the increased daily quest yield update by playing a few games a week. Here's hoping that playing 2hg with a friend will be possible now.
Does anyone have an ETA?
>>137862507
>2hg with a friend will be possible now.
what was wrong with it?
>>137863810
For me, it didn't connect us against to other people 80% of the time. Only one of us would get into a match, or if we did get to one, half of the time on opposite teams. But mostly it would show and error before connecting and we would have to tediously create a party again. Granted haven't tried it in a while.
oh baby I dont know if I should be buyign oath of the gatewatch or shadows over innistrad now
I didn't even realise oath was coming too
>>137868410
p.s. its out
>>137868410
fffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuggggggg
looks like the skillquest retested. nice
opened nahiri, what do?
>>137868410
Which ones should I buy if I'm starting out?
>>137881467
origins set
then look through each set and decide which style you want after that
zendikar and gatewatch have a bunch of ramp into titan beefy dudes if you're into that
innistrad has werewolves with transform abilities
feels so good to unlock new stuff
hey i haven't played much since release, am i going to have to grind against fuckbois with both sets or is there a way to get singles in this bitch yet
I'm unsure if I want to buy SOI or OGW first. I got 4k to throw at it.
>>137885815
what decks do you want to do anon? I'll probably need some of both but I'll focus on SOI for my reanimator deck, until I need some big dudes from Gatewatch (I have enough big dudes right now with Origins/BfZ)
>>137885815
ogw had too much similar to bfz so I'm going for soi
>>137887492
I'm gonna dump everything into SoI after looking at the spoiler, fucking WOTC and their Jace boner making him so good you have get him.
Plus, what>>137887561 said, I can do with some theme changes.
>>137859492
>When you open packs, you ALWAYS get new cards/cards you dont have full copies of
Is that true? That sounds fantastic.
>>137889219
yeah, it will always be 5 cards that you don't have yet (you can still get extra copies of ones you own up to their limit)
then when you finish the set you just can't buy any more of those boosters
I used to shitpost here last summer.
I really missed you guys.
>>137858738
The game has been fixed. They removed Perilous Myr and Acid Moss
>>137890447
>new player
>4 sets behind
>fun
They need to discount origins/zend to get more people to play. I'd be so discouraged to play this and be so far behind. Of course, those spent hours/dollars would holler way too hard for this to ever happen.
>>137890935
its still fairly easy to get gold from the stories/tutorials, and then some AI match.
>>137890113
I remember that, good to see you back friendo
>>137890935
As someone who has put hundreds of hours into this game grinding, I would love to see new players get access to more cards. It will make the game grow.
I only just saw how neat this combo was with odrid and flipped elusive tormentor
Its a shame Odric isn't actually in the collectable game though
>>137890935
They really don't
gold cap is 400 per day from ai or player games
then you get the story/skill quest gold on top of that
its incredibly easy to earn boosters in this game, especially comparing to something like hearthstone
not to mention that part of the fun is earning and collecting the cards, hence why these are termed "collectible card games"
if you want to have all the cards from the start just use cockatrice or something
>>137891645
interesting. You have everything unlocked?
My time here. I have 100% Origin and 25% BfZendikar.
>>137891972
I'm >>137891852
I've got 100% origin and BfZ, 0% gatewatch and ~15% SoI now
new board is nice and pretty
>>137892540
I wish I could change it to a non-blue color so I can easily tell if someone has stopped the timer.
They did a fantastic job on the new campaigns, especially Innistrad.
Shame about the skill quests and Origins ranks being bugged though.
Hey im new here can you tell me a little about magic
>>137905241
It's fun, but a money sink, run while you still can.
I don't know if my deck is just too slow but I keep getting wrecked by ulamog ceaseless hunger
>>137905369
duels is super easy to play without spending any dosh
So basically, they decided to make your phases pass automatically under more circunstances, which is just making it impossible to play with my UR deck. First time, i had a ORI Chandra while human and was 1 tap away to transform her into PW and use her -2 to keep me safe, but since i only had instants in my hand, my 2nd main phase was skipped, and even though i did transform her, since it was at the end phase i couldn't use her ability.
The 2nd time was even worse. I played a Abbot, got a land, but i couldn't play it because i was tapped out and had no lands in my hand, even though i still didn't play one land on that turn.
Also, i was planning on making a better Prowess deck with that blue creature which transforms and maybe the 1R vampire, but for whatever reason, they decided to not add those in SOI.
As much fun as i had playing with the new cards, they basically decided to fuck up with the gameplay and whichever team is working at deciding which cards to include is fucking retarded.
>>137909954
just pause it yourself
bind a mousekey or use space
there should be an 'auto hold priority' toggle though if people want it
>>137910149
>just pause it yourself
Silly anon, the only moments i can pause in my own turn is between phases and while resolving a spell, aka moments i can't play my lands.
>>137910479
I don't know if you're rusing me but if you have anything you can play or any abilities you can activate you can pause it
its not preventing you from playing lands
it lets you pause before it goes to the next phase
>>137910657
Yes, i know i can pause mid phase. The only problem is that the only phases i can stop in that situation are the phases in which i can't play the land i got from the Abbot's triggered ability, so even though i played my abbot at the 1st main phase, as soon as his ability triggered and exiled the top card, the game literally skipped from the main phase to the combat step, and since i had no creatures beforehand which i could attack with, it then proceeded to skip from the combat step to the end step, without giving me the option to play my land at my main phases.
>>137911236
I have a strong feeling you just didn't pause priority
the colorless BG deck type is pretty fun
I'm really hating the fact you can't cast instants the moment combat damage is going to be dealt. This shit is extremely annoying for when I want to bait blockers.
>>137912197
you can right before damage, after blocks
blue counter spell control is a fucking annoying as hell now. Format is slow enough to give it enough time to setup and no Acid Moss to slow them down.
>>137912373
>mfw whenever i killed one of those Gx Ramp fags in the 5th turn with my mono R because they were too busy destroying one of my 3 lands.
Probably the only thing i'm going to miss from that time.
so what are you playing guys?
>haven't played in forever
>come back to I have a decent amount of gold
>bought 12 packs of Innistrad
>mfw I pulled a Westvale Abbey on my second pack
It's like Wizards know I love fun cards.
are there any good spirits?
I thought this card was cool but most of the spirits seem pretty janky
Nah, but I'm using this as a ghetto counter spell. Saving my big drops from getting fucked by kill spells and reactivating their ability when they re-enter so fucking good.
>>137922049
which dudes have good 'enter the battlefield' abilities?
>>137922049
Shit, meant to quote this guy: >>137921918
>>137922126
At the current moment, I don't have many cards to work with, so I'm MacGuyver'ing my decks, but pic related is a good example of abusing Essense Flux with. Guy tries kill her? Exile and bring her back. He tries to nuke the board? Exile and bring her back, her indestructible saves your board. He all-ins and your creatures will surely die if they block? Exile and bring her back, nobody's dying tonight. And a few other situations that make her and Essence Flux a fun combo, like her transform shits damage to everybody, so you could purposely get it activated, do the damage, then Essence Flux her for another round of board-wide damage.
But like I said, she's just one example. The major downside is, of course, it's a blue spell.
>>137922747
And of course, I forgot the image.
Holy shit do they intentionally make the AI's decks as fucking annoying to fight as possible? It seems like there's literally no way to win since the AI cheats and always has an answer to everything you do.
>>137923185
Story or just regular matches? Story AI was piss easy to beat. Haven't tried the regular ones.
>>137923406
Regular matches, the story mode was easy if I didn't get fucked/flooded. Regular AI play control decks and since they have every card they're nigh impossible to beat if you don't also play every card and play a control deck.
>>137923185
It's not as bad as Magic 2014. You win like 1/3rd of the time. Back then you had to grind or get really lucky to win.
>>137923720
Nah, these are literally impossible to beat unless you have almost all the cards in the game. You just can't compete at all.
>>137923686
Get gud.
I say this because you have indicated that you don't understand how the game works.
>>137923951
Nah, I understand Magic better than you do. When the AI has every card and you don't have at least half of each set, you might as well just restart until you see the AI mull down to less than 4 cards in hand or else you won't win without them getting manafucked.
>>137924241
I was able to grind using a W/B aura deck back in magic origins.
So I say you are just bad.
Deck design is hard, but it's trivial to find good starter decks.
Here, have a reddit post.
Some of the cards will be out of date because of the starter box changes (no dank myr)
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicduels/comments/3f6xr9/care_to_make_a_repository_for_good_starter_decks/
>>137925071
You realize the addition of new cards makes any old deck obsolete right? Any deck that wasn't made today is useless.
I won every game against the AI if I didn't get a completely godawful hand (and still won about half the time if said hand was remotely playable) before the update. Now I win about 15% of the time.
>>137920013
TITI control
>>137926281
Forgot my pic
>Disciple of the Ring is now broken
Thanks you shitty programmers
>>137927456
whats wrong with it?
>>137930779
Its abililty does nothing. You pay the cost and nothing happens. At least nothing happens when you try to tap a creature; I didn't get to test the other modes.
>>137930835
oh yeah I actually remember doing that earlier
I tried to tap a scion and it just didnt tap it
I was wondering if I'd maybe accidentally tried to untap it
>buy 66% of SOI
>get just enough of every card to be completely unable to make any remotely decent decks out of the cards since I'm missing vital pieces of every single possible deck archetype due to absolutely garbage luck
I cant select my cards properly since the update
does anybody know a fix or have similiar problems?
>>137932863
ok fullscreen mode fixed it for me
Is the whole madness thing any good? Haven't touched the game in ages so I have no idea what my decks do, might see if I can do anything with it.
>>137937490
try it. madness is fun
