You can find original flavor Deep IQ here. Deep IQ is dated, however. I find the references to banding, flanking and phasing to be charming. More recently, Bruce Richard updated the Deep IQ charts to represent the sort of spells and power level that would come with a player of Modern Magic.
You also get to do sealed deck with M14, but only twice. That was a bit of a disappointment, but the campaign with the gradually-unlockable decks is where the bulk of the fun comes. Then my opponent cast All Is Dust… When the dust settled, his Eldrazi are un-Pacified, all my creatures are on his side of the table, the smallest one triple-Pacified, and the Hartebeest let him search up the only Aura in his deck — Eldrazi Conscription.
Then it attacks me, and to the Annihilator 6 I have to sacrifice Plains as all I have left: they go over to his side of the table too, and thus pump up his Eldrazi further thanks to the Armored Ascension! It finally hits me for a total of about I wish I had time to talk about Duels of the Planeswalker in this article, since it scratches that itch well.
But as soon as I crack open the door to Duels, a mob of Magic video games would come crashing through, demanding bread and circuses. Thinking about breaking that down makes my head spin. I know when I was heading a Magic league at my local game store that approximately half the players who were joining us learned to play Magic through Duels. As for my weirdest experience on Magic I was playing a multiplayer Planechase with the exalted deck, killed two opponents, and turned my sights on Ajani.
So I let it in. And again. And again, doubling my opponents life total with every swing. Did you know that the maximum life total that Duels of the Planeswalker can display is ? I won that match, by the way, by making sure not to draw any cards when the Plane Stairs to Infinity showed up. Eventually, Ajani drew every card in his deck and lost the game.
Good answer: MTG video games are definitely enough for a whole different article or more than one. I like the idea that each game you win adds a booster of cards to your collection. The review is currently in my bucket list. Now I just have to hunt down the arcade game, Magic: the Gathering — Armageddon. There are, after all, four known copies in the world.
The closest one I know of is in California, too. Winning Streak: Early November Update. Scrabble's Two Letter Words. Tabletop Anywhere. How to Play Thing-a-ma-bots with a deck of playing cards. Shameless Self-Promotion. All the Links! According to Gatherer. Magic: the Magic 4. Like this: Like Loading Power to the Meeple AlexC says:. June 19, at am. June 20, at am. June 20, at pm. Zones other than the hand with cards that can be cast will pop open. If a spell or ability has alternate or optional additional costs, these will generally be indicated by a menu that opens when you click the card.
Each option will appear on a separate line within that menu. You can customize your Duel Scene layout by dragging the grid splitter along some boundaries. The graveyard zone and three collapsible panes exist below your avatar to represent cards and effects in the game.
Each has an icon that can collapse or expand that area, or zoom in on anything in the pane. When a game starts, the game log will appear on the right side of the battlefield. This log shows important game information as it happens, including spells cast, abilities activated, and other game details and lets you review previous game actions. This section will explain how to select cards and prepare decks within a Sealed Deck or Draft event.
Within a draft pod, the first booster pack of each draft is drafted clockwise left , the second pack is counterclockwise right and the third pack is drafted clockwise left. Tip : The timer can stay at zero for a minute or more in between picks — this is quite normal. This occurs if you make your selections faster than the people drafting behind you. After all the players in your draft pod have finished drafting, the game will transition to deckbuilding. After completing the draft portion of a League or after joining a Sealed Deck League, your card pool appears in the top of the window and represents your full sideboard.
The deck will be in the lower area, like in the draft window detailed above. Add cards from the top to your deck at the bottom by double-clicking, dragging, or using the right click context menu. After completing and saving a Primary Deck, you can opt to create a second deck out of the same card pool. Click the Add Deck button in the bottom-left corner. You can also right click a deck and create a new copy to edit. This deck building is untimed, so you have time to build up to 20 league decks if you like.
Once a League match completes, the deck with which you began the previous round will be loaded automatically — without any sideboarding adjustments from last round. In a draft or sealed deck Scheduled Event or Queue, the deckbuilding period is similar to leagues with a couple important distinctions: there is a time limit in which to submit a deck, and you submit a single deck for the event.
The deck building timer can be found in the bottom right corner of the main cards area. After you submit a deck, you can continue to make changes. If you fail to submit a deck before the timer runs out, Magic Online will submit your entire card pool as your deck so try to ensure you get a least one deck submitted.
After the first round starts, the submitted deck will be the one used at the start of each match. Note that deck building will immediately end after each player has submitted a deck — even if players would have time left on their deck building timers.
This means if you submit one version of a deck, then want to make changes, your changes are not guaranteed to be submitted depending on when the deckbuilding period ended.
Whether you purchase new product from the Magic Online Store or win it in a tournament, cards from sealed products are not automatically opened and added to your collection.
Tip : You can use booster packs as part of some tournament entry options or you can trade them to other players, so you may not want to immediately open booster packs. Finding and Joining Games and Events Magic Online offers a wide variety of play experiences, from casual games to large tournaments with awesome prizes, all found in the Play Lobby. For more information on events, click the Events and Formats page. Constructed Open Play If you are looking to get more familiar with Magic Online or your deck, you can use the Open Play area to battle your Constructed deck against other players as much as you like.
Select your deck from the Deck filter. You can optionally filter your search in the following ways: You can select your desired play format using the Format filter. You can choose between Solitaire deck testing, a 1-on-1 match, or a multiplayer match with 3 to 4 players using the Players filter. In the Play Lobby, you can find these matches by using the filters in the top left and selecting "Constructed Open Play".
The skill level you choose will generally speaking determine the types of opponents and types of decks you play against. Although it is not intuitive, each skill level for open play has a chat room that you can find by clicking the chat menu in the top right hand corner.
Play in Events - Play in events has some sort of cost associated with it. An updated list of currently available events, including the cost to join the event and prize support for the event is available here. WOTC created a tutorial video to give you an overview of how to find specific events:. Events aka tournaments offer you a way to play your desired format s against some of the best players in the world.
Typically speaking, the higher the payout of stakes of the event, the higher the level of competition will be. At times bugs or other unexpected issues may cause an event to be canceled, or for you to lose a game or match. If this happens, you can submit a request for a refund to WOTC customer support. The refund policy is available here. Of note, and a point of recent contention in the community, WOTC did not offer refunds for prizes that players could have won had the issue not occurred; WOTC recently changed their refund policy to remove this caveat.
Playing a Game - Actually playing in games is something which you need to practice to become sufficiently familiar with. Unlike with paper magic, MTGO will automatically process certain actions that you are used to manually doing while playing - including the untap step, triggered abilities and stack management. There are numerous tips, tricks and shortcuts built into the game that will help you play more efficiently. As you play more games online, your ability to play effectively will improve.
WOTC has created a tutorial video on the basics of playing a match online; it is noted that over time WOTC has and likely will continue to change the way the play interface looks. The general principles of play remain, but the location of certain aspects of the play screen may look different on the video when compared to the current client:. MTGO has some hidden functionality that you may or may not be familiar with. In fact, there are surely tricks in the client that even we are unaware of - so please be sure to share your insights for us to add to this guide.
Gameplay : The most important shortcuts for gameplay are the hotkeys. Hotkeys allow you to play efficiently and can save valuable time on your game clock when your game clock hits zero, you lose the match. The following are the default hotkeys:. Trading : Trading on the new client overall is difficult compared to prior versions. Bugs can make things very difficult as well.
However, there are a number of interesting things changed for V4 that can make trading more efficient and even better than the prior clients:. Instead, we get what is essentially a mess of cards all on one single page. The following are small things to help:. Exhaustive testing has been done to determine that the shuffler is, indeed, completely random.
A thread on mtgsalvation addresses the randomness of the shuffler in detail. It is important to note two things about the shuffler:. Hobbies can be expensive, and MTGO is no different. There are two pieces of good news, though.
Second, you can do MTGO "on the cheap" through a combination of savvy trading, generous community members and careful planning. Free Cards : It can't really get cheaper than free. Take advantage of the bots giving away cards for free. You won't find expensive cards in these bots, but you'll find some cards to play with and get your start. The following free bots are currently available:. Free bots tend to be very busy; stay persistent and you'll eventually get in to trade for your freebies.
Free Tournaments PREs : Player Run Events, also known as PREs, are a great way to play in tournaments that cost nothing but have prize support generally the prizes are bot credits or gift certificates to dealer shops. There are certain special PREs run throughout the year which typically have much higher prize support, where the winners can win several hundred dollars worth of prizes.
There are a few downsides to PREs. First, they are not widely attended because WOTC does not allow players to advertise them anywhere on the client. Most players don't know about them, so you often have the same folks playing in these events - and they tend to be very experienced PRE players. Second, unlike WOTC sanctioned tournaments, there is no formal tournament structure for these events - you have to join a chat room, and play your games in the open constructed tables.
Third, there is occasionally more drama than one would like to see in events because of the first two downsides. Having said all that, though, these are FREE events with prizes - your expected value to play doesn't really get much better than playing in these events.
There are a few components of the expected value:. Your best resource for these calculations is Goatbots EV Calculator. Of course, the EV is only an estimate that is based on a number of assumptions and the statistical averages on the value of prizes and cards you open. The following assumptions come into play:. For those not interested in getting into the very nitty gritty of the EV of events, Goatbots EV Calculator is a fantastic resource for you to choose the best events for you to keep your cost to play as small as possible.
Pauper Format : Pauper format only allows commons to be played. As you can imagine, this makes the decks significantly less expensive than those allowing uncommons, rares and mythics - but don't let that fool you on two fronts: 1 this format is highly competitive and 2 some cards aren't cheap the most expensive common on MTGO is Daze - more than 13 Tix to purchase. Despite the expense of some cards, this format is fantastic for the budget-conscious players looking for a competitive format.
The Pauper subreddit has information and links for those interested in the format. Penny Dreadful : Penny Dreadful is an incredibly budget format meant to be played solely on Magic Online. In Penny Dreadful, any card that costs 0. The format includes many powerful cards, such as Aetherling, Animate Dead, and Mother of Runes, and it self-regulates. If a deck becomes too dominant, it will eventually increase slightly in price, and become illegal to play.
One thing MTGO is terrible for is finding like-minded players - chatting is difficult on the client, the clan system is buried in the Accounts section, and the official "community" forums have become far less active over the past few years.
Luckily, there are many communities in the MTG O community you can find and become a part of. These communities enable you to share information, test decks, and maybe even loan or give you some cards.
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