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For me it is all about variety.  I could care less how "good" or "bad" a deck is, I just want to play different decks vs. different decks.  I hate playing vs. the same deck 5 out of 6 times because everyone runs it or someone just keeps playing the same deck over and over.  I like variety, this gives variety.  I also think that it brings out the best in players (which is why I run random tournaments for Steam) as the player has to play all different styles and against all different styles to win.  If you don't believe me, go ask the participants of my tournament who have told me time and time again that the way I set my tournaments up really brings out the best in every player.  This is mainly due to the randomness of deck selection.  This is why I want a forced random option that can be chosen by the host.  Don't wanna play random?  Don't join my game that I am hosting/host your own without random.  Please, give us a forced random option!

If it were ever a good deck in duels, I imagine Grinning Malice, Sepulchral Strength, and Grim Procession have largely destroyed that. Between Demigod of Revenge , Mortivore , Lord of Extinction , and Necromancer's Covenant , I couldn't see myself as running DP as anything but a strict control build, with Mind Control , Body Double , Clone and Jace's Phantasm as the win-cons. Might still run Telemin Performance for the extra creatures.

I run a control build of DP (I posted it in the thread a while ago) and it does alright.  Better than the mill versions.  Still not that great.

It's always been good in 2HG, sure, but that's a completely different story (And why I said "in 1v1").

Spinning the wheel is about as effective as choosing the same deck over and over (as that is often what it will spin onto for some reason).  People do have the right to play w/e they want.  They also have the right to play a non-random game as opposed to playing vs. someone who has the right to choose random that wants to play vs. random.  Steve, your arguments are lame and are more like attacks on others than an actual argument (maybe you should chill a little, it helps, I promise).  I don't think it is an overblown issue, I just think a lot of people want this option.  If you don't like it, don't play it...simple as that.  For those of us that DO like it, we want that option.

I agree with Hakeem, add the option and let everyone be happy.  There's always a couple people who complain no matter what, but they generally complain about everything regardless.

Dec 8, 2012 -- 8:24AM, DroneOn wrote:

The first DOTP allowed you to create lobbies where you could adjust the starting hand size, life total, etc.  It didn't seem to break the game in half.

So I highly doubt being able to click a box so that your lobby says "Random" - like how there's a box for "AI Takeover" on PS3 - would be a massive undertaking or would take more than a dozen lines of code.

Sheesh.

Weeeeeeelll...a bit more than a dozen, but not the world's most back-breaking task. I assure you the AI is a much greater hassle, but then again some of the bugs going unfixed now would be easier to fix than adding random deck pairing matches, so I'm not sure I'd get my hopes up.