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4 months ago ::
Jan 24, 2013 - 10:37AM
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My biggest problem with the game is that it don't contain a deck that i really like to play. They should split online play up with people using the games released decks and people using decks they created. For example, I'm playing D.O.T.P. 14 I click on online multiplayer and it asks me if I'm using a user created deck or not and then it logs me into the proper online area. I think this could be one of the greatest Arcade/ PSN store games of all time if they would give us the options that people are asking for. Maybe this will never happen because their scared it will take user away for Magic Online.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 24, 2013 - 10:45AM
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Jun 22, 2012
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No. If you want to build decks, play Magic Online. Allowing custom deck building in DOTP would eat into MTGO's market.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 24, 2013 - 10:55AM
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Jan 24, 2012
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It's that time of the month again!
This question gets asked constantly. Like all the time. And the answer is always the same.
It will never happen. For economic reasons, for balance reasons, for a whole host of reasons.
MTGO exists. It's a thing. It makes money. No good business would go into competition with itself, especially when it comes down to seriously undercutting itself in the process.
No amount of requests will change that.
I'm starting to think that there is an algorithm that exists to predict the asking of this question.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 24, 2013 - 12:29PM
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You could have full customization, just limit the card pool. Give us 3 blocks, like say, Ravnica, Shards, and Zendikar, along with a core set like M13, and there you go. You can have full customization without eating into the profits of paper products or MTGO, since this format would be vastly different from anything offered by standard or modern.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 24, 2013 - 1:38PM
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You could have full customization, just limit the card pool. Give us 3 blocks, like say, Ravnica, Shards, and Zendikar, along with a core set like M13, and there you go. You can have full customization without eating into the profits of paper products or MTGO, since this format would be vastly different from anything offered by standard or modern.
I mentioned basically something like this in the past for one of these threads. Essentially, what if we just got our own block format to play in that didn't coincide with any of the paper or MTGO current releases. Either a custom set of cards they choose, or maybe a recent block that went out of rotation.
Downsides exist though. If I recall, there are a number of players that tend to only play Block (tends to be cheaper I think). So, if they could get the Block experience for the Duels price, I doubt they'd care about what cards they were playing with. Plus, if the pool uses mostly old cards, they lose that "advertising" angle they've sort of been doing with Duels like showing off new cards or tying into the themes of new sets.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 24, 2013 - 1:48PM
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It just seems very strange to me that Wizards is completly ignoring this potential market because of some absurd belief that everyone should be satisfied with either Duels or MTGO, when there are clearly people asking - frequently - for something that's more than one but less than the other.
I think there's more to it than just that. On one hand you have a customer base who sees cards like Pernicious Deed  and wants to play decks with cards like that, but doesn't want to pay $25 for 1 card. On the other hand you have a company who indirectly profits from cards like Pernicious Deed and doesn't just want to "give away" those cards in a program that they can be used without discretion.
Imagine if you could build your own deck and Natural Order  ($30) a Child of Alara  ($3) and then search for a Progenitous  ($20). Now that's about as flashy a play you could make. Wipe every permanent off the board at once, followed by a 10/10 Protection from Everything. How many people are going to actually dole out the money to make a deck where that's possible? That deck would be in the $300-400 range. Even if Wizards of the Coast doesn't directly profit from the sale of individual cards on the secondary market, you know they made a killing in Booster Pack sales so that someone could get those cards to sell you in the first place. Why would they cut off that profit line by giving us everything we want in a $15 game?
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4 months ago ::
Jan 24, 2013 - 8:05PM
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--this will never happen because their scared it will take user away for Magic Online.
More accurately, Duels of the Planeswalkers is the $10.00 carrot that leads you to the perpetual spending engine that is Magic: The Gathering.
Ask Wizards themselves.
Or don't, because their response will be "We love hearing your feedback and have passed on your message and suggestion/s to the design team. In the mean time I strongly urge you to check out Magic: Online, because it has the feature/s you're looking for."
So yeah.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 24, 2013 - 11:43PM
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Everyone who knows me know how I feel on this topic and I have already talked in detail about how it would effect the game and games outside of this one. We can go down that road again and get nowhere on anyone's point of view or I can simply say, "I would love this feature no matter how it may effect the games outside of this one."
Please lock thread as it is a repeat topic.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 25, 2013 - 12:18AM
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Limited card pool + custom decks + internet = Everyone plays the same boring overpowered deck = I will stop playing
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4 months ago ::
Jan 25, 2013 - 4:28AM
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As I said in another thread, you can pretty much exactly do this in MTGO now using the Planeswalker cards format. Basically you can get all of the cards released in all of the DotP versions (with some minimal restrictions) and you can build them into any deck you want (some cards are limited to 1 per deck). You can then play this deck against other players using the Planeswalker format cards.
You will have to spend some money buying Planeswalker card packs but they are only $5 per pack and many packs contain 200-300+ cards. You get 1 pack free (a pack containing cards from the DotP 2013 initial release) with your $10 membership.
But as Dor said, I have seen stories by newbies on MTGO who excitedly built their Planeswalker deck from their initial pack of cards and went out to fight and got utterly destroyed by people with their monsterly overpowered decks (built from a lot of packs by much more experienced players). It would be interesting to see what the Planeswalker meta game has currently evolved to on MTGO.
However, if you really want the deck building experience for a pretty darn cheap price, then the option exists. Of course, there is the UI to contend with.
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