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Feb 10, 2013 -- 10:19AM, DroneOn wrote:

Feb 10, 2013 -- 9:25AM, Niyari wrote:

Mulligan does nothing about you drawing lands 5 turns in a row, or not drawing any at all.

Not true!  5 bad draws in a row can still result in a win if you mulliganned into a good enough opening hand.  Just last night I won two matches (one with OD, one with AW) where I drew 4 or 5 lands in a row but still won, because my opening hand was good enough.

There are no bad decks, only bad players.  In 1v1, even the worst (meaning, "most inconsistent") decks are playable - I'm referring to DP, RG and AoW.

I still don't get why leaderboards should be relevant.  People will always, in every game, figure out a way to cheat their rank up.  Seriously, just ignore them.

But maybe you're right.  Maybe Duels doesn't even worth 6 euros. 

I don't know about that. Matter of opinion.
I've been having much fun playing DP in 1v1 as of recently.
On the other two, I agree.
They are on my shelf collecting dust.

Edit:
On the leader board....
I still can't figure it out. I have been paying attention to it for the past couple of months to see how they react and I must say that I am baffled.

Just in the past couple of days my win ratio is greater than loss and I've somehow went down in the rankings.


                                                                                                                                   

Feb 10, 2013 -- 10:40AM, DroneOn wrote:

I love playing DP in 1v1, but I don't play it as a mill deck.  I was only really talking about the Turbo Mill version that many people run, with Howling Mine and such (thank for the free cards!)

This is how I run it:

"Controllo"

61 Cards. 25 Lands (25).

A library for Dream Puppets (Jace)

Library code: ((((((((~~?8rRgf~~Controllo~~4=22Z4u~~2AfFoD9~~3AR=f?U~~2AV2Sqn~~2BgrlzF~~2AXVHK2~~3Bv9soo~~2BYNpIs~~1BQh3JZ~~1AM7rMq~~2BSk1iS~~2AM?ImW~~1AOGeX?~~1BcvqPe~~2?6r?pu~~2B=oA0O~~2?z=kXF~~2ADmWas~~))))))))

Creature
cost	■■	Hedron Crab	0/2
	■■■■	Jace's Phantasm	1/1
cost	■■	Aether Adept	2/2
cost	■■	Clone	0/0
cost	■■	Body Double	0/0
cost	■■	Chancellor of the Spires	5/7
Spell
cost	■■■	Thought Scour
	■■	Unsummon
cost	■■	Counterspell
	■■	Into the Roil
	■■■	Mind Sculpt
cost	■	Crippling Chill
	■	Dream Fracture
	■■	Sword of Body and Mind
cost	■	Sleep
cost	■	Archive Trap
	■■	Mind Control
	■■	Telemin Performance

Get the deck planner used to make this table.>>>

That's about the same as the deck I have for it.  Don't run it often, but yah.  I prefer that over the Howling Mines and such, giving people cards is bad.

The XBL ranked leader boards work fine.  Best of all the systems.  Be BETTER if they actually matched yuo up, instead of picking what games you wanted to join....BUT, they do actually work. 

Feb 10, 2013 -- 11:22AM, Kangermu wrote:

But if you run the turbo mill properly, they won't have enough time to actually use those extra cards to put together a win. Turbo mill basically means the opponent has 5 turns to put together a win, or it's game over.

That's in a best case scenario (getting your one copy of Archive Trap and every other card you need) and the best decks in this format have no trouble winning in 5 turns (well, OD can be somewhat slow).

That's what I meant by it being bad because it's inconsistent.  If you run Rogue's Gallery properly, you can put together a turn 5 win.  That doesn't mean it consistently happens.

"90%" is a joke here but you know, out of the last 100 times I've played against Turbo Mill I think I've only been milled to death less than 10 times.  That's definitely inconsistent when compared to the number of times I've lost to a good Goblins or Chandra build.