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Oh and Lolgaxe, which were the good Deadpool comics again?

Aeth play the damn game before you sh*t on it

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hating on stuff you havent tried and just watched is way to american for you.

i mean if you want to go full freedom then by all means do it cause FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! rules and all but still ...

Edited, Mar 28th 2014 9:51pm by Horsemouth

I am not ******** on the game, it is a pretty good and very, very accessible game without being devoid of tactics which is impressive. It just doesn't have the things I look for in the game (see Timmy/Johnny/Spike link somewhere on the last page). I think the not being able to do anything on your opponents turn thing is a flaw albeit one that is easily fixed with future expansions and I think the combat system heavily favors aggressive decks which will be a lot harder to fix.

If they add cards that can be played during your opponents turn in the future, I think the game becomes a lot more interesting to me since it adds a lot of mindgames.

Instant cards in magic can be used at any time. These include counter spells that, well, counter a spell and put it in the graveyard (or sometimes remove it from the game entirely) without that card doing anything. It's the most obvious kind of spell you mostly play during an opponents turn but you could also react to your opponent making a move by playing something that weakens all creatures to kill off the board or to survive an otherwise fatal attack, you can buff a creature for the turn to make them better blockers (in reaction to your opponent declaring attack even) or use direct damage spells to get some quick damage in to either creatures or players and there are even creatures that can be casted at any time. You could also leave enough mana for one or more dangerous spells open regardless of whether you have them in your hand or not to make your opponent think you do and act more conservative to avoid them. And if you've left mana open and your opponent didn't do anything worth countering you can still cast other instants right at the end of their turn so you use the mana and then get to untap your lands again when your turn begins.

Pretty much all creature abilities can also be used during an opponents turn although there's not much psychological warfare going on there. In addition to that during combat you have to declare attackers in one go and they always attack either the player or one of their planeswalkers and the defending party gets to choose whether they block these attacks with their creatures and in which way so you can choose to take the damage and let important creatures live, block an attacker with enough creatures to kill it or just chump block it with a small creature just to prevent the damage to you and creatures can have a whole bunch of abilities that decide what they do in combat like trample that means any overkill on a blocker goes through to the player, flying which means they can only be blocked by other creatures with flying or reach etc.

tl;dr: some cards can be used at any time, not all. It's turn based but you're not completely passive during the other player's turn.

Edited, Mar 29th 2014 3:44pm by Aethien

It's very intuitive in actual play, for all the complexity the game has it's incredibly well managed to avoid needless complications. There's also been a working online version of the game for years so it's very doable online as it's not a split second thing anyway.

You can only attack on your own turn, combat works by declaring attackers and then the defending player gets to declare what they block and how, it's pretty simple.

You still have to do that in Magic, if you can't you're pretty much going to lose every game against a skilled player. And it's a good thing that you can play some things in your opponents turn (even without mana sometimes) because in the eternal formats where you have access to thousands of cards plenty of decks can score a kill in 2 or 3 turns, some in 1 turn.

Tank all of the heroic in one group per boss.

Drag everything to boss, tank stuff and kill boss, repeat.

Not really and instants have so many going on than just counters. Black has a lot of creature removal spells, red a lot of direct damage spells, white has a bunch of removal spells and both white and green have instants to prevent combat damage etc.

Hell, just in Reanimator decks because Entomb (put a creature from your library into your graveyard) is an instant you could cast it at the end of your opponents turn when he's tapped out and follow it up by a Reanimate (put a creature from your graveyard into play, lose life equal to it's mana cost) while you're relatively safe from counters and even if you only have 1 black mana at your disposal.

Then there's abilities of things in play that can be used at any time that can range from letting you look at the top cards of your library and put them back in any order to dealing damage or winning you the game when used in combination with something else (grindstone + painter's servant for example) that you may want to wait with to make sure your opponent can't do something to stop it.

Holy ****, Roccat! I hope the developer who came up with the trophy notification was fired. That **** almost gave me a heart attack.

For those who don't own a Roccat device (headphones, keyboard, mouse, etc.), their software comes with statistics and achievements functionality. Mouse scrolls, key strokes, etc. When you reach a certain amount, you "win" a trophy, and the software runs a "Congratulations, you've won a trophy!" audio notification. Maximum volume. Damn near fell out of my chair.

Interestingly enough, I've pressed the A-key a lot more than I've pressed the D-key.

Where do you find this stuff? It's like we don't even live in the same solar system.

A friend of mine said he was hunting some hard to see hunter pet in the underwater area and was using some plugin that plays a sound when the creature in question was in range. Apparently he had forgotten about the sound itself after a while and had turned the game off and was watching something or the other. A few days later he was hunting again and watching tv when the sound went off full blast. Shocked him to the point he jumped and smacked his head against his bed's headboard, cutting it open.