This is the real deal. If I remember Duals (my son had it on an ipad) its quite a bit more limited. With this, everything in Standard is available to you.
I gotta say, it's amazing how many people already have full War of the Spark sets one day after launch. I wouldn't have expected it, but I see more people playing with large amounts of the new cards than not. Running into tons of decks, at Gold rank, with multiple full 4 rare/mythic card sets. I opened about 20 packs and dont really have much, so I added a few cards to existing decks to play around with them, but I see a lot of whole new deck types. I dont know how they do it, but this game I guess is printing money off these people.
Yes, I'm sure the game is making massive amounts of money. I used a ton of Uncommon Wildcards, but the limits are always Rares, and I just dont have enough, it would take a lot of money to complete the mana bases alone.
The new standard meta is now SO EXPENSIVE, I don't see how anyone can keep up with it as a F2P player unless all they want to play is RDW. The amount of Rare and Mythic cards needed in every meta deck is insane - 30-40 Rares, 10-15 Mythics. I know WOTC is really pushing this game to get more players, what with the big moron streamer tournament and all, but I can't see how ANY new players, especially new to Magic completely, would be sticking around to play this. It is so astronomically expensive just to update previous meta decks to the new meta - imagine starting from scratch,
Yep, it would be prohibitive imo to start from nothing. You are looking at easily $100+ in packs/gems to even get close.
And the funny part (tinfoil hat time) is this 'new format' of Best of 3 no Sideboard with 2 decks.
Oh you want to have diverse options? Say a UWR Control and a BUG Midrange? Do the math on that! Wizards loves the idea I'm sure, but me? Nah. I'll just give the old 'I cast Lavarunner, Wizard's Lightning, Skewer, Skewer, gg?'.
My only issue is the wildcard system is fairly punishing for new or less educated players who dont know exactly what they are after. I've burned up many a wildcard, and then I look at what it takes to put together an 'optimal' 3 colour manabase, and its 20+ rares right there.
How is it so many of my opponents already have massive amounts of Rare and Mythic cards from the latest expansion? Without the option to dust cards, are people really spending $50+ on each expansion on Arena? I feel like I'm the only person playing who isn't dumping tons of cash into this game. I've bought the welcome bundle, but that's it. But everyone I play seems to have all the shocklands, 4 copies of each Mythic and Rare in their deck and some of the popular decks that include the newest expansion are super expensive with like 38 rares and 14 mythics. Guess I'm just surprised to see so many people spend a lot on this game.
If people didnt waste wildcards, and played since open beta, they could easily with planning get what they needed without spending money. You 'go infinite' in Constructed Best of One, for Gold, and then you buy packs at your leisure with 1000 gold.
I don't like the fact you can't take back a choice by dusting. That is a huge problem for the discovery aspect of the game when it comes to mid tier and lower level players. If someone wastes a wild card on a crap rare (which happens a lot) they have no way to change or reconfigure their decision. On top of which, it encourages people to horde wild cards even if they don't have any idea what to get, and the default filters do hide unobtained cards.
Trust me, I feel the same. I've burnt up way too many Wildcards already on decks that didnt work out.
How is it so many of my opponents already have massive amounts of Rare and Mythic cards from the latest expansion? Without the option to dust cards, are people really spending $50+ on each expansion on Arena? I feel like I'm the only person playing who isn't dumping tons of cash into this game. I've bought the welcome bundle, but that's it. But everyone I play seems to have all the shocklands, 4 copies of each Mythic and Rare in their deck and some of the popular decks that include the newest expansion are super expensive with like 38 rares and 14 mythics. Guess I'm just surprised to see so many people spend a lot on this game.
If people didnt waste wildcards, and played since open beta, they could easily with planning get what they needed without spending money. You 'go infinite' in Constructed Best of One, for Gold, and then you buy packs at your leisure with 1000 gold.
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Yes, I'm sure the game is making massive amounts of money. I used a ton of Uncommon Wildcards, but the limits are always Rares, and I just dont have enough, it would take a lot of money to complete the mana bases alone.
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Yep, it would be prohibitive imo to start from nothing. You are looking at easily $100+ in packs/gems to even get close.
And the funny part (tinfoil hat time) is this 'new format' of Best of 3 no Sideboard with 2 decks.
Oh you want to have diverse options? Say a UWR Control and a BUG Midrange? Do the math on that! Wizards loves the idea I'm sure, but me? Nah. I'll just give the old 'I cast Lavarunner, Wizard's Lightning, Skewer, Skewer, gg?'.
Its idiotic.
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Trust me, I feel the same. I've burnt up way too many Wildcards already on decks that didnt work out.
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If people didnt waste wildcards, and played since open beta, they could easily with planning get what they needed without spending money. You 'go infinite' in Constructed Best of One, for Gold, and then you buy packs at your leisure with 1000 gold.
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