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I'm Heavenfall on MTGO.
BlackJester, what formats do you play on MTGO?
I have an account, but a very small collection of cards. Lately, if I'm playing MtG on the PC, I'll go with DotP instead. I'd rather play AI opponents rather than real people on MTGO. I'd either get my 🐴 handed to me, or generally annoy people while I try to learn the controls. 😓
Lastly, I'm already spending more 💰 than I should on paper magic. 😁
But you can trade a digital set for paper cards! Lol...
Quote from: Jbombard51 on July 28, 2012, 11:16:46 PM
But you can trade a digital set for paper cards! Lol...
You can, but it needs to be a complete set, which means chasing them all down.
I don't want to discourage anyone else from playing, there are tons of people playing. Just not me right now.
Quote from: BlackJester on July 28, 2012, 11:21:59 PM
Quote from: Jbombard51 on July 28, 2012, 11:16:46 PM
But you can trade a digital set for paper cards! Lol...
You can, but it needs to be a complete set, which means chasing them all down.
I don't want to discourage anyone else from playing, there are tons of people playing. Just not me right now.
Yeah - Redemption is great (commons are 0.02 cents) but I can see where you're coming from. DotP IMO is more fun if you're willing to work within a metagame.
I'm a completist, so I like unlocking all the decks and all the cards.
just got mtgo .. trying to figure it all out and how to survive without paying msrp for digital booster packs
Quote from: BlackJester on July 28, 2012, 11:21:59 PM
Quote from: Jbombard51 on July 28, 2012, 11:16:46 PM
But you can trade a digital set for paper cards! Lol...
You can, but it needs to be a complete set, which means chasing them all down.
I don't want to discourage anyone else from playing, there are tons of people playing. Just not me right now.
Thing is that a paper set would be worth more than a digital set, so dole out your cash to get a complete set, switch to paper and sell to someone who has a good priced buylist.
Quote from: Fishsticks123 on August 16, 2012, 09:17:36 PM
Thing is that a paper set would be worth more than a digital set, so dole out your cash to get a complete set, switch to paper and sell to someone who has a good priced buylist.
But can you get any cards, or only the ones in Standard?
Quote from: BlackJester on August 17, 2012, 02:39:20 PM
Quote from: Fishsticks123 on August 16, 2012, 09:17:36 PM
Thing is that a paper set would be worth more than a digital set, so dole out your cash to get a complete set, switch to paper and sell to someone who has a good priced buylist.
But can you get any cards, or only the ones in Standard?
Any! If you have a full digi set you can redden it for 5 bucks to get the paper cards sent to you one of each... I'm Juggalonoke on MTGO as well
Downloading now as me and my wife schedules have been clashing so much I have been not able to FNM very much so hopefully I will get some good games on here. Name is the same as here.
I wanna play this so bad but it's hard enough to pool enough money irl, let alone on virtual cards.
Just made an account and used the last of my new player tickets. Anyone got tips or anything?
Quote from: Maximo on November 14, 2012, 09:33:47 PM
Just made an account and used the last of my new player tickets. Anyone got tips or anything?
Play Pauper or Block. They are the cheapest formats and if you're good at them then you can enter dailies and other tournaments and win more tickets.
I've just been drafting, actually. Hoping to get money cards in them to pay for the next draft. First time I got {Sphinx's Revelation}, then I got I pair of shock lands. But they're apparently worth a lot less here. :(
Hey, uh, when the prices in the Trade section say things like "Buying Blood Crypt 3.6", what does the .6 mean?
Nevermind, someone explained it to me. I'm Raenil on there, by the way.
Quote from: Maximo on November 19, 2012, 06:23:05 PM
Hey, uh, when the prices in the Trade section say things like "Buying Blood Crypt 3.6", what does the .6 mean?
Nevermind, someone explained it to me. I'm Raenil on there, by the way.
When are you on? I can show you the ropes. I'm on often.
I'm Heavenfall on there.
Am I able to trade in my paper playset for a digital set? Mtgo would be better for me due to the daily tournaments. Also what are the prizes like? Packs for everybody or just those play tokens?
Quote from: Mbeck88 on November 30, 2012, 12:22:30 PM
Am I able to trade in my paper playset for a digital set? Mtgo would be better for me due to the daily tournaments. Also what are the prizes like? Packs for everybody or just those play tokens?
1. No, you aren't. You can redeem a full set of digital products for a full set of paper, though.
2. Packs and tickets. NEVER OPEN PACKS in MTGO except when drafting.
I won two packs in a draft and couldn't resist opening one. Got Jaaaace. There's my next Sealed event right there
Quote from: Maximo on December 02, 2012, 03:26:21 PM
I won two packs in a draft and couldn't resist opening one. Got Jaaaace. There's my next Sealed event right there
Nice! That's awesome.
Proph helped me with a draft but I messed it up, then my client crashed so I raged. Ah well. Maybe next time.
Quote from: Maximo on December 02, 2012, 11:42:14 PM
Proph helped me with a draft but I messed it up, then my client crashed so I raged. Ah well. Maybe next time.
Use version 3? It crashes less often and the interface is more fast.
Feels like I can never open a decent rare in draft. {Rest in Peace}, {Search the City}, {Palisade Giant}...
Quote from: BlackJester on July 28, 2012, 07:29:12 PM
I have an account, but a very small collection of cards. Lately, if I'm playing MtG on the PC, I'll go with DotP instead. I'd rather play AI opponents rather than real people on MTGO. I'd either get my 🐴 handed to me, or generally annoy people while I try to learn the controls. 😓
Lastly, I'm already spending more 💰 than I should on paper magic. 😁
Totally- DotP is awesome if you don't want to be frustrated with losing constantly. Glad to hear someone more experienced (like Jester) shares my feelings on this.
If they had a true "Just for Fun" room on mtgo it would be more fun to play - as it is, a lot of the decks that really should be in "Tournament Practice" predominantly end up in the other rooms (even the one for beginners). I guess WOTC doesn't have a way of regulating this...
Good point about Packs! I've made the mistake of opening them...
Nothing breaks my heart like opening a sealed pool and seeing {Search the City }.
Yeah, never open packs. Also never enter drafts with tickets only. You can buy packs from bots way cheapers than the actual retail price. At the moment only AVR is about the same price regardless buyin from bot or from wizards store.
Offload your excess commons and uncommons to bots. Good rares and mythics are (especially foils) should be sold separate to actual people. You'll get better price.
I'm Locrian666 on MTGO also. Feel free to ask stuff online.
Can someone help me on there? I usually play late at night but sometimes daytime also. I've been playing standard for beginners. What is pauper? I've been opening up my boosters. Why shouldn't I be?
I got a Sorin and foil Gisela in packs. Ill be on in an hour and my name is Marcusdigio add me!!!!
Quote from: Marcusdigio on March 01, 2013, 12:24:17 AM
Can someone help me on there? I usually play late at night but sometimes daytime also. I've been playing standard for beginners. What is pauper? I've been opening up my boosters. Why shouldn't I be?
I got a Sorin and foil Gisela in packs. Ill be on in an hour and my name is Marcusdigio add me!!!!
Pauper is format where you use decks using only common cards. Cheap format that has events going on in MTGO so it's cheapest way to start earning packs/tickets, if you win that is.
Prices of cards in digital realm are way lower than in paper (generally). So expected value of opening booster is way lower. Usually only proper place to open booster is draft or limited tournament/queue where you can actually gain more value by winning more packs with those very same cards. Note that format staples are still expensive in MTGO too.
Locrian666
I signed up for mtgo a few days ago. I haven't messed with it much, but it seems pretty cool. My user name is RaiderRob. Feel free to friend me.
Quote from: Maximo on December 03, 2012, 07:30:07 PM
Feels like I can never open a decent rare in draft. {Rest in Peace}, {Search the City}, {Palisade Giant}...
I have to agree with this actually. I've opened my share of packs I bought. And I have opened some in draft also. It seems like I get much better cards openin up packs. Draft always sucks. Boosters I opened hava gotten me a foil Gisela. Huntmaster of the fells. Sorin lord of innistrad. Obzedat ghost council. And more. Best I have in draft is watery grave. Makes me wonder.
Very hard to go infinite there are cheap formats such as momir pauper and draft where the start up minimum. If you win 3-1 you get packs then you can sell them for packs and build up tickets then buy decks for different formats like modern then standard. It's like crack. For me momir is to random so it's the luck of the draw then pauper is so competitive I got an infect deck so it was not consistent think I might restart with a tron deck. If you want to try this just research and get a constant deck then you would never have to pay to play again.
Hit me up for some Planeswalker. User name is Dudecore.
I've been playing a bit more online because of playgroup inconsistency. I just don't wanna have to buy my cards all over.
Planeswalker format is pretty bad, you don't get swingy turns or a chance to stabilize. Seems like games are over at 10 life. 2 out of 3 decks are Green/Blue/White ramp decks, the other decks are red.
Either way. If I'm on, get to me.
I still do not get policy of WotC... They are upset bcs of cockatrice and similar servers, but I cannot play MTGO... Only bcs they are not able to create client for OS X...
I just joined on mtgo imdowd80 is my user name. Feel free to add me. Though I plan on playin late night eastern standard time.
Agarrita80 on mtgo I play usually at night feel free to add me I love trying out new decks and taking long walks on the beach
IMtG clan is in full effect on Magic Online. You can message me (Dudecore) in game to Join.
I just started playing online recently, if anyone wants to add me my username is Scarecrow256.
Have you guys ever tries quad-cube?
Added everyone to my buddy list. I havent played much paper magic lalely do I'm back at mtgo.
Does it just about piss anyone else off when there opponent quits the game when things are not going their way? It's not the whole I wanna win thing, it's that I wanna learn, I never quit games, if I'm losing, there is still SO much I can learn. Ok, I'm done, sand is hosed out.
I saw a rumor that DotP could potentially be used in the future to replace MtGO for everyone but the super competitive. Thoughts?
Quote from: Silent1236 on June 30, 2013, 08:21:42 PM
I saw a rumor that DotP could potentially be used in the future to replace MtGO for everyone but the super competitive. Thoughts?
Nah. They couldn't charge enough for it. Magic Online has drafts, tournament, different formats. DotP has pre-cons that gets new players into the game. Even if they opened up and let you build your own decks (which you can do online for $5.99, play the "Planeswalker" format) it still wouldn't have every single card ever to make it worthwhile.
If they wanted to make a console client that was cross platform with Magic Online - that'd be wonderful. As it stands, Wizards makes too much off the online game to bother changing.
Ok, I have a question about mtgo. I've been trying to use {Reverberate} and {Nivix Guildmage}'s second ability, but I can't get them to work. What am I missing?
-----never mind, ctrl key.
So I just won my first phantom draft online tonight. Pretty happy at the moment, makes me feel like I'm making at least some progress in the game.