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http://store.steampowered.com/sub/6290/ (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/6290/)

50% off the complete pack, making it $17.49.  Looks like it includes all of the deck unlocks and foil conversions although I didn't go through it item by item to check.  (Why would you care about Foils in this game??)

I've never tried the game myself as the lack of deck customizations turned me off too it, although some of the puzzle and challenge modes do sound interesting...

Unless I missed something last night, the sale is unable to do basic math, and it's actually a $1 cheaper to buy the parts individually.  You can get the main set for 4.99, the two expansions for 2.49 each, and the deck pack for 6.49.  Buying the decks seperately, even on sale and minus the foils, actually costs you more (6.86, double with foils).  It's possible the deck pack is missing something, but I only looked into this to see how much a mess of DLC this game had become anyhow, and I love seeing sales that fail at math like this.

The cards from this still come free with a (free) mtgo account btw. Plus mtgo has deckbuilding.

MTGO is the other reason I never tried this, didn't see the point when I already play MTGO.  :uhrr:

Yeah, I'm in the same boat.  I mean, for cheap, I'm willing to try another version that might offer me some fun.  But I really don't know the pro/cons about this version.  Somebody please sell me on it (or warn me about it) before the sale ends.

I bought the base edition of this game for the hell of it and it's pretty fun. The lack of any real deckbuilding though kinda makes me wonder why I should care about the various "expansions".

I played it a a little last night.  I was pretty impressed by the challenges, I consider myself to be pretty skilled at Magic but some of the later ones I tried I really had to think about.  But after playing a bit I still don't see the point of the game over just playing MTGO.  The challenges should just be a free flash game on Wizards website and they could add an AI to play against on MTGO, I wonder if thats why the lack of any deck customization, something to do with the computer opponents knowing how to play against the decks.

Well, it was fun until I figured out that it is pretty much impossible to beat the blue/black deck in the last campaign duel with the mono-green creature deck. Fuck that fucking bullshit deck.

edit: of course the next time I try it, the AI gets literally the worst hand and draws I guess it could get and wasn't able to play anything while I got just what I needed. Fuck that deck still however since you get no enchantment, artifact, or creature destruction in the mono-green deck.

I played this a couple weeks ago at a friends place, playing Two-Headed Giant (you and buddy play against two AI players).  I think it is very much an AI problem.  The AI would be alright, but even with a limited card pool it would still do some completely bizarre shit at times, like regenerate drudge skellies many times on their turn or make a bizarre choice of blockers/attackers/damage assignment when you combine having PWers on the board with blockers and creatures like Hypnotic Specter, which have "when this damages player" ability.


You throw in a situation with both sides having a pile of creatures, potential instants, a PWer or two, and then add creatures with damage abilities and the AI can still shit the bed with a limited card pool.