Magic: the Gathering for XBLA = bad

[JPL78]

Well, Richard Garfield (game's creator) is playing online all day as well as several tournament champions so obviously there is love felt for the game in the magic community.

mysticD, look I like the game, you know I like the game. But serously deck building wouldn't break the system. So what if someone built a really kick ass power deck and smashed you with it, you would have the EXACT SAME cards and could then build that exact same deck. The main thing that unbalances magic is when it becomes about how many cards you buy. As long as no one is buying tons of cards it would still stay balanced. Now I know you say, well, everyone would just use the same decks. I don't agree. Maybe in a race for rank but who really cares about rank. Your average player would get tired of the same stupid combo over and over and would see playing the same deck constantly as a disservice to the fact that there were plenty of other decks to use. Your average player would want to play different strategies. So what if some cheese balls just exploit a certain build to win with. Play player matches and I promise it wouldn't be the same thing.

These guys are right, building your own deck is HALF the game of magic. But it is a double edged sword because you can always be one-upped by someone with better cards. That wouldn't be an issue here though so I think its perfectly workable.

I understand why they made it the way they did. I still love it and I'm having a lot of fun. MOST of the community is having fun with it to. You people showing up here saying "well twestern didn't like it so I must skip it" are just missing out. At least try the freaking demo. Everyone acts like it would physically hurt them to just try it, as mentioned above meanwhile the game's creator and some of the best players in the world are playing as we speak. On other forums I read about 20 posts and even LOOKED for negative posts and no one had anything bad to say. Maybe a few minor complaints but no one was saying "I hate this, it sucks."

But seriously, if they are not going to make it where you can build decks, fine, but they at least need to add the ability to take out the starting cards from your decks. There is no reason to still have bears and worms when you have much better cards later on. Plus it waters down the deck to have that crap stuck permanently in.