So me being a sucker I decided to give Magic: the GAthering: Duel of the Plainswalkers a go.  I thought I had read an article that it wasn't bad for experienced players and it seemed like something fun to do.

Boy was I wrong.

Now only do I have to deal with wierd controls and stupid timers, I can't customize my deck.  Well, let me rephrase that, I can add cards that I win but I can't take any of the cards I start out with out of the deck.

Yes, it's that stupid.

So I start winning matches and start getting these decent cards or cards that are at least better than some of the cards in your starting deck and I think I'll eventually build a solid deck. 

Wrong.

Once you figure out their backwards deck manager you realize that you can only add and take away cards you win.  That means if you want to customize your green deck you start out with, a deck that already has 60 cards, you have to add more cards that are generally high casting cost and then keep all the pointless wurms that come in the deck.  Yes, you have like four of the 5/4 wurms, two if the 6/4, and two if the 7/7 ones and you have to keep them all!

Why can I add cards I've won and not take out the pointless cards I do not want?

Oh, and I still haven't successfully regenerated a creature, or at least the one I want to.  I attack, blockers are chosen, and before I can regenerate, the creatures dies.  SUCK!

the original Magic game sucked as well. at least this one has cards

You should try The Eye of Judgment if you like card games. It's actually very good.

That game was horribly unbalanced.  It turned into whoever goes first wins.

That's because you didn't knew how to play

that's not good. i was thinking about getting it. i haven't played a cardgame in a long time.

Really thanks for the heads up i was thinking of getting it.

ya, ill agree. The game takes an insane amount of deck building skills and knowledge of the game. The AI duels are pathetic but the person vs person are brutal.

BRUTAL

as a guy who still has his deck from the mid 90s (red white and black, only flying), thats lame as hell. the only good magic game was the old pc one which was kind of rpgish. the ai was dumb, but at least you built your deck.

its a strategy game people! itd be like starcraft online where you get random units and have all these dark archons or shit you may never use . . . sad.

I thought the online PC card game was good. It wasn't anything fancy, but it worked well. I just didn't like the idea on having to spend so much money on digial cards.