Sep 20 2010

I've played MTG on the Xbox360 for a while and have grown accustomed to Liliana Vess' deck, Eyes of Shadow. I'm having a lof of fun with it and it's the one I'll most likely play, although I'm slowly finishing of Tezzeret's deck Relics of Doom which is also fun to play. My brother plays Nissa's Ears of the Elves which combined with Eyes of Shadow wrecks havoc wherever we go. :-)

Now, of course we don't only play on the 360, we have a bunch of decks (finished and unfinished, but not personalized) that we play each other with now and then. Sadly we have too many less-than-awesome (aka common) cards that we just can't fit in anywhere. Piles of them, in fact. :/

I bought the Liliana vs Garruk Duel Decks in hopes to get the cards I love from the 360. Buying the Duel Decks was cheaper than buying Liliana's deck on its own. I also bought a couple of spare cards that would serve me well, some of them were unlockables on the 360. To my surprise the Duel Decks didn't hold the cards I wanted. I hadn't really looked into exactly what cards were in the decks assuming they'd be identical, but as it turns out, the physical decks were only inspired by their digital counterparts. D'oh.

The cards I got were far from awful however, they were just not as well matched with the extras I bought. Swapping a few of the cards I got with some older ones made it all better though. ;-)

And also, we finally got some protective sleeves for the cards. Our oldest cards have seen better days to be honest, and it was about time we got some protection for them. It made shuffling the decks a hundred times easier as well. :-))

Now, in all this there's one thing I'm not really happy with, and that's the Planeswalkers themselves. I got Liliana in the Fat Pack I ordered a few months back and also recieved both Liliana and Garruk with the Duel Decks. Currently I'm the only one in our group (of four) that has a Planeswalker and I think they're a little overpowered. Of course we don't have to play with them, and I always opt not to, to "even out" the game a bit. Even though the others sometimes insist I should. :-]

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