A quick intro for those who never played. You're a planeswalker. A spell slinging rockstar. You use your spells to battle other planeswalkers. Bring the other guy to zero life and you win.
If you played other versions of DOTP not much has changed. There's still Campaign, Multiplayer, and Challenges. New this time around is sealed deck witch I will discuss later.
Campaign
Campaign lets you use pre-constructed decks to battle AI opponents. As you advance through the levels you unlock new cards and decks. You are unable to to build decks in Campaign but you can tweak decks with cards you unlocked. Either I have gotten better since last years game or the AI is weaker.
Sealed
In Sealed you are given six booster packs (15 cards each) and use these cards to build your deck. You can either construct the deck yourself or let the AI do it for you. Once you have a deck, give it a name and pick a deck box. There is a unique campaign for your sealed deck that lets you unlock more boosters to improve your deck. This deck can also be used for multiplayer games.
Challenges
If you are familiar with those chess puzzles in the paper you'll get the idea of Challenges. You're put in a situation and have to achieve a certain outcome. Things like win in this round or survive an attack. Only did one challenge. I don't get much enjoyment from them.
Multiplayer
You can play either Sealed or Campaign. Only difference is you play another person instead of AI.
Custom
This mode includes Free -For-All and Two-Headed Giant. I have played these.
Over all this is a great MTG experience. It's not as robust as the physical card game or the online version but it's a lot cheaper and MTG online is terrible. It's a good introduction to TCGs for new players with enough meat to satisfy those playing for years. If you never played grab the free version and try it out. It will be good practice and help pass the time until Hex: Shards of Fate is released. I'll be posting about Hex soon.
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