I learned Magic for free on my PS3

[notomtolose]

I felt this community was likely to benefit from this news. For those with (at least one, if not three) PS3s:

As part of the Welcome Back program for PS3, you have a free month of PlayStation Plus available to you. Within the past few days, the full basic version of Magic: Duels of the Planeswalkers has been made available free to PlayStation Plus subscribers.

Naturally, it will disappear once your month of PS+ expires. Plenty long enough seeing as in about two hours I've gone from knowing only what I gleaned from LRR videos to having a working knowledge of the game.

Fun times!
Enjoy.

[Ollie, don'tcha know!]

Now watch as your bank account slowly drains over the next month or two

[Myrph]

Or, wait a week, and pick up DotP 2012 for minimal cost and experience next years decks early!

[njsykora]

Or, wait a week, and pick up DotP 2012 for minimal cost and experience next years decks early!

This.

[Lyinginbedmon]

I re-learned magic by reading the rules on Wizards' website.

[Myrph]

Rules on a website are all well and good, but its not terribly useful if you've never played before. Besides, picking up a deck and actually using the cards is a completely different experience to just reading about it and looking at pictures!

[Lyinginbedmon]

That's where the spate of Magic videos by LRR came in handy

Once you can start understanding and explaining what's going on in those videos yourself, you're pretty much set.

[njsykora]

There is NOTHING better for learning a game than just playing it.

[HungryHungryHobo]

Yea playing the game is the best way to learn especially with some of the obscure abilities and how they actually work.

[Myrph]

Especially with the glossary feature on DotP. There are still terms and abilities I'm unfamiliar with (I started playing just before 8th Ed was released, and stopped shortly after, jumping back in with the release of DotP), so being able to zoom in on a card and get a detailed description of everything it does is brilliant.

[njsykora]

DotP taught me the regeneration rule. Every one of my friends wishes it didn't.

[theDreamer]

The issue is, there are a lot of weird interactions that you miss out on while playing.

I've gotten to the point where, 9 times out of ten, I get these weird interactions right.

I should ask someone about the Sharazad + Spawnsire of Ulamog hell that hopefully will NEVER HAPPEN.

Note: to get to this point, I asked DCI judges online, and read the full rules for the parts I need.

[RytelCSF]

I'm pretty sure the proper recourse for a combo involving Shahrazad and any other card is "concede immediately."

[Trymantha]

I should ask someone about the Sharazad + Spawnsire of Ulamog hell that hopefully will NEVER HAPPEN.

your playing the wrong Spawnsire combo, the correct one is Battle of wits and 200 Emarakuls

[theDreamer]

The point wasn't to WIN with spawnsire.

The question is: do cards in play in the first game of magic count as "not in this game" for the sake of pulling eldrazi into the sub-game?

I think yes, but I really don't know.

[Myrph]

The point wasn't to WIN with spawnsire.

The question is: do cards in play in the first game of magic count as "not in this game" for the sake of pulling eldrazi into the sub-game?

I think yes, but I really don't know.

Curiously, when I googled Spawnsire, I found a link which discussed, albeit briefly, that precise scenario.
By the sounds of it, it can pull cards from the main game, and that by doing so also stacks the triggered abilities from doing so, although they wait until after the subgame ends to resolve in the stack.

[theDreamer]

The point wasn't to WIN with spawnsire.

The question is: do cards in play in the first game of magic count as "not in this game" for the sake of pulling eldrazi into the sub-game?

I think yes, but I really don't know.

Curiously, when I googled Spawnsire, I found a link which discussed, albeit briefly, that precise scenario.
By the sounds of it, it can pull cards from the main game, and that by doing so also stacks the triggered abilities from doing so, although they wait until after the subgame ends to resolve in the stack.

That is exactly what I thought.

The original question was using Karn's ultimate inside a sub-game.

[Danzama]

Learning the game for free is cool, so is learning by playing with cards. But where did you lot learn the effects of single cards?

I keep on hearing "I will attack you with my Starshitter" followed by "OK I block with my razordong, you die.". When I play I always ask for stats, and feel like a noob.

[Trymantha]

that sort of thing just comes with time

[SilPho]

People playing Standard every week just start to know all of the relevant cards in the format. In much the same way that people eventually start learning which swords have better stats in MMOs etc.