Magic: The Gathering -- Duels of the Planeswalkers is getting bigger. At a PAX event Saturday night, co-publisher Wizards of the Coast announced “Duel of the Dragon,” an expansion for the downloadable title that adds more cards, decks, and opponents.
One of the cards added is a “new” Planeswalker.
The expansion is slated to hit on Xbox LIVE Marketplace this fall. The price and exact date are unknown at this time. We’ve contacted Wizards of the Coast for the exact details, but the publisher didn’t respond to our inquiry immediately.
Just to be clear, here: the expansion doesn’t appear to add the ability to fully customize decks, despite the new cards being offered. We know this is a sore spot for a quite a few of you, so feel free to complain or defend in the comments. (Only pansies need to customize, anyway. Nyah.)
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4:20 PM on 09.07.2009
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More variety is always good, and otogi guy has a point...the downside of fully customisable decks is the people who construct the ones that suck the fun right out of the game =P
still, this game is essential to someone like me who has friends scattered all over the place, though nothing beats the real deal.
more exclamation points to emphasize my plight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In this digital game, the PlanesWalker is just an avatar.
A Planeswalker in the paper game does act as something similar to what you described. That would also be true in the digital game, but they decided to leave them out of the game to keep things less complicated and also because it would be weird flavor-wise. It doesn't make sense (for example) for Chandra to cast a spell that summons Chandra onto the field to aid her.
@Brad
By "new Planeswalker card" do you mean "new Planeswalker avatar"? It makes no sense to me to add a Planeswalker card to the game at this point for the reasons I already stated and also for the fact that it would unbalance the decks (especially when that Planeswalker is Nicol Bolas, which I assume it is by the name of the expansion). I'm pretty sure Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker would dominate when everyone is playing with precons.
http://wololo.net/wagic/2009/08/15/wagic-081-aka-wagic-2010-is-here/