The Like/Hate Thread

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There is a MTG: Online but you still have to pay for the online cards.



http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Digital/MagicOnline.aspx

Oh Waff, I missed this. The quote you did of the startup is outdated. They completely changed it.

Lemme dig up what they just changed it to (Magic 2010 is the new core set, btw. Think "11th Edition" if that helps. They'll be yearly now for tournament rotation reasons, with the current set always being dated for the year it will rotate out of Type 2).

http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=1224880

Magic: The Gathering Online is changing the contents of new player accounts. Starting after the downtime on August 5th, purchase a new account for Magic Online and receive everything you need to begin playing right away! Best of all, the price is staying the same, just $9.99 USD.

New account contents:
Over 300 Magic Online Cards (150 basic lands and over 150 Magic 2010 Commons and Uncommons)
One Magic 2010 booster pack
Two Magic Online event tickets
Five Basic Player Avatars
Also, if you’re not familiar with deck building or you just want to get in the game and start playing, no problem! We’ll get you jump started by providing you with 5 deck lists that use the cards from your new account.

EDIT: By the way, Online also always keeps the most updated errata/wording for things, unlike offline. So if you have a 5th Edition Goblin King with the creature type "Lord", you won't have to memorize that the current printings of them are "Goblin" type instead with its ability now saying "Each OTHER goblin..." I like that part a lot. Also, the new wordings are in effect, so we are all having to get used to "Comes into Play" being changed to "Enters the Battlefield" (and yes, lots of "wtf YGO FUCKING OUR GAME UP" comments have come up, but the point is to make it a bit more immersible and intuitive), "Remove from the Game" = "Exile", and returning to "casting" spells and "activating" abilities, since the word "Play" was being used way too much. You were PLAYing spells, you were PLAYing the ability of a card in PLAY, things were confusing people where they put something into PLAY from your hand and this was not the same as PLAYing it from your hand, etc. Now that card is reworded "You may put a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield" and certain cards that cared say "When this enters the battlefield, if it was not cast from your hand, you lose the game" for clarity.