With summer ending soon and a new semester of school on the horizon, this looks to be the tail end of my focus on Duels. When the Next iOS product is released (and I have spare time again), I look forward to checking in on a thriving NGA community.

Thanks for the fun deck lists and quality input on my first few deck building attempts. In the end, I have to agree with the first advice I received from Barney et al. that counterspell decks are not the best approach to the format. Being stubborn, I had to try mono-Blue to be sure, and slowly the deck worked back around to 3 color PW with removal (boring, but effective).

From this process, my hope is that MDN will be an overhaul for the game and make it a better digital experience. Further, for eternal formats, I would like them to put more effort into designing balanced cards in each set. There are a number of cards in the game that shouldn't exist because they are unplayable or strictly worse copies of other spells. A simple design fix could be adding drawbacks or taxes to spells and effects, since this would offset power creep. I think the 3 mana sweeper that skips untap was a cool idea.

Maybe some people enjoy taking turns curving out with one-sided card advantage engines (or counters/removal), but I need more depth to stay interested.

i thought i was more bored at school and needed games like magic duels to help kill time. During summer breaks there were much more other fun stuff to do. maybe as your new semester goes on, you would play more duels in the dorm than now.