Been playing the franchise since 2009 hit.
Played Duels and an expansion or two. I enjoyed it, but I ended up spending $50 for unlocks because I got tired of the grind. I asked Barney about the grind and he says he has spent approx 1000 hours grinding and 250ish hours with fully unlocked decks. I am not interested in that serious of a grind and I don't want to shell out that much cash either.
Does anyone still play the older games in the series? 2015 and 2014 were both awesome, I still love ancient wilds and auramancer from 2013. Of course I remember my attempt at "the deck" - 5 color control in 2015 designed to WIN. But I crafted all sorts of silly decklists to varying success.
I also remembered this deck:
I was scratching my head a little trying to remember why I titled the deck "surge," and then I remember, this started out as a deckbuilding challenge that included both Sheoldred and Warstorm Surge. The deck went through significant revisions and testing. Props to megabeast for recommending hunter's prowess, its an MVP even if it has to stay at one copy.
This was my far my favorite original list because it never plays the same. If you got blasting station you could just shut aggro decks down cold, but almost every card is "dual use" allowing for you to play as beatdown in many matchups. I systematically removed all the slower cards that took too long to generate advantage. So many hidden little tricks and interactions. Charmbreaker devils with 9 mana - cast haste the turn it comes into play to swing for the win. I also did my damndest to create synergy and functionality even if you don't draw blasting station. The deck could just win out of nowhere without committing much to the board which was a key advantage against wipe-heavy decks. And Mycoloth + Fling = BOOM!
In 2014 I loved the challenge of Dimir, and the elf deck was just awesome because generally I get bored with decks that flood the board with creatures. And obviously this was the first deck that let us go nearly creatureless in the Duels series - a simply delicious way of inducing frustrating in their opponents when they have a dead hand full of removal.
The 2013 Ancient Wilds deck is one of my favorites too - in many ways very similar to my Jund station deck because of combo-centric, non-linear playstyle.
Anyone else interested in the older games? Want to discuss what you like best?
I already have a bunch of friends on steam but if you are still interested look up HenWen on Steam, with exactly that spelling.
Oh and my 2009 bona-fides - the Vampire deck was the most broken thing in any duels game, ever. But I love playing the underdog! The U/R gelectrode deck did well here, but beating them with Mill or Mono U was such a challenge! The dreaded 2013 goblin deck was also a beating but it had plenty of competition.
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