My Magic DotP 2012 Deck Lists

Wielding Steel

24 Lands
24 Plains

26 Creatures
4 Elite Vanguard
1 Gideon's Avenger
2 Gideon's Lawkeeper
3 Glory Seeker
2 Kitesail Apprentice
2 Kor Duelist
3 Kor Hookmaster
3 Kor Outfitter
1 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Puresteel Paladin
2 Sunspear Shikari
2 Loxodon Gatekeeper

10 Spells
1 Brave the Elements
1 Infiltration Lens
2 Kitesail
1 Pennon Blade
1 Strider Harness
2 Trusty Machete
1 Argentum Armor
1 Sword of War and Peace

The most powerful deck I have. All extra 20 cards for the deck are unlocked but I skip the expensive boss creatures and went with Weenies and Equipment Theme.


Realm of Illusion

24 Lands
24 Island

21 Creatures
1 Aether Figment
3 Blind Phantasm
4 Krovikan Mist
4 Phantasmal Bear
3 Phantom Beast
2 Phantom Warrior
2 Lord of the Unreal
1 Phantasmal Dragon
1 Sower of Temptation

15 Spells
2 Cancel
1 Disorient
2 Divination
1 Fleeting Distraction
1 Mind Spring
3 Repulse
1 Summoner's Bane
1 Time Warp
2 Counterspell
1 Concentrate

This is fairly powerful like what is currently popular in Magic's Standard format. I've not gotten all the cards but I don't think I will be using what's left to unlock. The bounce cards are especially useful against opponent's tokens and illusions. I will like to get rid of Fleeting Distraction and Disorient but there are not much choices to replace them.


Blood Hunger

24 Lands
24 Swamp

30 Creatures
2 Barony Vampire
3 Bloodrage Vampire
1 Captivating Vampire
2 Child of Night
3 Duskhunter Bat
2 Gatekeeper of Malakir
2 Quag Vampires
2 Ruthless Cullblade
1 Sangromancer
3 Tormented Soul
2 Vampire Aristocrat
2 Vampire Nighthawk
1 Vampire Nocturnus
2 Vampire Outcasts
1 Mirri the Cursed
1 Bloodghast

6 Spells
2 Feast of Blood
2 Urge to Feed
2 Vicious Hunger

I think this is a vampire/black weenie swarm deck so I removed all the expensive spells. I like the keep the deck functioning with 2-4 swamps and use the excess land for regenerating Bloodghast although there is only 1. The deck is susceptible to board wipes but then again, there are no Wrath of God or Day of Judgement to worry about. You just have to be wary of Red spells like Slagstorm or Blue's mass bounce spell, Evacuation.

Magic DotP 2012 Deck Lists and Card Unlocks

Official link


I didn't know this is available online. I find myself sticking to Gideon Jura – Wielding Steel, Jace Beleren – Realm of Illusion and Sorin Markov – Blood Hunger.


I do not find the other decks interesting as not being able to have complete play-sets of cards (4 each) is a turn off for me and the multi-color decks do not feature dual lands.

Magic DotP 2012 Deck Packs expansion

Didn't know about these! I haven't been playing Duels of the Planeswalker since the first DLC expansion.

Article about 1st deck pack

Article about 2nd deck pack

3rd pack is coming today! (12 Jan)

PS Vita + Yugioh Tag Force = iOS Yugioh game in the future?

PS Vita has been out for before Christmas in Japan and Hong Kong. You can get your hands on the import sets in Singapore. The specs are high-end compared to the Nintendo 3DS and one main feature that I noticed is that the "PSP" finally gets a touchscreen (in front and at back too) and a capacitive one for that matter.

This means you do not need a stylus unlike the DS family and just like the iOS family of iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads. I believe and hope that the next Tag Force game will be re-designed to be played and controlled by fingers and when that happens, it should not be too hard to port that design over for iOS!

Tag Force 6 Starter Deck Guide

This year's Tag Force give a total of 3 starter decks and no side-deck which really isn't required. There is a XYZ Rescue Rabbit deck, a synchro Scrap deck and a no-extra-pile Anti-meta Core Chimail deck. This amounts to about 100 cards in your card library at the beginning. I looked at the decklists from Yugioh Wikia and picked out the better cards in my opinion to form my own starter deck and I ended up with a Anti-meta Rescue Rabbit deck.

20 Monsters
3 Hunter Dragon
3 Clown Zombie
1 Beast King Barbaros
1 D.D. Assailant
1 Fossil Dyna Pachycephalo
1 Chaos Sorceror (recommended to download Sept ban-list and rent BLS to replace this)
1 Cyber Dragon
1 Paladin of the Cursed Dragon
2 Rescue Rabbit
1 D.D. Warrior Lady
1 Card Trooper
1 Sangan
1 Doomcaliber Knight
1 Rai-oh
1 Summon Priest

10 Spells
1 Wiseman's Chalice
1 Swing of Memories
1 MST
1 Pot of Avarice
1 Lightning Vortex (until you get Dark Hole)
1 Forbidden Chalice
1 Creature Swap
1 My Body as Shield
1 Symbols of Duty
1 Burden of the Mighty

10 Traps
1 Solemn Warning
1 Dimensional Prison
1 Trap Stun
1 Bottomless Traphole
1 Compulsory Evacuation Device
1 Dust Tornado (until you get another MST)
1 Trap Hole (until you get another Bottomeless)
1 Sakuretsu Armor (until you get another D. Prison)
1 Dark Bribe (until you get Solemn Judgement)
1 Raigeiki Break

I am a little tired of Yugioh at the moment so I'll probably wait for the US version of Tag Force 6. Until then, happy dueling!

Tag Force 6 Starter Deck #1 XYZ Rabbit

The deck list is out at yugioh wikia tag force 6 page. http://bit.ly/piWDgj It seems like the biggest extra deck ever provided in a game starter. The deck also looks pretty competitive right from the start with quite a lot of good cards and the deck promotes XYZ monsters very well.

Leviair is in there and combos well with Chaos Sorcerer, Rescue Rabbit, Mezuki and Ghost ship. The deck is 42 cards so I suggest reducing to 40 by removing Oni-Gami combo and Star changer spells.

Update: It appears there are more cards in the trunk. You also start with two other decks and there are many good cards to include to boost the XYZ rabbit deck. I'm going to look through and combine them to see what I can come up with!

Yugioh Tag Force 6 first month's DLC Schedule

I'm posted it here for easy future reference.

September 22nd, 2011: Forbidden & Limited Fall 2011, Crimson Blader, Sonic Warrior, Star Bright Dragon, and Influence Dragon

September 29th, 2011: Number 39: Utopia

October 6th, 2011: Number 17: Leviathan Dragon

October 13th, 2011: Number 10: Illuminknight

October 20th, 2011: Thunder End Dragon

Credits to cashman_11 posted on gamefaqs board

I saw another post saying the Sept 22 download contains XYZ Gadget recipe. The notable thing about that deck is that it uses 2 Summon Priests.

Dueling with the Planeswalkers

It's been over 10 years since I last played Magic:The Gathering(MTG) and today I'm finally back at it. I tried out Magic 2012 trial on PS3 and I liked it, so I bought a $20 value PSN card(cost SGD$39) to buy it off the US Playstation Store. The game cost only USD$9.99 which makes it the cheapest digital card game so far in my library! I wasn't sure if my credit card will work for the US store and PSN was also hacked not too long ago where credit card accounts got stolen so...

After playing so many handheld digital card games, it's nice to play one in 720p HD quality. MTG also used painting quality art and the interface is also very sleek and beautiful. My knowledge of the game was rusty but there are tips throughout that help.

One note about the game, the decks are pre-constructed and you are only allowed to unlock and change 15 cards so you do not get to build your own deck in the game. It is a refreshing change and players can pick up the game immediately without having to search for deck recipes. I rely on my old knowledge from this Inquest magazine that rates MTG cards that helps me choose cards which I think it is better to modify the deck. Once you unlock cards, you have to go to the deck manager to edit as the com just adds them into the deck. Similar to Yugioh, you'll want to keep your deck size to the min allowed; 60.

There is also the previous version, Magic Duel of the Planeswalkers 2011. I read some comparisons and it seems that 2012 has improvements and a better interface. There was a forum poster that mentioned 2011 decks are more fun. I tried out the 2011 trial and it didn't appeal to me at all. 2012's expansion is also out recently(14 Sept) as a download content for US$4.99 and it adds more stuff like unlockable cards and I will be spending the rest of the $20 value on that.

Update: I really need to tell you that the loading times on the game are horrible! It loads for a long time even when loading up a deck in the Deck Manager which I think is unacceptable for a game that is run from the hard-disk.

Ocg X-sabers and dragons to take off?

I've read about the next structure deck as well as extra pack 4's rarity revelations. (from duelinglegacy and shriek) It seems like X-sabers might be a deck to look out for according to Konami's pricing.

Xx-saber darksoul is the key card to x-sabers and with 2 call of the haunted to combo with, it is an ultra rare and i think Konami expects it to help sell boxes of extra pack 4. With darksoul, you only need to run 2 faultrolls and boggart knights, just search up on the TCG top x-saber decks and take a look. We'll see if x-sabers rises to top tier in OCG. OCG Top tiers in my opinion currently consists of: lightlords, agents and Junk
Doppel.

A little speculation on the likely reprints in that upcoming dragon structure. I'm guessing it will include this: red eyes metal darkness dragon, light and darkness dragon and cards of consonance. Tag force 6 comes with a dragon tuner too, so it might go with the structure deck well. Can't wait for Tag force 6!