{"id":1575,"date":"2009-06-23T09:26:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T14:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2009-06-23T09:26:03","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T14:26:03","slug":"magic-the-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/23\/magic-the-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic: the Gathering on the 360"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since we devoted <a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/07\/three-moves-ahead-episode-7-collectible-card-games\/\">an entire podcast to collectible card games<\/a> and one of the highlights was a fight between Tom and Julian over why <em>Magic<\/em> sucks, I really should be playing the new 360 version.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe not. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerswithjobs.com\/node\/45636\">Over at GWJ<\/a>, Julian Murdoch writes about why the game is addictive but not quite fulfilling. Punch line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By simplifying the game so much, I find myself yearning for the &#8220;real&#8221; experience of Magic: customizing decks to min-max my way to cheap victory. Deck customization in Duels is anemic, consisting only of adding more cards to basic decks, with no ability to fine-tune the distribution or remove ineffective cards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we devoted an entire podcast to collectible card games and one of the highlights was a fight between Tom and Julian over why Magic sucks, I really should be playing the new 360 version. Or maybe not. Over at GWJ, Julian Murdoch writes about why the game is addictive but not quite fulfilling. Punch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-pp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1576,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}