This Wednesday: Magic the Gathering, Sam & Max hit the XBLA

FYI - There's no deckbuilding in DotP. Just saying in case it's a deal breaker for you.
On the plus side it has a co-op campaign.

I really want Magic and at that price I'm going to try it out. But the whole point to the card game is deck creation, so we'll see how much the game hinders that.

Sam & Max?! count me in!

2 things:

1. MtG duels of the Planeswalkers is a great game! I still have my copy of this on my computer desk because I get a hankering for it every once in a while. THe original game had huge AI flaws, like the AI opponent casting harmful spells on itself because it wanted to use them and it was the only legal target, but its still a blast to play.

2. Mtg: Battlegrounds the action game released for the original Xbox PS2 and PC, was a FANTASTIC GAME! I enjoyed that game more than any other game that year...I only wish it had taken off so we could have gotten a real expansion rather than the crap expansion that was thrown together at the very end of its life.

...on with the show...

According to GameStop.com, a new copy of Sam & Max for Wii is only about $15.00 US.

Yes! Magic! I know the deckbuilding is gimped (it's more like tweaking existing decks than deckbuilding) but the presentation looks nice and I really just want to scream "COUNTERSPELL, BITCH!" over my headset over and over.

Just kidding. Kinda.

Word of the wise, an expansion pack is already constructed for MTG. Unleashes 5 new campaign duels, and like 8 more challenges. I think it's about 500 points right now.

Anyone Remember the Pokemon TCG for the gameboy color? God that game was fun.

I need a new game like that in the XBLA.

It really is too bad M:TG turned to crap soon after Hasbro bought it. Now there's too many "special" abilities. Keep it to just X-walking, trample, and flying plz!

With that said, I wonder if there's any possibility to an expansion pack to this game for those of us old school players that want to use Moxes, Lotuses, and the like...

if you cant completely customize the decks I dont know if I want. eh might pick it up sometime in the future to deal with my occasional urges to get back into the game 10 years after I quit

just some clarification... its $10 less than the PC version, same price as the wii version. Thank you.

Would have been all over Sam and Max if I didn't already own it.
Magic sounds interesting.. No deck building doesn't really bother me so I'll be giving that a shot.

Damn though, I spent so much £ on Magic cards when I was a kid, and it killed me how rapidly the values dropped once the set rotated out of type2... (with a few notable exceptions obviously).

There's no way I'm not picking this up but I really REALLy hope that the DLC won't be too much of a gouging. I guess each DLC won;t add many cards but hopefully by carefully choosing which ones to put in each dlc will shake up the metagame enough to keep it feeling fresh. Does anyone know which edition it's based on/ have a spoiler list?

Also, I support the limited deck-building idea, I'm sure they've done it to allow for a decent metagame even with such a limited number of cards (Small pool means one deck more likely to dominate) as well as to prevent new players from being their own worst enemy (something anyone who remembers their first FNM event will appreciate)

Man, I haven't touched magic in years but just hearing this news and talking about it has me tap tap tapping in my head. Can't wait for this game - hours/cost ratio is going to be the best on XBLA yet!

Rocket Riot is also due out this Wednesday. The developer isn't too sure why they were ignored on the press release, though - even xbox.com says its out this weds!

I like (in a humorous way) how 90% of the posts are about the M:TG game, and not Sam and max :)

Signed, Magic Fanboy

Somehow Rocket Riot was not mentioned in the weekly XBLA announcement. While this makes us sad, the folks at Codeglue and THQ hope you give Rocket Riot a try. Many hours of wailing and gnashing, crying and frolicking(?) went into the game. With that said please let us know what you think when the game goes live this week! We'll be reading your comments, offering tips, and playing online. Hope to see you there!

i hope you can use the analogue sticks to walk around in Sam & Max
otherwise it would feel weird