Magic: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2015

 Xbox One
User Score
5.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 31 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 31
  3. Negative: 13 out of 31

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  1. JayOG
    Aug 2, 2015
    5
    The game starts out alright with everything I expected, but at the end of the campaign I am playing the boss- Garruk and I am drawing ASTRONOMICALLY unlikely and bad hands. And I am drawing this over and over again. As a college math professor I am just thinking how do they think they can get away with this? I guess maybe because some players don't know about probability? Then againThe game starts out alright with everything I expected, but at the end of the campaign I am playing the boss- Garruk and I am drawing ASTRONOMICALLY unlikely and bad hands. And I am drawing this over and over again. As a college math professor I am just thinking how do they think they can get away with this? I guess maybe because some players don't know about probability? Then again magic players are pretty smart. I don't mind a challenge, but the game should have been tested, and someone should have noticed this. It's beyond reason. For example I have a 66 card deck with 22 lands,and I will draw 12-13 cards and draw no lands. The probability of that is less than 1%, and this has happened to me many times. Not only this but I'll take 3 mulligans and draw 1 card out of 66- THE SAME CARD ALL 3 TIMES! The chances of that are about .0000034. Combine that with the mulligans drawing no lands and or cards that cost more than 4 when there are only 5 in the entire deck that cost more than 4... one of which was drawn 3 times in a row. I think it is an extremely lazy way to have programmed the game- to base my draw based on what will make me have a bad draw. Instead they should just let the deck play itself. If the deck doesn't play as it should probabilistically then it is NOT magic. The math dude who created the game might be very disappointed at this kind of breaking of the game.… Expand

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Metascore
59

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. Gaming Nexus
    Jan 14, 2015
    74
    This is still a solid offering for fans of the classic trading card game. This is about as close to Magic as you can get without actually dealing out the cards.
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  2. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Jan 6, 2015
    40
    Paper armies are all the rage these days; this is just enraging. [Jan 2015, p.89]
  3. COGconnected
    Dec 12, 2014
    60
    Even with the expansion included, Magic: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2015 doesn’t offer enough variety and makes it too difficult to progress through the game without feeling pressured to buy cards with physical money.
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