Playing online provides a more convenient way to play a 'virtual deck' than playing at home with your friends while playing a deck full of proxies. For those of you who don't understand, a 'Virtual Deck' isn't made from physical cards which you buy. A virtual deck is nothing more than a list giving the names of each individual card, plus a means of selecting cards from the list randomly, i.e. drawing a card. If you have a 60 card deck (I prefer using only Highlander decks myself) and a d60 (or the RPoL Dice Roller), you're in business. Now you can play with all of those cards that you don't own, because you didn't start playing until Odyssey, or your budget for Magic cards is limited. That is actually what drove me to online play - I was spending too much money on Magic cards just to keep up with my friends.
This doesn't mean that you can't use your own physical cards when you play here. But the power level of your physical deck may be less than the power level of a virtual deck, which has access to every legal card in print. That's approximately 20,000 different cards versus your collection of actual cards.
If you want to play a virtual deck, please leave out the Power-9 [alpha base set moxes, black lotus, and Timetwister, Time Walk, and Ancestral Recall]. Also, if you decide to make a deck of mostly rares, you might give your opponent fair warning that the total value of the cards comprising your library would be over $500 USD if bought individually ;).
As mentioned in the Resources thread above, there is a spreadsheet, developed by me (he says modestly), that is a VERY useful tool for being able to play the game on RPOL.
You can find it here:
Using it is fairly straightforward - just read the Instructions tab on the spreadsheet and you should be able to pick it up - any questions/bugs etc, ask me - I'm usually on every day.
This message was last edited by the GM at 09:23, Sat 26 Sept 2015.
