Cardkingdom's Battle Decks
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Posted on Oct. 4, 2020, 2:52 p.m. by StardustDragon11
Can i get some first person feedback on the CardKingdom Battle Decks? Did you find them enjoyable and worth the money?
https://www.cardkingdom.com/catalog/shop/battle-decks
Basically, these are draft decks with 4 copies of important cards. Which is fine, but for replayability, I would actually go for pauper decks. Sure, it is only commons, but Pauper is the most accessible competitive format. You can usually build 8 diverse pauper decks for the price of one standard deck and organize a pretty nice tournament.
October 5, 2020 2:45 a.m.
StardustDragon11 says... #5
Pauper is great and is my preferred constructed format.
But... 300-500 bucks for 8-12 decks is rather untenable at the moment.
October 5, 2020 8:46 a.m.
channelfireball12345 says... #6
StardustDragon11 I mean you're not necessarily wrong about that, but unfortunately, given the current state of the MTG economy (which I have only a very rudimentary understanding of), that price range seems pretty close to as good as you'll get for that volume of competitive, playable decks. I'm a fan of pauper myself, though in my opinion the format suffers from pretty homogenized gameplay patterns, as many games have the tendency to be long and grindy, with many of the format's premier decks being built specifically to do well in those slower games, but I digress; that's an entirely different topic than what this thread is geared toward. If you're looking for a highly replayable, diverse, unique gameplay experience, it can be a bit difficult and time-consuming, but I'd recommend building your own cube. It can be pretty much any size, and you can tailor it to fit any number of stipulations or restrictions in the interest of a budget-friendly play experience, such as those of making it a peasant or pauper cube, among other things. Probably the best thing about cube is that you can monitor and regulate its power level yourself, which can work in the interest of making a more budget-friendly mode of play in which less expensive card choice doesn't necessarily equate to less powerful or less enjoyable gameplay environment.
GenericToaster says... #2
The problem with them is that they're pretty reasonably well balanced against each other, and that's about it, and even then, the replayability of using those decks against each other is also pretty low. Even if your playgroup runs pretty casual decks, you'll likely find that there are hardly any cards that are worth pulling out and sticking in to a deck of your own, if any at all. The question than would become, "are you willing to pay about $10 a deck that can only really be used maybe 2-3 times, and only if you have multiple to fight against each other?"
If you're the one fronting all the money for your playgroup, I'd say the answer is hell no. But if you and your friends play draft/limited regularly, than getting everyone to come to the table with 2 of those decks at $20/person might make for a nice way to shake things up for a weekend. Just don't expect to get much use out of them beyond maybe 2-3 weekends at best, and DEFINITLY don't expect to get $10 worth of cards out of one.
October 4, 2020 3:18 p.m.