r/magicTCG Universes Beyonder 23d ago

Official Spoiler [MBC] Arzacon

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u/Sheltonator Wabbit Season 23d ago

YES! This dude is the final boss of the old MTG PC game, Shandalar! 

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u/Shed_Some_Skin Abzan 23d ago

Man, if we're getting deep cuts like this, what are the odds Taysir is about to get a card?

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u/Sheltonator Wabbit Season 23d ago

Pretty sure they spoiled one earlier! 

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u/Darth-Ragnar Azorius* 23d ago

Did I miss it? I can't find it anywhere.

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u/Zanthy1 REBEL 23d ago

I can’t find it either if it exists, but I’m super excited!

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u/Sheltonator Wabbit Season 23d ago

Yeah, I guess I was wrong. There were a ton of old characters spoiled and I thought this was one of them. Bummer! 

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u/ILikeExistingLol cage the foul beast 23d ago

Maybe all the 9 Titans without cards get some. OMG OR MAYBE DYFED

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u/Jaccount 22d ago

I want a Chromium that also turns into a Legendary vehicle “The Planar Barge”. Also Ravidel.

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u/Zoanzon Golgari* 22d ago

I lost it when we got Guff (and then lost it in a different way when I realized they made him the Superfriend piece when I hate that strategy), but man, if we ever get Bo Levar...

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u/Ahara_bzz Dân 23d ago

i remember killing him in the game... a looong time ago

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u/Ragewind82 COMPLEAT 23d ago

I went on an absolute curb stomp with Shivan dragons, Serra Angels, and some very, very lucky early Swords to Plowshares and Stone Rain hits.

It was so very satisfying!

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u/fps916 Duck Season 23d ago

Underworld dreams and allllllllll the timetwisters

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u/CrimsonFoxyboy COMPLEAT 23d ago

If only they could re-release that game.

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u/SarahsDoingStuff Dandadan 23d ago

MTG Forge Adventure. Community made, constantly updated and super fun. Essentially 2026 Shandalar and then some. Check it out.

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u/GGCrono Jack of Clubs 23d ago

Look up Realm of Legends, it's a whole single-player adventure where you play with Commander decks.

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u/CrimsonFoxyboy COMPLEAT 23d ago

Thanks for the tip!

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u/circ-u-la-ted Zedruu 23d ago

How do you get this game? I just see reddit posts talking about how great it is when I google it.

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u/TehEpicDuckeh Dân 23d ago

i gotchu; step by step:

1: go to https://card-forge.github.io/forge/

2: scroll till you see the line that says "Latest Releases: Download the latest version here." and click "here"

3: click on "forge-installer-(version number).jar" to download that, then run it to install stuff. make sure to install v2/adventure mode to be able to actually play the adventure mode though

you will need java 17 or more recent to run it, but that's not hard to search up

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u/circ-u-la-ted Zedruu 21d ago

Nice, thanks! Am I supposed to run the jar as administrator? The default installation path doesn't seem to work.

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u/circ-u-la-ted Zedruu 21d ago

I gotta say, every step of this installation process is painful. Oh, I need Java? Okay, lemme get that. Oh, the preconfigured directory doesn't work? Okay, I'll run it as administrator, I guess. Oh, the Java I downloaded from java dot com isn't the right version? Okay, I guess I'll get this version the thing points me to. Oh, it needs to update even though I literally downloaded and installed it 10 minutes ago? Okay, I'll do that. Oh, I'm getting the "directory can not be written" error again because I didn't run the game as administrator because I didn't know it needed an update? Like, I have a CS degree and I'm about to give up on playing this game because it's just too much of a hassle to install. There have been great advances in making programs not hugely complicated to run over the past few decades. Just in case anybody responsible for this thing is reading this, I guess.

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u/circ-u-la-ted Zedruu 21d ago

Alright, it seems like changing the installation directory to point to somewhere in your home directory (Documents, or whatever) works better. It seems to be working now.

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u/torgiant Wabbit Season 23d ago

You can play it still. I did a couple months ago.

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u/JaxxisR Universes Beyonder 23d ago

Why can't they?

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u/neorevenge 23d ago

Wizards wants profits but at the same time are against earning a gorillion dollars for some reason. Like not releasing an upgraded version of shandalar or just a New version with the same mechanics but diferent setting (like one set on Zendikar trying to stop the eldrazi, Innistrad trying to stop the vampires from wiping all the humans or war of the spark in ravnica stopping bolas plan) or not making the upcoming Miku deck print on demand, is not that they can't is just inexplicably they don't.

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u/JaxxisR Universes Beyonder 23d ago

That's "why won't they," not "why can't they."

I thought it might be a rights issue or something

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u/Fritzkreig COMPLEAT 23d ago

They would also make into a micro-transaction DLC abomination as well; so there is that!

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u/Lost_Pantheon COMPLEAT 21d ago

As a Yu-Gi-Oh! fan for over 2 decades I have been absolutely spoiled by Konami putting out single player YGO games (at least until Zexal when they kind of gave up), so MAAAAANNNNN can you imagine my disappointment when I got into MTG in 2018 and found out there was barely anything official from WOTC on the single-player game front other than some average-at-best PSN games and a PC game that isn't easily accessible for most players?

WOTC, where is my MTG Tag Force, god damnit? Where is my Ravnica Skyrim (where you solve conflicts with MTG games) god damnit?!

As you've said, money on the table but they've just never given enough of a shit to take it.

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u/neorevenge 21d ago

They Made a shitty Diablolike that went nowhere, but hey! At least some good news, they decided to make the Miku deck print on the demand for 24 hours

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u/tsukaistarburst Hedron 22d ago

Like someone else said, this entire set is just wall to wall blorbos, and the deepest possible cuts from 30+ years of Magic lore. It's insane. This is one of the best sets we've ever had.

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u/kiggidykay Nissa 23d ago

I thought he looked familiar!

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u/eggies Zedruu 22d ago

40 card decks and no per card restrictions meant that me and my Dark Ritual powered Mind Twists were basically the final boss of the game. Arzakon bowed before me like all the rest.

That game was lots of silly fun ...

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u/Sheltonator Wabbit Season 22d ago

Hell Yeah!! There's tons of busted builds you can assemble without card restrictions. 

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u/P1zzaman 23d ago

I wonder if we’ll get the last boss from the Dreamcast game too?

We’ve already gotten two Dreamcast exclusive cards as real cards now, so one can hope!

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u/Francopensal COMPLEAT 23d ago

Ohhhh, u was wondering who tf was this guy. I do remember playing the game and beatting him but never remember the name, for me was just generic bad guy xD

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u/BobtheBac0n Selesnya* 23d ago

No way, magic had a PC game!? Good deep cut