![]() It can sometimes take a while for points to be credited, and you never to accumulate 100 before they are added to your account, and we are only talking about small amounts at a time but considering that it is free and easy to do it would be pointless to miss out. You can also take part in punchcard offers, these work along the lines of buy x amount of games and receive x ms points. When you have an active gold account theses bonuses give you a special birthday present and rebates on what you spend in the marketplace (1% for champion and 2% for legend) per month. One of the cool things they offer is recognition of your gamerscore, there are three thresholds, 3000 - 9999 Contender, 10000 - 24999 Champion and 25000 plus Legend. Other rewards include bonus points for renewing live gold accounts and taking out subscriptions to services such as Netflix. You can do this once a month a get 20msp per survey. Once signed up to this service it opens up a number of ways to earn, by far the easiest is to take a short (never really more than eight questions) survey. This method comes courtesy of Microsoft themselves, go here to register for Microsoft Rewards. Look at all the shiny booster packs, that's 48 rares right there. I'll leave you with a nice bit of geek porn, However I suppose on the other hand its good that this system is now dead as its really easy to now pick up and play. The other problem that arises from it being discontinued is the lack of future expansions, right now we only have the original release and the Metacharge release, meaning I have a good chance of owning all the cards in circulation, thrice over. A few things don't work so well, such as the 'Metacharge' mechanic, while with some attacks it's pretty self explanatory on some cards it fails to make any sense. In a way it's a shame that this is now a discontinued game, the cards are pretty cool and the stacking mechanic is innovative and works very well. Pretty much all my current deck is Silver rarity upwards. In relation to the game, Gold cards are pretty mean, so if your serious about getting a competitive deck its worth picking up one of these and a few kairu tins (these will be covered in a unboxing in the next week or so). I did quite well out of mine but it is worth mentioning that my friend also bought a box and only drew four or five Golds. Totaling 144 for the whole box, two cards of each pack is a rare with a chance of being super rare (silver and gold respectively). In the box you get 24 booster packs, each containing six cards. Here we can see the full box in all its glory, its quite small and compact but feels reassuringly heavy. The sealed box, note the 90% off sticker. These bad boys are £96.00 at RRP but I managed to pick one up for £9.60 at this shop, yeah that is 90% off, it's obscene how cheap these cards are going for at the minute. Up for today's consideration is these super ultra rare redakai gold pack. The Sporemound's are a big of an oddity, the main reason I am running them is to have another chance at getting tokens on the board in case I can't find Pack Rats or Slumlords. With this combo you can chump and kill most targets, pay the black and force a discard, then gain two 1/1 Rat Token's. The Ogre Slumlords mix nicely with a few other cards in the deck, firstly the tokens you receive when a non token creature dies really boosts up the Pack Rats power, secondly giving all rats deathtouch makes Drainpipe Vermin terrifying. A quite mean tactic I like to use is swing big, but not quite big enough to kill, leaving myself open then run a Druids Deliverance on the ensuing counter attack, leaving me a win on the next turn. I usually sit back building rats until I can swing for lethal, or near to it. ![]() Oddly a populate Pack Rat deck isn't something that I have seen much of, I favour it as it means not having to rely on discarding cards for more rats. ![]() this gave me access too three populate spells. With this deck I wanted to be making the most of those tokens and went Black/Green. as it stands the majority of my rat deck comes from the Return to Ravnica block and of course features everyone's favourite broken card, Pack Rat. Rat cards can easily be slipped into any block really, as they can be found pretty much everywhere. All in all I have lost eight cards (Ravenous Rats x4 and Prey upon x4), now the prey upon's can be replaced but it's the four extra furry bodies that i'm going to miss. One thing that's been annoying me about Theros so far is the complete lack of love for rodents, while the possibility of a Minotaur and Gorgon tribal decks is awesome the new block signals the end of the last. ![]()
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