You are not wrong. The named characters (Chandra Nalaar, Rhys, etc.) from the cards are the planeswalker opponents. I don’t think any of them actually appear in their own decks.
OK, I sort of figured that, but I’d have thought that the opponent would at least set the theme or style of the deck (i.e., that if their card were in the deck, it’d fit in well).
During my brief second involvement with MTG, Split Second was my absolute favorite mechanic. I beat a Type 1 Tournament-quality deck with a Type 2 casual deck and a Trickbind, and killed a Sliver player in a big multiplayer game with Mana Burn after some poor sequencing on his part, by using Krosan Grip on the artifact he planned to dump the mana through.
They do not actually leave play. The regeneration is a replacement effect that essentially says, “The next time this creature would be destroyed, instead it isn’t destroyed. Remove all damage from it, remove it from combat (if it happens to be in combat), and tap it.”
This would matter in quite a few cases, actually. One off the top of my head: If you have a Soul Warden in play, you would not gain 1 life from the Drudge Skeletons regenerating.
Makes sense - thanks.
I downloaded the game as part of the Welcome Back package for PS3. Are there enough players here on the Dope to occasionally play against each other?
I stopped playing Magic in the late 90s when I got sick of only finding pre-teens playing burn decks and all my favorite expansions went out of T2. I’d love to get back into it and even tried the online version, but I find it even harder to justify spending money on virtual cards than I do now on physical ones.