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Magic Duels : Origins

The core set of Magic Duels: Online comes from the recently released Origins set (well, a strong portion of it at least), and all of the familiar MTG gameplay remains intact with the exception of. Based on the blockbuster Magic: The Gathering universe, Magic Duels Origins invites you to experience the world’s most popular strategy game with an all-new, free-to-play game battle. Magic Duels, originally titled Magic Duels: Origins, is the follow-up to Duels of the Planeswalkers. It includes a new model for monetization; unlike the earlier games, it is free to play. Unlike Magic: The Gathering Online, it is possible to earn cards via 'grinding' rather than paying money. Origins was released on July 29, 2015. The Sets above represent Magic’s Standard format. Older Sets rotate out of Standard annually as new sets are added. Learn more about the format HERE. Get Our Products On. MTG Arena Tabletop Magic Online. Great for New Players. All; MTG Arena Download free and experience Magic right on your PC. Magic Duels is a free to play digital collectible card game based on the Magic: The Gathering series. A successor to the Duels of the Planeswalkers series, Magic Duels aims to replicate the basic experience of playing Magic digitally. Players unlock more cards by buying booster packs.

Magic the Gathering, the granddaddy of trading card games, has over the last years been experimenting with how to get the game out to computers and especially mobile platforms. As the card game has new sets of cards every year, they decided on making a new computer game every year. So there is a Magic 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. That started out with you being only able to play premade decks to which you added more cards you gained by playing. But every version had a bit more freedom, and the 2015 Magic had a full deckbuilder for your own decks and the possibility to buy cards. At which point it turned out that a new game every year doesn't mix well with buying virtual cards which you can't transfer to the next game. So Wizards of the Coast changed their strategy and is now making a new game without a year in the name: Magic Duels : Origins. It is already out for iOS, and will come to PC and XBox later.

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On the one side Magic Duels : Origins is free. You get the game and the full story mode for free, which gives you the same guided experiences as previous versions: In 5 stories you play an increasingly complex mono-colored deck against premade AI decks to learn the basics of each color. But while doing that you also earn coins. And the game gives you a free starter set for deckbuilding. The coins buy you boosters, and then you can create your own decks to play either against AI opponents of various difficulty or against other people in duels or even two-headed giant mode.
Magic Duels : Origins thus nearly replaces the aging Magic the Gathering : Online, and is a lot closer to playing the card game than the annual version were. And that comes with a big warning: Magic the Gathering is the game that invented the Pay2Win principle. On paper you can get all the cards for free by playing, but a 6-card booster costs 150 gold, and you only gain 5 to 15 gold from a win against the AI and 20 from a win against another player. So there is a strong temptation to buy coins for money. Magic Duels : Origins has the steepest rebate scheme for such purchases that I have ever seen: $20 buys you one booster, 20 times $2 doesn't buy you 20 boosters but 50. Which means you absolutely shouldn't make small purchases in this game. Play for free, then if you decide you have enough fun to justify spending money, spend directly $40 for those 50 boosters. That still doesn't get you every card in the game, but already a much bigger base from which to builds decks from. With the big purchase rebate the virtual cards cost less than the paper version.
Personally I made that $40 purchase, because I love the complexity of Magic and find Hearthstone far too simple for my tastes. But I'd say that for most people the simpler and cheaper Hearthstone is probably the better option, and Magic Duels : Origins is the niche option for the veteran geek. I'll get my fun out of those $40, but that is because I love building decks.

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Magic Duels was a digital free-to-play Magic game that was first released in July, 2015 on Xbox One, iOS, and PC via Steam. It was the successor to, and evolution of, the Duels of the Planeswalkers series.[1][2] Unlike the Duels of the Planeswalkers-series, which were unconnected annual releases, Magic Duels didn't get replaced each year. Lead designer was Drew Nolosco. A PlayStation 4 port was in-development after launch but was cancelled in August 2016.[3] Updates were cancelled in June 2017, to make way for Magic Digital Next.[4] Digital support was ended on November 26, 2019.[5]

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Magic Duels was free to download and free to play. The game focused on bringing in newcomers to Magic. Most of the learning came through situational tips as you played.[6] As you played the game, you earned gold which you traded in for booster packs. If you wanted to get cards quicker, you could also buy gold, but all gameplay content was earnable just by playing.[7]

Editions[edit | edit source]

Magic Duels launched with the new storyline featured in the Magic Origins set and Magic Origins boosters available in the store. It continued to expand with regular downloadable content that reflected the latest sets. Four times a year, Magic: The Gathering released a block booster set; two sets per block, two blocks a year. Four times a year, those block booster sets would push down to Magic Duels as a huge card content update. All the cards stayed in the player's cardpool and all the boosters of earlier sets would be kept available in the shop.

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  • Magic Duels: Origins (July 2015). Players experience the origin stories of five iconic Planeswalkers through immersive gameplay.[8][9]
  • Magic Duels: Battle for Zendikar (November / December 2015). Return to the wild plane of Zendikar where the monstrous Eldrazi threaten the entire world with destruction. The plane's inhabitants, and even the land itself, stand united to oppose them. Answer the call and join the Battle for Zendikar! The update features over 150 new cards to collect, a new story campaign, and fixes for platform-specific issues.[10]
  • Magic Duels: Oath of the Gatewatch (April 2016). Instead of the Oath of the Gatewatch update being available in January, the release was suspended until April.[11]
  • Magic Duels: Shadows over Innistrad (April 6, 2016). Added 170 new cards. Released together with Oath of the Gatewatch.[7]
  • Magic Duels: Eldritch Moon (July 20, 2016). Added 131 new cards.
  • Magic Duels: Kaladesh (September 28/29, 2016). Added 167 new cards.
  • Magic Duels: Aether Revolt (January 18/19, 2017). Added 138 new cards.
  • Magic Duels: Amonkhet (April 26/27, 2017). Added 169 new cards.
  • Magic Duels: Hour of Devastation (July 2017). Cancelled.[4]

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  • 1,000+ unique, earnable Magic cards;
  • 50+ free story-driven Campaign Missions;
  • Full Deck Builder, Improved card filter and options;
  • Deck Wizard — a step-by-step assistant which make building popular deck archetypes quick and easy;
  • First-ever playable Planeswalker cards;
  • Solo Battle mode featuring virtually endless AI opponents;
  • Expanded multiplayer options, including Two-Headed Giant mode;
  • Quest system with new individual and community challenges every week;
  • Limitless Free-to-Play with 100% earnable content;
  • All-new Skill Quest tutorial system;
  • Purchasable Avatars/Personas
  • New customizable card sleeves and full-art lands;

References[edit | edit source]

Magic Duels Origins Ps4 Release
  1. ↑Magic Duels: Origins press release
  2. ↑Drew Nolosco (July 8, 2015). 'Magic Duels: Origins Dev Diaries'. magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  3. ↑Magic Duels Facebook Update; PS4 port cancelled [1]
  4. ↑ abJeffrey Steefel (June 13, 2017). 'Magic Digital Next Update'. magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  5. ↑Ending Official Support for Magic Duels. Steam (November 26, 2019).
  6. ↑ID@Xbox Spotlight: Magic Duels: Origins Bring Free-to-Play Card Game Action to Xbox One
  7. ↑ abMatt Tabak and Drew Nolosco (March 2, 2016). 'Changes Are Here, to Coin a Phrase'. magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  8. ↑Magic Origins Planeswalkers young and old
  9. ↑Blake Rasmussen (June 16, 2015). 'Magic Duels: Origins Gameplay Trailer'. magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  10. ↑Battle for Zendikar update
  11. ↑Michael Yichao (January 7, 2016). 'Oath of the Gatewatch Approaches!'. magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
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