
To understand why you will be as excited as I am, we have to go all the way back to the beginning. I couldn’t be more excited at all of the truly awesome things Magic Duels players will get to experience. I just completed an intense week at Stainless Games, collaborating on new features and content for an upcoming expansion to Magic Duels. (And you can find the game in the Apple store here.)ĭespite writing to you from the past, I’ve just spent a week in the future. When you read this, we will have officially launched on iOS devices.
As I write this, Magic Duels: Origins has not yet launched. I’m currently 35,000 feet above Greenland, flying back to Seattle from the United Kingdom. Cancelled.Game designers are also time travelers.
Magic Duels: Hour of Devastation (July 2017). Magic Duels: Aether Revolt (January 18/19, 2017). Magic Duels: Kaladesh (September 28/29, 2016). Magic Duels: Eldritch Moon (July 20, 2016). Released together with Oath of the Gatewatch. Magic Duels: Shadows over Innistrad (April 6, 2016). Instead of the Oath of the Gatewatch update being available in January, the release was suspended until April.
Magic Duels: Oath of the Gatewatch (April 2016). 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. The plane's inhabitants, and even the land itself, stand united to oppose them. Return to the wild plane of Zendikar where the monstrous Eldrazi threaten the entire world with destruction.
Magic Duels: Battle for Zendikar (November / December 2015). Players experience the origin stories of five iconic Planeswalkers through immersive gameplay. All the cards stayed in the player's cardpool and all the boosters of earlier sets would be kept available in the shop. Four times a year, those block booster sets would push down to Magic Duels as a huge card content update. Four times a year, Magic: The Gathering released a block booster set two sets per block, two blocks a year. It continued to expand with regular downloadable content that reflected the latest sets. Magic Duels launched with the new storyline featured in the Magic Origins set and Magic Origins boosters available in the store.
If you wanted to get cards quicker, you could also buy gold, but all gameplay content was earnable just by playing. As you played the game, you earned gold which you traded in for booster packs. Most of the learning came through situational tips as you played. The game focused on bringing in newcomers to Magic. Magic Duels was free to download and free to play.