PAX 2009: Duel the Dragon DLC coming to Duels of the Planeswalkers

We've just returned from the Wizards of the Coast Magic: The Gathering party (where we were in the company of *NAME DROP ALERT* Wil Wheaton / Wesley Crusher / übergeek), and we've returned from the fray with tapped mana and ... information. WotC announced new DLC and a title update coming (finally) to the XBLA version of Duels of the Planeswalkers.

Duel the Dragon, the first expansion to the popular Magic: The Gathering for the Xbox 360 set, features three new decks, six more ladder levels, new challenges including "multi-turns" that require more than one turn to win, and a final boss that is strongly hinted at in the title. They didn't announce a date for the DLC except for "soon." Even sooner than that, however, will be a full title update, which includes numerous bug fixes (no more freezes!), a forfeit option, and more.

WotC execs foolishly chose yours truly to be the first to demo the new expansion, and through extreme amounts of audience help, which consisted of shouts of NOOOOO! and YEEEEEAHHHHH!, my black & blue deck triumphed over Sarkhan Vol. We'll have assets for the DLC soon, which thankfully won't include our blurry partycam shot above. Sadly the new DLC does not include deck customization, but keep hope alive.

Reader Comments (29)

Well that's just awesome! Here's hoping they can keep up the fairly good balance the game has with the new decks thrown in. Also, more challenges are always welcome.

I'm actually looking forward to this. I've had a lot of fun with the game.

me too bro'

I enjoyed this game a lot - but it needs new content badly.

They call it dual of the planeswalkers, yet there are no actual planeswalker cards in the game. :/

Of course, everyone whose played magic forever knows that planeswalkers are what the players are supposed to be in the mythology of the M:tG universe, so the title is still appropriate, since that specific card type wasn't even introduced until 2007.

I only started when shards of alara was introduced, but i still don't see why each planeswalker couldn't use their respective cards...

Nicol Bolas is in the game, though as a regular dragon, not the planeswalker.

man that game is beyond addicting, had to get off it for a couple of days

Man that DA:O ad is annoying... I'd try to abide by the whole 'if you don't like it, scroll past' thing, but it just follows you! Maybe with the big bucks Joystiq's (hopefully) getting paid, they'll finally give us an edit button.

/looking a gift horse in the mouth.

So am I the only one that finds the main page hard to look at with that Dragon Age ad in the background? It really messes with your eyes when you scroll the page.

shrink your browser horizontally so you can't see it :P

This seriously needs to come out for PSN

Ya I'm waiting for this on PS3 as well. I hope it comes out some what soon.

Why do you need a forfeit option? If you feel like forfeiting, can't you just mana burn yourself to death? Unless of course you play red spell deck, and you just sacrificed all your mountains. But then you'd be dead in 2 turns anyway.

I don't think you can tap mana. Spells do it automatically when you play them. They might have gotten rid of the mana burn rule too.

There is no more mana burn under M10 Magic rules.

Interesting fact that may annoy some people;

This DLC has been done and ready to go for many months now. But it wasn't added to the original release, just so they could make more money :\

It adds 3 challenges, and the 'final boss' is just a dragon deck featuring an older legendary dragon remade.

Not exciting at all.

wait, is this a eye of judgement and yugioh ripoff without the camera??

Joke post? It's an online card game based on Magic: The Gathering, the most popular trading card game in the world. So the answer to your question is, "NOOOOOO."

oh, ok. i've never heard of it so yea.

If I remember correctly, M:TG was the very first collectible card game.

You mean Hwil Hweaton.

Hopefully they add a feature to build your own deck instead of using the craptastic premade ones.

That's what I'm waiting for.

Well, this is cool news. Still, it is prehaps a bit sad that I'm more excited about the bug fixes than the additional content. No deck customization means I probably won't be buying the DLC.

This is all good news ,but I'm still hoping for two headed dragon as a normal xbl match type.

WHHHAATTT! But.. ugh.. I can't believe they remove voluntary mana burn.

WHY IS WOTC SIDESTEPPING THE ONE FUCKING THING THIS GAME NEEDS!?!?!

TWO-HEADED DRAGON OVER LIVE

ok I'm done yelling. But damn, we really really really really need co-op live play.

Final boss is Nicol Bolas. He has a 5-color deck. Enjoy your spoiler.

PAX 2009: Duel the Dragon DLC coming to Duels of the Planeswalkers

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