Duels of the Planeswalkers

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Duels of the Planeswalkers is a Magic game that came out June 17, 2009 for the Xbox 360 on Xbox Live Marketplace.

It features a planeswalker called Nissa Revane from the upcoming Zendikar set as an adversary.^[1]

Purchases of the game are given a code, which they can redeem for a promotional alternate art Garruk Wildspeaker.

Contents 1 Decks 2 Multiplayer 3 Puzzle Mode 4 Achievements 5 External links 6 References

[edit] Decks

The game allows the player to play with preconstructed decks according to respective Planeswalkers following specific strategies. However, the respective planeswalker cards are not included in the game. The player starts with Chandra's and Garruk's decks but can unlock further decks and cards for each deck. In deckbuilding a player can add or remove these unlocked cards but can not remove cards he started out with or use cards from other decks. It should also be noted that none of the decks include any lands that aren't basic lands and in deckbuilding lands are automatically calculated and added.

Theme deck name	Colors included
	White	Blue	Black	Red	Green
Ajani Vengeant - Claws of Vengeance	□			■	■
Chandra Nalaar - Hands of Flame				■
Elspeth Tirel - Wings of Light	□
Garruk Wildspeaker - Teeth of the Predator					■
Jace Beleren - Thoughts of Wind		■

Theme deck name	Colors included
	White	Blue	Black	Red	Green
Liliana Vess - Eyes of Shadow			■
Nissa Revane - Ears of the Elves			■		■
Sarkhan Vol - Scales of Fury			■	■	■
Tezzeret - Relics of Doom		■	■

[edit] Multiplayer

The game allows multiplayer games over the XBox Live Network (requiring paid gold membership) as well as Two-Headed Giant against the computer or network opponents.

[edit] Puzzle Mode

The game also features a puzzle mode in which the player can solve eight game situations with limited resources. The difficulty of the puzzles starts out very easy but advances throughout. In this mode cards can be played that are not available in the other modes.

[edit] Achievements

Just like other games on the XBox the game features achievements which are unlocked by certain actions. Each achievement is worth a certain amount of points called Gamerscore. Like other XBox Live Arcade games it has 12 achievements for a total of 200 points.

• The Spark (20) - Win a game.
• Epic Conclusion (40) - Beat the Campaign
• Life Preserver (30) - Raise your Life Total to 30 or 60 in a Two-Headed Giant game.
• Devastator (20) - Deal 20 points of damage to your opponent in a single turn.
• Magic: The Puzzling (10) - Beat one Challenge.
• Puzzling Master (20) - Beat all eight Challenges.
• Defender of Foriys (20) - Win a Two-Headed Giant Game.
• Master of Artifice (20) - Beat the cooperative campaign.
• Duelist (10) - Win 5 ranked Xbox LIVE matches.
• Duels Master (10) - Win 10 Xbox LIVE matches.
• Planeswalker (30) - Unlock 100%.
• Spellslinger (0) - Defeat someone who has earned the Spellslinger achievement.

[edit] External links

• "Duels of the Planeswalkers: Challenge Your Might", by Jay Schneider, DailyMTG.com, Wednesday, June 03, 2009
• Demo of game from 2008 Pro Tour Berlin
• Official page
• Trailer of the game

[edit] References