The most 'exciting' preview was Polukranos, World Eater, a card that actually saw Standard play on release. Cursed allowing players to try out Mindwrack Demon almost two months early. Koth, wherein the Duel Decks actually contained some cards from the upcoming set, Contagion Clasp and Kemba's Skyguard, which wouldn't officially be released for another month. This trend continued up through 2017, with Blessed vs. One tweak to the product came in 2011's Venser vs. All of the decks would feature a specific alternate art for a small number of the cards, usually printed in foil. The second style were centered around two planeswalkers that were, at the time of release, usually in some sort of conflict with each other, such as Ajani vs. The first would be a generalized 'faction'-based set, such as Goblins vs. All of the decks relied on a strong flavor theming.ĭuel Decks alternated between two 'styles' of Duel Decks. Out of the 21 releases, only five of them had a set of decks that overlapped, colorwise. For 20, WotC only released one set of Duel Decks per year, but they moved to two releases until the final product released in 2018. Starting in 2007, the Duel Decks series was a single box (MSRP $19.99) that would contain two 60-card decks intended to be opened, shuffled, and played against one another. The cold truth of why any product series ends is that it doesn't sell well enough to justify the expenditure, but I want to cut in a little deeper and examine why.

With this part of the Retrospective Reviews series, I want to look over other products that WotC obviously intended as a long-running series but ultimately ended. What's interesting to me is that Commander pre-constructed decks were intended as a one-off, but obviously exceeded expectations and became a mainstay (to say the least). There's no time like the present to dig up the past: it's time for another Retrospective Review! My original line of interrogation was focused on the Commander products, which started back in 2011.

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