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[–] swab148@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are there any other Deckmaster games?

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Reading The Duelist in between rounds at the local Arena tournament was such a vibe.

Barely feels like it was real.

[–] andrew@mtgzone.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Awesome! I actually never knew there was an issue before #1 in 1994, this is so cool. Was this copy yours originally or did you get it recently? I started collecting all of the Duelists some years ago but never finished it, this might motivate me.

Looks like this might be a *scan of the whole thing for the curious: https://archive.org/details/the-duelist-0/mode/1up

ETA: scan not scam!

[–] fleabomber@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Got it originally from the store back in the 90s. Use to play it with my high school buddies.

[–] mike@mtgzone.com 4 points 1 year ago

This is so cool, thanks for posting it. What an opportunity that must have been to playtest MtG in the beginning when they were ironing out the rules.

[–] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never read the Duelist but did read gaming and hobby magazines back in the day. Makes me nostalgic for those days, sad that so much print media is unviable these days and even website coverage has been degraded or just hollowed out now

[–] lovestha@mtgjudge.social 2 points 1 year ago

@MysticKetchup @fleabomber equally sad to me is that much of the old online coverage is gone.