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Feb 15, 2013 -- 9:25AM, Bullroarer_Took wrote:

Sean,  Is there going to be a Duels 2014?  Can you answer that?  (I haven't seen direct confirmation.)

I can answer that.

If I'm not mistaken, Ken Troop (DotP Designer) had confirmed at one point that there would be annual releases of Duels of the Planeswalkers.
With that in mind, what you would be looking for is confirmation that there would NOT be a Duels of the Planeswalkers in 2014.
All other indications from the design team state that they are working on a new iteration of the game (see the Raptr Q&A Thread*).

Feb 15, 2013 -- 10:53AM, Bullroarer_Took wrote:

Thanks for the link.  Somehow I stone cold missed all of that.  But I don't see where in that thread he said there would be a 2014.  I did see where Ken said something and you implied there would be 2014 though.  Obviously I hope you're right.

I was going to post quotes but there are quite a lot of them in there so I didn't bother.

if you look at D13 compared to the earliest Duels, you can clearly tell that we care more about the framing/story/context now than we did before, and that trend should continue."

When you read this quote:

"Overall, we want to keep Duels fresh each time we release it, and one of the ways we clearly do that is by changing the "format" experience, e.g. Archenemy in D12, Planechase in D13, so different play formats is an important part of Duels currently."

And then this one:

"At this time, there are no plans on putting Commander into Duels."

It's obvious he's not talking about adding Commander to 2013.

"Even in D13 and D12, you've seen small signs of this -- "edit-down-to-60" in D12, manually land-tapping and end-step in D13, and these small steps represent the beginning stages of this philosophy, and you'll see more evidence of this in the future."

I agree it could be smoother.  We've been looking at ways to make it smoother.  No promises on when or if, but it's something on our radar.

while I'm not going to talk specifically about future plans, I think even in D12 and D13 there's enough of a pattern to give our entrenched audience a glimpse of how Duels is evolving.  We'll continue to listen to the Duels community very closely, and improve each Duels based on that feedback.  We'll continue to create a more seamless integration path between Duels and the rest of the Magic game experiences.  We'll continue to push the envelope in terms of what experiences and functionalities a player can do in Duels.

It's one of those ideas that's not on any concrete roadmap, but it wouldn't surprise me if one day we did it (even if that day is a very long time from now)

Over the past two years, we've done more "crowd sourcing" within Magic R&D, tapping a wide variety of people inside the building, some of whom have never worked on Duels before, but all of whom like creating Magic puzzles.  I expect this process to continue for awhile longer.

MOUNTAINS of evidence that there is a Duels 2014 coming.
Again, it was stated elsewhere (not going to try to track down the quote sorry) that Duels has become an annual release. What you should be looking for is evidence that there will NOT be a Duels 2014.

manually land-tapping and end-step in D13

What was the end-step change between D12 and D13?