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PSA: Tap Magic 2013 - Duels of the Planeswalkers for free on Xbox Live
The Xbox Games With Gold promotion continues with Magic 2013 - Duels of the Planeswalkers, available now for free to Xbox Live Gold members. The game is normally summoned for $10 and will be available gratis until September 15. On September 16, Rainbow Six: Vegas will infiltrate the service and be free until the end of the month. Titles previously made available through the Games With Gold program include Assassin's Creed 2, Dead Rising 2 and Fable 3. Halo 3 was announced as part of the program at E3, but has yet to show up.
Magic 2013, Rainbow Six: Vegas join Games With Gold next month
One is a virtual recreation of a card game that has been made obsolete by its recently-released sequel, and the other is a tactical shooter spin-off released in 2006. These dramatically different games, Magic 2013 - Duels of the Planeswalkers and Rainbow Six: Vegas, will be available for free to Xbox Live Gold subscribers this September as part of Microsoft's ongoing Games With Gold promotion. As Major Nelson points out, Magic 2013 is slated to appear on September 1. While the downloadable game normally features a $10 price tag, anyone with a valid Xbox Live Gold account will be able to grab Magic 2013 for free until September 15. Then on September 16, Rainbow Six: Vegas will join the Games With Gold lineup. Unlike Magic 2013, Rainbow Six: Vegas debuted as a retail game, but it too will be available gratis to any Xbox Live Gold subscribers until the end of September.
Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 taps final two DLC decks
The third and final content update for Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 is available today, a double dose of new decks. The first deck is a blue-and-black hybrid called Rogue's Gallery, while the other is a five-colored collection called Mana Mystery.Both decks will set spell slingers back a cool $3 (240 MS Points) on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and PC through Steam today; however, iPad owners will have to wait until tomorrow before they can download these final decks.
Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 gets two new decks on Nov. 7
The second booster pack is set to grace Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 on Wednesday, November 7. Major Nelson has priced the DLC pack – which follows September's five new decks – at 240 MS Points ($3).Top Tier Tactics got the exclusive on two of the upcoming decks in this planned five-deck pack. The first is a white-and-red "Act of War" deck that is a modified version of "March to War" that was introduced in the first DLC pack for Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012. The other deck is a hybrid green-and-blue deck called "Sky and Scale."We followed up with a Wizards of the Coast rep who confirmed all of the details. The DLC will extend to these two decks alone for 240 MS Points ($3).
Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 summons first DLC decks
The first supplementary decks have been added to Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013, with five new packs in total. This first expansion is available for 400 MS Points ($5) on Xbox 360, and $4.99 on PS3 and iOS.In addition to the new decks, this expansion adds 10 new campaign levels, five new puzzle challenges, five foil conversions and five deck key add-ons for the expansion decks. There are also some more specific tweaks to individual cards that address certain balance issues, like Serra Ascendant – the card essentially broke Two-Headed Giant games and has had its lifelink ability removed in the mode.
Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 review
As substantial as last year's improvements were in Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012, one thing was still lacking: manual mana tapping. It's one of several key improvements made in Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013, this year's iteration of what has become an annualized franchise for Wizards of the Coast and developer Stainless Games.But that's not the only change this year: there is a new subset of challenges and encounters to conquer across the campaign, and a whole new game mode called Planechaser, a new free-for-all mode that replaces 2012's Archenemy mode.%Gallery-157177%
Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 gives returning players free deck key
As a bonus to returning Magic: The Gathering players, a free deck key will be granted in Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013. I discovered this when first booting up my review copy from Microsoft, discovering a message of thanks for my continuing patronage.You can use the key to unlock a full deck right away, including all of its 30 unlockable cards, or you can turn all of your cards in one particular deck into foils.
Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 adds manual mana tapping
One of the big improvements in Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 is manual mana tapping, which lets players pick which exact lands they want to tap to play any given card. In previous games, this was something the game automatically decided, much to the dismay of advanced players the world over.
