All-new and redesigned, Magic: The Gathering — Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 takes last year’s massive hit game to even greater heights with better graphics, more options, and new challenges!

Face off against the AI, or gather your allies for the new multiplayer format: Archenemy, where you team up to take down a boss opponent. And if one of your fellow Planeswalkers drops out, no problem–the AI will drop in for uninterrupted action!

Featuring ten unique decks, Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 also lets you customize those decks. As you progress in the game, you can enhance your deck by swapping in new, unlockable cards!

Gather your allies. A challenge awaits.

*EXCLUSIVE TO STEAM SPECIAL EDITION*

The Special Edition includes:

Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012
10 Foil Conversions
Humanoids Persona Picture Pack (exclusive to Special Edition)
D12 sound track
Planeswalkers web comic PDF
Exclusive D12 wall papers

The deck unlocks and the foil conversions are now available for your purchase for the three decks from Expansion 3.

* Gideon Jura's "Weapons of the Warrior" white deck
* Niv-Mizzet’s “Root of the Firemind” blue-red deck
* Sorin Markov’s “Master of Shadows” black deck

Enjoy!

On November 3, Magic: The Gathering and video game fans worldwide can play with new decks, experience never-before-seen challenges, and battle new adversaries on Steam with the third expansion for Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers.

Duel Magic's troubled Planeswalker Sarkhan the Mad with this brand-new downloadable content featuring:

* Three new playable decks, including Sorin Markov's "Master of Shadows" Planeswalker deck
* Three new unlockable cards for all existing decks (base game and expansions 1 and 2)
* Five new puzzling challenge levels
* Three new achievements
* Four new Two-Headed giant local co-op levels

Players can also put their spell-slinging skills to the test to defeat the new single-player campaign and unlock Gideon Jura's and Niv-Mizzet's new Planeswalker decks.

Tomorrow (9/1/2010) expansion 2 for Duels of the Planewswalkers hits Steam. Here's what you can expect to see:

Functionality
- Winning a custom game loaded from a saved game awards the appropriate unlocks.
- Entering deck manager from the card unlock screen will no longer return you to a blank menu.
- Leader boards should now scroll correctly
- Teeth of the predator should now foil correctly.

Display
-Ranked Two-Headed Giant life totals display correctly after completing an unranked -Player Match.
-Unlock deck button does not appear when deck has been fully unlocked.
-Text no longer runs over borders.
-Custom duel opponents’ portraits, names, and decks match.
-Vein Drinkers card text in French is now complete.

Performance
Improved performance while dragging cards with the mouse.
The following activities should no longer cause the client to quit unexpectedly:
• Attacking
• Playing Challenges
• Customizing the keyboard
• Scrolling past 100 entries in leaderboards

Have you picked up your promo card yet?

After purchasing Duels of the Planeswalkers, you may be eligible to receive an exclusive promo card*! If eligible (see Terms & Conditions[www.wizards.com], select 'Games Library' from the 'View' menu in Steam, right click on Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers and click on 'Register your game...' to receive a voucher and a list of local stores where you can redeem it.

Grab yours now before they are gone!

*(while supplies last – some restrictions apply)

1. Life totals in the 2HG Ranked Lobby Game have been corrected

2. Foil/premium and Unlock deck DLC have been implemented and are purchasable.

3. When a user unlocks a deck during game play they can no longer purchase this Deck through Steam Store, as the unlock deck button has been removed in the Deck Editor so the user can not select this option if they have already unlocked the deck manually.

4. In the Deck Editor the Tool tip for premium foil deck has been amended to provide more information about the purchase being non re-fundable

5. Unlocking cards now works successfully in Custom Duel. When loading a saved custom duel and winning it, the user did not unlock a card, they now do.

6. CPU usage has been improved and reduced.

We have a fix for a bug concerning the mentoring leader board scores that we will be implementing soon. This will have the unfortunate side effect of resetting everyone’s mentoring scores to 0. For those of you who have accumulated hefty scores, we apologize, but please understand that this was necessary to fix this issue and improve the game for everyone.

Have fun and good gaming!

On June 26th between 6pm - 8pm PDT members of the Frag Dolls and the Frag Doll Cadettes will be on Steam to take on challengers in Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers. Their bios are at http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/other/0562310a.

To get on the participant list just send a private message to http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/private.php?do=newpm&u=783031 with your Steam game account name to let them know you will be available to play. They will challenge as many of you to games as they can during that time.

Good luck! You'll need it!

As some have already noticed, we recently pushed out a patch for Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers that addressed several known issues. Among other things, this patch should address some of the crash issues and problems with ranked matches. Thanks much to everyone who has/is reporting those bugs and helping us continue to improve the game.

Trevor Kidd
Community Manager
Wizards of the Coast