<p><strong>Might & Magic: Duel of Champions</strong> was a free-to-play online
collectible card game by Ubisoft Québec, published
set in Ashan, the world
by
of
Ubisoft
Heroes
. Each
player
V
led
and
a
VI, with
hero
cross-platform
of
play
one
between
faction
PC
and played
iPad<span
creatures
class="wiki-cite"
, spells
and
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fortune
data-cite-title="Ubisoft
cards
press
against
release (24
an
April
opponent
2012)">[1]</span>
. Its
It ran from 2012 until its
factions
servers
were switched
those
off on
of
31
the
October
Ashan
2016<span
setting
class="wiki-cite"
known
data-cite-url="https://steamcommunity.com/games/256410/announcements/detail/927000989803509395"
from
data-cite-title="Steam:
Heroes
Important
V
Information (26
and
August
VI
2016)">[1]</span>
.</p>
<h2>Release</h2>
<h2>History</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>PC:</strong>
<li>Ubisoft announced the game on 24 April 2012, with a closed beta already running in France<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/UBISOFT-ENTERTAINMENT-4719/news/UBISOFT-ENTERTAIN-MIGHT-MAGIC-DUEL-OF-CHAMPIONS-GAME-IS-IN-THE-CARDS-FOR-UBISOFT--14290438/" data-cite-title="Ubisoft press release (24 April 2012)">[1]</span><span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://duelofchampions.jeuxonline.info/actualite/35285/ubisoft-annonce-might-and-magic-duel-of-champions-inaugure-beta-test"
13
data-cite-title="JeuxOnline (24
September
April
2012 )">[1]</span>
.</li>
<li><strong>iPad:</strong>
<li>The open beta began on
20
13
December
September
2012 through Uplay, at first without North America<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://www.mmobomb.com/news/might-magic-duel-of-champions-open-beta-starts" data-cite-title="MMOBomb: open beta starts
( closed
September 2012)">[1]</span><span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://delistedgames.com/might-magic-duel-of-champions/" data-cite-title="Delisted
in
Games (28
September
August
2015
2016
).
)">[1]</span>.
</li>
<li><strong>PlayStation
<li>Sources give different dates for the full launch — Celestial Heavens and Gamepressure give 18 December 2012<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://www.celestialheavens.com/doc" data-cite-title="Celestial Heavens: Duel of Champions">[1]</span><span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://www.gamepressure.com/games/might-magic-duel-of-champions/za313c" data-cite-title="Gamepressure">[1]</span>
3
—
and the iPad version followed in December 2012<span
Xbox
class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_and_Magic:_Duel_of_Champions" data-cite-title="Wikipédia (fr): Might and
360:</strong>
Magic:
23
Duel
July
of
2014
Champions">[1]</span>
.</li>
<li><strong>Closed:</strong>
<li>A Russian version with about 600
all
cards
servers
was
shut
published
down
in
on
September
31
2013
October
by
2016
Fabrika
. Ubisoft
said
Online
the
for
player
Russia, Ukraine
base
and
was
the
too
CIS<span
small
class="wiki-cite"
to
data-cite-url="https://stopgame.ru/newsdata/19015/vyshla_russkaya_versiya_might_and_magic_duel_of_champions"
keep
data-cite-title="StopGame:
developing
вышла
and
русская
supporting
версия (30
the
сентября
game
2013)">[1]</span>
.</li>
<li>The game arrived on Steam on 7 November 2013<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/256410" data-cite-title="Steam: Duel of Champions news">[1]</span><span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://delistedgames.com/might-magic-duel-of-champions/" data-cite-title="Delisted Games (28 August 2016)">[1]</span>.</li>
<li>A separate paid edition for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, <em>Duel of Champions: Forgotten Wars</em>, came out on 23 July 2014 for $9.99, with 650 cards, 30 single-player missions and no random packs<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://gameinformer.com/games/might__magic_duel_of_champions_forgotten_wars/b/xbox360/archive/2014/07/23/ubisoft-brings-collectible-card-game-might-magic-duels-of-champions-to-console.aspx" data-cite-title="Game Informer (23 July 2014)">[1]</span>.</li>
</ul>
1 unchanged paragraphs
<ul>
<li>Cards
<li>Each player's half of the battlefield had two rows of four slots — a front row for melee creatures and a back row for ranged ones<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://www.pocketgamer.com/might-magic-duel-of-champions/review/" data-cite-title="Pocket Gamer review (18 April 2013)">[1]</span><span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://www.gamingnexus.com/Article/3966/Might--Magic-Duel-of-Champions" data-cite-title="Gaming Nexus (5 June 2013)">[1]</span>; moving creatures between
were
lanes
collected
was
in
central
packs
to
bought
play<span
with
class="wiki-cite"
real
data-cite-url="https://ee.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2013/06/24/duel-of-champions"
money
data-cite-title="Penny
or
Arcade (24
in-game
June
currency
2013)">[1]</span>
.</li>
<li>Each
<li>Resources grew every turn, and
side's
a
battlefield
card
had
also
two
needed
rows
a
of
minimum in
four
one
slots:
of
a
the
front
hero's
row
three
for
statistics
melee
—
creatures
Might, Magic
and a
Destiny<span
back
class="wiki-cite"
row
data-cite-url="https://www.gamingnexus.com/Article/3966/Might--Magic-Duel-of-Champions"
for
data-cite-title="Gaming
ranged
Nexus (5
ones
June
. Flying
creatures
2013)">[1]</span><span
could
class="wiki-cite"
be
data-cite-url="https://www.gamewatcher.com/might-magic-duel-of-champions/review"
placed
data-cite-title="GameWatcher
in
review (13
either
May
row
2014)">[1]</span>
.</li>
<li>Resources
<li>Card
grew
types
automatically
were
each
creatures, spells and
turn
fortunes, plus
—
a
there
shared
were
deck
no
of
land
events
cards
both
—
players
and
could
the
buy
cards
into<span
a
class="wiki-cite"
deck
data-cite-url="https://www.gamewatcher.com/might-magic-duel-of-champions/review"
could
data-cite-title="GameWatcher
hold
review (13
depended
May
on
2014)">[1]</span><span
the
class="wiki-cite"
hero's
data-cite-url="https://ee.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2013/06/24/duel-of-champions"
faction
data-cite-title="Penny
and
Arcade (24
magic
June
schools
2013)">[1]</span>
.</li>
<li>A deck held one hero, eight events and 50–200 other cards, at most four copies of a card<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_%26_Magic:_Duel_of_Champions" data-cite-title="Википедия: Might & Magic: Duel of Champions">[1]</span><span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://www.gamepressure.com/games/might-magic-duel-of-champions/za313c" data-cite-title="Gamepressure">[1]</span>.</li>
<li>Later updates added spectator mode and unranked duels in June 2014 and a draft mode in October 2015<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/256410" data-cite-title="Steam: Duel of Champions news">[1]</span>.</li>
</ul>
<p>The design aimed to be easy to enter, and producer Stephane Jankowski said players who never paid could still reach the top — it only took longer<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://www.digitallydownloaded.net/?p=49246" data-cite-title="Digitally Downloaded: interview with producer Stephane Jankowski (24 July 2013)">[1]</span>.</p>
<h2>Factions</h2>
<p>Haven, Necropolis, Inferno and Stronghold at
were in the
launch
base game
; Sanctuary arrived with <em>Void Rising</em> and Academy with <em>Forgotten Wars</em><span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_and_Magic:_Duel_of_Champions" data-cite-title="Wikipédia (fr): Might and Magic: Duel of Champions">[1]</span><span class="wiki-cite"
Wars</em>
data-cite-url="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_%26_Magic:_Duel_of_Champions" data-cite-title="Википедия: Might & Magic: Duel of Champions">[1]</span>
.</p>
<h2>Expansions</h2>
<ol>
<table>
<li><em>Void
<thead>
Rising</em> — December 2012, 108 cards</li>
<li><em>Herald
<tr><th>Expansion</th><th>Released</th><th>Cards</th></tr>
of the Void</em> — May 2013, 103 cards</li>
<li><em>Forgotten
</thead>
Wars</em> — September 2013, 155 cards</li>
<li><em>Five
<tbody>
Towers</em> — December 2013, 80 cards</li>
<li><em>Nightmare's
<tr><td>Void
Heart</em>
Rising</td><td>December
—
2012</td><td>108</td></tr>
April 2014, 100 cards</li>
<li><em>Scourge
<tr><td>Herald
of the Griffin</em>
Void</td><td>May
—
2013</td><td>103</td></tr>
July 2014, 100 cards</li>
<li><em>Sins
<tr><td>Forgotten
of
Wars</td><td>September
Betrayal</em>
—
2013</td><td>155</td></tr>
October 2014, 100 cards</li>
<li><em>Season
<tr><td>The
of
Five
Renewal</em>
Towers</td><td>December
—
2013</td><td>80</td></tr>
April 2015, 170 cards</li>
</ol>
<tr><td>Heart of Nightmares</td><td>April 2014</td><td>100</td></tr>
<p>Its
<tr><td>Griffin
successor
Bane</td><td>July
in
spirit
2014</td><td>100</td></tr>
is <a href="/wiki/might-and-magic-universe/might-and-magic-fates/might-magic-fates-tcg/">Might & Magic Fates TCG</a> (2026).</p>
<p>Discussion:
<tr><td>Sins
<a
of
href="/forum/might-and-magic-universe/duel-of-champions/">the
Betrayal</td><td>October
game's
2014</td><td>—</td></tr>
forum board</a>.</p>
<h2>Sources</h2>
<tr><td>Time of Renewal</td><td>April 2015</td><td>170 (24 new, 146 rebalanced)</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Names and dates follow the game's Steam announcements and the French Wikipedia article<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/256410" data-cite-title="Steam: Duel of Champions news">[1]</span><span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_and_Magic:_Duel_of_Champions" data-cite-title="Wikipédia (fr): Might and Magic: Duel of Champions">[1]</span>.</p>
<h2>Competitive play</h2>
<p>Ubisoft ran a world championship called <em>Road to Paris</em>. The 2013 edition had qualifiers at Gamescom and online and a final with eight players at Paris Games Week in November 2013<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://duelofchampions.jeuxonline.info/actualite/41983/duel-of-champions-trace-route-paris-travers-competition-esport" data-cite-title="JeuxOnline: Road to Paris (17 October 2013)">[1]</span>; more than 1,500 players took part<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://blastawaythegamereview.com/2014/04/16/ubisoft-and-might-magic-duel-of-champions-2014-heads-to-paris-with-road-to-paris/" data-cite-title="Ubisoft press release: Road to Paris 2014 (16 April 2014)">[1]</span>, and the title went to Avkall with a Stronghold deck<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/256410" data-cite-title="Steam: Duel of Champions news">[1]</span>. A 2014 edition followed, with monthly cups and world finals in January 2015<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://blastawaythegamereview.com/2014/04/16/ubisoft-and-might-magic-duel-of-champions-2014-heads-to-paris-with-road-to-paris/" data-cite-title="Ubisoft press release: Road to Paris 2014 (16 April 2014)">[1]</span>.</p>
<h2>Reception</h2>
<ul>
<li>Critics liked it: Metacritic lists 84 for PC and 82 for iOS<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://www.metacritic.com/game/might-and-magic-duel-of-champions/" data-cite-title="Metacritic">[1]</span>, Pocket Gamer gave 4 out of 5<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://www.pocketgamer.com/might-magic-duel-of-champions/review/" data-cite-title="Pocket Gamer review (18 April 2013)">[1]</span> and GameWatcher 8 out of 10<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://www.gamewatcher.com/might-magic-duel-of-champions/review" data-cite-title="GameWatcher review (13 May 2014)">[1]</span>.</li>
<li>Penny Arcade's Mike Krahulik called it his favourite collectible card game<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://ee.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2013/06/24/duel-of-champions" data-cite-title="Penny Arcade (24 June 2013)">[1]</span>.</li>
<li>The common complaint was the grind: paying players had an advantage early on, and others faced a long climb<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://www.gamewatcher.com/might-magic-duel-of-champions/review" data-cite-title="GameWatcher review (13 May 2014)">[1]</span>.</li>
</ul>
<h2>The end</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
<li>Most of the core team moved to <em>Assassin's Creed Syndicate</em>
href="https://fr
in
.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_and_Magic:_Duel_of_Champions"
rel="nofollow
2014; work
ugc
slowed
noopener
and
noreferrer">Wikipédia
stopped
(fr):
Might
in
2015,
and a pitched sequel
Magic:
was cancelled the same year<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://www.acidcave.net/the_fate_of_duel_of_champions.html" data-cite-title="Acid Cave: The fate of
Duel of Champions — interview
Champions</a></li>
with Théo Gallego (2016)">[1]</span>.</li>
<li><a
<li>On 26 August 2016 Ubisoft announced that the real-money shop was closing at once and that the game, its website and forums would shut down on 31 October 2016, without refunds<span class="wiki-cite"
href="https://cert2-support
data-cite-url="https://steamcommunity
. ubisoft
com/games/256410/announcements/detail/927000989803509395"
.
com/en-gb/Faqs/000025305/Server-Closing-MMDOC-PC"
data-cite-title="Steam: Important Information (26
rel="nofollow
August
ugc
2016)">[1]</span><span
noopener
class="wiki-cite"
noreferrer">Ubisoft
data-cite-url="https://www.mmobomb.com/news/ubisoft-cleaning-house-duel-champions-ccg-closing-well"
Support:
data-cite-title="MMOBomb (25
server
August
closing</a></li>
2016)">[1]</span>.</li>
<li>The console edition was delisted in August 2016<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://delistedgames.com/might-magic-duel-of-champions/" data-cite-title="Delisted Games (28 August 2016)">[1]</span>.</li>
<li>Fans have kept the game alive on a private server since 2019<span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_%26_Magic:_Duel_of_Champions" data-cite-title="Википедия: Might & Magic: Duel of Champions">[1]</span><span class="wiki-cite" data-cite-url="https://www.celestialheavens.com/doc" data-cite-title="Celestial Heavens: Duel of Champions">[1]</span>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Ubisoft's next card game in the series came almost a decade later: <a href="/wiki/might-and-magic-universe/might-and-magic-fates/might-magic-fates-tcg/">Might & Magic Fates TCG</a>.</p>
<p>Discussion: <a href="/forum/might-and-magic-universe/duel-of-champions/">the game's forum board</a>.</p>