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RS: Is there going to be a closed beta for public testing? WeвЂ™re going to be doing a lot of internal testing at Wizards to figure that out. Players should expect to see some modifications in the first couple of months because this is a grand test. ItвЂ™s important to note that we havenвЂ™t fixed the rate of earning coins yet. LLF: People get comfortable with how things are and something changes and we never want to do something that will truly jeopardize Magic.

RS: ItвЂ™s mind-boggling to think back on when foils were announced and people said it would be the end of Magic. None of them impacts game play but its something down the road we want to do. RS: There will be a large community of players who will just grind for those sleeves before they grind for the cards. IвЂ™m that person whoвЂ™s like, wait, my deckbox doesnвЂ™t match the sleeves which doesnвЂ™t match my playmat! LLF: Yes, IвЂ™m all about having all my stuff match. RS: I would definitely make sure you explore that route thoroughly. WeвЂ™re talking about sleeves and playmats being a thing youвЂ™d do eventually which could be kind of fun. Down the road there may things more like vanity items like avatars. LLF: Boosters or content expansion such as when Battle for Zendikar comes out, youвЂ™d use your coins for that. RS: Will the coins just be used to buy boosters and expansion content? Wheras in D15 youвЂ™d win a game and open a booster, in Duels youвЂ™ll win a game and earn coins. The only thing you trade in for boosters or expansion content is coins, the in-game coins. You can earn coins by playing through and winning or you can jump ahead and buy coins if you want to if you donвЂ™t feel youвЂ™re earning them fast enough.

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Once this comes out you download it for free and then you keep grinding through. LLF: No, this is going to be a persistent client. RS: So is there going to be another annual base game next Summer? ThereвЂ™s going to be ongoing content for folks.

ItвЂ™s the same thing when вЂњSweatвЂќ comes out, and when вЂњTearsвЂќ and вЂњFearsвЂќ come out. But the thing we get to do now is that you download Magic Duels: Origins, thatвЂ™s your base game, and when Battle for Zendikar comes out in the fall, thereвЂ™s a Battle for Zendikar content expansion that you can continue playing with. It was once a year and once you played through it you could keep playing multiplayer and there were some things to dig into there. One of the things that was always tough was that we did an annual release. RS: So this year youвЂ™re expecting the opposite sort of feedback? If we do something wrong theyвЂ™ll tell us, but if we do something right theyвЂ™ll tell us that as well. But thatвЂ™s the thing thatвЂ™s most awesome about the Magic community. So I think we thought a lot of things were going to land differently than they did. If you looked at the actual lists it wasnвЂ™t like we hit all the bomb rares. The thing with the multiplayer boosters was that they werenвЂ™t better cards. Also we were trying something kind of different with how you got boosters and where we put them and why. But one of the things where we missed on was really understanding the importance of multiplayer formats. I think that the infusion of story last year was good. The tutorial made some pretty vast improvements last year, that was a right thing to do.

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The deck builder, having a full deck building experience, that was a right thing to do. We felt that we were doing a lot of things right with D15.

RS: Was it that kind of situation last year where D15 came out and the initial feedback was like, вЂњwhat happened to everything we loved about Duels?вЂќ LLF: Yes, and having been on the front lines of IвЂ™m excited to get to tell you about the awesome new one! RS: I heard! In the panel yesterday I saw the trailer and after you spoke about it I thought to myself, вЂњThey basically took everything everyone was upset about and said here, done.вЂќ Liz Lamb-Ferro: So youвЂ™ve played Duels before? You can scroll down to any of those topic headers or just read through the entire interview.

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Afterwards we talked about a variety of topics including Magic Online, Pro Tour Coverage, Un-Set 3, Battle for Zendikar, Women in the Magic Community, and PAX Prime. We spent the first half of our conversation with Liz explaining all the exciting things they are looking forwards to with this yearвЂ™s Duels game. Liz had a couch set up and a demo version of Duels: Origins was on the screen. We sat down in Wizards lovely press room at PAX East which was just off to the side of the massive judge station they had to run a variety of events. We also discussed Magic Online, Women in Magic, and the decision to move the World Championship to PAX Prime. The highlight of the discussion was a playable demo of Duels: Origins which Liz walked me through. At PAX East I was fortunate enough to get time to sit down with Magic the Gathering Brand Manager Liz Lamb-Ferro about a variety of topics.