Consider the implications of this ruling

Happy Friday to everyone who likes to ramp, and to everyone who doesn’t: you’re included too!

In Duema every card can be played as mana, opening removal to include turning your opponent’s creatures into Mana. Magic could does this more with cards like Song of the Dryads, but they don’t.

Mighty Shouter is so invisible in 2026 Duel Masters, and in the world around it, but in 2004 was ubiquitous with the brand internationally. Much like his effect, when he died in the public conscious he had already became the foundation for a great game.

I had no idea what to make of this art as a kid, and still think it’s a little too busy as an adult. That’s part of the fun sometimes.

You might think this Vanilla Giant Insect is not a good card.

Fear Fang was an early Vanilla creature. Something we don’t really see in current Duel Masters (or Magic) anymore

There are times I too feel like a towering shell, maybe’s with something more to emerge or maybe I’m hollow. The ambiguity of hyper-connectivity and simultaneous isolation. Like a card game that’s loved by millions but invisible to the rest of the world. Maybe I’ll emerge, or maybe the shell is all.

Dimension Gate can tutor your deck for three mana or for free if you take damage. It has some toolbox applications in older formats, but in a game in which every card can be used as either Mana or a card, it’s deceptively bad for the cost. Usually better to just put more creatures in your deck.

Cooling Vines was another example of bad cards added to the game to emphasize what constitutes a good card in comparison

Duel Masters has a Grizzly Bear. They even named an annual music festival after it.

Bronze-Arm Tribe, the Wood Elves of Duel Masters (functionally). An early staple of ramp that maintained potency from Nature (Green) gaining ways to interact with and summon cards in the mana zone. We love you Bronze-Arm.

An easy to always tell if the deck product was genuine or fake was looking at the flavor text on the Rothus in the front. As the foil one should exclusively have the text about "I have been to ten thousand dimensions, yet still I search for home.". And many of the fakes had the regular dm1 flavor.

Aura Blast was a Base Set card that would’ve been good if creature power impacted the opponent’s life, but unless you were dealing with blockers was pretty useless

Like many Base Set Cards, Scarlet Skyterror only soared to fringe play after the first block, but saw nonzero use in early Duema as a late game closer. In the anime, Shobu loses to it in the Pilot and later uses it to beat the big bad.

Astrocomet Dragon is not a good card, it has cool art though.

Simon Says Duel Masters

🎵What’s up with that, you’ll cowards don’t even Bolshack?🎵

Duel Masters is a game that encourages attacking your opponent, and contains cards that punish you for attacking your opponent. The ebb and flow is addictive

Super Explosive Volcanodon wouldn’t go on to win any tournaments, but as a base set creature include in the starter deck, Shadowclash decks, and McDonalds promo it was amongst the first and only cards of many American players. We love you Super Explosive Volcanodon.

Don’t conflate simple with bad. Simple is often efficient. Take this Rock Dinosaur for example, it simply rocks.

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Rothus my beloved, Rothus the goat. Included in the Base Set Starter deck and Mcdonalds Promos. Many associate the brand’s international run with Rothus. I don’t onow where he’s traveling now, but I hope he’s happy.

Onslaught Triceps has art you can stare at for a while without seeing everything. Our lives are filled with that which we could examine as nausea without fully comprehending. Card games are fun.

Something you gotta understand about Duel Masters is it will remain a great game whether it’s appreciated or not. It just is.

🎵It’s Meteosaur (woah-oh-oh-oh), you’ve got the power to be his friend🎵

One of multiple early spells that were simply outclassed by playing a creature. Good art though.

When Duema gets an inkling of Western attention it’s usually because of Magic collabs :) no complaints here! Magic is the foundation Duema was built from!

big tiddy Rebell@rebell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is Emrakul in Duel Masters @magic.wizards.com we need this in our game NOW

Vorg was a Vanilla 2 cost, and an iconic Shobu creature. He gave his all, and could set up an evolution pretty fast. We love you Vorg.

Flightless Dragons, like Wyverns and Wyrms, find a way.