Odd trend with Duel Decks
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Posted on Aug. 17, 2014, 9:01 p.m. by Femme_Fatale
I've noticed that with the colours of duel decks, 
always seems to be the most favoured of them all. I have bought almost every duel deck possible and I'm being flooded with mountains but yet have little to no access to islands.
Here is a count of all the colours and how often they appear as part of the theme in each deck, so a number can appear twice in one duel deck product if it appears in both sides.
- : 11
: 7
: 7
: 6
: 6
WHY ARE THESE SO BIG?! Gonna post this like this to see if I can get yeago to look at it ...
Femme_Fatale says... #3
I also forgot to insert Duel Deck: Speed vs Cunning into that count.
so the new count is!
- : 13
- : 8
- : 8
- : 7
- : 7
August 17, 2014 9:06 p.m.
Servo_Token says... #4
I view the duel decks as something that experienced players can use to teach newer players some of the finer points of the game with. Newer players tend to like red spells. Therefore, give the new players red cards.
Nothing but a theory of course.
August 17, 2014 9:11 p.m.
HorrorAvengers says... #6
Because only a red player would shell out money for a duel deck?
Joking aside, red is a good bridge for people from other, faster card games (yugioh, I'm looking at you, where a turn 3 kill is long in a lot of deck, and control wins turn 5 or 6.) to a slower format like standard.
August 17, 2014 11:23 p.m.
@TexasDice, both Green and Red are great starters. Big stompy beasts and small fast creatures is easy to understand. White and Black follow as the Group decks and the Kill everything I see deck
August 18, 2014 5:28 a.m.
HorrorAvengers says... #9
and blue is for people who have sold their soul to magic.
August 18, 2014 12:54 p.m.
nobu_the_bard says... #10
I'd wager it's partly because most of the duel decks can be summarized as "some-kind-of-aggro/burn versus some-kind-of-control/combo" and red suits the first category the most easily, particularly if the deck needs to be mostly commons.
Femme_Fatale says... #2
huh, okay, so the size decreases when you actually post, but is massive in previews.
Mana Symbol Size Malfunction
August 17, 2014 9:03 p.m.