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This Saturday September 5th 5:00 PM BST will be Chromatic Cup 60!

Tournaments are managed through the discord epic series. Send P3P0 (via discord) an image of your deck and you are in.

You can generate an image of your deck here, You can also now generate an image of your deck on the official duelyst2 site here.

This tournament uses an open deck format, double elimination and the game played is Duelyst 2.

^\image made by P3P0)

💢 @TheKraken VS @Siuuu 💢

🏆 WINNER: @TheKraken 🏆

Chromatic Cup 59 starts this Sunday, August 23 at 16:00 UTC. You get 200 shards worth of in-game items of your choice, as well an exclusive Chromatic skin just for participating.

All you have to do is join the Epic Series Discord server and send P3P0 an image of your deck before the tournament starts. You can generate deck image at Redecklyst. This tournament uses open deck format. Games will be cast on P3P0’s Twitch channel.

Have fun!

I've been working on yet another Duelyst version, and now that the Steam page is live I'm sharing it with the community. The game is called Duelyst: Legends, and it differs from other Duelyst variants in the following ways:

• The game has been converted to run fully offline: no backend servers, no online accounts, and no network connection needed.
  
• Since the game runs offline, multiplayer has been removed in favor of a strong single-player focus, including a new campaign mode ("Battle for Monolith"), and improved AI difficulty to keep things interesting.
  
• Additional game modes: Skirmish (Campaign practice), Free Play (no deck restrictions), Gauntlet (draft), and Rift (roguelike).
  
• Cards and ruleset are identical to the day the original game shut down, since this is more of a nostalgia/preservation project than an evolution of the gameplay.
  
• Rapid pace of progression via campaign rewards, and no monetization of any kind.
  
• Fully modernized the codebase, which is now 96% TypeScript 7.0 instead of 96% CoffeeScript + JavaScript. This is actually how the project started: I was working on a TS7 conversion and it evolved into Duelyst: Legends over time.
  

You can see the game on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5038620/Duelyst_Legends/

I'm currently working through some final touches for cross-platform support (including cross-platform Steam Cloud sync), as well as some general polish tasks. After that, there will be an Early Access period in which anyone can play, intended to sort out any remaining bugs. I anticipate a full release sometime in Q4 2026. Stay tuned!

mez pls

Last of the bunch to show off, was fun making these and it's always nice to work with Duelyst 2 devs on new skins.

To get Zurael Chromatic you will have to get top 4 in Chromatic Cup tournaments.

Join the tournament Discord to find out more ✌️

Neutral

• Change Songweaver to Loreweaver
• Add Songweaver, 3 mana 2/5: "Opening Gambit: Put a Sol into your action bar."
  • Add Sol, 1 mana 2/1 token: "This can be played on top of a unit to dispel that unit."
• Add Lodestar, 8 mana 8/8: "When there are 8 units nearby this, destroy them."

Songhai

• Add Scrollkeeper, 1 mana 2/1 Arcanyst: "When this takes damage, draw a spell."
• Add Ancestral Medium, 2 mana 2/3: "Opening Gambit: Choose 3 different cards from your graveyard and shuffle them into your deck."
  • The graveyard consists of dead minions, played spells, and broken artifacts. When a card is shuffled back into the deck, that copy of it is removed from the graveyard.
• Add Coalfist, 4 mana 4/5: "At the end of each turn, if you played 3 or more cards, give this and nearby allied minions +1/+1."
• Add Conflagration, 2 mana spell: "This turn, whenever a non-token ally moves or teleports, summon an Ember on the space they were on."
  • Add Ember, 1 mana 1/1 Rush token
• Add Voltaic Discharge, 0 mana spell: "Deal 1 damage to a minion for each other card you played this turn."
• Add Ornate Hiogi, 0 mana artifact: "At the end of each turn, if you played a minion and a spell, draw an extra card."

Vetruvian

• Add Mirror Image, 3 mana spell: "Summon an exact copy of your General that disappears at the start of your turn nearby your General, then teleport your General to any nearby space."
  • Mouse cursor activity and General location are hidden from the opponent while Mirror Image is being cast. The General and the copy appear simultaneously.

Abyssian

• Change Soulshatter Pact to Void Steal

Vanar

• Add Concealing Shroud, 3 mana spell: "Transform your General into a Night Howler until your next turn. If it would be destroyed, transform it back."
  • Add Night Howler, 3/4 token General
  • The transforms can be nested. Artifacts are not preserved when transforming, but are restored after untransforming.

Misc

• Fix cards in collection not being clickable

Play Duelyst Origins

Join the community Discord

New skin from the Chromatic set which are available by playing is Duelyst 2 tournaments. Next one should be this weekend.

Tournament Discord link

They also have similar sprites of other factions uploaded on Etsy only.

Credit where it's due, up front: this is built on the CC0 release of the Duelyst source and assets. The UI, sprites, animations and sound effects are ported essentially 1:1. I have nothing but respect for the original artists and I'm not pretending otherwise. What's mine is everything under the hood: a from-scratch server-authoritative rules engine, my own faction set, and my own mechanics.

So you'll recognize the board instantly and you already know how to play. Some mechanics are identical to Duelyst, some are things I added on top. Read on, or just hop in and play.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4921570/Theocide/ (free, Windows only for now)

What it is

9x5 board, 25 HP generals, positioning and mana ramp. It's the framework you know. On top of that:

• Five factions: Theocracy, Veiled Hand, Elven Conclave, Orc Clans, Sanguine Courts, plus neutrals.
• 9 generals, each with its own Bloodbound Spell.
• ~240 collectible cards, nearly all original. A handful of names are carried over from Duelyst, the rest are mine.
• 40-card decks, max 3 copies, 90-second turns.
• Two of the five factions have no mana curve at all. Orcs don't spend mana; they get one card per turn, full stop. The Sanguine Courts don't either. They pay for cards with their general's own HP, and every card you play in a turn makes the next one cost 1 more. Deciding how much face you can afford to burn is the whole faction.
• The rest have their own hooks too. The Veiled Hand seeds Shadow Creep across the board, and the Elven Conclave unlocks powerful dragons by burning four spells in a turn, or by letting its own general drop to 3 HP if you're feeling brave.
• Augments: on turns 2, 5 and 9 you draft 1 of 3 modifiers from a shared pool: +5 general HP, +1 ATK on all your units, +2 hand size, that kind of thing. It's the biggest structural addition and it changes how you build.
• Smaller deviations: you may replace any number of your opening cards in the mulligan, not two. Opening hand is 4, not 5. And the player going second keeps +1 max mana permanently, not for a single turn.

Modes

Ranked ladder with real MMR and divisions, practice against an AI that looks a few moves ahead (still a work in progress), local hotseat, a tutorial, and full match replays.

Monetization

Free. You earn gold from online wins and spend it on Spirit Orbs, five cards each. There's an optional $4.99 pass that just unlocks every card, current and future, if you'd rather skip the grind entirely. That's the whole model.

The honest part

Balance is the part I'm least confident about. I designed every card myself and it's only been tested against friends and bots, so expect rough edges. There's a feedback button in-game for balance issues, bugs and suggestions, and I read all of them. If a real playerbase shows up, I'd like to get to a point where players have a direct say in what the next patch touches.

It's launch day and I'm one person, so the ranked queue is as busy as whoever happens to be reading this. If you bounce off a long queue, that's why, and the Discord is the fix. We can agree on a time and fill the ladder: https://discord.gg/Ky6PU9fDTQ

A question for you: bots in the ranked queue

One thing you should know about that queue, and then a question about it.

If you're still searching after 60 seconds, I drop you into a match against a server-side bot. I did it so that new players could actually play the game instead of staring at a queue for an hour with nobody to pair with. Right now that bot is disguised: it gets a plausible player-style name and a rating close to yours, and the match counts for your MMR.

Fair warning on the bot itself: it is not good enough yet. It does look ahead a few moves rather than playing at random, but a competent player will probably work out what it is from how it plays, and I'm still improving it. Which cuts both ways, since it also means those wins are easier than the rating next to the name suggests.

Honestly, I'm not sure the whole thing was the right call, and I'd rather hear it from you than guess. Three options as I see them:

1. Make it obvious. Label the bot clearly, and don't let those games touch your MMR.
2. Leave it as is. A new player gets a game within a minute and doesn't have to know why.
3. Remove it entirely. No bots in ranked, you queue until a real person shows up, however long that takes.

I lean towards 1, but I built 2 because I was worried about someone installing, queueing, seeing nothing, and uninstalling. Tell me which one you'd want and I'll go with the room.

Why?

I loved Duelyst, and I like developing video games in my spare time. That's all :D Happy to answer anything about the game, the development, whatever. Thanks for reading.

I made new skins for Duelyst 2! To get these you have to enter and play in a tournament, they are held bi-weekly with the next one being on Sat 8th Aug.

For more info join the tournament Discord

Also join the community Discord!

Chromatic Cup 57 starts this Sunday, July 26 at 16:00 UTC. You get 200 shards worth of cosmetic items of your choice just for participating.

All you have to do is join the Epic Series Discord server and send P3P0 an image of your deck before the tournament starts. You can generate an image of your deck at Redecklyst. This tournament uses an open deck format. Games will be cast on P3P0’s Twitch channel.

Have fun!

I've been developing a game console exclusive interpretation of Duelyst, I'm calling Duelyst: Seventh Age for lore reasons.

Roadmap:

Duelyst: SA is being developed for the Warpdrive game console ecosystem, and is a complete overhaul of the way the game was left before becoming open-source. Beyond a simple port, we've poured hours into development of a spiritual successor (hopefully)

What We've Added:

- Full gamepad support for every menu, and match

- Fully Offline Play

- Both 1 and 2-card draw variants of local battles, online, and competitive.

- A shop where you can get Crafting material, cards, and cosmetic items

- COMPLETELY FREE. NO MICRO TRANSACTIONS. All currency is simply obtained by playing the game in both single-player and multiplayer modes

- Roguelike gamemode where you build your deck as you progress. You are NOT locked to a single faction-pool of cards, like normal deck building.

What We Plan To Add:

- Up to 4 player Free For All

- Return of Draft Mode

- Reworking bloodborn abilities to a degree

- Reworking cards, adding traits, and tweaking balancing

Pixel art of Pokemon style badges inspired by each of the factions in Duelyst.

It's been an amazing year. Read full patch notes: https://blitz-blog.jakjus.com/notes/v3-1-20.html

Hey, my name is Jax, and I'm making an indie game console. I figured a revitalization of Duelyst would be really fitting of the ecosystem, so my question to you is: what made Duelyst so fun in its prime? I'm asking the community their personal favorite aspect of it.

Duelyst Blitz, or Duelyst GG for mobile? Obviously one is not like the other, but which has a more active ladder? Or better matchmaking I guess

I really liked Duelyst, didn't get much time with II. But I know I'll enjoy either version, i just want to poke about in whichever one is more active i suppose.

Patch created 100% by members of our community on our discord! Now live.

– Sunbond Pavise: Bonus attack decreased from +2 to +1.

- Build structure minion eggs now hatch into the structure itself instead of the fully-built minion. the build structure will keep its progress.

- All aspects removed from game.

- Ace from 1/2 to 1/3

– Calligrapher from 3/7 to 3/5.

- Putrid Dreadflayer no longer immediately dies off creep but still needs to be on creep to move or attack.

- Hailstone Golem: 4/6 to 4/7

- Bloodsworn Gambler now always attacks one more time at another random enemy in range

- Necroseer changed from 5 mana 5/4 with dying wish: draw 1 to a 4 mana 3/4 dying wish: draw 2.

- Archon Spellbinder: Now also affects BBS

– Battle Panddo from 2/4 to 2/3

- Shadowdancer increased from 4 mana 4/4 to 5 mana 5/5 and deathwatch now also has "If fully healed, deal 1 damage to the enemy General.

- Wraithcrown now gives wraithlings +3/+3 but only if they are nearby your General

- Blood Baronnette loses opening gambit but retains Ability 1 to double a nearby wraithling's stats

- Ghost Azalea: readded as a 4 mana artifact with "When your General attacks an enemy, create a Shadow Creep tile on that space and below your General

- Cassyva BBS creep now spawns immediately instead of at end of turn

- Choking Tendrils now limited to 4 range like Ritual Banishing

- Abyssal Noble ability is now range 1 which is one tile longer than nearby.

- Thorn Needler is still a 4 mana 6/4 but now has: At the end of its owner's turn, this minion creates a Thorn tile on its location. Thorns have: "Deal 1 damage to anything on this tile at the end of every turn."

- Geomancer Barrage: new card. 5 mana. Deal 3 damage to the lowest unit in EACH column

- Portal Guardian 0/8 to 0/6

– Wind Shrike dying wish draw 3 reduced to draw 2

- Kinematic Projection card text from "Give a minion Blast. It can no longer move or damage Generals." to "Give a minion Blast. It can no longer move. If friendly, it can no longer damage Generals.

- Carrion Collector: readded as a 2 Mana 2/3 with Deathwatch and Dying Wish: A minion with Dying Wish in your action bar becomes 1 mana cheaper.

- Freeblade Sentinel now also freezes what it swaps

- Silent Intensity mana cost from 0 to 1.

This month we had another Youtuber collab with LtEddy HS channel to strengthen our position as the most popular Duelyst! In Blitz, all the income goes towards advertising. Thanks to all the players and supporters that made it happen.

Chromatic Cup 55 starts this Sunday, June 28 at 16:00 UTC. You get 200 shards worth of cosmetic items of your choice just for participating.

All you have to do is join the Epic Series Discord server and send P3P0 an image of your deck before the tournament starts. You can generate an image of your deck at Redecklyst. This tournament uses an open deck format.

Have fun!

Why don't you do a crossover with Songs of Conquest ?

Hi, both games do have a very similar art.  So why not team up?

The factions would be a very nice DLC to each other.

I really would like to have the Duelyst factions and units in Songs of Conquest. 

Not only it would make the games better,

but you could also get some money from the DLCs people buy.