Awesome! I actually never knew there was an issue before #1 in 1994, this is so cool. Was this copy yours originally or did you get it recently? I started collecting all of the Duelists some years ago but never finished it, this might motivate me.

Looks like this might be a *scan of the whole thing for the curious: archive.org/details/the-duelist-0/mode/1up

ETA: scan not scam!

Are there any other Deckmaster games?

This is so cool, thanks for posting it. What an opportunity that must have been to playtest MtG in the beginning when they were ironing out the rules.

Reading The Duelist in between rounds at the local Arena tournament was such a vibe.

Barely feels like it was real.

Never read the Duelist but did read gaming and hobby magazines back in the day. Makes me nostalgic for those days, sad that so much print media is unviable these days and even website coverage has been degraded or just hollowed out now