Fan-kept archive of a shut-down Ubisoft card game
The game's full name was Might and Magic Duel of Champions, and this Duel of Champions guide covers every faction, the current server status, and how a match actually played out, organized like the binder page collectors actually kept.
Each of the six factions had its own identity and a different plan for winning. This is the factions half of the Duel of Champions guide; the how-to-play and status pages round out the rest of the Might and Magic Duel of Champions picture below, and each faction's own page goes deeper still.
Picking a faction wasn't a cosmetic choice tacked onto deck-building: it decided a mostly different play pattern from turn one. A player who wanted every game to feel similar generally stuck close to one faction; a player who liked adapting between openings kept two or three ready and picked based on the matchup or the mood. Either way, the six pockets above aren't ranked against each other, since each was built to answer a different question about how to win, not to out-power the others on paper.
See all six factions compared →Duel of Champions launched in 2012 and stayed live for about four years before Ubisoft shut the official servers down in October 2016. That's the short version most people are looking for when they land here. The full timeline (why the game closed, what a community-run alternative offers today, and what a returning player should actually expect) lives on the dedicated status page linked below.
The original servers are no longer live. This page tracks what's still reachable, what's been shut down, and where the community moved to, kept current, not frozen in 2016.
Every turn built on resources drawn from a hero's chosen faction, and the three steps below compress a match that could run twenty minutes or more into its essential shape: build, deploy, and finish. The full how-to-play guide covers deck construction, the lane-based board, and champion abilities in more depth than a three-step summary can.
Draft a deck around one of the six factions, mixing units, spells, and champion abilities.
Alternate turns generating resources and deploying units onto a lane-based board.
Reduce your opponent's champion to zero health before they do the same to yours.
Duel of Champions didn't exist in isolation. It borrowed its six factions, its tone, and a fair amount of its lore from the wider Heroes of Might and Magic strategy series, and that connection runs in both directions. The three pages below cover where the faction designs actually came from, plus two pieces of genuinely current Heroes of Might and Magic news: a browser-based prequel called Olden Era, and a from-the-ground-up remake of Heroes of Might and Magic III.