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Legend of Mana Card Duel - Starter Decks - Opened Decks

This page details the contents of starter decks that have been opened. The information described here was used to determine card inclusion and card order of decks.

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Starter Decks Sheexy Opened
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Starter Decks Sheexy Opened

Here I have included information about twelve different starter decks I opened up in the past. I believe this information may be interesting or useful to those who have opened or plan to open packs. Using these lists, I determined the information presented above. You can follow along my story of collecting all 150 cards as well. I have identified whether the decks were Monster Item type (MI) or Support Character type (SC). You can watch many of these openings on the Vidoes page.

Opened in 2004

First Starter Deck (MI) – I opened my first Legend of Mana Card Duel starter deck sometime around August 2004. I bought it off eBay from a seller that unfortunately does not seem to be on the site any longer. From that same seller, I actually bought a great many starter decks, and even some other Seiken Densetsu merchandise.

I scanned in all of the cards I got out of this starter deck and uploaded them to the forums, so I was able to easily reconstruct what I obtained. I did not record the actual order of the cards when opening, but based on the card order I have determined what it originally was. With this budding collection of 60 cards, only 90 remained.

Rarity Count Cards
C 30
U 18
R
H
10
2

Second Starter Deck (SC) – The second starter deck was opened sometime not that long after the first one. I do not remember which merchant I bought this one from, but I feel like it must have been different than the first since it is a different starter deck type (which is apparent due to the additional rare character included). I also do not remember exactly which cards I obtained here, but using the recording linked in the third starter deck I was able to determine at least which cards differed from the first. After obtaining these 30 cards, only 60 remained.

Rarity Count Cards
C 14
U 12
R
H
3
1

Opened in 2011

I stockpiled a large number of starter decks, and did not open them until 2011. These ones I recorded myself opening, so I have been able to retain the order in which the cards appeared, which may be of interest to some. I purchased the first five of these starter decks from the same merchant, and the latter five decks from another. Unfortunately, I don’t remember exactly who the merchants were I got these from.

Third Starter Deck (MI) You can watch me open this Starter Deck on Youtube.
Purchased from the first merchant. I was shorted one common Monster card in this starter deck, which should have been a Malboro. Strangely, the common Monster cards appear in reverse card order. The 15 new cards obtained were: Teedie, Basilisk, Molebear, Goblin, Chocobo, Deathbringer, Lord of Jewels, Gaeus, Pokiehl, Capella, Inspector Boyd, Ishe Staff, Swifte Gloves, Dragon Flute, and Ivory Flute. 45 cards remained.

Rarity Count Cards
C 29
U 18
R
H
10
2

Fourth Starter Deck (MI) You can watch me open this Starter Deck on Youtube.
Purchased from the first merchant. The 10 new cards obtained were: Green Cane, Jewel Beast, Springball, Polter Box, Kathinja, Magnolia, Loiue, Boink, Escad, and Larc. 35 remained.

Rarity Count Cards
C 30
U 18
R
H
11
1

Fifth Starter Deck (MI) You can watch me open this Starter Deck on Youtube. Purchased from the first merchant. The 4 new cards obtained were: Fierce Face, Boreal Hound, Duelle, and Scale 2H Sword. 31 remained.

Rarity Count Cards
C 30
U 18
R
H
10
2

Sixth Starter Deck (MI) You can watch me open this Starter Deck on Youtube. Purchased from the first merchant. The 3 new cards obtained were: Narcissos, Mephianse, and Lilipea. Only 28 cards to go at this point.

Rarity Count Cards
C 30
U 18
R
H
9
3

Seventh Starter Deck (MI) You can watch me open this Starter Deck on Youtube. Purchased from the first merchant. The 1 new card obtained was: Gilbert. 27 remained.

Rarity Count Cards
C 30
U 18
R
H
10
2

Eighth Starter Deck (SC) – You can watch me open this Starter Deck on Youtube. Purchased from the second merchant. The 1 new card obtained was: Matilda. 26 remained.

Rarity Count Cards
C 30
U 18
R
H
10
2

Ninth Starter Deck (SC) You can watch me open this Starter Deck on Youtube. Purchased from the second merchant. The 1 new card obtained was: Roger. 25 remained.

Rarity Count Cards
C 30
U 18
R
H
9
3

Tenth Starter Deck (SC) You can watch me open this Starter Deck on Youtube. Purchased from the second merchant. The 1 new card obtained was: Kristie. 24 remained.

Rarity Count Cards
C 30
U 18
R
H
10
2

Eleventh Starter Deck (SC) You can watch me open this Starter Deck on Youtube. Purchased from the second merchant. The 2 new cards obtained were: Lizard Marimba, and Diana. 22 remained.

Rarity Count Cards
C 30
U 18
R
H
10
2

Twelfth Starter Deck (SC) You can watch me open this Starter Deck on Youtube. Purchased from the second merchant. New card obtained was: Machine Golem Mark 44. 21 remained.

Rarity Count Cards
C 30
U 18
R
H
10
2

Individual Cards – You can watch me open these cards on Youtube. After opening those twelve starter decks, I obtained some individual cards through auctions. The 5 new cards obtained were: Mana Sword, Akravator, Selva, Fullmetal Spear, and Vizel Harp. 16 cards remained.

Rarity Count Cards
R
H
4
1

Obtained between 2012-2015

At this point, obtaining the cards through starter decks appeared hopeless. It indeed was, as after I later went through the recordings to make this page I realized that there must be certain cards that only appear in booster packs. I picked up a few more starter decks, but never opened them. I began collecting booster packs, but also never opened those. To fill out the cards I was missing, I mostly relied on purchasing singles (exceedingly rare to find) or partial sets of cards that I could see something I needed in.

Remaining Cards – The last cards I needed that could be obtained in starter decks were Nunuzac, Elazul, Blackpearl, Sandra, and Cap’n Tusk. The rest could only be obtained through booster packs: Hitodama, Du’Cate, Iron Centaur, Vadise, Jajara, Putty, Rosiotti, Tote, Olbohn, Elle, and Rubens.

Rarity Count Cards
U 1
R
H
11
4

Remaining cards were obtained through auctions, until only Rosiotti remained. Then, after all of my searching and fretting about starter deck and individual card purchases after I had managed to painstakingly collect all of the cards except for one… I purchased a full 150 card set in 2015 for $100. An anticlimactic end to my journey.

Opened in … ?

Will I open more starter decks? I am not sure.

If you have opened any starter decks and can remember what cards you obtained, please let me know. I would be interested to hear about it and expand our knowledge of this card game.