Magic Card Duel vs Kaelix.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Magic Card Duel
Engage in turn-based strategic card battles in a fantasy realm. Build powerful hand combinations by selecting 1 to 5 cards each turn to defeat guardians. Plan your moves across turns to manage mana and achieve victory.
- Turn-based card battles
- Flexible 1-5 card selection
- Mana management with Play/Refresh options
- Three unique arcane spells
- Ten hand combinations
- Five escalating boss battles
- Offline play
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Magic Card Duel is a turn-based strategy game set in a shadow-filled fantasy realm. Every battle begins with five cards in your hand. Pick 1 to 5 cards, build powerful hand combinations, and strike abyssal guardians before they counterattack. Each turn is a duel of timing and choice. Play now for immediate damage, refresh weak cards at half cost, or cast an arcane spell to reshape your next strike. Cards you keep stay in your hand, so smart players plan across turns instead of rushing every draw. HOW EACH BATTLE WORKS Each turn, five cards appear before you. Tap to select the ones you want to use. Hit Play to evaluate your chosen hand and deal damage. Hit Refresh to swap selected cards and keep building. After you act, the guardian counterattacks. Stack shield from strong hands, manage mana carefully, and push through five escalating boss battles from the Shadow Guardian to the Void Sovereign. WHAT MAKES DARK CARD DUEL DIFFERENT Flexible selection: You are not forced to play all five cards every turn. Refresh vs Play: Refresh costs half as much mana as Play, so weak draws do not have to become weak attacks. Three arcane spells: Suit Assimilate for flush setups, Ladder Surge for straight lines, and Golden Seven for the legendary 7-7-7-7-7 finisher. Limited spell charges per boss: Arcane power is precious, especially against deeper guardians. Ten hand ranks: From High Card to Five Golden Sevens, each combo delivers different damage, shield, and mana rewards. THE FUN IN EVERY RUN There is a sharp rhythm to each battle: select, combo, strike, brace for the counter, then strike again with cards you kept. Land a flush and watch your shield rise. Chain spells into a straight. Build toward Golden Seven and unleash a battle-ending payoff. Daily rewards, achievements, level progression, and personal bests keep every run worth one more fight. KEY FEATURES Five-card hand battles with free 1 to 5 card selection Turn-based guardian fights with counterattacks and shield stacking Play or Refresh for smarter mana decisions Three unique spells: Suit Assimilate, Ladder Surge, Golden Seven Ten hand combinations, including Five Golden Sevens Five abyss guardians with rising difficulty Achievements, daily rewards, statistics, and wizard level progression Fully offline, no connection required FOR PLAYERS WHO ENJOY Quick sessions with real depth. Tactical card games. Boss gauntlets. Building the perfect hand over two or three turns. And that one thrilling moment when Golden Seven turns a weak draw into a fight-winning strike. Enter the shadow realm. In Dark Card Duel, every hand is a battle, and every guardian is waiting.
Kaelix.
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Kaelix is a deck you keep on your phone. Each day after midnight, one card is waiting. Turn it, read the proverb, choose a small task, and leave a line in your own words. When the note is saved, that card lights up and stays in your collection. The deck holds fifty-four cards. Hearts, Spades, Diamonds, and Clubs each carry a temperament and a material: velvet and gilt, obsidian and silver, brass and amber, jade and celadon. Number cards hold a short aura and a story. The twelve court cards are original figures, each with a name, a role, and a clue that appears only after the card is lit. Two jokers wait at the edge of the deck. The prism opens when all fifty-two cards are lit. The elixir opens after a long streak of daily draws. Your collection is a wall of cards. Faces that are still sealed stay face down. Open a lit card to read its story, proverb, and three small tasks: one for making, one for daily life, and one for attention. Skins and card backs unlock as the deck grows: gilded, night, and celadon faces, and velvet and obsidian backs. In the workshop, choose five lit cards and arrange them as a hand. Lay them in a fan, a row, a grid, or a reflection. Add a closing line and a date stamp, then save the picture to Photos or share it. A finished hand can also stay on the home page as your card. Three rituals sit beside the daily draw. Mirror asks you to find six matching pairs. Wind asks you to slide eight cards of one suit back into order, from ace through eight. Stake asks you to turn cards into a pot and decide when to keep them: warm suits and cold suits both count, two cold cards in a row break the pot, and passing twenty-one spills it. A win can light more cards. The daily draw remains the heart of the deck. Your profile is a card of its own. Build a portrait from a suit and a rank, follow your streak, your notes, and the marks you have earned, and choose the sound, haptics, and card back. Export a backup if you want to keep the deck, and import it when you want it back. Kaelix does not ask you to learn poker, count odds, or take a course. It is a quiet daily ritual: one card, one line, and a deck that fills in over time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Magic Card Duel at none against Kaelix.'s shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Magic Card Duel | Kaelix. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (136 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 136 — better | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Colton's Tech Laboratory LLC | Chris And Ken Enterprises Inc |
In-app purchases
Magic Card Duel
No in-app purchases
Kaelix.
No in-app purchases
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