Episode 1

Episode 1 is the 10th series of Duel Masters card sets. It can be distinguished by the symbol.

It features the following sets: DMR-01 Episode 1: First Contact DMR-02 Episode 1: Dark Side DMR-03 Episode 1: Gaial Victory DMR-04 Episode 1: Rising Hope

Timeline
The battle between the Alien and Hunter races continue, until reconciling and joining forces against the mysterious Unknown creatures.

Details
Psychic Creatures and Hyperspatial Spells continued to appear after the "Awakening Saga". They started to feature a new ability, Psychic Link which allows 2 or 3 specific Psychic Creatures to link together and flip to a Psychic Super Creature.

As well as featuring Psychic Creatures with a large diversity of effects, it also featured strong support for a Water / Fire / Nature deck-type, focusing on Cosmo Cebu Lambda, the Super Electromagnetic.

A new card frame was introduced, including civilization symbols over the previous mana symbol.

Following the Visual Cards from the last block, Mode Change Cards were introduced and continued to feature additional artwork that passes through the cardframe.

A DASH Golden List was created that limits certain cards from being reprinted until June 2013, to keep the single-card sale of cardshop's strong.

Cards with a distinctive curry bread smell Katsuta Kirifuda, Curry Bread Boy and Katsuta Kirifuda, Curry Bread Master were released as promotional cards, as well as Metal Psychic Creatures in the Strong Metal DMD series of DMD-03 and DMD-04.

Old races such as Sea Hacker and Brain Jacker started to reappear.