Magic: The Gathering

List Price: $12.99 Discount Price: $139.99

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Great [Posted on 2001-07-12]
Unfortunatly, this game was sold out before i came into interest in magic cards. After 3 weeks of searching, i finally found it on Ebay. They can go for a lot up there, but it is certainly worth it. The graphics of this game are good for the era it was built in, and the idea of fighting off magic playing enemies is fun too.

There are several places to find this object. I found it on [a website], but they are quite [costly] there. You could be able to find them in pawn shops, or another used games store. You can also find it [other websites], apparently. Since micropose does not exist anymore, it is better to not even try to look for them.

The plot of the game is to stop the five wizards of magic who were tricked into trying to cast a spell that will destroy the world. When you are walking around the world, you will visit towns, where you will buy cards and other things and accept missions. If you finish a mission (ie destroy the wizard to the north of our town) you will find a hint to the home of each of the wizards.

As you walk around, you will be challenged by minions of the wizards of magic of the area which you are in. You can either pay them off, or try to beat them. If you win, you get a choice of a bunch of cards they are carrying or a hint to a dungeon, where you can find rare cards such as black lotus. If you blow the other player out, they may set a spell on you, in which you may start out with less life the next game you play. If you lose, you must give up the card you anti'd.

You can also create your own decks and dual other players. There are cards up to about 4th edition, so you can make the half fireball half mox deck. There are many things you can do, including a game teaching tutorial including a video of people dressed up as magic characters, that will teach you how to play.

Not Quite [Posted on 2001-12-16]
If you are looking for Magic TCG computer game that is worthy of the card game, keep looking. The few glitches that I found almost fully destroyed the fun value, and it is just not as fulfilling as laughing in a beaten opponent's face. Just buy the cards for a better time.

Fun, when it works [Posted on 2001-12-25]
This game is a good introduction to the game Magic, especially for people who can't find others to play the TCG with, but it is very dated: Graphics are only 256 colors and the game is *full* of glitches, at least if you run it on Windows 95 or higher. There have been patches released for the game but even they don't fix all the bugs, and finding the patches isn't easy either since the game came out under the Microprose label, which was bought by Hasbro Interactive which is now Infogrames.

It is nice though in that you can play with lots of Magic cards you'd probably never be able to find and/or afford in real life. If you can find this game cheap and don't mind glitches, go ahead and buy it, otherwise, wait for the upcoming Magic Online game.

Cheaper than buying all those real (and virtual) cards! [Posted on 2002-07-05]
The game started with Magic: The Gathering and was subsequently followed by two other CD-ROM titles: Spells of the Ancients and Duels of the Planeswalkers. Both titles added more cards to your deck that came with the original M:TG. I believe one of the CD-ROMS (can't remember which one) allowed players to battle each other on the internet. (I never was able to make it work though so just stuck with playing against the computer or doing the "Shandalar" quests).

The game seems to only work with Windows 95 and can be temperamental. It constantly asks me to reinstall the "Duel of the Planeswalker" and can crash unexpectedly. However, I enjoy this game a lot because it doesn't require you to constantly buy more cards (as in the real collectible card game!) which can be bad for your pocketbook! (I've spent more than a couple of thousand dollars just buying new expansions constantly before I realized it doesn't have to be that way!) Just buy the CD ROM game (no matter how buggy) because it truly is a good game. (Remember, it runs only on Windows 95!) And now they came out with a newer computer version (released June 2002) which will allow you to play with other "wizards" on the internet! The catch is, you will need to keep buying more virtual cards to add to your deck! HOLD ON TO YOUR WALLET and BE WARNED! This game (M:TG) can be addictive so heed my advice: just buy the original M:TG (Microprose) and play your heart out and save your money (ATTN: school age kids!) for a college education instead!

By the way, there is also a Magic: The Gathering Encyclopedia (CD-ROM) which is extremely helpful in keeping track of your collection. It is also wonderfully useful in helping you build your deck and has a lot of useful features for M:TG enthusiasts (i.e., finding cards to build and fine tune your decks, listing of all cards complete with actual pictures of the cards, a utility that allows you to find and sort cards by criteria you choose, etc.)

M:TG is truly one good game which has become an established icon of pop culture. Too bad you'd have to spend a fortune just to "keep up"!

Don't say I didn't warn you!

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Magic The Gathering Updated with Duels of Planewalkers [Posted on 2007-01-03]
Advice for buyers - Magic The Gathering: Duels of Planewalkers (available on another Amazon listing) is an upgrade to the original Magic The Gathering game so it is a better buy because essentially you are getting Magic The Gathering with Extras! Magic The Gathering: Duels of Planewalkers adds: the current engine upgrades (fixing many bugs and incorporating ManaLink), the newer interface (as seen previously in Spells of the Ancients), and 80 new cards from Legends and The Dark. There is also an Unofficial Manalink Patch for Magic The Gathering: Duels of Planewalkers which makes this game work on Windows XP.

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