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Magic: The Gathering

Newest Review: ... each gathering mana-producing resources to cast bigger and better spells, including summoning spells and direct effect ... more

... spells. These are deployed to try and run your opponents life points down from 20, and when they hit zero, you win. In play, cards are drawn from a customised deck. You may then play Mana (Land) cards, from which you draw your power, using these to cast spells such as Creature summoning (There are now hundreds of Creatures in print) and direct effect spells (Which can damage your opponent or his creatures, destroy land etc). The mix of cards is huge, and there are a lot of subtle strategies, one's that you generally ...more

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by dodger2bking - written on 19/09/02
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The joys of Magic! - Advantages: Good fun!, Can play for hours and not get bored!, You get to beat your mates! - Disadvantages: it is a bit expensive

My, what a lot of pretty little cards. (377 words)
by oneshallstand - written on 20/08/01 (Very useful, 467 readings)
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You've got to be really careful about games like this. It's fun, it's easy and worst of all, it's infinitely expandable.... This is the game that started off the collectable card game revolution a few years ago. Games which have followed, such as the Star Trek & Star Wars games, Pokemon and the soon to be released Harry Potter game have all had their successes, but this is the big one. The game was originally created to portray wars between duelling wizards, each gathering mana-producing resources to cast bigger and better spells, including summoning spells and direct effect spells. These are deployed to try and run your opponents life ...

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