Magic: The Gathering (1993)
Playtime: 20
Min. Age: 13
Players: 2
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Designers: Richard Garfield
Artists: Kaja Foglio, Liu Jianjian, Puddnhead, Kuang Sheng, Thomas Manning, Miles Johnston, Tang Xiaogu, Daren Bader, David Day, Li Xiaohua, Brian Horton, James Allen (I), Drew Baker, Howard Lyon, Randy Gallegos, Ray Lago, Kari Johnson, Cliff Nielsen, Jason Felix, Nicola Leonard, Sam Wood, Fay Jones, Stephen Tappin, Zhao Tan, Jerry Tiritilli, Warren Mahy, Vance Kovacs, Matt Cavotta, Simon Bisley, Michael C. Hayes, Steve Argyle, Ji Yong, Franco Rivolli, Randy Asplund-Faith, Doug Keith, D. J. Cleland-Hura, Zhang Jiazhen, Richard Sardinha, Phil Foglio, Jeremy Jarvis, Syuichi Obata, David Martin (II), Michael Kaluta, Whit Brachna, Rob Alexander, James Bernardin, Dave Rapoza, Ai Desheng, Cos Koniotis, Una Fricker, Dany Orizio, Daniel Horne, Adrian Smith, Kipling West, Janet Aulisio, Drew Tucker, Shishizaru, Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, Tony DiTerlizzi, Harold Arthur McNeill, Raymond Swanland, Nènè Thomas, Glen Michael Angus, Martin McKenna, Omaha Perez, Dan Frazier, Lou Harrison, Terry Springer, Ruth Thompson, Dan Dos Santos, Mark Zug, Thomas Denmark, Li Tie, Goran Josic, Andrew Robinson, ZENTOYO, Mike Dringenberg, Khang Le, John Zeleznik, Alan Pollack, Lucio Parrillo, Svetlin Velinov, Junko Taguchi, Cole Eastburn, Shelly Wan, Dennis Detwiller, Mike Kimble, Scott Bailey, Dom!, Ron Spears, Gao Yan, Stephen A. Daniele, Marc Simonetti, Dom Reardon, Qin Jun, Anthony Waters, Mark Romanoski, Alton Lawson, Jim Murray, Matthew Mitchell, Michael Phillippi, William Donohoe, Zina Saunders, Eric Fortune, Jack Wei, Wayne Reynolds, Stephan Martiniere, Steve Luke, Michael Bierek, Ron Chironna, Izzy, Amy Weber, Carl Frank, Brian Snoddy, Melissa Benson, Pete Venters, Jin Chiaki, Don Hazeltine, Aaron Boyd, Brad Williams, Daniel Gelon, April Lee, Bill Sienkiewicz, Ryan Yee, Jiaming, LHQ, Jon J. Muth, Yang Guangmai, Wayne England, Rogério Vilela, Jeff Nentrup, Patrick Beel, KOJI, Erica Yang, Steven Belledin, Tom Kyffin, Greg Simanson, Jesper Ejsing, Vincent Proce, Pat Lee, Fang Yue, Adi Granov, John Stanko, Cyril Van Der Haegen, Larry MacDougall, Dave DeVries, Yang Jun Kwon, Robert Bliss, William Simpson, Jesper Myrfors, Andrew Goldhawk, John Avon, Miao Aili, Mitsuaki Sagiri, Ian Edward Ameling, James Nelson, Jarreau Wimberly, Charles Urbach, Lucas Graciano, Henry Higgenbotham, Mitch Cotie, Yoshino Himori, Ryan Pancoast, John Coulthart, Ciruelo, Alex Horley, Jen Page, Monte Moore, Stuart Griffin, Sun Nan, Mike Danza, Daniel Ljunggren, Romas, Jacques Bredy, Winona Nelson, Ken Meyer, Jr., Paul Bonner, David Robyn Seeley, Dave Kendall, L. A. Williams, Shang Huitong, John Matson, Iain McCaig, Craig Mullins, Christine Choi, Joel Thomas, Henry van der Linde, Hiroshi Tanigawa, Ralph Horsley, Rick Farrell, Lars Grant-West, David Palumbo, Dominick Domingo, Fred Fields, Tim Hildebrandt, Robh Ruppel, Liam Sharp, Mark Hyzer, Randy Elliott, Michael Koelsch, Noah Bradley, Luca Zontini, David Ho, Efrem Palacios, Brian Despain, Dana Andrews, Jeremy Enecio, Wang Feng, Geof Darrow, Scott Kirschner, Chen Weidong, Thomas Gianni, Frank Kelly Freas, Nottsuo, Pat Morrissey, Nic Klein, Keith Parkinson, Anson Maddocks, Chris J. Anderson, Bud Cook, Bryan Talbot, Paul Lee, R. K. Post, Igor Kieryluk, Tsutomu Kawade, Scott Chou, Marc Fishman, Wang Yuqun, James Ernest, Dan Seagrave, Daarken, Qiao Dafu, James Ryman, Li Yousong, Franz Vohwinkel, Justin Hampton, Kevin A. Murphy, Steve White, He Jiancheng, Min Yum, D. Alexander Gregory, Tomasz Jedruszek, Mike Kerr, Adam Paquette, Ariel Olivetti, Trevor Claxton, Malcolm David Monette, Marco Nelor, Ron Brown, Bryon Wackwitz, Quan Xuejun, Jeffrey R. Busch, Song Shikai, Austin Hsu, Richard Whitters, Jeff Miracola, Cai Tingting, Arnie Swekel, Michael Weaver, Brad Rigney, Chris Rahn, Mark Tedin, Lin Yan, Peter Mohrbacher, Jason Engle, Philip Straub, Mike Ploog, Eric Deschamps, Scott Murphy, jD, Yeong-Hao Han, Sue Ellen Brown, Chris Dien, Fred Harper, Junior Tomlin, Anthony Palumbo, Jeff Reitz, Dylan Martens, Brian Durfee, Brian "Chippy" Dugan, Catherine Buck, Jason Chan (I), Zoltan Boros, Tomas Giorello, Ash Wood, Doug Chaffee, Donato Giancola, Richard Wright, Greg Spalenka, Sławomir Maniak, Michael G. Ryan, Rick Emond, Allen Williams, David Horne, Huang Qishi, Volkan Baga, Cecil Fernando, Dave Dorman, Johann Bodin, Corey Macourek, Mark Poole, David Cherry, Tyler Jacobson, Garry Leach, Darrell Riche, Mike Raabe, Kevin Dobler, Sandra Garavito, Joel Biske, Alayna Lemmer-Danner, Isabelle Rabarot, Richard Kane Ferguson, Ted Galaday, Jeff Easley, Fred Hooper, Massimilano Frezzato, Karl Kopinski, Tony Szczudlo, Dave Allsop, Andi Rusu, Ding Songjian, Jung Park, Cara Mitten, Christopher Rush, Rebecca Guay-Mitchell, David O'Connor, Ku Xueming, Glenn Fabry, Carol Heyer, Ittoku, Diana Vick, Xu Xiaoming, Paolo Parente, Kerstin Kaman, Patrick Kochakji, Clyde Caldwell, Margaret Organ-Kean, Clint Langley, Ron Lemen, Gerry Grace, Peter Bollinger, Steve Ellis (I), Sean McConnell, Justin Sweet, Jaime Jones, Adam Rex, Cornelius Brudi, Brian Hagan, Kieran Yanner, John Bolton, Ron Walotsky, Jeff Remmer, Nick Percival, Philip Tan (I), Hideaki Takamura, Matt Thompson, Chengo McFlingers, Junichi Inoue, Cristina McAllister, James Kei, Randis Albion, Véronique Meignaud, Johannes Voss, John Howe, Ron Spencer, Michael Sutfin, Nelson DeCastro, Joshua Hagler, Kunio Hagio, Kev Brockschmidt, Christopher Moeller, Darbury Stenderu, Yokota Katsumi, Livia Prima, Jana Schirmer, Sal Villagran, Zak Plucinski, David Hudnut, Esad Ribic, Billy Christian, Mark Rosewater, Janine Johnston, Ben Thompson, Mark Simpson (II), Liu Shangying, Kensuke Okabayashi, Bob Petillo, Greg Hildebrandt, Li Youliang, Jon Foster, Dermot Power, Scott Hampton, Patrick Faricy, Justin Norman, Andrew Murray, Blackie del Rio, Val Mayerik, Stephen Walsh, Brandon Dorman, John Donahue, Kristen Bishop, Qu Xin, Steve Firchow, John Malloy, Julie Baroh, Paul Chadwick, Richard Thomas (I), Xu Tan, Christopher Burdett, Roger Raupp, Chris Appelhans, Michael Komarck, Mark Brill, Kang Yu, Dan Scott, Erik Gist, Solomon Au Yeung, Victor Adame, Tom Wänerstrand, Jeff Menges, Hong Yan, Eric David Anderson, Eric Peterson, Michael Whelan, Larry Snelly, Mark A. Nelson, Jim Wong, James Paick, Eric Polak, Jim Pavelec, Craig Hooper, Clint Cearley, Jeff Laubenstein, Ironbrush, George Pratt, Wang Chuxiong, Steve Prescott, William O'Connor, Robert Eggleton, Ian Miller, Trevor Hairsine, Gábor Szikszai, Scott Fischer, Matthew Stawicki, J. W. Frost, Fredrik Rahmqvist, Kevin Walker, Terese Nielsen, Kathryn Rathke, Edward Beard, Jr., Lubov, Greg Staples, Tristan Elwell, Jason Behnke, Mike Sass, Rebekah Lynn, Rob Gonsalves, Tony Roberts, Nils Hamm, Yang Hong, Charles Gillespie, Justin Murray, Doug Shuler, Jean-Sebastien Rossbach, Gary Rudell, Tom Baxa, Ted Naifeh, Heather Hudson, Al Davidson, Erik Von Lehmann, Martina Pilcerová, Todd Lockwood, Quinton Hoover, Okera, Chuck Lukacs, Vincent Evans, Wesley Burt, Marcelo Vignali, Tom Fleming, Anthony Francisco, Aleksi Briclot, Susan Van Camp, Gao Jianzhang, Liz Danforth, Jiang Zhuqing, Colin MacNeil, Matt Stewart, Matt Wilson (I), Alan Rabinowitz, Omar Rayyan, Hannibal King, Kekai Kotaki, Gerald Brom, Hugh Jamieson, Michael Bruinsma, Qi Baocheng, Brandon Kitkouski, Jennifer Law, Philip Mosness, Dameon Willich, Larry Elmore, Scott Altmann, Carl Critchlow, Gary Gianni, Li Wang, John Gallagher, Kevin Garletts, Hiro Izawa, Nathalie Hertz, Francis Tsai, Mark Harrison
Mechanics: Interrupts, Take That, Closed Drafting, Player Elimination, Income, Deck Construction, Hand Management, Tags, Betting and Bluffing
Min. Age: 13
Players: 2
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Designers: Richard Garfield
Artists: Kaja Foglio, Liu Jianjian, Puddnhead, Kuang Sheng, Thomas Manning, Miles Johnston, Tang Xiaogu, Daren Bader, David Day, Li Xiaohua, Brian Horton, James Allen (I), Drew Baker, Howard Lyon, Randy Gallegos, Ray Lago, Kari Johnson, Cliff Nielsen, Jason Felix, Nicola Leonard, Sam Wood, Fay Jones, Stephen Tappin, Zhao Tan, Jerry Tiritilli, Warren Mahy, Vance Kovacs, Matt Cavotta, Simon Bisley, Michael C. Hayes, Steve Argyle, Ji Yong, Franco Rivolli, Randy Asplund-Faith, Doug Keith, D. J. Cleland-Hura, Zhang Jiazhen, Richard Sardinha, Phil Foglio, Jeremy Jarvis, Syuichi Obata, David Martin (II), Michael Kaluta, Whit Brachna, Rob Alexander, James Bernardin, Dave Rapoza, Ai Desheng, Cos Koniotis, Una Fricker, Dany Orizio, Daniel Horne, Adrian Smith, Kipling West, Janet Aulisio, Drew Tucker, Shishizaru, Stephanie Pui-Mun Law, Tony DiTerlizzi, Harold Arthur McNeill, Raymond Swanland, Nènè Thomas, Glen Michael Angus, Martin McKenna, Omaha Perez, Dan Frazier, Lou Harrison, Terry Springer, Ruth Thompson, Dan Dos Santos, Mark Zug, Thomas Denmark, Li Tie, Goran Josic, Andrew Robinson, ZENTOYO, Mike Dringenberg, Khang Le, John Zeleznik, Alan Pollack, Lucio Parrillo, Svetlin Velinov, Junko Taguchi, Cole Eastburn, Shelly Wan, Dennis Detwiller, Mike Kimble, Scott Bailey, Dom!, Ron Spears, Gao Yan, Stephen A. Daniele, Marc Simonetti, Dom Reardon, Qin Jun, Anthony Waters, Mark Romanoski, Alton Lawson, Jim Murray, Matthew Mitchell, Michael Phillippi, William Donohoe, Zina Saunders, Eric Fortune, Jack Wei, Wayne Reynolds, Stephan Martiniere, Steve Luke, Michael Bierek, Ron Chironna, Izzy, Amy Weber, Carl Frank, Brian Snoddy, Melissa Benson, Pete Venters, Jin Chiaki, Don Hazeltine, Aaron Boyd, Brad Williams, Daniel Gelon, April Lee, Bill Sienkiewicz, Ryan Yee, Jiaming, LHQ, Jon J. Muth, Yang Guangmai, Wayne England, Rogério Vilela, Jeff Nentrup, Patrick Beel, KOJI, Erica Yang, Steven Belledin, Tom Kyffin, Greg Simanson, Jesper Ejsing, Vincent Proce, Pat Lee, Fang Yue, Adi Granov, John Stanko, Cyril Van Der Haegen, Larry MacDougall, Dave DeVries, Yang Jun Kwon, Robert Bliss, William Simpson, Jesper Myrfors, Andrew Goldhawk, John Avon, Miao Aili, Mitsuaki Sagiri, Ian Edward Ameling, James Nelson, Jarreau Wimberly, Charles Urbach, Lucas Graciano, Henry Higgenbotham, Mitch Cotie, Yoshino Himori, Ryan Pancoast, John Coulthart, Ciruelo, Alex Horley, Jen Page, Monte Moore, Stuart Griffin, Sun Nan, Mike Danza, Daniel Ljunggren, Romas, Jacques Bredy, Winona Nelson, Ken Meyer, Jr., Paul Bonner, David Robyn Seeley, Dave Kendall, L. A. Williams, Shang Huitong, John Matson, Iain McCaig, Craig Mullins, Christine Choi, Joel Thomas, Henry van der Linde, Hiroshi Tanigawa, Ralph Horsley, Rick Farrell, Lars Grant-West, David Palumbo, Dominick Domingo, Fred Fields, Tim Hildebrandt, Robh Ruppel, Liam Sharp, Mark Hyzer, Randy Elliott, Michael Koelsch, Noah Bradley, Luca Zontini, David Ho, Efrem Palacios, Brian Despain, Dana Andrews, Jeremy Enecio, Wang Feng, Geof Darrow, Scott Kirschner, Chen Weidong, Thomas Gianni, Frank Kelly Freas, Nottsuo, Pat Morrissey, Nic Klein, Keith Parkinson, Anson Maddocks, Chris J. Anderson, Bud Cook, Bryan Talbot, Paul Lee, R. K. Post, Igor Kieryluk, Tsutomu Kawade, Scott Chou, Marc Fishman, Wang Yuqun, James Ernest, Dan Seagrave, Daarken, Qiao Dafu, James Ryman, Li Yousong, Franz Vohwinkel, Justin Hampton, Kevin A. Murphy, Steve White, He Jiancheng, Min Yum, D. Alexander Gregory, Tomasz Jedruszek, Mike Kerr, Adam Paquette, Ariel Olivetti, Trevor Claxton, Malcolm David Monette, Marco Nelor, Ron Brown, Bryon Wackwitz, Quan Xuejun, Jeffrey R. Busch, Song Shikai, Austin Hsu, Richard Whitters, Jeff Miracola, Cai Tingting, Arnie Swekel, Michael Weaver, Brad Rigney, Chris Rahn, Mark Tedin, Lin Yan, Peter Mohrbacher, Jason Engle, Philip Straub, Mike Ploog, Eric Deschamps, Scott Murphy, jD, Yeong-Hao Han, Sue Ellen Brown, Chris Dien, Fred Harper, Junior Tomlin, Anthony Palumbo, Jeff Reitz, Dylan Martens, Brian Durfee, Brian "Chippy" Dugan, Catherine Buck, Jason Chan (I), Zoltan Boros, Tomas Giorello, Ash Wood, Doug Chaffee, Donato Giancola, Richard Wright, Greg Spalenka, Sławomir Maniak, Michael G. Ryan, Rick Emond, Allen Williams, David Horne, Huang Qishi, Volkan Baga, Cecil Fernando, Dave Dorman, Johann Bodin, Corey Macourek, Mark Poole, David Cherry, Tyler Jacobson, Garry Leach, Darrell Riche, Mike Raabe, Kevin Dobler, Sandra Garavito, Joel Biske, Alayna Lemmer-Danner, Isabelle Rabarot, Richard Kane Ferguson, Ted Galaday, Jeff Easley, Fred Hooper, Massimilano Frezzato, Karl Kopinski, Tony Szczudlo, Dave Allsop, Andi Rusu, Ding Songjian, Jung Park, Cara Mitten, Christopher Rush, Rebecca Guay-Mitchell, David O'Connor, Ku Xueming, Glenn Fabry, Carol Heyer, Ittoku, Diana Vick, Xu Xiaoming, Paolo Parente, Kerstin Kaman, Patrick Kochakji, Clyde Caldwell, Margaret Organ-Kean, Clint Langley, Ron Lemen, Gerry Grace, Peter Bollinger, Steve Ellis (I), Sean McConnell, Justin Sweet, Jaime Jones, Adam Rex, Cornelius Brudi, Brian Hagan, Kieran Yanner, John Bolton, Ron Walotsky, Jeff Remmer, Nick Percival, Philip Tan (I), Hideaki Takamura, Matt Thompson, Chengo McFlingers, Junichi Inoue, Cristina McAllister, James Kei, Randis Albion, Véronique Meignaud, Johannes Voss, John Howe, Ron Spencer, Michael Sutfin, Nelson DeCastro, Joshua Hagler, Kunio Hagio, Kev Brockschmidt, Christopher Moeller, Darbury Stenderu, Yokota Katsumi, Livia Prima, Jana Schirmer, Sal Villagran, Zak Plucinski, David Hudnut, Esad Ribic, Billy Christian, Mark Rosewater, Janine Johnston, Ben Thompson, Mark Simpson (II), Liu Shangying, Kensuke Okabayashi, Bob Petillo, Greg Hildebrandt, Li Youliang, Jon Foster, Dermot Power, Scott Hampton, Patrick Faricy, Justin Norman, Andrew Murray, Blackie del Rio, Val Mayerik, Stephen Walsh, Brandon Dorman, John Donahue, Kristen Bishop, Qu Xin, Steve Firchow, John Malloy, Julie Baroh, Paul Chadwick, Richard Thomas (I), Xu Tan, Christopher Burdett, Roger Raupp, Chris Appelhans, Michael Komarck, Mark Brill, Kang Yu, Dan Scott, Erik Gist, Solomon Au Yeung, Victor Adame, Tom Wänerstrand, Jeff Menges, Hong Yan, Eric David Anderson, Eric Peterson, Michael Whelan, Larry Snelly, Mark A. Nelson, Jim Wong, James Paick, Eric Polak, Jim Pavelec, Craig Hooper, Clint Cearley, Jeff Laubenstein, Ironbrush, George Pratt, Wang Chuxiong, Steve Prescott, William O'Connor, Robert Eggleton, Ian Miller, Trevor Hairsine, Gábor Szikszai, Scott Fischer, Matthew Stawicki, J. W. Frost, Fredrik Rahmqvist, Kevin Walker, Terese Nielsen, Kathryn Rathke, Edward Beard, Jr., Lubov, Greg Staples, Tristan Elwell, Jason Behnke, Mike Sass, Rebekah Lynn, Rob Gonsalves, Tony Roberts, Nils Hamm, Yang Hong, Charles Gillespie, Justin Murray, Doug Shuler, Jean-Sebastien Rossbach, Gary Rudell, Tom Baxa, Ted Naifeh, Heather Hudson, Al Davidson, Erik Von Lehmann, Martina Pilcerová, Todd Lockwood, Quinton Hoover, Okera, Chuck Lukacs, Vincent Evans, Wesley Burt, Marcelo Vignali, Tom Fleming, Anthony Francisco, Aleksi Briclot, Susan Van Camp, Gao Jianzhang, Liz Danforth, Jiang Zhuqing, Colin MacNeil, Matt Stewart, Matt Wilson (I), Alan Rabinowitz, Omar Rayyan, Hannibal King, Kekai Kotaki, Gerald Brom, Hugh Jamieson, Michael Bruinsma, Qi Baocheng, Brandon Kitkouski, Jennifer Law, Philip Mosness, Dameon Willich, Larry Elmore, Scott Altmann, Carl Critchlow, Gary Gianni, Li Wang, John Gallagher, Kevin Garletts, Hiro Izawa, Nathalie Hertz, Francis Tsai, Mark Harrison
Mechanics: Interrupts, Take That, Closed Drafting, Player Elimination, Income, Deck Construction, Hand Management, Tags, Betting and Bluffing
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From the official website: In the Magic game, you play the role of a planeswalker—a powerful wizard who fights other planeswalkers for glory, knowledge, and conquest. Your deck of cards represents all the weapons in your arsenal. It contains the spells you know and the creatures you can summon to fight for you.
This is the grandfather of the collectible card game (or CCG) genre. Cards are categorized as common, uncommon, rare, and mythic rare. Players collect cards and build decks out of their collection.
Players build a deck of cards and duel against an opponent's deck. Players are wizards attempting to reduce their opponent's life total to zero. The first player to reduce his opponent's life to zero (or meet another set win condition) wins the game.
An important part of the game is deck construction, which is done prior to the actual game by selecting what cards are included in a particular deck. There are over 25,000 different cards from which to build your deck!
Cards can be lands, which usually generate mana of various colors, or spells, which require a certain amount of mana to be used. Some cards (creatures, artifacts, and enchantments) stay on the board and continue to affect the game, while others have a one-time effect.
Players randomly draw spells to see what they get and can play each turn. Although this limits your choices, there is a lot of strategy in how you play those spells. A robust list of game mechanics, including intricate rules for reactive card play called "the stack," provide for rich tactics and tough choices each turn.
Though traditionally a two-player duel, there are several casual and tournament formats to Magic that allow more players to play.
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