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locomania233's Magic: The Gathering (Other)
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| [October 8, 2012 11:23:47 PM]
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Every Tuesday I sit down with my friends and play Magic the Gathering, the trading card game. It is a game in which players draw cards from a deck of spells, they use these to cast sorceries and summon creatures to deal damage to their opponents. The opponent starts with twenty life and loses the game when their life reaches zero, the last player standing wins.
Each creature has power and toughness; power assigns attack damage while toughness is a measure of how many hits a creature can take. Creatures also have abilities that change the game. Creatures with flying can only be blocked by other creatures with flying, or creatures with reach. A deck with flying creatures might have an advantage over decks that do not.
Mana is the power source that allows the player to put cards into play. Mana comes from the land, there are five different types of lands that correspond to each respective color. Each color has its own unique style of play; white mana, the color of order and protection comes from plains. Blue mana, the color intellect and deceit, comes from islands. Black mana, the color of death and decay, comes from swamps. Red mana, the color of chaos and fury, comes from mountins. Green mana, the color of life and nature, comes from forests. It is the combination of the colors that creates
One of the most interesting parts of magic the gathering is building decks. There are so many options to choose from. There can only be four of a single card in a standard deck of sixty cards. This adds a strategic element and an element of chance to the game. Because of the sixty-card limit, players must place more emphasis on certain cards and less on others. Knowing what cards are necessary and extraneous is part of the game. A good deck is concentrated on a certain purpose.
Every game of magic I play is an interesting battle of strategy. The alternations in gameplay and the way players react to them is an interesting experience that will change the perspective of gamers.
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locomania233's Magic: The Gathering (Other)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Monday 8 October, 2012
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