Magic, The Gathering

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Magic, The Gathering

• Or a card game for the obsessed collector
• By David Tanji

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What is Magic, The Gathering? Or what the heck is
it?!

• Its a Collectable card game.
• They are currently on their 23th expansion set.
• Its played World Wide.
• In the States, there are tournaments held almost
  once a week.

• The sets, in the order they came out Alpha,
  Beta, Unlimited, Arabian Nights, Antiquities,
  Revised, Legends, The Dark, Fallen Empires, 4th
  Edition, Ice Age, Chronicles, Homelands,
  Alliances,Mirage, Visions, 5th Edition,
  Weatherlight, Portals, Tempest, Stronghold,
  Exodus, Portals set2, Unglued and now Urza Saga.

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How to play or the rules and why you need to
know them.

• You and your opponent start at 20 life points and
  at the least and deck of Magic, The Gathering
  playing cards totaling 60. Who starts first is
  totally up to you Paper-rock-scissors, roll a
  dice, flip a coin, etc. After you Figure out who
  goes first then you draw 7 cards from your deck,
  or what its referred to in the instruction book,
  your library.
• The rules of the game is simple, its to get rid
  of your opponents life total to zero while
  making sure your life total doesnt hit zero or
  run him out of cards in his library. Your
  opponent is trying to do the same thing that
  youre doing, so having the right cards at
  certain time do help. But figuring out those
  certain cards are really up to you and how you
  use them.

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The break down of the cards or What the Heck does
this word mean?!

• The cards are broken down it to its own
  category color,spells, instants, interrupts, and
  enchantments.
  
• Color is one of five colors you can use, Red,
  Black, Blue, White, and Green. Each color has
  two opposing colors white has red and black,
  green has black and blue, red has white and
  blue,, black has green and white, and blue has
  red and green.
• The spells or summons are the creatures that are
  used to BEAT DOWN your opponent with while
  theyre doing the same to you. You can only play
  these types of cards only on your turn.
• Enchantments are either helpful to you or they
  hurt very badly. One could give you life every
  turn if a requirement is met or it could hurt you
  if you miss one little detail, so be very careful
  on which you use. These are also played only
  during you r turn only.
• Instants are very confusing at first Who am I
  kidding, it is always hard to understand this
  The way they are played is the phrase last in,
  first out, meaning that the first one played is
  the last to get resolved while the one that is
  current is resolved first. Interrupts are
  resolved as they come down on to the board. Both
  these types can be played out of turn.

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The lay out of the Land of Dominia (This is the
place where this game is set in)

• This land has been running fine for eons until
  Planeswalkers appeared. This is what the players
  are referred as. Anyway, the land now is turned
  upside down because of these planeswalkers and
  their wars with each other. The land is used to
  summon forth creatures that lie in the realm of
  ones imaginations to fight these battles. All
  the battles between all these planeswalkers are
  following the Highlander theme, There can be
  only one. or Why deceit and dishonesty are your
  best friends.

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The works Cited

• The only place I got most of this Info for is at
  http//www.wizardsofthecoast.com

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THE END (HOORAY!!)