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Video Game 101: Video game reviews, raffles, and stories

photo courtesy of imjulianlee
photo courtesy of imjulianlee

Magic is a game about creatures and the perfect deck of cards.  The game is a very fun game that plays like a video game would by having to take turns and having certain restrictions.  The game consists of different creatures, fun game types and some fun spells.

There are multiple different creatures in this game.  There are zombie, vampire and plains creatures (to name a few).  Each creature has different things that can boost them above others in the players deck.  For example, some Zombie creatures have the ability called undying, which means that  when that creature dies it comes back with a plus one to its strength and power.  Most people have specific creatures for a specific deck, like if the player wanted a deck that when creatures die they come back you may want a zombie deck.

There are a lot of game types to play.  There is a normal game type that the player goes against an opponent.  the player and his opponent each have twenty health and they can start playing.  There are others like general battle that consists of three or four people.  Each player starts at 40 health, but if the player take twenty one or more damage from one specific person or “General”  the player automatically loses.  In this game, it is possible for the player to hit any opponent it is there decisions.  There is also multiple types of decks.  For example there are two decks. A deck called type 2 that has all tournament legal cards.  Then there are decks consisting of the old cards that are not tournament legal that is more just for fun with friends.

Last, there are some really fun spells to help the player and make the opponent very annoyed.  Spells cost a certain amount of mana just like creatures.  To get mana the player have to lay down a certain amount of land.  The player can only lay down one land per turn.  Spells can help the player and also annoy the opponent.  For example there are certain cards that allow the player to pay manna and let you pick up 2 extra cards.  There are others that allow the player to subtract strength and power to a target creature, which can be the players opponents.

Overall, this game is very fun card game which I give a 5 out of 5 stars.  I enjoy the game very much, it is fun to be creative and do whatever you want.   More and more always comes out for this game!

photo courtesy of imjulianlee
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