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Magic: The Gathering

    "You can always get the lands untapped, so just let them accumulate counters

until you know you need them, then use the Druid to untap them. You can also use the

Druid to keep counters from accumulating on your opponent's storage lands. . ."

(Wylie 47).

    The confusing series of exchanges above are from a simple strategy-combination

of a card game. This card game, though only a little more than two years old, is not

only taking our nation by storm, but also all over the world. The card game is Magic:

The Gathering. Magic, a collectible card game manufactured by Wizards of the Coast,

is a fun and challenging game that involves two or more players (depicted as planes

walker-wizards) dueling each other out with many different types of these such cards

(which represent the many colorful magical spells). Magic: The Gathering is truly

the first of its kind, and its success has everyone, even the designer, greatly surprised.

    Magic: The Gathering was developed by a mathematician named Richard

Garfield. Garfield was always fascinated by games in general, and in the stages of

developing Magic, he derived Magic from many other games. Since this collectible-

card game genre was the first of its kind, Wizards of the Coast and Garfield had to take

lots of risks designing it. After months of designing and play-testing the game,

Wizards of the Coast finally created the Alpha version of Magic, and released it t...

Submitted by: digitalessays
Date Submitted: 09-13-2003
Category: Miscellaneous
Words: 1433
Pages: 5.73