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Customer Reviews of Magic: The Gathering

Cheaper than buying all those real (and virtual) cards!
The game started with Magic: The Gathering and was subsequently followed by two other CD-ROM titles: Spells of the Ancients and Duels of the Planeswalkers. Both titles added more cards to your deck that came with the original M:TG. I believe one of the CD-ROMS (can't remember which one) allowed players to battle each other on the internet. (I never was able to make it work though so just stuck with playing against the computer or doing the "Shandalar" quests).

The game seems to only work with Windows 95 and can be temperamental. It constantly asks me to reinstall the "Duel of the Planeswalker" and can crash unexpectedly. However, I enjoy this game a lot because it doesn't require you to constantly buy more cards (as in the real collectible card game!) which can be bad for your pocketbook! (I've spent more than a couple of thousand dollars just buying new expansions constantly before I realized it doesn't have to be that way!) Just buy the CD ROM game (no matter how buggy) because it truly is a good game. (Remember, it runs only on Windows 95!) And now they came out with a newer computer version (released June 2002) which will allow you to play with other "wizards" on the internet! The catch is, you will need to keep buying more virtual cards to add to your deck! HOLD ON TO YOUR WALLET and BE WARNED! This game (M:TG) can be addictive so heed my advice: just buy the original M:TG (Microprose) and play your heart out and save your money (ATTN: school age kids!) for a college education instead!

By the way, there is also a Magic: The Gathering Encyclopedia (CD-ROM) which is extremely helpful in keeping track of your collection. It is also wonderfully useful in helping you build your deck and has a lot of useful features for M:TG enthusiasts (i.e., finding cards to build and fine tune your decks, listing of all cards complete with actual pictures of the cards, a utility that allows you to find and sort cards by criteria you choose, etc.)

M:TG is truly one good game which has become an established icon of pop culture. Too bad you'd have to spend a fortune just to "keep up"!

Don't say I didn't warn you!

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Fun, when it works
This game is a good introduction to the game Magic, especially for people who can't find others to play the TCG with, but it is very dated: Graphics are only 256 colors and the game is *full* of glitches, at least if you run it on Windows 95 or higher. There have been patches released for the game but even they don't fix all the bugs, and finding the patches isn't easy either since the game came out under the Microprose label, which was bought by Hasbro Interactive which is now Infogrames.

It is nice though in that you can play with lots of Magic cards you'd probably never be able to find and/or afford in real life. If you can find this game cheap and don't mind glitches, go ahead and buy it, otherwise, wait for the upcoming Magic Online game.

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Not Quite
If you are looking for Magic TCG computer game that is worthy of the card game, keep looking. The few glitches that I found almost fully destroyed the fun value, and it is just not as fulfilling as laughing in a beaten opponent's face. Just buy the cards for a better time.