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    Magic: The Gathering

    Aug 05, 2021 1 minute

    » PC » 1997 » Microprose

    I’ve played a great many card games over the years, from Spellfire to Blood Wars, but no game has hooked me like Magic: The Gathering.

    Of course the is you ideally need an opponent to play against and while I was able to teach Melanie the subtleties of , she never took to in quite the same way, so I would often stare morosely at my unused cards, wishing I had someone to play against when I first discovered Richard Garfield’s game. That became less of an issue once Microprose released its own version of in 1997, because it had a brilliant campaign adventure set in the world of Shandalar.

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