Magic: The Gathering cover

Magic: The Gathering 1997

Released
March 6, 1997
Genres
Strategy · Turn-based strategy (TBS) · Tactical · Card & Board Game
Platform
PC
Developer
MicroProse Software, Inc.
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Where to buy

Physical

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Is it still worth playing?

In the plane of Shandalar, you travel the land, win cards in fights with random enemies and defeat five wizards, one for each color of magic, in this 1997 video game of Magic: The Gathering. You also have to keep any single color from growing too strong and face the planeswalker Arzakon, whose deck uses all five. Adventure and role playing elements come in as an inventory, gold, towns, dungeons, random battles and character growth through new abilities and more life points. Two expansion packs followed, Spells of the Ancients and Duels of the Planeswalkers. Building a deck from the cards won on the road gives a card game a journey to follow, and that still holds today.

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