From the official website: In the Magic game, you play the role of a planeswalker—a powerful wizard who fights other planeswalkers for glory, knowledge, and conquest. Your deck of cards represents all the weapons in your arsenal. It contains the spells you know and the creatures you can summon to fight for you.
This is the grandfather of the collectible card game (or CCG) genre. Cards are categorized as common, uncommon, rare, and mythic rare. Players collect cards and build decks out of their collection.
Players build a deck of cards and duel against an opponent's deck. The first player to reduce his opponent to 0 life (or meet another set win condition) wins the game.
Deck building is major part of the game. There are over 17,000 different cards from which to build your deck!
Players randomly draw spells to see what they get and can play each turn. Although this limits your choices, there is a lot of strategy in how you play those spells. A robust list of game mechanics, including intricate rules for reactive card play called "the stack," provide for rich tactics and tough choices each turn.
Though traditionally a two-player duel, there are several casual and tournament formats to Magic that allow more players to play.
Magic: The Gathering was the first collectible card game, launching a new genre of hobby games in which each card could change the game rules in some way. Players are wizards attempting to reduce their opponent's life total to zero (or run them out of cards) by casting spells and attacking them with various creatures. Cards can be lands, which usually generate mana of various colors, or spells, which require a certain amount of mana to be used. Some cards (creatures, artifacts, and enchantments) stay on the board and continue to affect the game, while others have a one-time effect. An important part of the game is deck construction, which is done prior to the actual game by selecting what cards are included in a particular deck.
Cards are sold in randomized booster packs as well as preconstructed decks. Magic has a thriving tournament scene and has had a continuous stream of expansions since its initial release.
This is exactly like the other tuckbox for starter decks, except a little more ink friendly - there was a lot of black on the other one that seems unneeded.
These are a set of five tuckboxes for the 2011 Core Set Intro Pack decks. I picked up a full set for casual play, and wanted a matching set of boxes to store them in. The retail box art was fine, but never intended to store the decks. So I resized the face image a bit and doodled up some suitably thematic material for the balance of the boxes.
Each box holds 60 cards with room for the bundled instructions & reference sheets. For reference, the dimensions used to generate the boxes were 65mm x 90mm x 29mm, via Craig Forbes' Tuckbox Generator ([url]http://www.cpforbes.net/tuckbox/tuckbox.cgi[/url])
An as-built image of the boxes can be found at:
[url]http://boardgamegeek.com/image/943903[/url]
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Here is an Excel Spreadsheet listing the contents of my powered cube.
The spreadsheet is broken down, color coded, and organized for ease of use. It lists the cards by color, card type, and converted mana cost, with total numbers of each.
It contains 383 cards - 50 of each color, 50 artifacts, 36 gold cards and 47 land cards.
It is important to point out that I did not make this card list by myself. I pulled the list from various places around the net, most notably the carddrafting.com forums. All of the power cubes tended to have the same group of cards, so I have all of those staples in here, including the power 9. I used Magic's cube from the carddrafting.com forums as my basis, then modified the list to my own liking. I replaced and added several of my own card choices to...
Print on 8.5 by 11 card. Consider laminating after you cut them out.
I use small colored/clear disks to mark the current life points but any marker will do.
Two sheets (one for each player). Enjoy!
This turn summary card may be helpful for new players, or for players returning to the game after being away for awhile. Pre-8th edition font (which I personally liked) is used for some style!
Sized to fit in M:tG sized card sleeve.
In hopes of getting my son interested in gaming I bought a MtG starter set. It came in a strange shaped box which is in no way suited to deck storage. This box fits the starter and advertisement cards.
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