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Sling Some Spells as Magic: the Gathering Hits XBLA

Marc "DjinniMan" Allie September 03rd, 2008 at 5:36 PM

It's confession time, folks. I am a Magic: the Gathering nerd. I started playing the collectable card game two months after its creation, and upon my first game, I was hooked. I got so addicted I dropped college hours to devote more time to playing. I was invited to the Pro Tour, once, even. I don't play "Paper" Magic much anymore, but I've played the Online version regularly. I find myself, then, trying to figure out if the news of Magic: the Gathering hitting XBLA is good news, or bad. It's good, in the sense that it looks fantastic, and will surely draw many more people to the game. It's bad in that I just might get hooked all over again! Duels of the Planeswalkers is scheduled for release in Spring 2009. How is this co-op news? You can partner up with a buddy, sharing life points in the "Two Headed Giant" style of play. Needless to say, I and many other lapsed Magic junkies will be following this title very closely in coming months!

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Reader Comments

milpool at 06:16 PM on 9.3.2008

Will you have to buy the packs like you did on magic online? I love playing magic but I gotta admit the buying cards part doesn't float my boat.

I still play the crappy old magic game for PC by microprose.

Shazoo at 10:58 PM on 9.3.2008

I hope they don't make you purchase packs of cards like the above poster said, but in turn you can win new cards, or somehow aquire them. And hopefully the game will be more than just a gameboard in which you have to fill with real people, I'd like to have a good coop experience such as, a buddy and myself versus a team of AI, or a AI boss or the such. I'd be all over that.

TheReaperCooL at 02:45 AM on 9.4.2008

OMG! A MtG game on the X360! Must get!

txshurricane at 10:12 AM on 9.4.2008

I was a Star Wars CCG player/collector myself...

DjinniMan at 11:08 AM on 9.4.2008

From what I've found, you will be able to choose from theme decks to play with, at least to start. I have mixed feelings about this; I love the limited resources aspect, as my least favorite part of the game is that it's too expensive to buy 4 of everything. However, I love building decks too, and playing the same theme decks over and over would get old. I thik a good compromise would be everyone gets access to only the theme decks, but you can mix and match cards as you like. Anyway, it looks like fun.

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