Magic: The Gathering: A Brief History
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
Magic: The Gathering is a popular TCG (trading card game). Magic is a very competitive game, and if you're playing against a particuarly good player, then the experience can be simular to having a cow dropped on your head (sudden and unexpected, leaving you with a nasty headache).
Magic: The Gathering was designed by Richard Garfield, and was introduced at Dragoncon in 1993. It was an instant success. Wizard had printed a "six-month" supply of cards to sell - this supply sold out in six weeks. Since then, over thirty sets of cards have been printed, and Magic cards are avaliable in dozens of different languages. Included in these sets are:
The Six Editions of the Base Set:
Alpha, Beta (Considered As a Single Set)
Unlimited
Revised
Fourth Edition
Fifth Edition
Classic Sixth Edition
The Many Expansions and Supplements:
Chronicals
Arabian Nights
Antiquities
Legends
The Dark
Fallen Empires
Ice Age
Homelands
Alliances
Mirage
Visions
Weatherlight
Tempest
Stronghold
Exodus
Urza's Saga
Urza's Legacy
Urza's Destiny
Mercadian Masques
Nemesis
Prophecy
The Starter Level Sets:
Portal
Portal: Second Age
Portal: Three Kingdoms
Starter
Also, Wizards of the Coast has released many promotional cards, and the Unglued Set, which contains many parodys of populars cards such as Blacker Lotus, and Mox in the Box.
Magic is a very competitive game. Many people have created wonderful decks that reley on a strategy to win. Some have even been so good as to become archtypes, decks that many people try to recreate, modifiy, and beat. Such popular decks inclued the green Stompy deck, which usually releys on small creatures to overwhealm your opponent, the blue Go-Draw deck, which counters certain spells to gain control of the game, and the new Replenish deck, which releys on the spell, Replenish to return enchantments to play.
For more information on this subject, visit http://www.wizards.com/magic .
Magic: The Gathering was designed by Richard Garfield, and was introduced at Dragoncon in 1993. It was an instant success. Wizard had printed a "six-month" supply of cards to sell - this supply sold out in six weeks. Since then, over thirty sets of cards have been printed, and Magic cards are avaliable in dozens of different languages. Included in these sets are:
The Six Editions of the Base Set:
Alpha, Beta (Considered As a Single Set)
Unlimited
Revised
Fourth Edition
Fifth Edition
Classic Sixth Edition
The Many Expansions and Supplements:
Chronicals
Arabian Nights
Antiquities
Legends
The Dark
Fallen Empires
Ice Age
Homelands
Alliances
Mirage
Visions
Weatherlight
Tempest
Stronghold
Exodus
Urza's Saga
Urza's Legacy
Urza's Destiny
Mercadian Masques
Nemesis
Prophecy
The Starter Level Sets:
Portal
Portal: Second Age
Portal: Three Kingdoms
Starter
Also, Wizards of the Coast has released many promotional cards, and the Unglued Set, which contains many parodys of populars cards such as Blacker Lotus, and Mox in the Box.
Magic is a very competitive game. Many people have created wonderful decks that reley on a strategy to win. Some have even been so good as to become archtypes, decks that many people try to recreate, modifiy, and beat. Such popular decks inclued the green Stompy deck, which usually releys on small creatures to overwhealm your opponent, the blue Go-Draw deck, which counters certain spells to gain control of the game, and the new Replenish deck, which releys on the spell, Replenish to return enchantments to play.
For more information on this subject, visit http://www.wizards.com/magic .
