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This game is not like the card game at all. This game is horible. It's cool to see some cool monsters battle from magic, but not like this. If you aren't familiar with the card game, it might seem alright. the graphics and levels like good, but the rest is horiible. no mages in here are from the game. For the hardcore fans like me, it's not worth it. It's not like magic that much. They left visara, Black lotus, and arifacts. Hope they make a game thats like the card game.

This game provides entertainment, but is hardly worthwhile. Although the visualizations are enjoyable and the content is entertaining, the quest mode is absolutely inane and the gameplay directly contradicts the concepts of magic the gathering in several places.

Certainly there is give for making a game more action packed, Magic is by no means a fast paced game and giving it some life is welcome, but this game forgoes intelligent thought and strategy in favor of button mashing rivaled by fighting games. There is no time to properly form a plan of attack. When reading the rule book you begin to see numerous parallels between the game, such as respawn being equivalent to the end of a turn, however this is not the case, creatures lose toughness permanently until they die. This horrendously favors aggressive styles of play, and on top of that, being able to constantly cast one spell, over and over, completely eliminates the concept of "gas" where once you're out of cards you have to slow down. This is one of the primary concepts that prevents sligh(red) decks from being totally unstoppable, and indeed you learn in this game that raging goblin and goblin hero en masse means the game becomes stupid fast. By the end of the quests you will be harder pressed to exactly execute the only winning combination of buttons possible that you might be better off with a DDR pad, give yourself no illusion of intelligent thought.

Without going into too many more magic specific vocabulary, let it be known that this game is going to turn alot of magic players off, way off. it might even pull out your plug and cut the cord. I bought this game for 10 dollars, so my losses were minimal, but think hard before you purchase this title.

if you dont play the card game and you pass by it you probley think thats stupid!
Well guess what? this game....ROCKS!!!!!!!!!! but its not like the card game when i looked at some pictures it looked hard but its easy and fun .some levels are hard but you will beat them if....... your not alazy bum that is. well thats my review by