Magic: The Gathering

Magic: The Gathering is a card game. To play, each player needs a deck with a minimum of 60 cards, and a 20 sided dice. A deck will be a mixture of land, creatures and spells. In the top right corner of the creature and spell cards, you will see a symbol showing how many and which type of land card you need to play them.

Three different kinds of land card

Set your dice to twenty. Draw seven cards each from your deck but do not show each other. Going first in a game of magic has some advantages so whoever goes first doesn't draw another card on their turn. Play a land card if you have one. If you have any cards that cost one land, have look to see if they would help you.

Two of my favourite creature cards

The aim of the game is to get your opponent down to zero on their dice. There are lots of rules that you need to learn. For example flying creatures cannot be blocked by non flying creatures without reach.

This is one of my favourite spells

You can have mixed coloured deck or a single coloured deck. There are five colours in Magic: black, blue, red, white and green.

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