Magic: The Gathering video games
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Several Magic: The Gathering video games exist for multiple systems. Benefits of successful video game versions include convenience, practice, and challenge. Drawbacks include limited AI, bugs, and continuous updates as new card sets are released. Computer and video game versions often expand on artwork, and may include unique cards that rely on randomly generated numbers or variables.
- Magic: The Gathering, published by MicroProse. The game takes place on the world of Shandalar, where the player must travel the land and fight random enemies to gain cards, and defeat five bosses representing the five colors. The player must prevent one color from gaining too much power, and defeat the final boss, who has a deck of all five colors. Adventure game and role-playing game elements are present, including inventory, gold, towns, dungeons, random battles, and character progression in the form of new abilities and a higher life point total. An oversized version of Aswan Jaguar is included in the game box. Two expansions were also released, adding cards from older sets:
- Spells of the Ancients - adds cards from the Arabian Nights expansion set.
- Duels of the Planeswalkers - adds cards from the Legends expansion set.
- Twelve unique Astral cards were added to the game:
| Card name | Casting cost | Card type | Description | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aswan Jaguar | 1GG | Summon Jaguar | When Aswan Jaguar comes into play, choose a random creature type from those in target opponent's deck.
GG,T: Bury target creature of the chosen type. | Pat Morrissey |
| Call from the Grave | 2B | Sorcery | Put a random creature from a random graveyard into play under your control.
Call from the Grave deals to you damage equal to that creature's casting cost. | Quinton Hoover |
| Faerie Dragon | 2GG | Summon Dragon | Flying
1GG: Play a random effect. (1/3) | NčNč Thomas |
| Gem Bazaar | – | Land | When Gem Bazaar comes into play, choose a random color.
T: Add to your mana pool one mana of the color last chosen. Then choose a random color. | Liz Danforth |
| Goblin Polka Band | RR | Summon Goblin | 2,T: Pay R for each target: Tap any number of random target creatures.
Goblins tapped in this way do not untap during their controllers' next untap phases. (1/1) | Quinton Hoover |
| Necropolis of Azar | 2BB | Enchantment | Whenever a non-black creature is put into any graveyard from play, put a husk counter on Necropolis of Azar.
5, Remove a husk counter from Necropolis of Azar: Put a Spawn of Azar token into play. Treat this token as a black creature with a random power and toughness, each no less than 1 and no greater than 3, that has swampwalk. (If defending player controls any swamps this creature is unblockable.) | Rob Alexander |
| Orcish Catapult | XRR | Instant | Randomly distribute X -0/-1 counters among a random number of random target creatures. | Melissa Benson |
| Pandora's Box | 5 | Artifact | 3,T: Choose a random summon card from all players' decks. For each player, flip a coin. If the flip ends up heads, put a token creature into play and treat it as though an exact copy of the chosen summon card were just played. | Amy Weber |
| Power Struggle | 2UUU | Enchantment | During each player's upkeep, that player exchanges control of random target artifact, creature or land he or she controls, for control of random target permanent of the same type that a random opponent controls. | Mark Tedin |
| Prismatic Dragon | 2WW | Summon Dragon | Flying
During your upkeep, Prismatic Dragon becomes a random color permanently. 2: Prismatic Dragon becomes a random color permanently. (2/3) | Amy Weber |
| Rainbow Knights | WW | Summon Knights | When Rainbow Knights comes into play, it gains protection from a random color permanently.
1: First strike until end of turn. WW: +0/+0, +1/+0, or +2/+0 until end of turn, chosen at random. (2/1) | Douglas Shuler |
| Whimsy | XUU | Sorcery | Play X random fast effects. | Anson Maddocks |
- Magic: The Gathering: BattleMage is a real time strategy game published by MicroProse, with cards used in real time. It is set on the continent of Corondor, where a planeswalker named Ravidel forces the most powerful mages to fight each other, so that he can eventually destroy them and conquer the land. The game was considered a failure for its unfair AI, unfriendly interface, and unbalanced gameplay.
- Magic: The Gathering: Armageddon is an extremely rare arcade game based on Magic: the Gathering, published by Acclaim. Gameplay exists in the form of real time combat, with characters representing one of the five colors (Blue for counterspells and water creatures, White for healing and soldiers/knights, Red for fire and mountain creatures, Black for death and undead creatures, Green for elves and forest magic).
- Magic: The Gathering for Dreamcast, published by Sega, released June 2001 (Japan only). It takes place in the town of Magic Heart, the surrounding areas of Murg, Camat Island, Lydar Forest, Yeluk, Tornell, and The Balance Tower. It includes cards from 6th edition, Alliances, and Tempest. There are also 10 unique cards:
| Card name | Casting cost | Card type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hapato's Might | 2B | Instant | Target creature receives +X/+0 where X is a random number from 0 to 6. |
| Murgish Cemetery | 4BB | Enchantment | 3B, Discard a card from your hand to bring a X/X black token into play where X is a random number from 2 to 6. |
| Camato Scout | 1UU | Summon Merfolk | When Camato scout comes into play, it gains landwalk of a random basic land type. (2/3) |
| Saji's Torrent | 1U | Instant | Tap X creatures, where X is a random number from 0 to 5. |
| Lydari Druid | 2G | Summon Druid | When Lydari Druid comes into play, all lands are transformed permanently to a random basic land. (2/2) |
| Lydari Elephant | 4G | Summon Elephant | X and Y equal random numbers from 3 to 7. (X/Y) |
| Velican Dragon | 5RR | Summon Dragon | Flying, When Velican Dragon is blocked, it receives +X/+O until the end of turn, where X is a random number from 0 to 5. (5/5) |
| Ashuza's Breath | 1R | Sorcery | All creatures take X damage, where X is a random number from 0 to 2. |
| Arden Angel | 4WW | Summon Angel | During your upkeep, if Arden Angel is in the graveyard, there is a 1 in 4 chance that you can bring it directly into play under your control. (4/4) |
| Tornellan Protector | 2W | Summon Cleric | T: This turn damage dealt to target player or creature is reduced by X, where X is a random number from 1 to 3. (1/2) |
- Magic: The Gathering Interactive Encyclopedia is an application that includes almost every card up to Mercadian Masques plus an updatable database, a strategy information section, deck builder with street pricing, and online play mode.
- Magic: The Gathering Online focuses purely on gameplay, and includes no additional storyline. Included cards are from Seventh Edition, Invasion, Planeshift, Apocalypse, Odyssey, Torment and Judgment, with future updates available. Games are held in chatroom style sessions, and virtual cards can be won or purchased with real money.
- Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds for Xbox.