Magic the Gathering

Magic: The Gathering (colloquially “Magic”, “MTG”, or “Magic Cards”) is a collectible card game created by Richard Garfield and later bought by the company Wizards of the Coast in 1994, which was purchased by Hasbro in September 1999. Magic inspired an entirely new game genre and has an estimated six million players in over seventy countries worldwide, as well as a successful Internet version¹. The game is a strategy contest that includes an element of chance due to the random distribution of cards from shuffling.

Each game represents a battle between powerful wizards called “Duelists” or “Planeswalkers” who use magical spells, items, and fantastic creatures to defeat their opponents. Though the original concept of the game drew heavily from the motifs of traditional fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, Magic bears little resemblance to those pencil-and-paper adventures.

The game has an official tournament system, with tournaments having been played on all seven continents, including Antarctica². The cards themselves are valuable, much like other trading cards, but in the case of Magic, a card’s value is primarily based on its power and utility in game play, not just its scarcity and other intangible aesthetic qualities such as the quality of its artwork

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