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After a burst of joy writing my first article, I want to start talking about a great passion I have since I was 10.
So without further ado, let's dive into this.

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Magic the Gathering, a collectible card game (CCG)

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Let's start this off with the fancy stats that we all like:

Total estimated number of players: 15 to 22 MILLIONS (Certified by one of the six Guinness World Record awards won by MTG!)
Total number of UNIQUE cards printed: 19,989
Countries where Magic is played: more than 70!
Rarest card: Shichifukujin Dragon and 1996 World Champion, only one copy of each in existence
Magic first release: August 5, 1993 (This is the 25th anniversary, lots of events and special initiatives to make newcomers enjoy those old cards!!)
Highest mana cost card: Draco
Total creatures types: 236
Total unique keyword abilities: 126
Total cards printed from (2008 to 2016): 20 billion
Total KM of cards printed, lined up: 1.7 Milion, or 4.6 times to the moon and back or 45 times around the globe
Biggest single event ever: Grand Prix Las Vegas 2013 with 4491 attendants!
Highest sold card: Black Lotus for closely to 30K and up each year (If you played at the earliest stages, you better search up for that holy grail for collectors!)
Printed languages: 11 (including Russian, Korean, Japanese and both traditional and simplified Chinese!)
Number of colors: 5 (Green, White, Red, Blue, Black)... plus colorless after the Eldrazi invasion!
Height of all cards printed: 6.1 million meters
Weight of all cards: 35000 tons (or 5855 elephants)
Total number of rules: over 900!
BONUS Greatest pack opening reaction of all times (pack from 1993 and the card found is worth over 30K $) (skip to minute 8 if you aren't already a Magic player):

Courtesy of openbooster a great channel from a really cool guy, give it a look!

Magic is a card game which usually features the battle between 2 (or more) players, which are wizards named "planeswalker". The weapons to defeat your opponent are spells, artifacts, powerful creature and incredible sorceries which are all linked in the "multiverse", which is the combination of all planes.

"One in a million is born with the spark to become a Planeswalker. Even fewer realize their potential."

Being a Collectible Card Game, the complexity and depth grow every year with brand new cards printed out. It's indeed the most complex card game ever! Each player starts with 20 life points and "usually" victory is achieved crushing opponent's life points to 0.

There are alternative methods of winning which add layers of diversity to the game! Some of those are, but not limited too:

Getting a player to 10 poison counters
Complete certain "task" (state based actions, like Battle of Wits
Mill your opponent library, making him impossible to draw cards!

The colors of the spells are 5, White (W), Blue (U), Red (R), Black (B) and Green (G).
This particular arrangement of colors is the "Color wheel" and is one of the most representative design from the creator of the game, Richard Garfield.

The idea behind the color wheel is that every color should provide some strength and some weakness, so each one is the best in certain areas of magic and worst in other. It helps have really different decks of cards which can be personalized based on own choices.

Each color represents some values and ideas, while it is also linked with other one to create tribe (or guild, like WU is the Azorious Senate). Each of WURBG has individual strengths and weakness, as well as its own flavor, abilities and individual mechanics.

White is the color of Peace and Order. The symbol is the sun
Blue is the color of Intelligence and Curiosity. The symbol is a drop of water
Red is the color of Impulse and Destruction. The symbol is a fireball
Black is the color of Death and Selfishness. The symbol is a skull
Green is the color of Nature and Strenght. The symbol is a a tree

Those are just some of the primary concept of Magic, I will explore the basics of the game and have in mind an article about Magic, poker, chess and Starcraft as well.

Do you already play Magic? Are you intrigued by it?

The best part I can tell, it's the community feeling. You became part of something bigger and better, you get to travel, you solve problems and you make friends while having fun!

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Magic the Gathering, a collectible card game (CCG)

The best part I can tell, it's the community feeling. You became part of something bigger and better, you get to travel, you solve problems and you make friends while having fun!