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Friday, December 03, 2004

 

MicroProse Astral Set Computer Cards

Been digging up more info on this game. The Astral Set are some cards that are unique to the computer game because they use random effects that would be hard to generate in real life. And there's some new art for token creature "cards". The Ruhk's kick ass, to see them in action play my Nevinyrall's Wrath deck, it's lots of fun, with Disks and Wraths of God destroying most everything.

I'm also trying to track down others who have posted decks specifically for this game. Found one so far: Grim's Homepage.


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This is the real deal: Mark's Microprose Magic Museum, with classics like "The Deck." I'll learn a thing or two from disecting and playing these.
 
Linked from Mark's page above, here is some serious old-school Magic The Gathering thought, Schools of Magic: General Philosophies. Rather humbling actually. I feel like a type II player floundering in a type I environment all over again. I'll just have to build their decks, play against them, and evolve my game.

One thing I've been observing is that it's hard to play serious type I without blue. There's just so much card count and control advantage when you add Time Walk, Time Twister, Ancestral Recall and a set of Counter Spells.
 

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This Magic: The Gathering circa 1997, the card set is 4th edition and earlier! You can create decks and play them against the AI. Or you can enter Shalandar, a fantasy adventure world where you fight duels for ante, and build decks from your spoils.

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This is an abandonware website built to host this old game. Other people have been kind enough to write detailed setup instructions for operating systems up to Windows XP. Since I was not the person who even wrote the instructions, I do not offer support beyond these pages.

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