Does anyone play magic cards? p1

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MAGIC IS NOT EASY TO LEARN

I mean, it is so so simple to play magic cards and become familiar with the dark mage and the red eyed dragon… I couldn’t find a single video explaining how to play them I could understand [in Spanish, I never add difficulties to my quests if I can help it]! If it wasn’t the exception, X condition, crevice or strange feature coming up; no one’s explaining did a lot of explaining useful enough to start. At least not without being more confused than pristine as I started.

YOU AND I, A GAME FOR TWO

However, I learnt something. The game is played by two people, which can be treated as inconsequential and obvious if we don’t think plot¹.

Think plot and what do we have? Main character vs antagonist!

Why? Mainly because our resources are limited and stories have to be simple. It’s enough to sneak upon chess and checkers. How many players? Two. Both players can move ONE piece at a time and the turns are alternated. You play, then I play.

WANDS AND TURNS

Just like in magic systems. Most magic systems. The attack is limited to a single spell and then the other does defend with a single spell. Between two characters [which is why wand dares are so flamboyant]. Indeed its complexity might vary from the only forward as in checkers or Ls for the horsies and diagonals for the bishops. Malfoy sends a Desmaius; Potter defends with a Protego. None can cast two to three spells at the same time. It is one and one.

TO BE CONTINUED

1. Which you might have discovered earlier than I did for you’re truly smarter than I and this ain’t irony. ↩︎