Magic: The Gathering – Antiquities

4/5

MTG was the first trading card game. They needed to make money to produce Robo Rally so they made MTG to acquire the funds. MTG has tons of innovation, theme, and amazing artwork. It is hard to rival this game because it has been out since 1993. It is a wonderful competitive card game. Casual MTG is still the #1 way to play. Commander & Draft are okay. 10,000+ plays.

This is an older card game and due to that it has several outdated features. Other games have improved on MTG, but lack innovation or the card pool. This is also a TCG so the pay to win feature exists & the print crappy cards to make people spend more money exists. Simple way around that is to PnP your own stuff at a much cheaper cost and still have fun with the experience. There are better card games. There is no card game with a better card pool.

House rule: update the land system to Duel Masters, Marvel Champions, etc... rules for a more streamlined strategic experience = less luck.

Early hit-and-miss artifact-themed expansion. A bunch of cards have gone on to be classics, but if you look at the set as a whole it seems half of it is made of weak situational countermeasures or even weaker situational utility. Even at this point you have to wonder how much of a design and development process existed that some of this utter crap could see print. Yes, I have won a game with a Firebreathing Ornithopter.

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The good old days.

Top 8 Favorite Cards

1 Strip Mine 2 Mishra's Workshop 3 Mishra's Factory 4 Millstone 5 Argothian Pixies 6 Atog 7 Energy Flux 8 Golgothian Sylex

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Second expansion to Magic, not very powerful (except for Mishra's Workshop), but quite interesting cards back then.

An uneven expansion, filled with over-power staples and weak dreck. Not bad, but not a classic either.

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