Magic: the Gathering / Magic: The Gathering - the animated series of 2022
Magic: The Gathering (in the original English Magic: The Gathering ) (colloquially known as Magic or MTG) is a collectible tabletop card game created by Richard Garfield. Released in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast (now a subsidiary of Hasbro), Magic was the first collectible card game and had around thirty-five million players as of December 2018, and over twenty billion Magic cards have been produced in the period since 2008. to 2016, a period during which it grew in popularity.
The animated series
In June 2019, Variety reported that Joe and Anthony Russo, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro's Entertainment One teamed up with Netflix on an animated television series of Magic: The Gathering . In July 2019 at San Diego Comic-Con, the Russos revealed the animated series logo and talked about making a live-action series. During the virtual Magic Showcase event in August 2021, they revealed that Brandon Routh would be the voice of Gideon Jura and that the series will premiere in 2022.
The Russo brothers, along with Henry Gilroy and Jose Molina, then separated from the project and the production was entrusted to Jeff Kline.
History and rules of the game
A player in Magic takes on the role of a Planeswalker, a powerful wizard who can travel ("walk") across the dimensions ("planes") of the Multiverse, fighting with other players such as Planeswalker by casting spells, using artifacts, and summoning creatures as depicted on the individual cards drawn from their individual decks. A player defeats their opponent typically (but not always) by casting spells and attacking with creatures to deal damage to the opponent's "life total", with the goal of reducing it from 20 to 0. Although the original concept of the game was heavily drawn from the motifs of traditional fantasy RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons, the gameplay bears little resemblance to pencil and paper games, while simultaneously having substantially more cards and more complex rules than many other card games.
Magic can be played by two or more players, in person with printed cards or on a computer, smartphone or tablet with virtual cards through Internet-based software Magic: The Gathering Online or other video games such as Magic: The Gathering Arena and Magic Duels. It can be played in various rule formats, which fall into two categories: built and limited. Limited formats involve players spontaneously building a deck from a pool of random cards with a minimum deck size of 40 cards; [7] In built formats, players create decks from the cards they own, usually with a minimum of 60 cards per deck.
New cards are released regularly through expansion sets. Further developments include the internationally played Wizards Play Network and the World Community Players Tour, as well as a substantial resale market for Magic cards. Some cards can be valuable due to their rarity in production and utility in gameplay, with prices ranging from a few cents to tens of thousands of dollars.
