Magic: The Gathering

Attacks may be declared against players, or Planeswalkers. Attacks may not be declared against other creatures.

Some creatures or cards have "do x to deal x damage" (i.e. tap to deal one damage to target creature or player). This is different from attacking and you should not confuse the two.

They are Creature Permanents while on the battlefield, Creature Spells while being cast on the stack, and Creature Cards at any other time. So when a player pays the mana cost on a creature card, putting it on the stack, it is now a spell and can be countered by anything that counters spells. After the spell resolves, it is just simply a Creature Permanent.

At the bottom of each creature card, there are two numbers. The first is the power and the second is the toughness. Power is the amount the creature can deal and toughness is the amount they can take before they are sent to the graveyard. If a creature on your side attacks your opponent, and he has no creatures out, he takes the direct damage. This amount is taken from their life which is usually around 20. If you and you opponent have creatures out, they will face off. A 2/2 would destroy a 1/1 and the 1/1 would be sent to the graveyard. The opponent would not take any damage but would lose his creature. Trample is a static ability that allows the creature to run over the creature and hit your opponent. if a 6/6 with trample attacked a 4/2, it would deal 4 damage to the owner However, a 3/5 could fight a 4/4 the entire game.

There are also cards that directly damage players, for example Lightning Bolt deals 3 directly to a player or creature.

All cards, while not on the stack or the battlefield, are considered "Cards". All cards that are on the stack are considered "Spells". All cards that are on the battlefield are considered "Permanents".

When you cast your enchantment card, it goes on to the stack as an enchantment spell, and will then resolve to become an enchantment permanent.

In Magic the Gathering, the 'stack' is the imaginary area where spells and abilities go when they are cast/played, and are waiting to resolve.

So say one player casts a Lightning Bolt, targeting one of his opponent's creatures. He pays the mana cost and the spell goes on the 'stack'. The opponent however to save his creature, responds to this by casting 'Giant Growth' on that same creature. The stack goes by 'LIFO' order - last in, first out. It means that the latest object to go on the stack, will be the first to resolve. So Giant Growth will resolve first, and then Lightning Bolt. But say if Player A had some kind of counterspell, he could place that on the stack above Giant Growth to counter it and remove it from the stack, meaning ultimately the creature will die to Lightning Bolt.

Tapping permanents to generate mana (be they land or anything else that can do it), a 'mana ability', does not use the stack, it is uninterruptable so can't generally be countered. Morphing, flipping a face-down Morph creature face-up, also does not use the stack, so a Morph cannot be quickly dispatched once the intention to flip is known.

The stack can be interrupted as it resolves. Imagine a stack with objects A, B and C on it. When C resolves, either player might feel the need to play something else, so this will become object D on the stack above A and B, and will resolve before them.

Aura is a subtype of enchantments and dictates that enchantment is placed on whatever is defined in the rules text of that card; for example if the card said 'Enchant creature' it would come into play enchanting whichever target creature was declared when it was cast.

Creatures are not the only thing that can be enchanted, certain cards enchant lands, artifacts and even players, there is even an oddball aura that enchants a card in your graveyard.

If the target of that aura is removed before the spell resolves, the aura has no legal targets to enchant and will 'fizzle', if the aura's target is removed after it has been enchanted, the aura is destroyed as well as a state based effect.

No, lands do not go on the stack, cannot be countered and do not count as spells in any way.

Magic The Gathering Tactics can be downloaded directly from the website and doesn't require a purchase. However, you'll need to buy the packs in order to create powerful decks

It depends on the card and the circumstances, but in many cases yes. Planeswalkers are always very good.

3 places, 3 programs, all free and downloadable.

MTG Apprentice. Worlds most Basic MTG online program.

There is a program to edit the card library to start your own TCG or add cards.

Magic Workstation

There are a number of forums that use MWS to run tournaments, official and casual. The free version does contain banner ads and there is a 5 second wait before the application starts. But you can play free online and all the sets are downloadable and usable. It is alos compatible with a number of other TCG's.

Lackey CCG

You can make your own card games with images and setup program download updates for your game.

The program can even download MTG for free and several other favorite card games such as Pokemon, Star Wars, Wheel of Time, Megaman, Duel Masters, and many more.

You can also download Magic Online for free at the Wizard's of the Coast official website (wizards.com). But you will only be able to play with pre-constructed deck unless you buy online cards (which cost real money).

Once you purchase an account ($10), you are able to play with whatever cards you own for free as long as you like. You can at any time purchase more cards to play with, but you are never charged a fee for playing.

As of the date I am writing this, 11210 different magic cards have been printed, with different meaning "having a different name". Using the following Gatherer search can give you a more up to date number: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&cmc=+>=[0]

There are booster packs for each set/expansion released.

Each year, there is a new core set and three expansion sets released, so at least 4 new types of booster packs would be released.

Creatures cannot be 'attacked' in Magic the Gathering. Players are attacked, and creatures are declared as blockers, although there are a few special abilities that can force things to attack or block.

A tapped Planeswalker can be attacked, as per the usual rules for declaring attacks against Planewalker cards.

Targeting a creature with a damage dealing spell or ability is not 'attacking' them. The creature being tapped has nothing to do with its targeting eligibility, it can still be targeted by cards that deal damage.

Damage spells never target Planewalkers directly, the cards target the controlling player and the damage redirected to the Planeswalker from there. This can be done to a tapped Planeswalker.

If you gain 10 of them in any way, you lose the game.

No, they do not. It would not affect them in any way though, the only Planeswalker affected by tapping is Gideon Jura.

In the bottom right there are numbers on creature cards X/Y. X= creature's attack power were y= creature's toughness.

The first release of Magic the Gathering cards was on August 5, 1993.

Whatever someone is prepared to pay for it.

For an idea, I would look at somewhere like StarCityGames (USA) or MagicMadhouse (UK) these are prices people might pay for cards, eBay completed listings will show what people are paying for cards.

Which if you'd done that in the first place, you'd have an answer before you'd written your original question.

On all magic cards from "Exodus" (circa 1999) to present, there is a small symbol at the bottom right of the illustration that signifies what set a magic card is from. The trick is being able to put a name to each different symbol.

Multikicker is an additional cost, and functionally it is just like the regular Kicker mechanic, but you may pay it multiple times. The exact cost and effect of a specific Multikicker is listed on the card itself, as it can differ from card to card.

So take 'Comet Storm' which costs XRR, and has a Multikicker of 1. You could have X as 2, and Multikick it twice, meaning you pay 2, RR, and another 2 as an additional cost. Comet Storm's multikicker says "Choose target creature or player, then choose another target creature or player for each time Comet Storm was kicked. Comet Storm then deals X damage to each of them." so you pick three targets in total, and Comet Storm deals 2 damage to each of them.

it means if the oppdent is making a speel you can counter it and send it to the graveyard before they use the efect

When your Stuffy Doll enters play, you choose one player. If any damage is dealt to Stuffy Doll, then Stuffy Doll deals that much damage to the chosen player.

So if Stuffy Doll is in play, and you use Pyroclasm (deal 2 damage to all creatures) then two damage will be dealt to Stuffy Doll, which in turn will deal 2 damage to the chosen player (Stuffy Doll itself survives because it is indestructable). If it blocks a 6/6 creature, it will take 6 damage and deal 6 damage to the chosen player, etc.

Lastly it has an effect where it can deal 1 damage to itself, which will then be dealt to the chosen player. So even if the opponent isn't doing anything that could damage your Stuffy Doll, you've still got a way for it to be doing something.

13+ by the company that makes the cards but i would say 11+ because that's the age i started.