Magic: The Gathering

You could try using Dosbox, it is very good for getting old games to work under modern operating systems.

Magic the Gathering is not a cult. It is a collectible card game.

the only time toughness is taken away is when a spell or ability says it does

They've sold starter and theme decks, but rarely (if ever) single booster packs.

Mercy Killing targets one creature, and the creature's controller sacrifices it when Mercy Killing resolves. That player then gets some Elf tokens, as outlined on the rest of the card.

No. There is no such rule that simply makes you tap lands in order to attack. There are cards, however, that restrict a player from attacking an opponent unless they pay a certain cost, some of which may include paying mana. (IE Propaganda or Ghostly Prison).

There are 12 known planeswalkers.

Ajani Goldmane

Chandra Nalaar

Elspeth Tirel

Garruk Wildspeaker

Gideon Jura

Jace Beleren

Liliana Vess

Nicol Bolas

Nissa Revane

Sarkhan Vol

Sorin Markov

Tezzeret the Seeker

There are 16 Planeswalker cards.

Ajani Goldmane

Ajani Vengeant

Chandra Ablaze

Chandra Nalaar

Elspeth, Knight-Errant

Garruk Wildspeaker

Gideon Jura

Jace Beleren

Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Liliana Vess

Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

Nissa Revane

Sarkhan the Mad

Sarkhan Vol

Sorin Markov

Tezzeret the Seeker

You're mixing 'land' and 'mana'. Your 'mana pool' is a count of how much mana you have generated from your resources. Imagine you tap a forest for mana - you now have 1 green mana in your 'mana pool'. Old versions of forests used to actually say that, but it's assumed everyone knows what Basic Land does, it taps for one unit of the pictured mana.

So lands generate mana, but so do other cards, like Birds of Paradise, and Dawn's Reflection. They are not implying you fetch land cards from your deck, they are just adding mana to that mana pool, like Basic Land does.

So imagine that forest is enchanted with Dawn's Reflection. When you tap the forest for mana, as well as that one green, you add two mana of any colour to your mana pool. That one land is effectively generating three mana, which you can then cast spells with.

Yes. When a creature has both -1/-1 counters and +1/+1 counters, you remove one of each until the card has only one kind. So if a creature had 3 -1/-1 counters on it, and an ability placed 2 +1/+1 counters on it, you would remove 2 of the +1/+1 counters and 2 -1/-1 counters, so it remains with only one -1/-1 counter. This action is a state-based action. If anyone would like to see this ruling in the Magic Comprehensive rules, you may find it at 120.2

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No! But I hope one day it will....

A 'spore counter' is defined by the effect of whatever placed it, or by a permanent that does something when one is placed upon it - otherwise, it does nothing. It is given the name 'spore' counter to just distinguish it from any other kind of counter.

You choose a player to use it on when you cast it. When it resolves, tap all their creatures. When that player next has an untap step, he may not untap any of these creatures. A creature played and tapped after Sleep resolved, may untap in the next untap step. However a creature that was already tapped before Sleep resolved, may not untap. That's because Sleep's effect was applied to it (it affects all their creatures, not just untapped ones), even though it could not physically become tapped by Sleep.

Hexproof prevents a permanent from being the target of spells or abilities played by an opponent. Therefore you are free to destroy one of your own Hexproof creatures, but you would not be able to play it on an opponent's Hexproof creature.

Note that Banefire's ability to be uncounterable and unpreventable, do not bypass Hexproof, because Hexproof makes a creature an illegal target in the first place, you simply can't nominate it as Banefire's target no matter what you intend to pay for X.

If by best you mean most broken, then either Urza's Saga, Mirrodin, or Shadowmoor (that is by block not as much by set).

It is two cards, and can be found online.

yes

Spell Blast says X is the target spell's 'converted mana cost' which is the sum of all the mana at the top right of a card. Any additional or alternate costs are ignored, so for Ith, High Arcanist, spell blast needs to pay U, + 7, even though Ith has a suspend cost of WU, and Suspend itself casts the card without paying the mana cost.

A creature that can be kicked will have either a Kicker cost or a Multikicker cost. These are additional costs, paid when the creature spell is cast. If you paid the kicker cost, when the spell resolves, the creature is considered to have been kicked, and will gain any applicable effects.

Awakening, Bear Umbra, Early Harvest, Nature's Will, Reset are the ones that i can think of at the moment. :)

A sacrificed permanent must be something you control, you cannot sacrifice your opponent's cards. Vivisection's additional cost has to be a creature you control.

Sometimes your cards can force the opponent sacrifice his permanents. These all clearly say the card is making the opponent, not you, sacrifice them.

'Mindslaver' is one.

Magic the Gathering cards dating back to 1993 (Alpha, Beta, and Unlimited) tend to be very valuable. You can get information on individual cards here:

http://www.magictraders.com/pricelists/

Summoning Sickness stops a creature from attacking, and prevents it from tapping as the cost of an activated ability that uses the tap symbol.

Non-tap abilities are not affected by summoning sickness. They can be tapped for the cost of abilities that do not use the tap symbol (such as that of Gilt-Leaf Archdruid).