Magic: The Gathering - Spells of the Ancients
Return to an age when the masters of the game battled with legendary cards such as the Juzám Djinn and Juggernaut. Double the challenge with on-the-spot deck construction in a sealed-deck tournament. This…
Magic: The Gathering - Spells of the Ancients is a card & board game developed by MicroProse Software, Inc., released 1 September 1997 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Magic: The Gathering - Spells of the Ancients is
Magic: The Gathering - Spells of the Ancients is a card & board game game developed by MicroProse Software, Inc. and released in 1997. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Return to an age when the masters of the game battled with legendary cards such as the Juzám Djinn and Juggernaut. Double the challenge with on-the-spot deck construction in a sealed-deck tournament. This expansion acts as a "booster pack" for the original game, adding cards from Unlimited, Arabian Nights and Antiquities, as well as improved AI and interface updates and a sealed-deck tournament feature.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Magic: The Gathering series
Magic: The Gathering - Spells of the Ancients is the third of 18 entries we hold in the Magic: The Gathering series. It arrived 6 months after Magic: The Gathering. The next entry was Magic: The Gathering - Armageddon in 1997.
What it launched against
Magic: The Gathering - Spells of the Ancients launched on 1 September 1997, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, GoldenEye 007 and Breath of Fire III.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, GoldenEye 007, Breath of Fire III.
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