Magic: The Gathering
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| Magic: The Gathering | ||||||||||
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| System(s): Sega Dreamcast | ||||||||||
| Publisher: Sega | ||||||||||
| Developer: Alfa System | ||||||||||
| Licensor: Wizards of the Coast | ||||||||||
| Peripherals supported: Visual Memory Unit, Dreamcast VGA Box | ||||||||||
| Genre: Trading Card Game (トレーディングカードゲーム)[1][2], Table[3] | ||||||||||
| Number of players: 1 | ||||||||||
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Magic: The Gathering (マジック・ザ・ギャザリング) is a Sega Dreamcast interpretation of the card game with the same name. It was only released in Japan.
The game takes place in the town of Magic Heart, and its surrounding areas of Murg, Camat Island, Lydar Forest, Yeluk, Tornell, and The Balance Tower, each representing a basic land that the opponent's decks will be based on. The game includes a total amount of 369 cards, including cards from the Magic: The Gathering expansion sets 6th edition, Alliances, and Tempest.
Contents
Gameplay
Unique cards
There are ten cards unique to this game. Most of them utilise random number generation, which would be impossible in the physical card game.
| Name | Cost | Type | Description |
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| Hapato's Might | 2B | Instant | Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is a random number from 0 to 6. |
| Murgish Cemetery | 4BB | Enchantment | 3B, Discard a card: Put an X/X black Zombie creature token into play, where X is a random number from 2 to 6. |
| Camato Scout | 1UU | Creature - Merfolk | As Camato Scout comes into play, choose a basic land type at random. Camato Scout has landwalk of that type. (2/3) |
| Saji's Torrent | 1U | Instant | Tap X creatures, where X is a random number from 0 to 5. |
| Lydari Druid | 2G | Creature - Druid | When Lydari Druid comes into play, randomly choose a basic land type for each land in play. Those lands become the type chosen this way. (This effect doesn’t end at end of turn.) (2/2) |
| Lydari Elephant | 4G | Creature - Elephant | As Lydari Elephant comes into play, choose two numbers at random from 3 to 7 one after the other. Lydari Elephant comes into play with power equal to the first number and toughness equal to the second. (*/*) |
| Velican Dragon | 5RR | Creature - Dragon | Flying
When Velican Dragon attacks or blocks, it gets +X/+0 until the end of turn, where X is a random number from 0 to 5. (5/5) |
| Breath of Ashuza | 1R | Sorcery | For each creature, randomly choose a number from 0 to 2. Breath of Ashuza deals that amount of damage to that creature. |
| Arden Angel | 4WW | Creature - Angel | Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Arden Angel is in your graveyard, choose a number at random from 1 to 4. If the randomly chosen number is 1, return Arden Angel to play. (4/4) |
| Tornellan Protector | 2W | Creature - Cleric | T: Until end of turn, damage dealt to target player or creature is reduced by X, where X is a random number from 1 to 3. (1/2) |
Production credits
- Magic® designed by: Richard Garfield
Wizards of the Coast,Inc.
- Project Management: Motoaki Nagahisa, Bryan Kinsella
- Brand Management: Randy R. Bruhl, Kyle Murray
- Creative Director: Tyler L. Bielman
- Naming of Special Cards: Quill
- Key Story Elements: Quill
- Story Consultant: Scott Mcgough
- Asia Pacific Business Development: Paul Adachi
- Magic R&D: Mike Elliott, Michael Donais
- Art Director: Ron Spears
- Concept Artists: Rk Post, John Gallagher, Brom, Dana Knutson, Mark Tedin
- Producer: Hirokazu Kojima
- Marketing & Promotion: Toyohisa Hiwatari, Hiroshi Kawagishi, Kouki Akiyama
- Game Manual Design: Yoshihiro Sakuta, Fumiaki Tomura
DiGiPLANNET
- 3D Modeling Director: Ken Aso
- 3D Modeling Engineer: Wataru Takahashi, Yujin Yoshioka
- 3D Modeling Artists: Yuji Yoshioka, Koh Okamura
Alfa System Co.,Ltd.
- Executive Producer: Tetsuya Sasaki
- Planning Staff: Takeshi Maeda, Naoki Suda, Susumu Chou, Hiroshi Iwata, Haoya Yamada
- Programing Staff: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hideki Watanabe, Masashi Yamauchi
- Designing Staff: Tatsuya Nagata, Kazunori Katoku, Takeharu Shima, Tomoya Oohara, Emi Akaboshi, Megumi Ueno, Fumiko Saruwatari
- Sound Staff (All Sound Composer): Takuya Yasuda
- Support Staff: Makoto Tsukino, Hisashi Sakaue, Keiji Nakanishi, Masaaki Kokubu, Yukinori Yamauchi, Kazuhisa Miyazaki, Souichirou Yagami
- Voice Acting: Lenne Hardt, Jeff Manning, Stephen Mcknight, Paul Lucas, Colleen Lanki, Chris Wells
- Voice Casting & Directing: Toru Kato, Yuki Takao (Latina International Corporation)
- Voice Recording & Directing: Hirofumi Murasaki, Keiichi Sugiyama, Hirokazu Akashi, Yoshitada Miya, Sawako Sogabe (Wavemaster Inc.)
- Special Thanks: Mitsui & Co./Mi-Pic, Hobby Japan Co.,Ltd
- Presented by: Sega
- ©Sega Corporation, 2001
Magazine articles
- Main article: Magic: The Gathering/Magazine articles.
Physical scans
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Technical information
- Main article: Magic: The Gathering/Technical information.
External links
- Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Dreamcast
References
- ↑ File:MagicTheGathering DC JP Box Back.jpg
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 http://sega.jp/dc/010602/ (Wayback Machine: 2010-05-05 00:11)
- ↑ https://sega.jp/history/hard/dreamcast/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-02-10 03:49)
- ↑ Dorimaga, "2001-04 (2001-07-13)" (JP; 2001-06-22), page 31
- ↑ Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 34
- ↑ Famitsu, "2001-07-06" (JP; 2001-06-22), page 32