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At the time it wasn’t a wild hit, but this game, Master of Magic, became a cult phenomenon, and several developers tried badly to remake it for years until the team making Age of Wonders finally almost succeeded by polishing the game up to AoW: Shadow Magic.That wasn’t Shandalar. But Microprose went back to the drawing board and converted the card effects into a different kind of randomly generated strategy game, combined with Sid Meir’s Civilization engine. I don’t recall clearly because the game was a buggy mess, and after a week of trying to fight its horrible design I returned it to the store for a refund (which was possible back then, even though we bought games physically from things called “stores” back then.)Eventually various people made good semi-adaptations of the MtG formula featuring models and effects on a playing field, like for the Etherlords duology, among less well-known ones. On paper it sounded like a great idea: an adaptation which used computing power to make the card game’s rules translate into a sort of real-time strategy game experience. Their first computer game adaptation (I can’t recall if it was with Microprose or not) of the collectable card game MtG, was an unmitigated disaster, barely remembered by anyone today except those of us who suffered from buying it.
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And it worked pretty dang well! - the multiplayer was a bit skitty, but any multiplayer back then was more than a bit skitty. Eventually someone at Microprose figured out how to do a proper engine for the card game, and released it using the 4th Edition cards. MoM-heir games have been increasingly popular, and increasingly competent, the past few years but they owe their existence in some large part to Microprose sneaking MtG into a Civ game ruleset.Anyway.
And the game would neutrally make sure the rules were kept up and enforced, doing a (mostly) great job of that. You could play a legitimate card game of Magic the Gathering, building decks of various kinds in various ways, generating tournaments (with real-life people or with AI bots, or a mixture thereof) using packs of random cards to build decks from if you wanted or with your own ‘brought’ decks you could skirmish in mere one-on-one games with the AI bots or with people online (if you could get the dicey internet connections to hold up properly). And bug patching back then was difficult to promote due to the internet being new and this type of game naturally generated a lot of bugs due to the increasingly large number of playing cards.But they did succeed.
If I recall correctly, you could even print off your own cards from the encyclopedia, which I thought was insane - though maybe I misunderstood. I’m doubtful it was worry that the computer game would cut into sales of their cards, since the last thing they did was to release a Magic encyclopedia as a CD program which included every card published up to that time, including all sets that had not yet been included in the ‘game’ per se (and including the set being released that year simultaneously). )Microprose released two expansions which, between them, added the first four expansions from the ‘real life’ card game in order of their chronological release, and clearly the plan for a while was to keep releasing new sets every year or so.Then that plan was abandoned for reasons I’m not entirely sure of. (Which I promptly would forget, or want to ignore for experimentation sake. I had been playing Magic for several years before then, and that game still taught me TONS about clever and effective play and deck design.
The history of that world, traced in the release of card sets every year or so for a long time, has become pretty epic by now, and I’m not going to get into it.But because of that increasingly complicated fictional history, the designers for the game wanted there to still be a world with partial connection to all the other ‘worlds’ where actual stories were being written, but it would be the default generic gameworld. I was going to say where some of the stories represented by the cards of Magic: The Gathering take place, but in fact most of those stories happen on a ‘world’ called Dominaria and some others having been added along the way. And wouldn’t really allow deck designing and building again until this very year, though they got closer to that goal every year.So now they finally have something approaching the multiplayer side of their first legitimate adaptation long ago, which for reference we’ll call Manalink: a certain number of “sets” are available to collect, and once you collect them you can put together decks the way you want, and challenge bots and real players on line.Strictly speaking, “Shandalar” is the name of a fictional world where. It was just like playing live, in the sense that you and your opponent had to be responsible for playing by the rules.The Microprose died (and maybe had already died by the time the encyclopedia was released I don’t recall the timing there, and I’m too lazy to look on a wiki, though not too lazy to write about things I don’t clearly recall SHUT UP! ) And MtG wouldn’t return to computers until the days of Steam.
He can break free of hell and wreck havoc everywhere else, I forget the details. That, apparently, was why the dev team thought it would be proper (and presumably funny) to set the game there.Of course there’s a loose story to set up the situation of the game, where a demonic supervillain from another plane is making a bid to take over Shandalar by installing puppet wizards as regents to funnel the plane’s mana over to him so. What does that mean? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Because, the campaign game runs on a procedurally generated map, which defeats the whole idea of trying to ever claim that there is some canonical “story” to Shandalar. It’s sort of the “First Edition” world, or rather a world where the “First Edition” without a story is still true but all other cards can be played there.The concept itself is kind of an in-joke for players who just wanna play the dang game and don’t want to get involved in debating how legit it is to play cards from mixed sets, because once “Ice Age” is over then cards from the “Dark” (before the Ice Age) naturally wouldn’t apply anymore except where things that developed during the Dark are still hanging arouNNNERRDDSS!!!For our purposes, the relevant thing is that “Shandalar” was chosen to be the setting of the single-player campaign of the 2001 game (and its expansions).
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