My first thoughts

This is my first english blog, and I'll dedicate it all to say something about the wonderful world of Magic The Gathering. It's unusual for me to use this japanese blog, but as a gaijin I'd like to use a more confortable language (and also because my Japanese is quite poor so far :) ). I hope you'll enjoy it! Well then, lets begin with the basics.

What's Magic the Gathering?
Magic the Gathering is a trading card game (TCG). The most famous. The most amazing. It's played almost everywhere, from Europe to America, and also in Japan. In Magic The Gathering, you are a wizard. Magic is about battles between wizards. Every wizard owns a secret book, the library (called also grimoire), where are sealed every battling technique, known as Spells. But not only this. Each library countains also the magic power's source, the Lands. More Lands a wizard can control, more its strength to cast spells will be. Library is totally customed by the wizard, but you must have a minimum of 60 cards in your library. Then begins the battle! Each wizard has 20 Life Points. If a wizard reaches 0 points, or if his library becomes empty, he loses.
A player can set a land, draw its power source (called Mana) and cast spells. In Magic we have 5 different types of Mana: White, Blue, Black, Red and Green. Each type differs from the others in spells characterization. For example, spells that uses red mana are likely to hit directly the opponent's Life Points, while blue mana is used mainly in blocking spells or rebounding permanents ecc.).
This is a simple explanation of what is Magic. Next days we will continue exploring the basics of this wonderful game!
For Magic experts instead, next article will talk about Extended Season that is about to begin and the infinite possibilities this format (my favourite) can show.