Basic spells and creatures may cost only 1 unit of magic while the more powerful dragons and devastating attacks and enchantments will be much more expensive. The system is setup around your ability to collect magic in the form of shards and crystals during the heat of battle to spend on the various spells that you'll be unlocking as you make your way through the solo Quest mode. It's just that summoning creatures, casting enchantments and spells to attack defend and boost your own character's or your critters' abilities is the main point of Magic: The Gathering Battleground. This isn't to say mastering the timing of blocks and attacks isn't crucial, because they are. Your character is a magic user, so the emphasis isn't on throwing physical combo attacks and flying piledrivers. The interface is very much like a fighting game, or better yet, a volleyball title with the two combatants facing each other and a dividing line between their two halves of the battleground. We're not huge fans of the card game, but we suspect much of the depth and detail of Magic the Gathering beyond the basic magic systems had to be sacrifice or streamlined to keep the action fast paced. There's the potential for some grand things to come out of this strategy-fighting hybrid game system. It might be a limitation of the license itself or a design decision, but it also feels like the developers were holding back to keep from alienating the masses of gamers, especially on the console. Battlegrounds brings key elements of these totally distinct genres together -without one getting in the way of the other- and this is the game's greatest appeal even for PC gamers who live and die with RTS games. Remarkably we're given a fast paced, quick twitch game that'll have you reacting and strategizing on the fly like a fighting game but you'll also have to have the inventiveness and anticipation used in most strategy games for the PC. Developed by Secret Level for both Xbox and PC, Magic: The Gathering Battlegrounds looks to take the universe and rule set of the popular collector card game and match it with a videogame experience that'll keep us attention deficient gamers hooked.
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