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Wednesday, May 17,1995
FEATURES
‘Magic sweeps nation, leaving trail of addicts behind
by Jon Roberts
Staff Writer
There is a card game sweep
ing across the nation. It’s being
played in coffee houses, on air
planes, in libraries and at the lunch
table. The game is called Magic:
the Gathering. It’s a collectible
role-playing card game.
The card game quite simply
consists of trading cards that pit
two players or wizards against
each other in a duel of magic.
Both players have a deck of cards
which represent a wizard’s library
of magical knowledge or spells.
Using these cards, each player
casts spells and summon creatures
to defeat their opponents. There
are a lot of different types of crea
tures, some well known like gob
lins,ogres and dragons. Some are
not so well known, like norritts,
sprites and orcs.
These cards are not only a
game they are collectible, too.
Counting the unlimited set and the
four expansion sets there have
been released almost 1,000 cards
for the Magic: the Gathering card
game.
The Magic cards act sort of
like fantasy baseball cards, you
can trade them, sell them and some
are rarer than others. There is one
main difference between baseball
cards and Magic cards and that is
you can play a game with Magic
cards.
Trading
games like
cards have been
Dungeons and
around since
Dragons and
cigarette manu
card games
facturers first
such as poker
put pictures of
or go fish. The
baseball players
card game is
in packages of
like D. and D.
their product.
in that it has
The baseball
characters that
card industry
the person
took off from
playing can
there.
pretend to be.
In the last
Card
few years cards
games
are
have been ex
more like tra
panding their
ditional card
subject matter
games because
from just base
they
have
ball to other
hands to be
sports, comic
dealt
and
book heroes and
played and
fantasy art. The Magic, Rage and Star Trek are among the popular new
even an ante to
card industry games spreading rapidly across the nation.
be won if de
was becoming
sired.
The
boring at times
players spend
with cards coming out including financial gain or to complete col most of their time trying to guess
everything from mass murders to lections. Now with the introduc the other player’s hand, much like
famous artists.
tion of card games, collectors have in poker. The ability to bluff is an
The trading and collecting of another reason to collect cards.
important part of the game, too.
these cards has created a boom
Even though there are a lot of
, That’s not saying that these
ing industry that has been grow gaming cards are not worth money similarities, gaming cards have
ing like no other industry in because they are worth quite a lot created a completely novel type of
America today. In this industry depending on the rarity of the card. gaming. Because there are so
collectors try and figure out the The first edition set of 295 Magic many possible variations on deck
best deals with fellow collectors cards (there have been four edi size and ways of playing each con
to obtain rare and valuable ones.
test is a unique experience.
tions) is worth $2,750.
It used to be that collectors
The easiest way to understand
The card games are a mix be
would just collect cards for their tween the traditional role-playing the game is to go buy a starter set
which costs about $8.95. The
starter deck come with 60 cards
and a rule book. Then if you like
it you can buy booster packs,
which cost about $2.95 each, to
build up your deck.
Magic was the first main
stream card game of its kind, but
know there are games coming out
every where. There are more than
20 card games on the market know
with more coming out weekly.
Recently there has been a Star
Trek card game, that combines
Star Trek with the game in a very
appealing manner. This game is
really starting to take off, with both
trekkies and collectors.
There are also several other
new games coming out over the
summer like Rage, a game about
werewolves, Magic Ice Age, an
expansion set for the Magic game,
and a card game based on the
movie Highlander. These are just
a few of the games coming out this
summer.
Card games are here to stay
so jump on the band-wagon be
cause once you’ve played a card
game once you will be hooked. It
becomes more than just a game it
becomes an addiction. But this is
one addiction that can be good for
you.
Concerts to pay for recordings
ACROSS
1. Tom Cruise’s call name in Top Gun
2. Same as 007
3. Mario Van Peeple’s new movie, also a large cat
4. She first starred in E.T and is dating the lead bassist of “Hole”
5. He played Louie in “Interview with the Vampire”
6. Star of the Die Hard Trilogy
7. Starred in “French Kiss” and is married to Dennis Quaid
8. Pulp Fiction’s drug overdosed freak
9. The movie in which Nicole Kidman is held hostage on her sail boat
10. The movie in which Steve Martin dressed as an annoying idiot
11. Dating actor Johnny Depp
12. The movie that Tom Hanks received Best Actor 1995
13. She is married to David Justice
14. Billy Madison and Saturday Night Live actor
DOWN
1. Denzel Washington’s new movie
2. Liam Neeson and Jessica Lang’s Irish flick
3. The main lion in the “Lion King”
4. 1980’s movie with Daniel son and Mr. Miagi
5. He’s in “Above the Law” and “Marked for Death”
6. Chris Farley’s big hit
7. He stars in “Ace Ventura” and in “Dumb and Dumber”
8. Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur movie “----- — Park”
9. “While You Were Sleeping” and “Speed’s” main actress
10. Mrs. Doubtfire
11. Holly Hunter didn’t verbally speak in this movie
12. He was in “Grease” and most recently “Pulp Fiction”
13. She is married to Bugsy in “Bugsy” and to Clyde in “Bonnie and Clyde”
(Answers on page ten)
by Jocelyn Gauthier
Feature Editor
Several jazzy concerts are
under way for CCC music stu
dents starting today and continu
ing through June 4.
At 7:30 p.m., tonight, in the
Gregory Forum, instrumental
jazz students will perform under
the direction of Tom Wakeling.
Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for
students and free for seniors and
children under 12.
At 8 p.m., Thursday, in the
forum, vocal jazz groups Straight
Ahead and Mainstream will per
form, including feature perfor
mances by internationally ac
claimed professional jazz vocal
ists Nancy King, Steve
Christofferson and Wakeling.
The performance is a benefit con
cert to raise money to record a
compact disc of some of the vo
cal jazz ensembles. Admission
is $6 for adults, $3 for students
and free for seniors and children
12.and under. Auditions to join
the Mainstream and Straight
Ahead groups are under way
through June 5. For more infor
mation on auditions, call ext.
2434.
At 7 p.m., Monday, in the fo
rum the Chamber Music Ensemble
will perform a free and open to the
public concert centering on
Brahms’ “Liebeslieder Walzer”
for voices and four-hands piano.
The music department re
cently began its chamber music
program and is still seeking instru
mentalists and vocalists to join the
ensembles. Involvement requires
attending a one-credit class, par
ticipation in practice sessions and
ongoing instruction groups and a
$40 fee. For more information,
contact Judy Hylton at ext. 2433.
At 7:30 p.m., May 25, in the
forum, Straight Ahead and Main
stream will perform an “In Appre
ciation” concert for community
supporters of CCC’s jazz pro
grams.
At 3 p.m., May 28, at St.
Philip Neri Catholic Church, the
Chamber Singers will perform
several historically significant
pieces, including works by J.S.
Bach and “Berliner Messe” by
Arvo Part. Admission is $6 for
adults, $3 for students and free
for senior citizens.
The church is located at S.E.
18th and Division in Portland.
The singers recently performed
for the American Choral Direc
tors Association conference at
Pacific University in Forest'
Grove. Auditions to join the
Chamber Singers for next year
are under way through June 5.
For more information call ext.
2434. They will also perform at
7:30 p.m., June 4 in the Forum.
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