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Magic The Gathering Advanced Strategy Guide: For Advanced and Expert Magic Players |  | Go Tell a Friend | |
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| Authors: Mark Justice, Beth Moursund
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 211150
Media: Paperback
Pages: 128
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.4
ISBN: 1560251999
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9781560251996
ASIN: 1560251999
Publication Date: September 17, 1998
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Product Description
Written for serious Magic players, the ADVANCED STRATEGY GUIDE features cards and techniques for the intricacies of high-level and tournament play. Topics include constructed deck vs. sealed deck; evaluating cards; draft tournaments; metagame; and Magic ethics. 100 color illustrations.
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 Useful in its time, but that time has passed September 30, 2009
D. Discs (USA)
So much of the book is spent examining forthcoming cards from new sets and speculating as to how they might change the game. Educated guesses, yes, and the process of considering a new set is a useful skill from any player. But these "new" card sets are over a decade old, and spending so much of the book analyzing cards that aren't even commonly played anymore means that this book provides little information. General commentary on why certain cards are ineffective has been rendered long out of date by the addition of new cards or mechanics that opened up new possibilities.
In addition to most of the book's information being out of date, the writing style is not as concise as one would expect for a how-to guide. "Card X doesn't even compare to Card Y" is not helpful unless it is explained which of the two cards is better, and why.
There are photos of some cards in the book, which is very helpful. However, the same photos of the same cards are frequently repeated. It would have been better to include more pictures of different cards instead of repeating.
An advanced player who can find this book used for under five dollars may find a few very broad points of strategy in this book. An expert player will find it to be too dated, and a beginning player will simply be lead astray.
 Magic the Gathering June 4, 2009
William E. Frank
The book "Magic the Gathering Advanced Strategy Guide: For Advanced and Expert Magic Players" to be very helpful in how to play the game against more advanced players.
Magic Deckbuilders guide February 14, 2009
Domuschieva Elena
Well I wasn't satisfied enough, first of all because it arrived way too late and second of all because it wasn't in such a good shape after all.
 Fantastic December 17, 2008
Lucinda K. Thomas (Golden,Colorado)
I love the book,It informed me of how to be a better Magic the gathering player.
Decent, albeit a bit aged September 9, 2005
Adam Grigsby (Bothell, WA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A very good book on Magic strategies, but keep in mind this book was made in 1998 when Stronghold first came out, so this information is a bit dated. Obviously this means that some of the strategies have long ago lost popularity, or have no bearing on the current set's strategies. Another problem, is that some of the individual card descriptions for the Stronghold set are wrong (ie Flowstone Hellion is not a flying creature!). But outside of that, Mark Justice is an excellent old-school Magic player and if you play with older cards, you should definately read through this book.
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