Guide: Cockatrice – PC/Mac software to play Magic: The Gathering online by piZZero on November 12, 2010 in Guides, Magic Online While Magic Workstation (MWS) is the king of the hill to play free Magic games online, recently a new german software has started to get popular. Click 'Choose Setup Executable'. Navigate to and select the Magic the Gathering Arena Windows executable you previously downloaded. For some reason, the text is broken for the installation prompts (it's fine in game!). To install, click the lower right rectangle and, on the next screen, click the 'Accept and Install' button.
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The terrible mistress that is games addiction has been cited by many a broken-hearted wife/girlfriend to be a major reason for separation. Usually, the suspect is the likes of Champ Man or the all-consuming Everquest, but another, lesser-known threat was MicroProse’s 1996 strategy game Magic: The Gathering.
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- Apr 24, 2017 A brand new stable release of Wine is available to install on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS through 17.04 — but you’ll need to add the new Wine repository to get it. We’ll show you how to add the new Wine repository on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and above in just a bit, but first a little bit about the latest Wine Stable release.
A friend of mine was once so hopelessly addicted to MTG that his girlfriend finally gave him the choice of 'It' or her. He chose MTG. Was he upset? Not a bit. Somethings in life are just more important. MTG the computer game (as well as its various add-ons, updates and the later online version) was itself based on Wizards of the Coast’s Magic collectable-card game, a kind of Pokemon type trading phenomena but with spells. (More like Yu-Gi-Oh! then? - Ed) modes: Quest mode or Arcade mode.
Playing through the Quest unlocks new spells which can be used to create a custom spell book that you can use in Arcade mode or First appearing in 1993, this 'hobby’ game now boasts more than six million players worldwide.Now, San Francisco-based developer Secret Level is aiming to cement Magic's world domination by introducing PC gamers to MTG: Battlegrounds, a strange new hybrid of one-on-one arcade action and real-time strategy - with online play. Think of it as Street Fighter 2 but with spells instead of kicks and punches.
Battlegrounds is played in one of two to challenge other players. The whole beauty of Magic is the way the player can choose from a near-infinite variety of strategies depending on the spells (or cards) they have in their deck.
Spell It Out
As Jeffrey Tseng, Secret Level’s creative director, explains: 'Each of the 70 spells in Battlegrounds is based on a real card in the MTG card game. Of those spells, 35 are creatures and 35 are sorceries, instants or enchantments.'Spells are also split into five different coloured schools of magic. Black is naturally associated with the darker arts and includes pain-inflicting spells and the ability to summon the undead. White, on the other hand, calls upon such venerable wonders as healing and summoning holy monks to fight your battles. Sitting somewhere between black and white is the remaining trio of red, blue and green, which cater for the spells that aren’t necessarily good or evil.
'An interesting creature is the Krovikan Vampire,' muses Tseng. 'When a Krovikan Vampire destroys a creature, that creature comes back into play under the Krovikan Vampire’s control and attacks the enemy duellist.'All cards tend to have a counter spell though; it’s just a question of whether you have it in your deck. Here, for instance, a white dispel conjuration would almost certainly halt the vampire threat.
Fight Club
Bouts take place in one of 16 arenas with your duellist facing off against another human or Al-controlled opponent. Each arena has a specific theme and 15 of them tie in to a specific colour. For example, the Drake Rookery is an arena associated with blue, and is set on an island.
Your wizard begins each contest with 20 health points and a mana pool that drains each time you cast a spell. Powerful spells cost more mana, so the key is to use your deck wisely or alternatively make frequent dashes for the mana fountains that bubble forth around the edge of the arena. The winner of the contest obviously is the wizard left standing at the end.
With so many spells available, the ability to quickly select one with the minimum of fumbling will be a criticalfactor in the game's playability. However, Secret Level is convinced they’ve got that part of the game right.
'We tried at least five different control schemes before choosing the current one,' recalls Tseng. 'We were very concerned with the speed of choosing spells as well as simplicity. We divide the spells in your spell book into three different categories: creatures, sorceries and enchantments. Once you choose a category, you see the spells in groups of three and choose from there. If you need to flip pages to see other spells, you can do that easily. We've also enabled you to choose the locations of your spells in your spell book, so you can put the spells you need fast access to (like Counterspell) in convenient positions.'
With plans already in place for downloadable spells and arenas. Battlegrounds is undoubtedly a fascinating proposition. Feelings among the Magic crowd are mixed, though, and hardcore duellists claim a more arcade-orientated game will remove the Chess-like strategy element. That may well happen, but from a PC gaming perspective the fusion of gaming styles means we might have something that can be truly classed as unique. Girlfriends, consider yourselves warned.
A brand new stable release of Wine is available to install on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS through 17.04 — but you’ll need to add the new Wine repository to get it.
We’ll show you how to add the new Wine repository on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and above in just a bit, but first a little bit about the latest Wine Stable release.
Wine 2.0.1
Wine 2.0.1 serves as the first point release in the Wine 2.0 stable series, which was released earlier this year. Various bug fixes and general improvements feature as part of this update, including crash fixes and performance tweaks for a number of games and apps, including
- Need For Speed
- Magic: The Gathering Online 4.0
- Venom Codename: Outbreak
- ComicRack 0.9.x
- Odallus The Dark Call
- Git for Windows
- Marvel Heroes 2015 launcher
- DirectDraw games
- UnrealEngine4 games
The update also correctly detects the GeForce GT 525M as the GeForce GT 525M; gains GPU information for AMD FIJI; and deprecates the Wine install tool.
New Wine Repository
The official Wine repository is no longer hosted on Launchpad, which means the official Wine PPA is no longer being updated.
To install Wine in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or later you will need to add the new Wine repository to your software sources on Ubuntu (or derivatives). This new repo offers both development versions and stable versions of Wine — only install or upgrade the one you mean to!
The Wine install instructions that follow are from the Wine HQ website. I do not use Wine so I cannot tell you how well the latest version works with {random app} — but feel free to use the comments to see if other users can help.
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There are a couple of ways in which you can add the new Wine repository to Ubuntu. We’re going to walk you through the fastest way, which is by using the command line.
First things first: if you’re running a 64-bit version of Ubuntu you need run this command first as Wine is a 32-bit application:
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Open a new Terminal window and run this command to add the new Wine repo to Ubuntu’s Software Sources:
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Next, download and install the Wine repo security key so that packages from the repo can be authenticated:
Finally, install (or upgrade) Wine 2.0.1 stable by running this command:
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You should now be all set up with the freshest Wine available. If you encounter any dependency errors (which often happened with the old PPA) the Wine HQ wiki recommends installing them as needed and then re-running the ‘update && install’ command above.