Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
SET in a fantasy world of wizards, dragons, and other fantastic creatures, "Magic: The Gathering" is a competitive card game for young and old alike. In the early 2000s, we first picked the game up and thought of it as nothing more than a hobby my brother and I could spend time playing during the summer break. Little did we know that the strategies and tactics involved in the gameplay could be something we could apply in real life over a decade down the road.
Before going into the details of how a card game has lessons for life and for business, let's take a quick look at how Magic is played. The basic way to play a game of Magic is to have two players, each with a deck of 60 cards, take turns trying to whittle down their opponent's life total to 0 from a beginning life total of 20. There are a variety of ways they could do that — from casting spells that could reduce the life total or by summoning creatures to do the dirty work, among others. In order to execute those winning plays though, we need to understand the currency used to take actions in the game.
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