It's a realtime version of Magic the Gathering and it's quite good. The manacrystals appear in regular intervals and you run over them pick them up. When you got enough mana you can cast your spells /cards. Mana regen automatically and the more you got, the faster you get it back.
Each color only got 14 spells and you can choose 10. You can also have 2 colors and select one primary and one secondary color.
The singleplayer experience is long and exciting. Around 50 main missions in the quest where you learn each spell for every color. The last chapter, part 6 is where you make your own spellbook and face off against the most powerful combos the developers have done (I haven't even defeated the first one!)
There's also arcade mode where each color got duelists (basic, advanced and legendary) where the more advanced duelists got more spells to chooose from. Almost done with that.
Gamespot reviewed it http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/mtgbattlegrounds/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary;read-review
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_playlists&search_query=Magic+Battlegrounds&uni=1 <-- Youtube videos.
Found a small glitch that even if you update to v.1.4 you see v.1.1 in the upperleft corner.
So if you like games such as Etherlords then you'll like this as well.
I remember when this came out, a friend picked it up for XBox. Suffice to say, my own review is less positive.
Might have been more challenging if you couldn't steal your opponent's mana crystals (which the AI never does). But even 2-player mode got pretty old pretty fast. YMMV.
What didn't you like about it?
I'm guessing some people got put off by the realtime component but that's a fun twist to the traditional TCG.
Realtime, interface, graphics, no angel by default... Doesn't seem bad but not interested.
The only good virtual MTG games are the official MTGO and Magic Workstation. All the spinoffs have been terrible. I recall this one played more like a action/puzzle game than a strategy game as you would expect from Magic.
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