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The planeswalkers in Magic: The Gathering Tactics are perhaps the most important part of the game, as they represent the player. This trailer depicts each of the five available, with each being associated with a particular color: red, green, black, white, and blue. All five are taken from the Magic: The Gathering expansion Lorwyn. There's nothing especially new and stunning about this trailer, but if you'd like an up close look at the characters and their animations, here's your chance!

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More mana, you ask? Yes indeed, Sony responds, and from the depths of their MMO offices comes this thoroughly standard and average trailer. Much like the previous trailers for Magic: The Gathering Tactics, this one talks about the various creatures that a planewalker can summon of a particular type. In this case, it's green creatures, and the general theme is that of the natural. Woodland animals and elementals are common in the green domain, and this trailer definitely reflects that.

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The newest Magic: The Gathering Tactics trailer visits yet another one of the five elemental colors. This time, it is black: the color of death, despair, and hopelessness. Like one would expect, the creatures of black are either eldritch horrors or monstrosities brought forth by death-defying magic. Zombies, gigantic spiders, black knights, and massive winged demons are all creatures that swear their allegiance to a wielder of black mana. In other words, these are all the creatures you can summon in Tactics!

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Magic: The Gathering is such an in-depth card game that many find it daunting to approach it. Five different colors, all the different color combinations, tons of different types of cards, and plenty of rare and useful cards to acquire. Naturally, those going into Magic: The Gathering Tactics will be a little confused if they haven't played the core game, which is where this trailer comes in. It details the creatures inherent to blue mana while showing that they share common themes: flying, magic, and/or water-based minions. There's not much else to it, although the graphics certainly look slick.

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This week is a fairly slow one for new PC game releases. The only major new release planned is a downloadable game that's yet another adaptation of a collectible card game. In addition two games that were planned for release earlier this month, the action-RPG Venetica and the RTS-RPG expansion pack Spellforce 2: Faith In Destiny, are now scheduled to ship to stores this week.

Magic The Gathering Tactics - This downloadable free-to-play game from Sony Online is the latest adaptation of the fantasy-themed trading card RPG title from Wizards of the Coast. Instead of cards, players control 3D creatures in turn-based combat. Players can also purchase additional content for the game

Developer Sony Online will have a busy January. Next week its MMO DC Universe Online launches and a week later on January 18 its downloadable free-to-play game Magic: The Gathering - Tactics will be released for the PC platform (a PS3 version will be made available later this year).

As we have reported before this game, based on the classic collectible card game series, doesn't use cards are all. Players instead summon creatures and have them battle other in a full 3D turn-based strategy game. While the core game is free to play, players can purchase booster packs for more figures and spells along with new single player battles.

Wizards of the Coast published a PC port of its collectible card game Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers via Steam last June and since then there have been two expansion packs and a number of new card decks released for the game. However, the team at Sony Online Entertainment's Denver offices have been working on a different Magic: The Gathering game for some time.

Announced over a year ago, Magic: The Gathering - Tactics is a full 3D turn-based strategy game that uses the Magic universe and creatures in full tactical combat. Big Download got Mark Tuttle, the head of SOE's Denver unit, to give us some more info on the game which is scheduled for release for both the PC and PS3 platforms sometime in the "holiday" time period.

It's been a while since a Magic: The Gathering-based game has been released for the PC but today Sony Online made the announcement that they will be working with Wizards of the Coast on Magic: The Gathering – Tactics, a turn-based strategy game that will be released for the PC in early 2010.

The game is being developed by Sony Online's Devner-based studio who have created a number of online collectible card games in the past. This new title will also use online collectable trading cards mixed with full 3D figures. Look for both single player and multiplayer options (including tournaments, achievements and a ranking system) along with regular content updates to the game after it launches.

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