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15 Reddit comments about Arena (Magic - The Gathering, No. 1):

u/everial · 12 pointsr/magicTCG

It's a totally cheesy revenge plot, but the original Arena makes me smile every time and includes a fun, ground-level view of how magic warps a society. Completely standalone; quick read.

https://www.amazon.com/Arena-Magic-Gathering-No-1/dp/0061054240

u/GrooGrux · 7 pointsr/magicTCG

I think everyone should start with Arena. It is one of my favorite books of all time. A very good read. And if I am not mistaken, it is the first magic book. It really captures how someone goes from being a simple wizard to becoming a planeswalker. It is really a story about how it all starts. Also, it captures the true feel of how playing magic in the early days felt. When things were as simple as summoning a Giant Spider and having is Fireballed, or using a psyonic blast to finish off an opponents drudge skeleton because you know he is out of mana. Mana is limited and the battles are very exciting because they are simple, but chaotic, and the story is very Monte Cristo.


http://www.amazon.com/Arena-Magic-The-Gathering-No/dp/0061054240/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1345667581&sr=8-9&keywords=arena

u/[deleted] · 5 pointsr/Pathfinder_RPG

I highly recommend that your DM read Arena, the very first MTG book; it is totally unrelated to the others, and aside from being a great book in it's own right, it treats each color as a separate house of magic, more or less. It also ads a lot of flavor depth to the colors, and uses them to represent both the commonly discussed upsides, and downsides through ties to sin like greed and gluttony, while doing a fantastic job of illustrating inter-planar travel.

This was, after all, when MTG was pretty directly based on D&D.

u/X0nerater · 3 pointsr/magicTCG

So, I'm going to how deep do you want to go into the lore?

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If you want to go from the beginning, this is the first book. Note that the formatting of the books changes drastically around Time Spiral, and after that , most of the lore isn't in actual book format anymore.

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If you have a question about something in particular, you might even be better looking at the wiki stuff for a summary, and then it'z easier to really dig into it from there. That's usually enough for getting a quick idea of what's going on, especially from like Invasion forward.

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Additionally, if you go to the wizards website, they have some good stuff. I'm not up to date on it anymore, but they used to host comics about the new walkers. They regularly post things (is it still weekly? I couldn't keep up between school and the website format changing a couple times) and keep a loose archive. I think you have to follow this more aggressively, but some of them are absolute gems.

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It's not everything, but should be enough to get started.

u/LoLReiver · 3 pointsr/magicTCG

http://www.amazon.com/Arena-Magic-The-Gathering-No/dp/0061054240

This is the first Magic the Gathering book. Published in 1994. It contains planeswalkers.

The first Magic set not set on Dominaria was Arabian Nights which was set on the plane of Rabiah. It was the games first expansion ever - printed in 1993 a mere 4 months after Alpha was released (and the same month Unlimited was released). It didn't even contain any of the traditional Dominarian characters.

They neither needed planeswalkers to tell stories on other worlds nor did they invent planeswalkers to do that.

u/thedz · 2 pointsr/Fantasy

I've not read any of the recent stuff, but I remember Arena fondly https://www.amazon.com/Arena-Magic-Gathering-No-1/dp/0061054240

u/robertfcowper · 2 pointsr/bookhaul

Hey OP - the magic the gathering book caught my eye. That must be from the very beginning. Reminded me of when I played and one of my favorite used bookstore finds, one of my fave books all time: Arena

u/RequiemBurn · 1 pointr/MagicArena

YES. for solo series read Arena https://www.amazon.com/Arena-Magic-Gathering-No-1/dp/0061054240

For a epic storyline like whats currently happening (but WAY better) start with the brothers war and work your way throught the artifact cycle.

https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-War-Artifacts-Cycle-ebook/dp/B07C91KLV8/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=the+brothers+war&qid=1554126310&s=books&sr=1-2

my personal favorite set was the kamigawa set but its not as .. well liked by all as the other two. i just REALLY liked Toshi.

My wife prefers the Lorwyn cycle.

that may be a lot. I say start with either arena if you just want a single story, and artifacts cycle if you want a reaching storyline.

Edit if you like epic fights, Arenas got you covered. Half the story is about a wizards tournament in Dominaria with mages beating the shit out of each other and killing each other.

Edit x2: everyone who plays magic should know the basics behind Urza Planeswalker from the artifacts cycle. And how much of an annoying punk his lab assistant teferi is. :p

u/mroberts092 · 1 pointr/Wishlist

I have a couple of books on my wishlist that I would love!!! Specifically this one.

u/gort32 · 1 pointr/magicTCG

The very first Magic novel had some very nicely-detailed descriptions of two mages locked in combat.

u/null_vector · 1 pointr/magicTCG

I do this but it's a product of reading the early MTG books like Arena and the greensleeves trilogy

u/blaze32335 · 1 pointr/mtgvorthos

http://www.amazon.com/Arena-Magic-The-Gathering-No/dp/0061054240

i recommend this one; the rest of the series not as good but this one is great.

u/wdalphin · 1 pointr/movies

Arena. Basiaclly Yojimbo told in a setting of wizardry and combat.