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Magic The Gathering.  DarkSteel.

Secrets Revealed

"The world is hollow." This is the secret that Chunth, the
Tel-Jilad troll elder, entrusts to Glissa Sunseeker before his
death at the hands
of a traitor. Armed with that knowledge, Glissa fights her way
through the great vedalken capital of Lumengrid, down into the
Pool of Knowledge. The Synod's
sacred chamber contains a lacuna--a tunnel, saturated with blue
mana--that leads to Mirrodin's secret interior. There, huge,
bizarre towers of funguslike
metal called mycosynth reach up toward an immense inner sun of
pure mana.

As Glissa flees from her vedalken pursuers, she discovers another
secret inside this plane. Memnarch is real, and he patiently waits
for the elvish champion
to find him. In the meantime, he has begun to build a monument to
his greatness as an artificer: the Darksteel Eye, a device that
will make his omniscience
over Mirrodin complete.

The Darksteel set is everything you loved about Mirrodin and more:
more equipment, more artifacts, more abilities, and even more
cards. Darksteel is the
first "small" Magic expansion to release with 165 cards. Among
them, you'll find artifacts that are indestructible--which means
just what it says: destruction

effects don't send them to the graveyard. And if its an
indestructible creature, damage won't do the job, either.

The only things getting broken here are rules.
Arm yourself with Darksteel.

Collector's Highlights

The Darksteel expansion includes randomly inserted foil-finished
premium cards in a limited, 165 all-new, black-bordered card set.


Game Features

Darksteel introduces two new abilities to the Mirrodin block and
expands on affinity by including spells that have affinity for
different basic land types.

Indestructible - Indestructible 2permanents can't be destroyed.
Not by anything. If a spell tries to destroy an indestructible
permanent, nothing happens--not
even if the spell prevents regeneration.
Modular - Modular is always listed with a number; an artifact
creature with modular comes into play with that many +1/+1
counters on it. When that creature
is put into a graveyard, you can put its +1/+1 counters onto any
other artifact creature in play.

The Darksteel Eye
by Jess Lebow

Glissa, Bosh, and Slobad must flee across the harsh world of
Mirrodin, running from an enemy who seems all-knowing. Within the
deepest reaches of their
world, the Darksteel Eye watches. And waits.

Download a sample chapter (...

End of snap shot.

Phil Scovell's comments.

Apparently, from the FAQ I read on this website, the game is
played with others.  The game, like any card game, and just like
any role playing game, is to out guess, out perform, out spell,
out magic, out wizard your opponentes with the powers you obtain
from the characters you hold in your hands displayed on the cards.
As with any card game, you become a role player.  In this case,
you use magic to win.  Where is this magic coming from? You only
get one guess.  I did not download the free chapter to read
because I found out all I needed to know in the above brief
description of the game.  Apparently, DarkSteel is a more
complicated and sufisticated form of the role playing card game.
By the way, when I typed in "Magic The Gathering" as a search
parameter on Google, I got over 900,000 hits.  So it must be
pretty popular but so are weegie boards.  I typed in quotes around
my search parameters, too.  No telling how many hits I would have
gotten otherwise so I would say it is supper popular.

Phil.