White Spells in Magic: The Gathering

Series Summary

Magic: The Gathering is a collectible card game introduced in 1994 that boasts an amazing 6 million plus players worldwide. The game is played by two or more players who use decks of cards (or libraries) to battle with magical spells, items, and fantastic creatures depicted on the cards. The game was derived from role playing games, but bares a closer resemblance to bridge or poker. The complex rules and card meanings will challenge even the most avid card-player. One of the most interesting aspects of Magic is the color of the different cards. White cards represent order, blue represent knowledge, black is the color of death, red represents chaos and green is the color of life in this card game.

In this free video series, learn all about Magic: The Gathering. Mike Lopez tells you the history of the card game. Learn what the various cards mean and what powers you can use with them. Also, learn the rules of Magic: The Gathering. Whether you are a pro gamer or just beginning, this series will help you understand Magic: The Gathering so much better! So, take some time and learn how to play Magic, The Gathering today!

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Mike Lopez with Expert Village. Today we're going to be discussing Magic: the Gathering the card game. Now we're going to discuss some of the colors associated with this game. This is the color white. The color white's mana source is given by plains and is the symbol of the sun. This is known as the holy group because you have human and creature characters that are either cleric or monk cleric or knights or angels or priests. And all of them basically do protection for the character which you are. You have your disenchants, which destroy artifacts and enchantments and you have your automatic gain life spells to play, as well, in white. White is known as the protection cards, as well as, the life builders. White is also known as the honorable set of cards because it has mainly, protect, protect creature, protect yourself. Every creature that has a special ability is either a gain life or a protect creature card, giving it higher toughness and strength or just giving it higher toughness. Also you'll find the ability Vigilance in white because it is a non-tap effect. A lot of non-tap effects, that you can also find in white, where the target creature does not tap during certain phases of the game and this is why white is known as a defensive and life gaining segment of Magic: the Gathering."