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Spectromancer!

By Kieron Gillen on February 7th, 2008.

At long last. A game about arcane manipulations of the creator of Deus Ex. It’s what we’ve all been waiting… actually, sorry. Misread. It’s a computer-based uncollectable card game by the maker of Astral Tournament, along with Mr Magic The Gathering and Mr Magic The Gathering Expansion. And while my soul still cries out for a way to create my own demonic Warren Spector, from my time with the freely available Beta, Spectromancer goes a long way to soothing the pain of that perpetual disappointment.

Four of as kind beats a straight? What - it doesn't work like that? Man, I suck at card games.

And a little about why the work of Messrs Stankevich, Garfield and Elias is pretty neat beneath the cut.
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