[ WP ] A casual game of Magic : the Gathering becomes real , jumanji-style .


 This was Mike´s first game of Magic: the Gathering, playing against his friend James, who always talked of this game so highly ever since they got friends in middle-school. Mike was playing a Gree-Blue deck, which he had made the day before. 
 Mike would start by playing a green mana card and ending his step. As his card left his hand and touched the ground, the colour of the old carpet in James´ room started to change into a glooming green, starting from the place where Mike´s card touched the ground. The colour devoured the whole room as shapes started to from out of James´ bed and furniture. 
 James didn´t notice any of these changes, being caught by the description of his 8-mana monstrum he was holding in his hands. But Mike just sat in front of James with his eyes wide open and full of excitement, seeing the reality of this new game. He thought to himself that none of his Play Station games was ever able to create such a realistic hologram or whatever it was. Watching the whole room turn into a tropical forest with the noises of wil animals all around these two players, Mike knew that his 20-dollars he invested into this little game were profoundly validated by this performance. 
 `` James! ``, he said beaming, `` it´s your turn. But now I understand why you always told me to start playing Magic. The graphics are the shit!'' 
 `` Which graphics? ``, James look and realized that he was somewhere in South Africa or something, in the middle of a jungle he has never seen. He shrugged greatly, once he realised what was going on. 
 `` Whoa! What´s going on here? We were in my room one second'', he cried just to be interrupted by a voice from above in the trees. 
 A wide-shouldered brawn gorilla is sitting on a branch, which is bend down by the enormous weight of this animal, seemingly able to speak as he says unpatiently, 
 `` Hey! James! I don´t have the whole day to watch you staring at your cards. Hurry up! if I were you, I would hurry up or I´ll have to make you speed up as your game watcher. ``, the coloss jumped down from his branch, falling through the air 10 feet, and making the two feel like there was a 300 kg heavy rock just fell down from the trees, which was certainly true. From this distance, the creature seemed much more frightening than it was a few seconds ago. Immeadiately he played the first mana-card, he spotted, without knowing whether it was the one he needed. The more important thing for James was trying to avoid any eye-contact with this beast, preventing being neatly folded by the gorilla like a bad test score he tried to hide from his parents. When a sea started to appear on the left side of James, which gloomed for a short period, he realised that it was a blue mana card, he played. He immediately regretted this act of hurry, seeing a slight grin on the face of their game watcher. It was a very bad play. Nearly the worst he could have done in his whole 4 weeks old Magic career. His whole hand of cards was green. And he played the only blue mana card he was holding. He still held 3 green mana cards. THREE. What were the chances that James played the only blue card on his hand? James didn´t have a calculator by his side so he didn´t know the answer. 
 
 The game seemed to be a total disaster for James. Mike played his 1-3 mana elves, which stood in a row opposing a James who still had nothing properly to play after it turned out that James only had 4 mana in 10 turns of this game and only having creatures or spells which cost 5 or more mana. He shouldn´t have picked his spells only by the look of the picture on these cards. Heck. He even had red and white cards in his deck, despite just having green and blue mana. The game ended in a 20-0 win for Mike, who was beaming after the gorilla announced the winner of this match. The gorilla gave James a vicious grin before he left the two young men, sitting on a ground, which colour slowly changed into the brown of the carpet in James room again. 
 
 
 

