I started playing this game early in its existence. To me, it felt like an animated version of Magic: the Gathering. A lot of the same kind of spells and armies. I had to start off in the lower range as I learned the game and have evolved into a master. Oh, sure, I am picky when I start off a game, looking for a few specific spells in my spell books (one thing that helped me was figuring out the code for the "unknown" spells) to start the game and I have a few preferences about the land I start out in, but, gee, considering how much of an advantage my opponents have when I start, I need SOMETHING in my favor. There is one LITTLE peeve I have with the game. The only real variation between MoM and M:tG. You can't play a yen yang deck in MoM. One of my best decks in M:tG was a vampires and angels deck. But that is just a little problem, one that I got over a long time ago.