Friday Timewaster

My affinity for match-3 games is well known, but you may not know that I also adore the Magic the Gathering card game franchise. Developer D3Go has stuck the chocolate in the peanut butter, and what a tasty treat it is. Magic the Gathering: Puzzle Quest combines match-3 gameplay with the complexity and deck-building goodness of MTG.

Free-to-play, MTG:PQ has some of the deepest strategy I've ever seen in a puzzle game, yet you can pick it up and play for five minutes without unduly exerting the grey matter. Learning how to sort cards in your hand so they support and reinforce each other and planning your moves on the board to achieve a knock-out blow against your opponent are the essence of the game. Hundreds of different cards which can be assembled into decks in millions of possible combinations keep it fresh.

Robot or Fruit.


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