Good glub, back when I played magic, around Unlimited and Revised, I don't remember things being so complicated. But today they give out an about 100 page Word Document with the official rules. <sarcasm>Thank's a lot, Wizards of the Coast, for using a cross-platform document format.</sarcasm>
For those of us who don't run Micro$haft software, here is 'a HTML version of the official rules. It is generated by Word for Windows, so the HTML is bad and wrong but it is viewable with many tools. Enjoy!
I don't know what was going on but dragonstudios.com seemed to be down, so I've mirrored locally a copy of their Apprentice for Windows NT/2000 (REMOVED) and Apprentice for Windows 95/98 (REMOVED). This program serves as a virtual table top that you can use to play remote Magic the Gathering games. For people who run GNU/Linux, Mindless Automation is compatible, for cross-platform, remote Magic fun.
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