Magic: legends is now available in an open beta for PC via Arc Games and the Epic Games Store, publisher Perfect World Entertainment and developer Cryptic Studios have announced. A full launch is planned for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC in 2021.
Users downloading Magic: legends at Arc Games receive a free “Gavony Vigilante” costume for their character, the “Bruiser” skin for the Ogre Mortar creature, two drops and two missions. Users downloading via the Epic Games Store have access to a free “Moorland Ranger” costume, “Moorland Ranger Werewolf” until April 6 at 9:00 PT / 12:00 ET to increase skin and two drops.
Here’s an overview of the open beta via Perfect World Entertainment:
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Magic: legends can longtime fans of Magic: The Gathering to explore the Multiverse like never before. After choosing one of the five planeswalker opening classes, they travel to different regions made famous by the celebrated card game, including Innistrad, Tazeem, Benalia and more. While exploring the planes, players will collect artifacts, equipment, and spells, which will be used to help them build a series of powerful, random attacks.
Key features
- A new ‘Magic’ story – Old powers move in the dark, and it is up to players to gather the power needed to fight this evil. Magic: legends contains striking characters from the iconic franchise across different storylines, which eventually culminates in conflict with a powerful villain from the Multiverse.
- Become an airplane passenger – Magic: legends enables players to harness the power of mana through five different starter classes and switch between these classes briefly – with additional classes available later.
- Walk your own path Aircraft passengers will have to cross different planes to save the Magic Multiverse, but how they weave their way depends on them.
- Control the chaos Players make quick, tactical decisions on the battlefield in real time, while strategically building a game of spells from the game library, which will be drawn at random during battle. Whether they use the power of white, blue, black, red or green mana – their choice determines how they navigate the battlefield.
- Collect and upgrade – Magic: legends offers a wealth of game and game pages that can be collected to make each game more powerful. Players will acquire and use equipment and artifacts to work with their decks to create their desired playing styles.
- Fight together – The planes in Magic: legends can be crossed alone or with two other Planeswalkers. Players can prepare unique outfits to build on their teammates’ strengths or test their steel in 1v1 PvP Duels.
Open Beta for Magic: legends introduces five unique start-up classes from Planeswalkers, with additional classes available later:
- The Geomancer use the power of the Earth to knock down enemies in the vicinity with devastating rock and lava attacks. They are able to take up blows that would otherwise make other Planeswalkers unfit with their rock shield. Geomancers prefer to summon creatures such as goblins, guavas and earth elements.
- The Mind Mage personalized cool intellect. As a Planeswalker focusing on psychic forces, they can fight enemies at a safe distance, by controlling projectiles with telekinetic forces, and capturing dangerous enemies with spells that put them to sleep or block against their allies.
- The Beastcaller is the embodiment of force majeure and cruelty. They can defeat hordes of enemies on the battlefield with crushing blows from a massive spirit ax while coordinating attacks with an Aether Fox companion and other called animals.
- The Sanctifier is as skilled at hitting enemies with light bolts as repairing the wounds of fallen comrades. This class can summon angels, paladins, and those dedicated to order for protection in battle, while squandering enemies with righteous light.
- The Necromancer use deadly rituals to destroy enemies and make them dead for their own purposes. This class uses its unique connection with death to tear life out of the living and weaken the power of enemies with terrible curses.
In addition, players will explore five different regions in four planes, taken directly from the Magic: The Gathering map sets:
- Shiv – A volcanic island on the level of Dominaria – inhabited by Ghitu tribes, goblins, ogres and dragons.
- Benalia A church state state on the plane of Dominaria, where rolling plains meet dark swamps. The Benale people are at war with the Cabal fanatics and their demons.
- Tazeem The jungle continent at the level of Zendikar, with mystical Hedron rocks, massive trees and lush rivers – inhabited by merfolk, elves and a multitude of wild creatures.
- Tolaria A tropical academy on the plane of Dominaria – teeming with prospective wizards, Homeric animals and artifact constructions.
- Gavony A province on the plane of Innistrad, where the settlements and villagers are constantly attacked by werewolves and the dead.
Players will also harness the power of their Spark to build on their own personal fragment of the Meditation realm – an ever-changing level of mysterious origins and countless secrets that an unknown master serves.
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