Okay, it's not often I find comics worth leaving lasting posts about. I suppose if I actually thought about it, I could have mentioned Garth Ennis's 'The Boys' from Dynamite Entertainment, as it is probably THE best written series I've read since Gaiman's Sandman.
Hell, I could even mention that IDW's 'Dungeons & Dragons' is highly entertaining, or that Boom Studio's 2011 Hellraiser series (written by Clive Barker himself) is awesome and true to how you would expect the Hellraiser franchise to continue (unlike some of the later films...)...
But LO! What's this?! IDW has released issue #1 of 'Magic: The Gathering'. Umm...heh...um... let's see. It's an actual story, following the exploits of one particular planeswalker (so far?), with art and writing similar in detail to IDW's D&D series... except the D&D series has writing that's just all around easier to follow. It doesn't help someone pay attention to the plot when the main character jumps between 3 (4? 5?) planes, and visits 3 (4? 5?)
plot important locations, AND suffers 1 (and only 1) flashback (or was it a flash forward? He remembers it happening, but he didn't have the dagger last time it happened...and he JUST got the dagger, and that's what gave him the flashba...ARRGGHHH!!!! WAIT! Then he says he will be able to stop it from happening
this time???? ). I'm sure SOME of it would make more sense if the reader was more familiar with ALL the cards from the game, where I was unsure what certain creatures or weapons (that damn dagger) held in the way of importance.
I'm NOT going to say avoid this. It's worth a read, especially if you like the card game, or decent art with a multitude of well-drawn fantasy critters. Besides, in my experience IDW has a way of getting their shit together quickly. SO, I am going to recommend getting this, then holding your final judgement on issue 2 and maybe 3...see if any cohesion forms between anything presented in the first one...and hope that MAYBE the writer adds more than one sentence every other panel.