Kuala Lampur, Oct. 14 -- I spent a night playing Magic: The Gathering (MTG) at a little gaming store that was just a short train ride away from me.

Adventurer's Hall is a few metres away from the Taman Bahagia station on the first floor of an unassuming shoplot, with a paper sign on the stairway door grille.

I was there only because Facebook showed me a post saying it was an all femme MTG night and after meeting the Mana Coven, an all female MTG group at a recent event, I was somewhat intrigued.

Also, I really needed to learn how to play the very popular MTG format, Commander.

MTG started out as a two-player game. The premise of it is that you are planewalkers or basically, wizards, duelling with spells and creatures, all this done vi...