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JackerWhat is Apprentice?:
Apprentice is a visually based program for both Windows and Macintosh platforms that allows one to play Magic: The Gathering against another player over the Internet. Effectively this means your next magic duel may not be against your next door neighbor, but rather against someone halfway around the world. That is the goal -- to break the boundaries.
So what are these boundaries? -- for one, wealth. One must accept that Magic: The Gathering is an ever-expanding game and to expand one needs to continue to purchase. Of course we are in no way discouraging you to buy actual cards, far from it. Few magic players own every card in the game anyway, and few ever will because the cost is simply too immense. Apprentice does not defer the cost of buying cards it simply delays it untill one is sure what it would be wise to invest one's hard earned currency in.
Apprentice is merely a tool that lets you bring a deck from your head strait to the online arena. The obvious progression from there being into real life arena. So the deck that you had to trade for only to find it not working as well as you thought is a situation that will no longer have to be a reality. So excessive money being out of the way what is the next objective? -- geography.
Most people can name everyone they play locally off the top of their head and when you play someone over and over you know their style. Magic was made to be a game of change and playing the same person day in and day out is admittedly not fun. What is fun is playing from a pool of thousands of players without the restrictions money and geography place on a person and with a database of every card ever printed.
Remember though, Apprentice is a chisel and Magic is a stone. Without the chisel your creation may be ugly and rough around the edges, and without the stone you have no sculpture, but with both the only limit to what you can create is your imagination.