MOVIE NEWS – The name Pluribus might not mean much at first, but the actor playing the lead role started her career in an unusual place.

Pluribus is a new Apple TV series created by Vince Gilligan, known for Breaking Bad. One of the series’ most outstanding elements is the impressive performance of lead actress Rhea Seehorn. She plays one of the last normal people after most of the world suddenly merges into an eerily polite gestalt consciousness. Seehorn is best known for her role alongside Bob Odenkirk in Better Call Saul, but her career dates back to the 1990s. One of her earliest live-action roles was in Microprose’s Magic: The Gathering game.

The second video below is just as funny, vague, and gloriously low-budget as you’d hope. All the hallmarks of cheesy ’90s PC fantasy games are proudly on display, with actors visible against primitive CG backgrounds.

The entire tutorial contains over an hour of dictated instructions and is probably not the best way to learn a notoriously complicated, nearly 30-year-old card game, but it is admirably dedicated to the task. Each video in the tutorial humorously incorporates Seehorn’s character from Pluribus into the series’ canon.

We may know the game as Shandalar because there are all kinds of digital adaptations of Magic: The Gathering, and this one takes place in Shandalar. Unlike most MTG video games, this one features a full single-player campaign in which you must defeat magical users and build a deck with each victory.

In an interview with NPR, Seehorn briefly discussed her role in Shandalar. She said the production was so low-budget that the cast didn’t have shoes. They wanted to look like they were wearing “gladiator wizard boots”, so they wore tube socks secured with electrical tape. She was so excited to see her photo on the back cover that she went to Best Buy, but store employees refused to give her a copy.

Here’s the joke: you can download 1997’s Magic: The Gathering here because it’s considered abandonware.

Source: PCGamer