Okay. So, I found this post today. I was having a BIT of trouble with the game. I deleted my old copy, one that worked perfectly, because I thought another, bigger one, would fix my problem of being unable to buy cards... Yeah. I felt really bad after that, since the new one had no text
SO I tried a few things, a little "Windows 95 compatibility" here, etc. No dice. So I went into my Windows\fonts folder, grabbed Arial Bold Italic, and threw it into a folder paralell to the Magic folder. I then backed up the Magic TTF fonts, and went and renamed all the copys of Arial Bold Italic to those of the Magic fonts, and threw them into the folder. Worked perfectly. All text shows =3