Dear Fellow Necromancers,

The answer is to update to 0.18.6maemo1, which I have uploaded with original maintainer's blessing to extras-devel. It contains a fix for the crash at startup and changes the temporary download directory to be the same as the main data directory (~/MyDocs/.Wagic/), bacause a 30-40 MB file in /var/tmp/ is not a good idea considering the limited space on rootfs.

P.S. Do not let the graphics immediately disappoint you -- card images can be downloaded separately (for example here: http://wololo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=25356).