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keeping this account to magic & related topics
pls enjoy these #mtg cards—
circle of protection: Black
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interested in some very early Magic history? check out my new podcast
I speak to the 1st-ever finalist from the 1st Magic tournament ever held @Gen_Con ‘93.
We talk day 1 impressions, the tourney & his time w/ MTG since
📺: youtu.be/_bs1sRR1x-8
🎧: tinyurl.com/TBPNRS021
This weekend marks 28yrs since Magic launched at GenCon 1993
Over that weekend, WotC held their first public MTG tournament!
This is a rare picture of that tournament's Final between GenCon attendees Rick Townsend & Alex Parrish. There is a play-by-play of their final game too.
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Was at @Buy_Skulls in Toronto, Ontario this week. It’s a fascinating place & got an amazing tour by the resident Magician Jim (illusionist, not card game player)
One of my fav things was that there was the mtg card “Meteorite” next to a bunch of purchasable actual meteorites!
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While I don't really post on here much anymore, I still mine the past for Magic history.
In doing so, I recently had the pleasure of podcasting with Wizards' first in-house lawyer—Brian Lewis.
We chat about the reserved list origins, counterfeiting, the TCG patent & much more:
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We've "lawyered up"
Which means we finally got to speak to the first laywer of Magic, WotC & TCGs in general—Brian Lewis
Come hear how the law shaped the early MTG—everything from gambling, counterfeiting & even satanism:
📺: youtube.com/watch?v=zSUzLV6X…
🎧: tinyurl.com/TBPNBPT33
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Rands posts about Magic: The Gathering history retweeted
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A lot of old WOTC articles have been erased last year. Not even available with Wayback machine. They were still accessible last summer. The MTG history have been flushed out of the Internet
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Happy Thanksgiving from me & InQuest Magazine (c. 1998)
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The first wave of Magic: The Gathering's FALLEN EMPIRES began hitting US retailers 28 years ago today!
While the expansion itself is often remembered as overprinted; it innovated gameplay with the first sac lands, consistent creature types & heavy token/counter-based effects.
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what other card names do you think would make for a good crayon name & what color is it?
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Twitter Blue accounts are the "create a copy... except it's not legendary" of twitter account
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Ive had a magical time here 🥲
thank you all for following, interacting & sharing with me!
youtube.com/@TBPN
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if you also want to follow along & sub to the audio podcasts that would be amazing too!
you can find "The Booster Pack Network" in any podcast directory or find your preferred one linked via pod.link/1553640008
The Booster Pack Network
Listen to The Booster Pack Network wherever you get your podcasts!
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Released 14 years ago today, Jace & Chandra clashed in the first Planeswalker vs Planeswalker Duel Deck product!
Duel Decks featuring a Planeswalker battle would go on to be integral during the lifespan of the Duel Deck series releasing one each year until 2016 (9 in total).
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With THE BROTHERS' WAR set only days away, here is the very first article that introduced that storyline to Magic players.
Published in The Duelist 1.5 (May 1994), it features two Dominiarian history scholars bickering over the then-known facts of "The Brothers' War".
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The article makes reference to several major figures in the Brothers' War story like Uzra, Mishra, Ashnod, Tawnos & Tocasia.
However, it also briefly mentions characters such as Drafna & Hurkyl—both of whom are too getting their first Legendary cards in the upcoming expansion.
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one weird thing that i bumped up against when reading this article—
The scholars of Dominiaria seem to be aware of the Occam's razor principle... something I'd have expected to exclusively be an Earth thing 🤷
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Magic Players Magicians
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Obsessed with keeping
things in sleeves
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I love discovering old art easter eggs & i've just learned about this one:
Nils Hamm illustrated RETURN TO RAVNICA's Coursers' Accord. It depicted a pair of Centaur.
In the following set—GATECRASH—he reused those same Centaur from Coursers' Accord for "Illness in the Ranks".
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LSV took top spot at Pro Tour Berlin exactly 14yrs ago today! In that Extended event, six of the Top 8 players piloted Elves.
When the Final eventually came, it was LVS's Elves against Matej Zatlkaj's. That match was over in just 3 games & Luis entered the ranks of PT champion!
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FROM THE VAULT: TWENTY released at local game stores to celebrate Magic's then 20th anniversary 9 years, 2 months, 1 week and 2 days ago today.
The set contained 20 cards—all of which were historically relevant to high-level competitive play.
It originally retailed for $39.99..
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happy all hallow's eve, fellow humans 🎃🕯️
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