MTG fans have always loved to express themselves through the game - and one of the most common and creative ways to do so is with custom-altered cards! By painting over parts of the original card, talented artists are able to create pop-culture references, in-jokes, satire, stylistic re-imaginings, and much more; all of which leads into a lucrative trade on the secondary market.
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Developers working on sets like Antiquities or The Dark couldn’t draw on years of experience playing Magic, or decades of previous examples to help them design new cards - their ideas were raw, improvisational, and sometimes well-off-the-mark.
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Magic: the Gathering has, by now, released a great many expansion sets. An unfortunate few go down in the records as historically bad. Most players will tell you Fallen Empires is one of those.
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You could say that the young game of Magic was about to enter a difficult teenage phase.
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Legends is the expansion set which really stood out in the game’s early days, and laid the foundation for Magic’s enduring appeal.
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1994 is represented in Magic history by no fewer than five unique set releases, but Revised Edition was its only Core Set. Revised Edition was the first chance for Wizards of the Coast to step out and start making changes to the core of their game.
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Released at the start of 1994, Antiquities set the tone for a year in which Magic had a whopping five set releases and exploded in popularity and sales worldwide. The design choices and success of Antiquities were essential to unlocking this potential - without it, we might literally not have the Magic we know today.
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The first year of Magic was awkward and experimental - there were printing errors, poor distribution, conflict over what the game needed to be. But by 1994 things were really picking up steam…
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I never went to business school, but I was always surrounded by business one way or another. My parents owned a string of small businesses, including a couple of restaurants and a video store.
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