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  • Wizards Announces Plan to Reprint Reserved List

    In an announcement that stunned players and collectors everywhere, Wizards of the Coast officially announced today that they will be reprinting the Reserved List. Previous policy at Wizards has been to never even consider reprinting the list, but Mark Rosewater explained that dwindling copies of the list has forced their hand. “There’s just not enough to go around. We need the list to be available both internally at Wizards and to players at eternal events for formats like Legacy and Vintage. The list has been especially important to collectors and we want to make sure future collectors will have full access to it.”



    The Reserved List.

    The Reserved List is a list of Magic: the Gathering cards that Wizards of the Coast has promised never to reprint. The list was revised in 2010, and so all extant copies are over a decade old. Players of formats like Legacy have become increasingly concerned as available copies become harder and harder to find, while prices for early editions are often far out of reach for new gamers looking to collect a piece of Magic history.

    The Wizards legal team almost never comments on matters like this, however I was granted limited access to the Pit of Eternal Torment at the company’s Renton, Washington headquarters to meet with company lawyers. “We do not anticipate any legal trouble as a result of reprinting the Reserved List, even at the quantities modern needs will force us to produce. The value of the list is actually quite low on the whole, so even collectors who currently own multiple full sets of the reserved list won’t stand to lose much money when we reprint it. And of course, there’s no secondary market concerns to speak of.”

    When I began to ask what he meant by this, he vanished into a cloud of sulfurous vapor and a horrible tittering laughter drove me back out into the energy-saving LED lights of the cafeteria.

    While plans have not been finalized, it’s likely that the entire list will be reprinted in black and white on standard 9×11 printer paper so that it can easily be added to trade binders and stapled to office documents as necessary.

  • Signature Spellbook: Oko

    Available at all retailers this Elksmas season.

    001 Oko, Thief of Crowns002 Draining Elk003 Elking Licid004 Hogeelk, Arisen Nelkropolis005 Masoko the Antlerless006 Ulamoko, Gluttonous Horror007 Elkclamp008 Okoum Refuge

  • So You’re an Elk Now

    In your past life, perhaps you were a powerful wizard, a complicated piece of machinery or an apple or something — it doesn’t matter. The point is you’re an elk now, and I, Oko, Thief of Crowns, Master of Deception, Shunner of Blouses am here to explain what you can expect from your new life.

    1) Poop wherever. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen an elk or a deer, but they’re constantly pooping and they’re doing it everywhere. Embrace the freedom to do your business wherever you like. Inside? Yes. Outside? Of course. All over the carefully arranged banquet I just set up? Yes, unfortunately there as well. I’m not sure why my powers are making food and creating animals that are constantly contaminating it. Life is full of mysteries.

    2) You’re massive! What size do you think an elk is? That’s like a big deer right? Maybe a 1/1 or a 2/1 or something? Wrong baby, you’re a 3/3! You’re the size of a mammoth or a small dragon. Knights: people with weapons and armor on the back of a large horse are no match for you. And if you run into something bigger than you? Don’t worry, that’s going to be an elk too soon enough.

    3) No clothes. I’m jealous! As you can probably tell from my spectacular abs, I’m no fan of society’s prudish conventions, and if I could, I’d probably go without these pants as well (not wearing pants makes it more difficult to find attendees to my feasts). You, on the other hand, are unfettered by civilization’s cruel obsession with fabric and you can let it all hang out. On the downside, I’m not going to hit on you anymore. Despite what you may have heard, I do not… fraternize… with my employees (that’s you).

    4) Stop eating all the food. You’re an elk, which means you can survive by eating moss and grass. I think that’s what you eat anyway. The food on the tables is off limits — that’s for the guests. Don’t worry, they’re getting turned into elks too so there’s no need to be jealous. I love making food even more than turning things into elks, which is why I’d appreciate it if you guys stop attacking the banquet as soon as I’ve left the room.

    In any case, I hope this was informative. I thought it would be necessary to write this primer, as I’ve turned most of the Kingdom into elk and most of you just stare at me blankly like I’m supposed to know what you do once you become one.

    LOVE
    Oko

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  • Owl you can Eat

    You can’t lose if you keep gaining life.

  • Hushbringer

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  • Squire

    #squire

  • LEAKED: WotC’s New Secret Dating App

    LEAKED: WotC’s New Secret Dating App

    Hot on the heels of the newest Magic the Gathering: Arena beta release, Wizards of the Coast appears to be taking the world of Magic into completely new territories. According to a message received by the Good Gamery staff earlier today from an anonymous source, Wizards appears to be working on their own entry into the dating app marketplace. Along with the tip, we received what are purported to be screenshots from the new service, and it appears the site is well into development. What do you think? Are these fake, or real? They’re probably fake.

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  • Judge’s Corner #10

    Judge’s Corner #10

    Welcome back to our regular series Judge’s Corner, where we answer your Magic: the Gathering rules questions.

    Q: I play Kasmina’s Transmutation on my opponent’s creature that has five +1/+1 counters on it. How big is it now?

    A: Kasmina’s Transmutation changes a creature’s power and toughness to base one instead of base ten. With five +1/+1 counters, it is now a 111111/111111.

    Q: How does Aeon Engine work in a two-player game?

    A: It works the same as it does in a multiplayer game. For instance, if it’s currently the fourth turn of the game when Aeon Engine is activated, then Serra Avenger is unable to be played on subsequent turns, as they will now be the third, second, first turns of the game, and so on.

    Q: I’m a new player and noticed Price of Betrayal says it can remove counters from my opponent. Why would my opponent have counters?

    A: Magic is a game that prides itself on supporting all sorts of players, including spineless cowards who can’t bear to see your spells resolve.

    Q: Can you explain how prize splitting works?

    A: When there are two players remaining in an event and a winner is not able to be determined, a wise judge can offer to split the prize, with each player receiving half. The player who objects to this prize split is the one who clearly actually cares about the prize, and thus they will be declared the winner.

    Q: So I saw that article about how Magic is Turing-complete, and I know that any Turing-complete system can simulate any other. Is it legal for me to use my “computer” to simulate a separate game of Magic with ante cards and use those to take my opponent’s cards for keeps?

    A: Card-based computer simulations have not been acceptable in tournament play since Leaping Lizards was removed from development of Magic: The Gathering Online.

  • Szadek, Lord of Secrets Dies in Azorius Custody of Apparent Suicide

    “Oh no! This is very unfortunate,” Grand Arbiter Dovin Baan said at a press conference following the news of Szadek’s death, “If only we could have uncovered Lord Szadek’s vast secret knowledge and the identities of his co-conspirators before he exiled himself with a giant beam of light, which is a suicide method very consistent with members of the Dimir Guild, of which I know nothing about.”