#wizards_magic

[gilgalahad]

"And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it Andúril, Flame of the West."

https://twitter.com/wizards_magic

[greatpurpledumbass]

New Reason to Hate WotC Just Dropped

https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1743014711820476536?t=brb19M7NncrF7uJ_6CpKdA&s=19

I know they sponsor real artists, but this is an insult to them and their base, many of whom are into MTG because of the real art, and inspiration one can gather.

It's dead.

Their community Trust should be dead after Pinkertons and the OGL thing how the fuck are these companies (Hasbro, WotC) still fucking alive.

[devenrue]

Here's the complete map I created for @wizards_magic 's online clues for their Murders at Karlov Manor! This was a lot of fun to create and see people deciphering for the game. Let me know if you would want me to make downloads of this available on my site.

[fightingchancestudio]

Your opponent can't win Magic The Gathering if they are too distracted staring at your super cool ceramic roll down dice right? Is that a legal strategy? Someone from @wizardsofthecoast @wizards_magic please tell me 🤣 https://www.instagram.com/p/CoJwVyhOCMV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[polishtamales]

Magic 30th Anniversary Failed

“The 30th Anniversary Edition sale has concluded, and the product is currently unavailable for purchase. Thanks to everyone who joined us today!”

@wizards_magic

While most people ignored WotC’s biggest cash grab in 30 years, the remaining curious parts of the community were rewarded with what has to be one of the biggest conspiracy theory:

Did Wizards of the Coast purposely cut the release window of Magic 30th Anniversary to save face? Much less create more artificial scarcity to an already artificial product?

In my mind, they absolutely did. Totally and without any remorse. 

Not just for customer “goodwill” for the brand, but also to save the “collectable” aspect of their printed products. WotC has more to lose if Magic 30th Anniversary “sold out” in a few day than a few hours. Since the vast majority of orders occurred within the first few minutes of the product’s launch window (as do all their products online); WotC most likely saw next to little actual activity after the first 10 minutes. Sure, there were probably a few hundred bots set up to mess with cart and waiting queues, but nothing catastrophic like a DDOS attack.

You have to remember folks, Wizards of the Coast is under a lot of pressure after Bank of America gave a scathing evaluation of Hasbro’s stock. Not just for funny business for cooking their books, but the fact that WotC is sitting on millions and millions of dollars of unsold inventory of cards/merchandise. It’s not like these cards can be shipped and sold to down to other lesser chain stores, like ROSS or Five Below. Magic 30th Anniversary was their Hail Mary for quarter 4 earnings. It was suppose to stabilize what was already considered a bad year for Magic the Gathering. 

So what happens now?

It really is up to you, the player base. You already have WotC employees telling every single customer to not buy every product to avoid burn out. To be more selective of what products you engage with. Obviously, very poorly worded in business to accuse your customers to be so dumb that they keep buying everything...

Which doesn’t surprise me how they’ve been focusing so hard to market their products to mentally ill/challenged parts of the community. It’s not even an open secret anymore that a lot of video games and mobile services solely focus sales to whales and/or create an ecosystem of their products to be addictive as possible. A lifestyle some would say in corporate pitch meetings. This is why Secret Lairs have been so successful. Not just by the fear of missing out in small windows of availability, but also the elite status of being a MTG mega fan! The sunk cost of your commander/EDH alone is nothing compared to another $40 upgrade of foils next paycheck... 

For me, I hate to say it, but I’ve been done with the game since Modern Horizons 2. I used to love playing Modern/Legacy, where old cards can find new life after rotation. Where you didn’t have to constantly spend money every set just to stay relevant. Who doesn’t like owning a deck and keep in their closet for a few months or years, knowing they can just dust it off to a big Magic event or some old friends dropping by? 

Instead, these old non-rotating formats did get rotated and through blunt force of power-creep no less. You can’t really have the same experiences like you did when cards are created solely to sell you new boxes/cases of cards. It was not like this before in non-rotating formats; good cards trickled in the format, not by power creeping everything around it. It’s really insulting to downright malicious towards it’s own customers when these boxes/cases are almost quadruple than their old counterparts. 

I don’t really see Wizards of the Coast or Hasbro correcting any courses... maybe adjust lower print runs and make actual collector products collectable again... without artificially pricing them at stupid prices. One thing is for sure though. We won’t be seeing anymore blatant cash grabs of $1,000 official proxies anytime soon. 

[diegoandradeart]

“Shadowborn Apostle” By Diego Andrade In colab. with @wizards_magic 🔥✨🖤 I am SOOO happy to finally share this with you. I worked with @wizards_magic for this Special card almost a year ago, and it’s finally out there, it was part of the Junji Ito’s Secret Liar Drop (I still can’t believe this). I’m more than honored to be part of this release (Junji Ito is one of my Favorite Artist) and I’m beyond honored of be part of the long list of super talented artist who have worked for @wizards_magic , thank you @wizofatx for make it possible ✨🖤 Stay tuned in January for P/A’s and more surprises. 👁️ This is my final post of 2022, so… HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!!! and as always thank you so so much for your support to my work. 🙏🏽🎉✨🥺 /// “Shadowborn Apostle” por Diego Andrade En colaboración. con @wizards_magic 🔥✨🖤 Estoy TAN feliz de finalmente compartir esto con ustedes. Trabajé con @wizards_magic para esta tarjeta especial hace casi un año, y finalmente está disponible, fue parte de Secret Liar Drop de Junji Ito (todavía no puedo creerlo). Estoy más que honrado de ser parte de este lanzamiento (Junji Ito es uno de mis artistas favoritos) y estoy más que honrado de ser parte de la larga lista de artistas súper talentosos que han trabajado para @wizards_magic , gracias @wizofatx por hacerlo posible ✨🖤 Estén atentos en enero para P/A's y más sorpresas. 👁️ Este es mi último post de 2022, así que… ¡¡¡FELIZ AÑO A TODOS!!! y como siempre muchas gracias por su apoyo a mi trabajo. 🙏🏽🎉✨🥺 /// #wizardsofthecoast #magicthegathering #magic #diegoandradeart #newcontemporary #newpsychodelia #psychodelicart #popsurrealism #lowbrow #neopsychodelia #darksurrealism https://www.instagram.com/p/CmzV1GtuC7Z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mc-cards]

🕰️ #magical 🔊 2022 Magic The Gathering Universes Beyond Transformers N°14 Soundwave @transformersofficial . . . . . . . . . . . #tradingcards #cards #wildcard #baseballcards #nonsportcards #cardcollection #cardcollector #cardcollectors #transformers #soundwave #hasbro #magic #mtg #magicthegathering #wizards #woc #wizardsofthecoast #universesbeyond #decepticons #deception #tapedeck #tapeplayer #sounds #boombox #cardphotography #cardgame #games #gamenight #cardgames @hasbro @transformersmovie @wizards_magic https://www.instagram.com/p/ClcQrQ_OfaA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[a-captions-blog]

[Image descriptions: 1. Tweet by Hanzhong Wang @ww123td that says, ‘Great job @wacom for using AI generated image for your latest marketing campaign. For a company built on the visual arts industry this ad feels akin to shooting yourself in the foot. Doubly disheartening as a Chinese seeing the dragon used in this way.’ Attached to the Tweet is a Wacom ad that says, ‘A New Wacom For the New Year’ and shows an eastern style dragon posed next to smaller representations of various Wacom tablets, two of which have dragon drawings on them. The tip of a pen comes in from the right. 2. Tweet by Art-Eater @Richmond_Lee that says, ‘2024 is gonna be a nightmare when it comes to news and media. You can no longer trust anything that you see. This isnt just some novel fun tech. It is a scammer’s dream. It’s already being used to screw people over in real life. And everyone is embracing it because of FOMO.’ Attached is a headline that reads, ‘A father is warning others about a new AI “family emergency scam.”’ The snippet reads, ‘Philadelphia attorney Gary Schildhorn received a call from who he believed was his son, saying that he needed money to post bail follownig a car crash. Mr Schildhorn later found out that he nearly fell victim to scammers using AI to clone his son’s voice, reports Andrea Blanco.’ 3. Tweet by RJ Palmer @arvalis that says, ‘So WotC didn’t just make one AI promotional image after promising to stand with human artists, they uh, made a lot. Not great.’ This quotes a Tweet by MarcoMaps Bernardini @MarcoMA4PS that says, ‘I guess the whole ad campaign was made with A/I generated imagery, then retouched to give it a semblance of man-made craft.’ Attached are screenshots of three art pieces. Two are close-ups of various Magic cards displayed on a shelf, and the third is a wider view showing a window with a city view in the background. Cut-off text on this says, ‘Ravnica, comprese le schockland, I Cancelli delle Gilde e i tuoi personaggi preferiti…’ 4. Tweet by Thorsten Denk @thorsten_denk [verified] that says, ‘Apex Legends/EA using AI instead of paying artists for their promo art is just depressing. Pandora’s box has truly been opened and it feels to me like we’ve collectively decided to devalue the human soul for profit. #ApexLegends.’ Attached are two photos of Apex Legends art with red circles showing strange parts that give the art away as AI-generated. 5. and 6. Tweet thread by Magic: The Gathering @wizards_magic that reads: Well, we made a mistake earlier when we said that a marketing image we posted was not created using AI. Read on for more. (1/5) As you, our diligent community pointed out, it looks like some AI components that are now popping up in industry standard tools like Photoshop crept into our marketing creative, even if a human did the work to create the overall image. (2/5) While the art came from a vendor, it’s on us to make sure that we are living up to our promise to support the amazing human ingenuity that makes Magic great. (3/5) We already made clear that we require artists, writers, and creatives contributing to the Magic TCG to refrain from using AI generative tools to create final Magic products. (4/5) Now we’re evaluating how we work with vendors on creative beyond our products – like these marketing images – to make sure that we are living up to those values. (5/5). \End descriptions]

we’re really out here living in an AI dystopian hellscape and this shit has just begun… the future is grim…

[pageturnersblog]

With #UniversesBeyond #Fallout days away from release, we talked with @wizards_magic senior game designer Annie Sardelis and got her favorite "deep cut" from the set, The Nipton Lottery.

#magicthegathering #magicconchicago #wotc #wizardsofthecoast #mtg #tcg #ccg #mcchicago #mtgfam

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[teragames]

El universo de Fallout y Vault Boy llegan a "Magic: The Gathering"

El universo de Fallout y Vault Boy llegan a "Magic: The Gathering" (@wizards_magic).

Aventuras postnucleares y retrofuturistas te esperan cuando Magic: The Gathering y Fallout se unan gracias la legendaria colaboración de estos dos icónicos universos en Magic: The Gathering – Fallout. El 8 de marzo de 2024 se pondrán a la venta cuatro nuevos mazos de Commander con personajes, armas, habilidades y tierras de muchos de los juegos clásicos de Fallout. Las cartas con tratamientos…

[mtgdays]

『機械兵団の進軍』新カード情報：1ターンに3回以上インスタントやソーサリーを唱えることで変身する《ウラブラスク》など

日本時間の4月4日、@Wizards_magicより、4月21日発売の最新セット『機械兵団の進軍』に収録されるカードが公開されました。 公開カード 《パイルリーへの侵攻》(緑)(青) バトル – 包囲戦 [U […] Source: イゼ速。：Izzet MTG News Flash

[foolhearty401]

The Haunting Begins... In Harry's House! . . @hshq @wizards_magic #betrayal #game #gamenight #gaming #friends #betrayalathouseonthehill #friendship (at Providence, Rhode Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnvNYFoO47W/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sonofavet]

ANY #MAGIC CARD PLAYAS ON HERE??? WE GOT BOXES OF THESE!! @wizards_magic #magicthegathering #magicthegatheringcards #elsereno (at SON OF A VET THRIFT SHOP) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmdEFhhLh4h/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[robestellari]

Luna Nuova Sagittario spazza via queste eclissi, dacci un attimo di refresh per prepararci alla dannazione quotidiana, amen. La dote che possiamo sfruttare del terzo segno di fuoco, di fine autunno, è l’intraprendenza e la voglia di esperienza. Abbracciamo la cultura, il viaggio o i trip, le feste con gli amici, la condivisione con persone lontane, lo scambio culturale e filosofico. Non è tanto ormai chiedersi chi siamo, ma dove stiamo andando in corsa su questo cavallo, mirando quale obiettivo col nostro arco. Cosa abbiamo imparato dall’esperienza, cosa possiamo mostrare e insegnare? Come vi sentite dopo queste eclissi e con l’energia di questa nuova fase lunare? Cavalli imbizzarriti? Spero non al macello. Buon novilunio Sagittario! 🌚✨♐️✨🏹🐎🏇🎠🐴🦄🎉🎊💘🎯 Io sempre bimba delle art di @sebmckinnon per @wizards_magic - “Damnation” mi fanno volare i due cavalli con dietro le lune mood eclissi/newmoon 🌚🎠🌞 #robestellari #sagittario #sebmckinnon #lunanuova #newmoon #eclipse #eclissi #lunasagittario #lunanuovasagittario #oroscopodelgiorno #oroscopogiornaliero #paintings #mtgart (presso robe.stellari) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClSwEnRsXQv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lillysilverus]

[soma-king]

This is a commission I've done for Snibella , thanks so much for spending some dough on it! This is the Red Dragon, Arbitrax, in his more human guise. That being said, just to shill myself a bit, my commissions are very much open, starting at just $5 and topping out at $35 with a lot of flexibility in between! Just check out www.deviantart.com/demonicking… and hit me up in my DMs for any questions or whatever!