Sunday, July 10, 2022

Magi-Nation Duel 2022 Updates (Part 1)

 Welcome to another Magi-Nation Duel community update.  There's quite a bit of found discussion on old cards existing, and fans are making new art and card design.  Check out the history articles below on Tacos and pop-culture, and we hosted another tournament! 


Fan Content and Discussion 

User/16BitShinobi has found an interesting discovery for the game, that in the Base Set, there are some cards missing in foil for 1st Edition.  We knew Only uncommon Magi and Creatures were printed in foil in 1st ed, but some cards were released as promos later.  However, there seem to be no foils, promotional or otherwise, of:

  • Baloo Root

  • Channeler's Gloves

  • Dream Balm

  • Mirror Pendant

  • Relic Mirror

If you have seen any of these foil in 1st edition (not unlimited!), please contact them or comment below!  It is highly unlikely that they exist in the game!  


User/Zucriyamsuna found a list of Base Set demo cards that are not listed online (on BlueFurok.com or elsewhere).  

list of the demo cards that are not on Blue Furok:

  • Thunder Hyren

  • Orwin

  • Yaki

  • Deep Hyren

  • Giant Parathin

  • Corf Pearl

  • Gruk

  • Strag

  • Agovo

  • Cave Hyren

  • Ormagon

  • Colossus

  • Book of Ages

  • Water of Life

Edit: User TopDeck sent us scans of these demo deck cards missing!  



 

Are there any others?  We'd love to see the images of things not found yet!  And speaking of Colossus from the demo decks, have you looked at its flavor text? 

 

Who is Wyloce?  Were they a previous Regis of Arderial, or was this just a playtest name that got erased?  We may never know.  

We have a few users making the regional symbol pins!  

Check out their designs so far:
https://sta.sh/2132vlc46h6t  and they're looking for feedback on any needed changes before printing and ordering becomes possible!  Please contact user/silverfang on the discord for feedback or comments.  


Rich Werner has had new commission pieces for the world, take a look at these sketches! 

You can see about getting a commission from him yourself on his website: https://www.richwerner.com/new-products/3kbmz5wunt8lj3t0bc13gj81nlv4lb  


Fans are looking at creating flavor text for the unreleased expansion: Daybreak!  

Check out the link below to contribute:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t3cx7Y2PRxHblHSPNPsALVtWYt7sgI5A_Lw6i1h0wf4/edit?usp=sharing


Tournaments! 

Our 2022 Tournament had 12 players playing online!  Here are the rules for the event:
Allowed cards: All cards that have been officially printed and released.

Banned cards:

  •     Tony at a Con

  •     Power of the Creators

  •     All cards from Traitor's Reach set

  •     All cards from Daybreak set

  •     All cards from Unreleased Promos

Here is the swiss round bracket: https://magination.challonge.com/2022_Spring 

And the Top 4 bracket: https://magination.challonge.com/2022_Spring_Top 

Congratulations to Pemmin for winning our Spring 2022 event!  

This is two events in a row for them! You can read the tournament results information here.  

Top four players were:
1st: Pemmin
2nd: WhamBamSam
3rd: Torei Dutalis
4th: Nol_Bricks


Found relics from the Vault of Knowledge!

A user u/Frisbey posted their story of visiting 2i in 2003:

I travelled to WA and stopped by 2i while we were there. we got to meet Matt Holmberg, got a print off of the Rainbow Hyren in progress and he signed it. Got a sheet of uncut decks (signed), and a few other cards (signed). we got to rummage through "The Vault" for a bunch of stuff. it was so fun. I miss this game, haha! He also pulled up the PSD file for Blizzard Core, and he proved to us that there was indeed a drawing of a taco in the under layers


They mentioned Tacos!  Check out all the taco art references below in two articles!


Fans found this image from the defunct Brazilian Magi Nation page! 

A user from an in-person play community showed that they still had images of the Magi-Nation League activity sheets.   The secret message by Ulk actually ties into the story, and the learn to draw magi is a great source material for how magi were initially designed! 




This blog also published various articles!  Learn about the hidden tacos in the card art, and read up on all the references in the game's cards and flavor text! 

Artists and Art of official sources all compiled! 

Tacos:

Magi-Nation Taco cards

More Magi-Nation Taco Cards

Pop Culture Connections for Cards in the game!

Pop-culture references of the cards (Base-Awakening

Pop-culture references from Dream's End and Nightmare's Dawn

Pop-culture references from Voice of the Storms

Pop-culture references from Traitor's Reach and Promos

 

A flicker account was found, with old Magi-Nation Organized Play documents

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10597889@N04/

 

And that's our community for the first part of 2022!   If we missed anything, or you'd like to contribute to various fan project elements, please let us know!  There's some exciting things moving, and we're excited to have been able to offer prizes to our tournament winners this time! 

6 comments:

  1. Regarding the first edition relics, I don't have Dream Balm, but I have the others, see here:
    https://imgur.com/a/3uQl7Sv

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  2. We appreciate your comment - but are these foil? The cards in the image do not look like foils, which are the ones potentially never printed in foil...

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  3. Ah, oops! I misunderstood. Nope, these are not foils. I was thinking you were looking for 1st editions in general of these. Very interesting if there are none of these though! Thanks for all the great info!

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    1. Totally fine! It's a mysterious fact about 1st ed, apparently! Appreciate you reading and being part of the community!

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  4. Here are scans for the demo decks that you listed.
    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13Uz_4-TbC-NLyDIl7XgPmadjPKs5eR0N?usp=sharing

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  5. Topdeck, thanks, that's awesome. Adding them to the blog!

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