Magi-Nation Art: Folder, compilations, artist website

Here's a list of where you can find various collections of official art, sketches, and pieces from the game.  We cannot guarantee the links work for these, as they are private accounts, but we hope they last as long as possible.  We also included below all the official artist's pages, both archived and current!  Compiled with assistance from the community, and u/Zucriyamsuna

Magi-Nation Duel Image Compilations: 

Foghammer's dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zq0tf56dkb03b66/AACLXUK5Vf1E5YI9XjqfJCmHa?dl=0 

You can also find more neat images in ROMzombie's albums below. (Click both album links; the Picasa link no longer works.) https://old.reddit.com/r/MagiNation/comments/3fs0g8/awesome_picasa_web_albums/ 

Album 1

Album 2

 Calendars at Blue Furok: http://www.bluefurok.com/calendar_index.html 

 Wallpapers in the archives of the original website: https://web.archive.org/web/20030207024045/http://www.magi-nation.com/Moonlands/downloads.html 

 

Artist's Pages: 

Official artists for Magi-Nation duel included Matt Holmberg, Rich Werner, Mike Vega, Mike Christopher, Chana Goodman, Ryan Shreve, and even Allison Strom (Whyrl)

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Matt Holmberg

Old Tumblr: https://ajninart.tumblr.com/ 

New Tumblr:https://orwin-dm.tumblr.com/ 

Old DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/ajnin 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/0rwin/?hl=en

Old art website: http://www.ghostcircles.com/matt/category/mnd/

MN Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20040304070835/http://www.magi-nation.com/Moonlands/Artists/matt/

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Rich Werner

Rich has various custom and different MND pieces here, and will even do Magi-Nation commissions! https://www.richwerner.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richwerner_is_stoops/   

MN Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20040304070213/http://www.magi-nation.com/Moonlands/Artists/rich/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/rich_werner

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Chana Goodman

http://www.chanagoodman.com/ 

MN Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20050205001017/http://www.magi-nation.com/Moonlands/Artists/chana/ 

Website: https://www.behance.net/ameth14307/

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Mike Christopher

https://boardgamegeek.com/image/341072/dathkadan 

Archive (nothing interesting is available anymore): https://web.archive.org/web/20110201210414/http://dathka.com/

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Mike Vega

Old art website: http://www.ghostcircles.com/mike/

Websites (NSFW! content not suitable for children are included on some of these sites) 

https://twitter.com/miupix 

https://www.deviantart.com/cookingpeach  

https://cookingpeach.tumblr.com/ 

https://askjamstuff.tumblr.com/ 

https://paperamp.livejournal.com/

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Ryan Shreve 

MN Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20040304070526/http://www.magi-nation.com/Moonlands/Artists/ryan/

Web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20110715220108/http://www.ryanshreve.com/  

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Tim Gillette

https://www.artstation.com/tgilletteart

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tgilletteart/ 

MN Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20040304070835/http://www.magi-nation.com/Moonlands/Artists/tim/

Other Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20150524015544/https://tgilletteart.blogspot.com/ 

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Allison Strom

https://alliebirdseed.tumblr.com/ 

http://alliestrom.squarespace.com/

https://twitter.com/clearbluenel 

https://www.instagram.com/alliebirdseed/?hl=en

https://www.deviantart.com/shirotsuki/gallery 

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Jerry Lim 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjL-td4vPv82ypzM5K3BDRw

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Magi-Nation Taco Cards!

compiled with help from u/ZucriyAmsuna

Some of the fun and possibly great things about Magi-Nation Duel were the silly references and Easter eggs hidden in the game and cards.  Something the artists started doing secretly was hiding images of tacos in the card art, and so, we continue to record our history of the game - please join us for the catalog of all tacos in Magi-Nation Duel!

But wait... why tacos?  Well, it seems the artists really loved tacos.  Particularly Matt Holmberg!

Mohani

This d'Resh Magi has a distinctly taco shape behind her.  It's likely the planet their moon orbits, but it could be a taco!  (Other fun reference, Mohani's name might be a reference to the Seattle Museum: Museum of History and Industry, aka MOHAI).  

 

 

Desiccate

Check out this dry magi's left shoulder! Another taco!

Blizzard Core

Matt Holmberg is the actual artist, despite credits of a blank card to show a true blizzard! The 'artists' credited here were not actual 2i artists at all, but rather other 2i staff, primarily Organized Play managers (Steve McLaughlin, Mike Liesik, and Jimmer Sivertsen)!  A story mentioned from a fan, u/Frisbey while visiting 2i's offices: "Matt 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", as seen here: 

 Tacodor the Burninator

Matt Holmberg had posted this photo in 2012 of a sketch on an actual Blizzard Core card. Mike Welling, a well-known MND player, had named it Tacodor...the Burninator! (Referencing Homestar Runner!)

Scarletsong Banner

On this never-paper released card from Traitor's Reach, the top of the pole for Mijji is a taco!  Guess they're important on Paradwyn flags!

 

Have you found any secret Easter eggs tacos that we may have missed?  Or anything that might be a suspicion of a taco?  Let us know in the comments!  The community loves to find new Easter eggs!

Update, March 2022: We found some more.  Check out the second article!  https://changevoyage.blogspot.com/2022/02/magi-nation-taco-cards.html

Magi-Nation Duel 2021 Updates (Part 2)

 Hello once again Magi-Nation duel fans.  We continue our updates with fans and the future, as 2021 comes to a close throughout this pandemic.  

Here is the recent activity in Magi-Nation Duel's community!

 

Tournaments! 

 The community hosted an 11th tournament in the summer of 2021.  

Reddit page of information

 

Nine players (9) participated, and only actually printed cards from 2i were allowed.  (No Traitor's Reach, Daybreak, or Unreleased Promos).  

 

Tournament Bracket 

Top 4 Cut to finals

Congratulations to Pemmin for winning with an Arderial deck!

Found relics from the Vault of Knowledge!

A user, Demo the NES found some old tournament reports, from Arudel Mills and Dundalk.  

https://discord.com/channels/156872413487955969/722276322025406484/829423469787349083

https://discord.com/channels/156872413487955969/722276322025406484/829423901469442078

https://discord.com/channels/156872413487955969/722276322025406484/829426193261789256

Please comment below if the link doesn't work to the community discord. 

Users found old Scry magazines with Magi Nation articles: 

Fan Creations and Activity!

Fans found a created Weebo hat!

 And some time ago, someone made custom Dream Creature shirts!

When the TV show was running, there was an online flash game exploring the moonlands.  Check out some of the backgrounds: https://imgur.com/a/qPa73YW 

 

A user,Warnerofthe7seas made Magi Nation Minifigs.  Can you guess who they all are?

 

A user, Rayje's Gym Shorts, created stickers for their deck boxes!

 While 2021 was a quieter year compared to 2020's flurry of activity, we're happy to see the community still thriving.  Energize your dreams!

Magi Nation Duel - Traitor's Reach story through flavor

Traitor's reach was a set of Magi-Nation Duel cards that were never printed in paper, but we have the whole set released.  Magi-Nation was a game heavily influenced by story, and often, story elements (untold anywhere else, as there wasn't web-fiction for it) appeared on cards.  Traitor's Reach was the set with the most such flavor text, so we've compiled all of the relevant storyline flavor text below.  A synopsis of what we can tell from it: 

 The dark twins had created the Nightmare construct from Kybar's Fang and the knowledge found in the Great Library, and gotten access from T'lok, who was turned by Warrada, and became a traitor.  

The coalition of magi from many regions assembled in Naroom, with Nar magi heading out first.  They had a meal together, then hiked to the Teeth.  

Groll discovered T'lok's treachery, and the Twins amassed an army in the mountains, gathering Jalex, Yayek, Togoth among other unnamed shadow magi. 

The battle was large - there's many instances of Magi and Shadow Magi battling - the most explicit is that between Xandia, T'lok, and Vorga.  You can read the flavor text on: Flame Jakla, Gorath Cub, Molten Gauntlets, and Xandia.  

What else did you get from the story?  We'd love to hear in the comments below!  

Cards:

Barrelling Vemment
A flight of Vemments charged Togoth, pummeling his nightmare creatures into animite dust

Bone Cragnoc
"The creatures in the Teeth are beginning to take a slightly more malevolent look.  Perhaps we should investigate."

Bria, Relic Hunter
"Qwade, it's perfect!  How do I use it?"

Brog, Swamp Thug
"Olabra's in charge now! You answer to her or you find yourself in exile. Got it?"

Caldera Aq
The Cald Magi charged up the slopes of Kybar's Teeth, hurling fire as they went.  Before them loomed the forces of the Dark Twins.

Carillion Titan
As Yaki's creatures charged the foul minions of the Core, the carillion titan continued to grow, moving slowly but surely toward the Great Library.

Circling Darbok
As the collected forces of the Moonlands converged on the slopes of Kybar's Teeth, darboks began to circle, looking for weak creatures to take advantage of.

Crystal Saris
The Shadow Magi were too busy fending off Gogor's assult to notice that the saris had doubled in size.

Dark Vellup
Harror ambushed Dey in the vast expanses of d'Resh.  "Time to pay, fool," she hissed, between clenched teeth.

Flame Jakla
T'lok sood over Vorga, ready to drop a massive boulder on the prone Magi.  Just then, Xandia's Jakla appeared and blasted T'lok off the edge of the cliff.

Flashfreeze
Velouria's creatures surrounded the twisted furok. A blue flash of energy flowed from creature to creature, sucking the energy from it.

Gorath Cub
Chains wrapped tightly around Xandia, forcing a scream of rage from her lips. T'lok stepped from behind a boulder. "You didn't think I'd be that easy to get rid of, did you?"

Grapple Tooth
Hrada's spell barely missed Hok as he rolled off the cliff.  His trusty hook saved him from a long, painful fall.

Groll the Fallen
"Tlok! What have you done?"

Grotto Phrup
Bria's phrup nullified the magic of the relics guarding Evu's study. A brief search of the premises revealed exactly what she had been looking for.

Harvest Feast
"They make take our land, but they'll never take MY KITCHEN!" yelled Poad.  With that, the coalition forces ate what might be their last meal before the assault on the Dark Twins.

Korremar, Avatar
Korremar met Rayje and Sinder on their way out of Paradwyn.  It was easy to convince the legend and his apprentice that their goals were the same.

Lanyx, Reaper
"It's time to repay some people for their treacheries.  Korremar, Barak, Harror..."

Lightning Braggle
Lightning rained from the skies onto the heads of the Shadow Magi.  Whenever it touched the ground, the electricity took the form of a braggle.

Molten Gauntlets
"No one hurts my little sister! Especially not some two-bit Shadow Magi!" Xandia looked over the cliff to see what had become of T'lok, but he was gone.

Muck Shovel
"Hah! Your Pyder is mine now! "Arosa boasted.  "Not for long," Blygt said, a sneer on his face.

Nightmare Construct
"I've got something for that meddling Rayje, and his little apprentice too." - Warrada

Polar Eebit
Laranel and her people arrived too late to help Yaki free Naroom but they were among the first to head for Kybar's Teeth to fight the Twins.

Pruitt, Ringsmith
"Yaki, why won't you look at me? What have they done to you?"

Ripcurl
Togoth laughed. "You old fool! You may have defeated my drush but you've made my dryte stronger!" "Don't worry, I've got plans for your dryte." Mobis said.

Salara
With a swish of her wrist, Salara's orshaa grew in size.  Warrada's ball of purple energy bounced harmlessly off it.

Shadow Fird
Flocks of these foul beasts now follow Sperri wherever she roams.

Shock Ring
"Alright, Jalex, it's go time. Show me what you've got." -Ora, Defender of the Sky

Shroud of the Master
"You're not worthy to bear such a noble burden, Hrada. Take it off at once!" -Morag

Sinder, Apprentice
"Sinder, go help the others.  Warrada is mine." -Rayje

Slinking Greal
"Who cares where these things came from? All that matters is that they seem to want to help." -Yaki, Core Stalker

Snag Arboll
The new tricks that Yaki had learned in his solitude took Hrada by surprise. Dream creatures appeard from teh surrounding underbrush, leeching the energy from Hrada's dark furoks.

Sneaky Weebo
"Yes,brother, they do seem to be taking a liking to you." -Warrada

Speag Sprouts
At a gesture from Iyori, the speag sprouts swarmed as the core hyren dove in for an attack. Weaving energy between themselves, the sprouts began to grow in size.

Stagadan Charger
"CHAAAAAAAARGE!!!" - Poad, Innkeeper

Stubborn Chogus
The ferocity with which the Chogus covered Groll's escae amazed him. "I must report T'lok's betrayal to Targ'n before it's too late," thought the battered Keeper.

Tal'ik
"Don't bother, T'lok.  I'm prepared for your tricks."

T'lok, Traitor
"Of Course I'll show you how to use Kybar's Fang."

Topple
The cragnoc began to collapse under the barrage of Core creatures. Hrada's laugh of triumph turned to a groan of despair as he realized that all his Dream Creatures were in the shadow of the falling beast.

Twisted Dreams
Togoth snapped his fingers.  The approaching ormagon let out a bellow of pain, then vanished in a flash of light.

Vine Bhatar
With a powerful lash, the vine bhatar ripped energy from the gorath, leaving it dazed and breathless.

Xandia
"I'm very protective of my little sister.  Mess with her, and you mess with me."

Yayek
With Nagsis missing, Yayek has made his way to Hrada's side.


 

Magi Nation 2021 Updates (Part 1)

 Welcome to a new year, and some more updates and fan found things from Magi-Nation Duel!

Shorter update, with hopefully more fan content to come! 

Found relics from the Vault of Knowledge!

• Patrick Meehan's 'novella' about the GBC history and creation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yvllsoTLr_xLH18-bAxbfoAsI0Ct-2d-2i8mFvOtzNk/edit 

 On the MND Discord, he also asked the community about the format of the game:
patrickmeehan — 02/15/2021

years ago a fan told me he thought The Spoils was steampunk. I adjusted my monocle and begged to differ. he then made a reasoned argument.

in the spirit of understanding, do those of you have played it consider the GBC game a JRPG? or a Zeldalike? what games does it seem most similar to? and what parts of the gameplay pulled you in? how important were the turn-based battles? and the creature collecting? would you have preferred a more action-based gameplay? I have so many questions.

• Old trailers and 2i videos: 

 

• A pre-cookie Jar animated trailer (Apprently, the video doesn't embed on mobile.  Here is a link: https://youtu.be/20KRgC-dJDc):
  
  
  

Fan Creations and activity!

• Arcanist's Armory, and online game shop in Utah, is selling beginner starter decks for $10.  Get into the game or get back in, and try things as a tabletop game! 
  

• A fan created a 3D Printed Bisiwog!
  

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A post shared by Jim O'Connor (@jimoconnorsculpture)

 

•  A fan, Demosthenes, showed images of their Lego dream creatures!  Diobor, Furok, and Parmalag!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

•  A gameplay stream of the GBC/GBA game with some of the original devs happened on the Discord channel.  You can watch the recording of it, though it's very long (7 hours+)! 
  
  (Apparently, the video doesn't load on mobile. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/RzDnZw0gSSw)

• A Fan with their first video - doing an unboxing: 

 

And so we begin a new year, with some memories and hopes from this 20 year old game!  Energize your dreams!

 

Magi-Nation Duel, Community Updates 2020 Part 3

Here are the updates from the community in 2020, part 3!
 These updates cover October - December 2020! 

 

Tournaments: 

The Wence's wandering Tournament concluded - our community's 10th tournament.

and ShadowDT was the winner after 5 rounds and top 8!  Take a look at the uncut sheet that they framed for winning 1st place!!

 You can read all the details on the full tournament report! 

Found relics from the Vault of Knowledge!

•  A recent Nintendo leak let the GBC game version of Keeper's Quest out into the wild!  You download it at this drive.  You'll need a GBC emulator to play it, but it's the full game, lost to time and 2002!
  
  
  
  
  

•  Records from the 2i days of tournament directors. Storyline Tournament Instructions and tournament rules were found!  Check them out:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The official 2i Tournament Rules!
  
  
  
  
  
  
• ZucriyAmsuna showed off his poster now framed from Magi-Nation Duel!
  
  
  
  
  

Fan Art and Games!

 

•  A fan, SGray, did some awesome Kayliel fan art! 
  

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A post shared by Samir Grey (@sgrey.art)

• A fan did the GBC battle music - metal style!

•  Other fans made the intro theme in metal style too! 
  

 

 

So we're closing an eventful year with a larger online tournament, some incredible lost relics of the game online, and some amazing new fan art!  Let's hope we get more great things for Magi Nation in 2021!

Magi-Nation Duel 2020 Updates Part 2!

Welcome to another update article for the ongoing community of Magi-Nation Duel, part 2 for 2020. 

These updates cover June - September 2020.

As always, our community operates through Reddit, Discord (most active), and Facebook! We'd love to have you join us and tell your Magi-Nation Duel story, or play some games online with us!

Tournament:

The 10th community tournament started in August, named "Wence's Wanderings", as a memorial tournament to user/Randomactsofme.  You can read more about it in the individual tournament report.  Twenty five players entered the events!  Here is the memorial information for Steven. 
https://www.gofundme.com/f/healer039s-dice-memorial-fund

Congratulations to Shadow_DT (aka RealSorreah) for winning the event after 5 rounds and a top 8!  We'll be sending them the displayed uncut sheet of mnd cards, donated by Phil Tavel himself!

New Art:

Rich Werner's new Jagt Art, from his Instagram:

"Something I whipped out for a fan art project. Haven't drawn her in 19 years."

Rich has also, for the first time, opened up commission offers for Magi-Nation Duel art.  Several members of the community are taking him up on it.  Here are some of the art pieces:

User Orannis had this made of their original character.

Rich Werner did this piece of Warrada and Rayje for user Zucriy Amsuna

An unknown person commissioned Yaki in Nar.  

View this post on Instagram

Another MagiNation commission. #magination #commissions #originalart

A post shared by Rich Werner (@richwerner_is_stoops) on Aug 15, 2020 at 5:43pm PDT

Found relics from the Vault of Knowledge!

• BOA PDFs available - Did you never get to read the Book of Ages newsletter?  u/Zucriyamsuna put up scans of them all!  

• To help with those looking to complete collections or start finding cards to play again or for the first time - u/Zucriyamsuna also created a price guide for estimated prices and recent sales! 

• Did you have interest in an RPG for Magi-Nation?  Blackdaggr's d20 system (for D&D 3.5) is still up for your perusal!  We'd love to hear feedback about it! 
  
  
• There's an update for the Magi-Nation Card search engine.  It now allows text and modifiers for the search engine.  
  

• On the Wayback machine, we found a Full record and description of all store locations for the Gift of the Monarch Hyren Storyline Tournament!  Check it out!

Some users recognized their store events and records.  On this site was also information on a forgotten Storyline Tournament - Mission of a Dream Warrior, to determine what region, and who, gets the Ancient's Puzzlebox.  We have no information on what region/magi won this event!  You can read the whole description on the Storyline Tournament history article which is now updated to include that event!

• A user, Demosthenes, showed off their custom art piece by Tim Gillette from the animite store back in the day. 

• A user, DeimosGandymede, showed off their 2i animite piece, by Matt Holmberg.

• Insiider.com had many fun articles from 2001, and they were found and restored on this very blog!
• Here's a virtual tour of Interactive Imagination by Jimmy Wong.
• And they started a fan story, by various fan submissions!
  

Fan Art and Games in 2020!

The fan community is strong and thriving!  User Foggy posted this fan art piece, to draw it after the Daybreak magi, Valleya!

Two users played some good old in person MND too:
Will Lead and Frunx got in a pretty epic looking game!

Video on the game!

This video shows a full coverage of the TV show and some of the card game!  Huge viewership too, despite a few inaccuracies, has reached an audience of 32 thousand views!