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
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:
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| "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:
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| User Orannis had this made of their original character. |
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| Rich Werner did this piece of Warrada and Rayje for user Zucriy Amsuna |
An unknown person commissioned Yaki in Nar.
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!
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!