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! 

Walk the Streets of New Capenna (Lore Compilation)

Welcome to the glitz and glam, the world of Capenna, featuring the greatest city on the plane, New Capenna! You can enjoy a dance club or find some life in a bar with a glass of Halo. As we welcome several planeswalkers to the plane, we can expect some vivacious times with the five families we can see here!

 

Main Story:

1. Homecoming: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/episode-1-homecoming-2022-03-28

2. Dirty Laundry: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/episode-2-dirty-laundry-2022-03-29

3. Tests: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/episode-3-tests-2022-03-30

(Side Story) 3a. The Side of Freedom: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/side-freedom-2022-03-30

4. The Font: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/episode-4-font-2022-04-04

5. Hymn of the Angels: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/episode-5-hymn-angels-2022-04-05

Side Stories:

1: The Contract Breaker: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/contract-breaker-2022-03-28

2: What You Expect to See: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/what-you-expect-see-2022-03-29

3. See above. Direct tie in to the main story.

4: The Family Man: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/family-man-2022-04-04

5. Alley Cat Blues: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/alley-cat-blues-2022-04-05

 

Planeswalker's Guide to New Capenna (The plane's name)

The Legends you'll meet in New Capenna

Cinematic Trailer: 

 

Story Synopsis: 

Elspeth has returned from death in the Theros underworld, and found her friend Ajani.  Meanwhile, the Maestros are concerned about the "Adversary" syphoning resources from all the five families, the Cabaretti are planning their Crescendo party, to 'change the plane'.  Vivian arrives on Capenna, and runs into Tezzeret.  Suspicious, she follows him from his offer, who leads her to a weakened Urabrask. In Elspeth and Ajani's terse reuinion, he reveals that he found her unknown homeworld, Capenna, and she promises to travel there to investigate how it defeated Phyrexia in the past. She keeps a low profile there, working simple jobs, until she protects her employer from Maestros enforcers. Defeating all of them with no weapons, she is offered a job by Anhelo, and accepts once she notices a Phyrexian depicted in a sculpture.

Elspeth does various jobs for the Maestros, all non-violent.  She works directly with Xander, and learns bits of the world's history of Phyrexian invasion.  On a dropoff job, she meets Vivian, who recognizes her spark, and promises to meet again, with information since Vivian has met with, and been considering supporting the New Phyrexian preator, Urabrask.  Urabrask has come to New Capenna on orders from Elesh Norn, likely seeking Halo.  However, he wants freedom from her rule, and hopes to create a revolution to overthrow Elesh, which Vivian feels worthy of support.  For Elspeth's next job for the Maestros, she is to infiltrate the Cabaretti, and discover what the Font is, the new source of Halo the Cabaretti have, which she meets Jinnie to begin.  Urabrask asks Vivian for Halo, and warns about the Adversary taking control of New Capenna, as he is a demon planeswalker.  

Xander sends Anhelo in his stead to the Crescendo, expecting the attack by the Adversary.  At the Crescendo, Elspeth is working for the Cabaretti, and meets Giadia, who is revealed in a (poorly decided) performance to be the Font; she can create Halo by her own magical ability. Ob Nixilis, the Adversary, attacks and kills Xander. The Adversary's men atttack the Cabaretti at the Crescendo to kidnap Giadia.  Elspeth protects her, and they escape the party with help from Vivian. The city seems to be in some revolt spurred by the Adversary's efforts to turn members of every family into overthrowing the heads.  Elspeth, Vivian, and Giadia hide from the violence. 

The next day, things are quieting, when Jinnie finds the trio.  She captures them and take them to an Obscura hideout they're using, working with that family.  Jetmir is gravely wounded, and Jinnie asks Giadia to try to heal him with Halo.  The hideout is attacked (betrayed by Obscura adversary followers, Riveteer adversary followers attack), Vivian, Elspeth, and Giadia try to escape, but are defeated, and Elspeth is wounded.  Giadia creates some Halo for Elspeth healing her, and Jinnie, Kamiz, and all the others escape in an Obscura tunnel.  However, Kamiz leads them to an Obscura adversary follower trap. 

Elspeth, Vivian, and Giadia flee into a cathedral, where Giadia hears angelsong, but the Adversary appears; Ob Nixilis arrives to kill or capture Giadia.  Ob defeats Elspeth with ease, until Giadia ascends to Angelhood, blasting him and his goons back. Giadia transforms Elspeth's sword from Xander into a Halo infused blade, and she defeats Ob with it, who planeswalks away.  

Later, Anhelo is the new Maestros head, and meets Elspeth and Vivian, granting them access to the Maestros' archives on Phyrexia.  

"The angels tried to stop the invasion, but the threat was too great for them to face alone. In desperation, they formed an alliance with the Demon Lords. In the face of the Phyrexians, Capenna's own rivalries were petty; however, those rivalries would not be forgotten. The demons ultimately betrayed the angels, trapping them in a kind of stasis from which they could convert the angels' bodies into Halo, an essence that—as Xander had told her—could be taken to help protect the city. It was messy, but it worked. The Demon Lords used Halo to defeat the Phyrexians and then disappeared themselves." 

Elspeth also finds a cache of Halo in the Archives, and will take it to Dominiaria and the Gatewatch and Ajani.  Vivian explains Urabrask's plan to Elspeth, and she agrees to follow Elspeth to join up with the Gatewatch. 

The Families:

Story and lore info found on main New Capenna Page

Maestros 

 "When it comes to the finer things, The Maestros are elite in every way. The undead have a way of doing that. This vampiric family runs the Museum of New Capenna. A gathering place for the elite, galas are held at the museum frequently; a curtain of glitz and gold to hide the nature of these ruthless assassins. Winning always has a price, but let someone else pay it."

Promotional invitation to join the Maestros!

 Maestros family Song from the Official Soundtrack: https://ffm.to/MTGMaestros

 

Spoiler Card and Fan Fiction from Reddit r/MTGVorthos: https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgvorthos/comments/tz77ij/maestros_initiate_preview_and_accompanying_fanfic/

 

Cabaretti

"Fun and frivolous, The Cabaretti flirt with danger and strangers alike. Known for their raucous parties and overall glamour, this druid family values loyalty from their followers…or else. Newcomers welcome! Fun isn't free, but as long as the cash keeps flowing the halo keeps coming."

 

 

Cabaretti sheet Music - sent as a promotion to PwrDrgn https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsqIRrEDZ3WuyrkbuYfvLzw

Sheet music played: https://youtube.com/shorts/DJ9j0b5S3s0?feature=share

Cabaretti family song from the Official Soundtrack: https://ffm.to/MTGCabaretti

 

Riveteers

"This city was built on the backs of The Riveteers. So why shouldn't they run it? The Riveteers are tough as nails and run the streets as a brute-force known for their intimidation measures. Industrious artisans by trade, this family has both the skills to construct a city, and the cleverness to channel its wealth to their own."

Riveteers Union membership promotional invitation

Riveteers family song from the Official Soundtrack: https://ffm.to/MTGRiveteers

Obscura

"Break the rules with The Obscura, a family of visionaries who operates in the darkest corners of New Capenna. Information is power, and gathering it by any means necessary has built The Obscura into a force to be reckoned with (despite being labeled meddling gossips). To keep it that way, this family makes sure no other faction gets too strong—or asks too many questions. Balance no matter the cost."

Obscura dossier on the Adversary, Ob Nixilis.  Sent as a promotion.

Obscura family song from the Official Soundtrack: https://ffm.to/MTGObscura 

Brokers

"Hiding behind the public law offices of New Capenna, The Brokers are a family that has yet to show their hand…publicly. Dug deep behind piles of paperwork and mundane legal matters this faction can often be mysteriously spotted at crime scenes, almost as if they appeared out of nowhere. With sharp suits and sharper intellect, it would be wise for anyone dealing with them to remember to read the fine print."

 

Brokers promotional contract

Brokers family song from the Official Soundtrack: https://ffm.to/MTGBrokers

 

More videos and Intro content: 

First Look article: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/first-look-streets-new-capenna-where-family-means-business-2022-03-03

Video on the Criminal History in Streets of New Capenna (World Building with The Command Zone) 

 

Streets of New Capenna Introduction and Card set video: 

Quiz to decide which "family you should join".  Official wizards link, can skip email request. 

Ross Kemp finds his way to the families of New Capenna

Streets of New Capenna Official Soundtrack!  

Anything we've missed?  What family will help you acquire all the Halo you need?  Let us know if there's any content missing from the world of Capenna!