Wizards To Make Flavor Text Easier To Understand

Originally ran Oct. 9, 2006
RENTON, Wash. — Wizards spokeswoman Tina Gaffney announced Monday that flavor text is to be “dumbed-down” for future core set expansions.
“We’ve been dumbing down the mechanics for years, but we recently realised that the flavor text expected a level of intelligence in the players which was inconsistent with the stupidity we [...]

Extended Strategy Corner

Originally ran Oct. 15, 2005
You just drew a Wind Drake.
What is the correct losing play?
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Photochop – Delif is a Cone

Important Announcement

Well, contextually important. The Magic Lampoon will close permanently Nov. 30.
The site and the message board will continue to exist for some time after that date, in a read-only form, but they will be closed.
In the meantime, we will continue to be updating.

Card of the Week – Horde of Notions

This week’s card is Horde of Notions.
There is a whale in there.

Wizards Hosts American Magic: The Gathering Match In London

LONDON – Sport fans here were given a rare treat Sunday as Wizards of the Coast hosted, for the first time, a match of American Magic: The Gathering right here in London.
Unlike British Magic: The Gathering, which is played with the feet, American Magic: The Gathering uses the hands — and the English measuring system.
“People here enjoyed being [...]

Photochop Flashback Bonanza VIII

Here is another small group of Photochops from the old version of the site.

 
 
 
Here are some links to a couple of ‘Chops we did that require sound:
Balls of Steel
Merfolk of the Pearl’s Girl
Burrowing

Photochop Flashback Bonanza VII

Another group of ‘Chops from the old version of the site. One of the cards has a naughty word.

Photochop Flashback Bonanza VI

Continuing today’s series, here are some more Photochops from the old version of our site.

Photochop Flashback Bonanza V

Here is another batch of Photochops, rescued from the old version of the site and brought to your screen.

Open Thread

Oct. 24 is Front Page Day! Here is an open thread for posting comments.

Photochop Flashback Bonanza IV

Here is yet another group of Photochops from the old version of the site. Here we have some video game jokes, a few current events references, and, we apologize in advance, some puns. Also, there is a card here that uses a bad word.

Photochop Flashback Bonanza III

Here’s a further group of Photochops from the old version of the site. Some of these have stories behind them. Fire Field was part of a story about a Reuters photographer who was caught Photoshopping war images, so that card could work on our new sister site, Media Lampoon. Cancel the Account references a news [...]

Photochop Flashback Bonanza II

Here are some more Photochops from the old version of the site that we thought we’d share with you. These were done by staff, although Basilisk designed the lemon expansion symbol that we eventually began using.

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