Welcome To Bluff Week!

By Mark Rosewater
Special to The Magic Lampoon
Hi, and welcome to Bluff Week!
The theme for this week is bluffing. What better way to celebrate the week than with a little bluffing of my own? I’ve come up with four memories from my own life. I’ve also thrown in one bogus one just for fun. Your job [...]

Photochop – Boat

Welcome To Number Pie Week!

By Mark Rosewater
Special to The Magic Lampoon
You may have heard about the color pie, during the course of the several dozen articles I’ve written about it, but did you know that Wizards also designs cards around a number pie? Each number has its own feel, its own philosophy. Each number has number-related goals and desires. [...]

Card Of The Week – Sacred Foundry

This week’s card is Sacred Foundry. We don’t really have a joke, unless you’ve been hoarding Ravnica duals thinking they would be reprinted in “11th Edition,” in which case the joke is on you!

Photochop – Monkey Cage

Bullying Of Rosewater Worsens After Rosewater Opens Up About Bullying

RENTON, Wash. — Authorities were concerned after Mark Rosewater of Wizards of the Coast was found Monday curled into a ball next to an office water cooler, shaking, clutching to his bosom a copy of “A Whack on the Side of the Head,” stained by Rosewater’s own tears and mucus.
Child protection agents told The Magic [...]

Photochop – Future Sight

Card Of The Week – Golgothian Sylex

This week’s card is Golgothian Sylex. The dictionary defines a “sylex” as “a shallow bowl used for cheese, sauces, gravy and destroying planets.”

Photochop – Meglonoth

Jabba The Hut Added Digitally To New Magic Cards

RENTON, Wash. — Wizards of the Coast announced Thursday that as part of the new, revamped card faces coming to Magic: The Gathering, beloved movie villain Jabba the Hutt would be digitally added to every Magic card, starting with Eighth Edition.
“This is something we’ve always wanted to do from the beginning but couldn’t until now,” [...]

Five-Color Lands On A Budget

Conflux is going to make casual players want to play five colors.
However, really good five-color lands can set you back quite a bit. If you’re just playing casual Magic, City of Brass might seem a little expensive. Even just one Gemstone Mine, which only taps for any color a few times, will set you back [...]

Web Site Replacements We Plan To Botch

By Worth Wollport of Wizards of the Coast

Special to The Magic Lampoon
Last summer marked our ill-conceived launch of Gleemax, a would-be replacement for MySpace. It failed to such an extent that we shut it down after a mere three months.  Here are other Web sites we plan on failing to replace!
Weather.com. What weather announcements do [...]

Card Of The Week – Kitchen Finks

This week’s card is Kitchen Finks. They live in your dishwasher. Spotting and streaking — streaking and spotting!

Photochop – Legends

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