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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 02/09/2026
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Reuben | beatsandskies @beatsandskies.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Did you know that if you create a page on @mtg.wiki for a player who is popular with people on Bluesky that heaps of people will share it and that will build awareness and even might lead to new people who want to start writing about Pro Players creating wiki accounts to do that? Cool, right?
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Jesse Robkin
Jesse Robkin is an American professional player, filmmaker, and head writer for the Tolarian Community College Youtube channel.[1]
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 10/07/2026
30 years ago this week, Swedish teenager Olle Råde became the third Pro Tour Champion. His deck has been described as the worst to ever win a Pro Tour. However, it was actually a clever meta choice; his Spiders and Insects were resistant to the Ice Age block's best removal spells. #FridayNightMagic
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1996 Pro Tour Columbus
The third Pro Tour event in the 1996 season was held on July 16 and 17, 1996. The location was the annual Origins convention in Columbus Ohio. The format was Ice Age and Alliances constructed. It was…
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 06/07/2026
Did you know: after artist Kitt Lapeña's fan artwork was plagiarized by a Magic artist in 2021, @magic.wizards.com suspended the artist who misused Lapeña's work—and then commissioned artwork from Lapeña? #MagicTheGathering mtg.wiki/page/Plagiar...
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 05/07/2026
And if you think tracking Arena releases is tough, remembering which cards are missing from #MTGO might be even more difficult! But we have a page for that too: mtg.wiki/page/Magic_O...
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Magic Online/Card availability
Magic Online includes most, but not all, eternal-legal cards. Some cards are missing from the earliest Magic sets (1993–1999), and certain cards from supplemental sets, Universes Beyond, and Secret La...
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 05/07/2026
Over seven years after the launch of #MTGArena, it can be hard to remember just how many sets have been added to the game. Luckily, we have a page for that: mtg.wiki/page/Magic:_...
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Magic: The Gathering Arena/Card availability
Magic: The Gathering Arena released in 2019 and contains only a selection of the total cards from Magic's history. Ixalan, every subsequent premier set, and some supplemental sets have been released o...
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 28/06/2026
Updating a biography to the past tense always hurts. RIP Ron Spears. mtg.wiki/page/Ron_Spe...
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 24/06/2026
Did you know: The Monkey subtype disappeared from the game for over a decade? From 2005 to 2016, the subtype Ape encompassed all monkey and ape species (except humans). Cards from this period which depict monkeys now have updated subtypes in Oracle—with one exception. mtg.wiki/page/Monkey
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Monkey
Monkey is a creature type used for depictions of the animals commonly called monkeys[2][3] and of fantastical and artificial monkey-like creatures. Monkeys are distinguished from apes&...
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 21/06/2026
One edge case was "Clue" and "Investigate". Although investigate is technically a distinct mechanic from Clue tokens, they're intertwined enough that we agreed they ought to share an article. The new page explains why Clue-creating cards only sometimes use the investigate keyword. mtg.wiki/page/Clue
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Clue
Clue is a predefined token and artifact type. Clue tokens are colorless artifacts with ", Sacrifice this token: Draw a card".[2] The investigate keyword action creates a Clue token and does no...
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 21/06/2026
We recently merged some articles about closely related topics, such as "Activated ability" and "Active", or "Ascend" and "City's blessing". This was motivated by a desire to avoid unnecessary repetition. mtg.wiki/page/Activat...
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Activated ability
An activated ability is an ability in the format "[Cost]: [Effect]". It can be activated (used) by paying its activation cost. Activated abilities are most often found on permanents, but some can be a...
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 19/06/2026
The MTG Wiki got what you're looking for! 😎 mtg.wiki/page/Card_ba...
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Card back
The card back is printed onto the back of each Magic card, except double-faced cards, reversible cards, meld cards, Contraptions, and Attractions.
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 10/06/2026
Following a Blogatog ask about a plane called "Hell", some of our editors looked into the lore sources and ended up substantially revising the article. TL;DR: Hell isn't one plane, but an invective invoked through the Multiverse. mtg.wiki/page/Hell
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Hell
Hell is a colloquial term for various unpleasant locations in the Multiverse. The word is also invoked as a mild swear or intensifier. "Hell" appears as a part of several compound words describing dan...
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 02/06/2026
And if you're excited by the idea of contributing but you've never edited a fan wiki before, we now have a tutorial aimed at complete beginners! mtg.wiki/page/Help:Tu...
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Tutorial
Welcome! This tutorial will guide you through the process of editing an MTG Wiki article. We're excited to have you—the only reason that MTG Wiki exists at all is because people like you decided to st...
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 02/06/2026
#MTGxMarvel debuts in just over two hours! If you've never contributed to MTG Wiki before, preview season is a great time to get involved, as new information is released daily. mtg.wiki/page/Marvel_...
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Marvel Super Heroes
Marvel Super Heroes (stylized Magic: The Gathering® | Marvel Super Heroes) is the 112th Magic: The Gathering expansion. It is part of the Universes Beyond series, and is scheduled for release on June ...
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 16/05/2026
Scryfall team = best team 🫶
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 08/05/2026
The second ever Pro Tour was held 30 years ago this week in Long Beach. It would be the first to use a limited format: Fourth Edition and Homelands Booster Draft! Shawn "Hammer" Regnier, a former professional arm-wrestler, took victory by reanimating his opponent's Shivan Dragon. #FridayNightMagic
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1996 Pro Tour Los Angeles
The second Pro Tour event was held from May 3 to 5, 1996 in Los Angeles, California.[1][2][3] It was the first to use a Limited format: Fourth Edition and Homelands Booster draft. The winner was…
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 06/04/2026
Vorthos alert! Tomorrow is release day for @seananmcguire.bsky.social's new novel, Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos! strixhaven-omens-of-chaos.com And for the real old-school types, a throwback to the very first novels in the 90s: the first edition hardcover has a promo card! mtg.wiki/page/Strixha...
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Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos (Magic: The Gathering)
Peek inside Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos (Magic: The Gathering)
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 01/04/2026
MTG Wiki is permanently ad-free, thanks to support and hosting from @scryfall.com. We don't need to run site-wide fundraising banners, but we do get inquiries about financially supporting the wiki. You can support both projects by subscribing to Patreon! www.patreon.com/scryfall
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 20/03/2026
The Northern Hemisphere celebrates the end of winter today, but every player can be grateful that we've left Combo Winter far behind us. At the end of 1998, Urza's Saga spawned oppressive, T1-win combo decks dominating every format. Many players quit the game entirely!
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Combo Winter
Combo Winter refers to the (Northern Hemisphere) winter at the end of 1998, following the release of Urza's Saga in October of that year. Urza's Saga included several powerful cards that enabled…
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 23/02/2026
Two weeks ago, we asked for your help finding a specific map of Aerona. Thanks to @ethanfleischer.bsky.social, we found it in TopDeck #7, secured a copy, debound it, and scanned it in... and found that it belongs to a little-discussed casual gameplay variant!
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Conquer Dominaria
Conquer Dominaria is a casual Magic variant published in TopDeck magazine. It was designed by David Noonan, with additional credits to Daneen McDermott and Chris Toepker.[1] Despite the title,…
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 20/02/2026
If playing with a Cube seems interesting, but the scope of creating one is intimidating, consider grabbing a list online! As with more traditional formats, you can netdeck a budget build, like the very popular Pauper Cube: 450 commons, at about $0.50 USD per card! #mtgcube
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The Pauper Cube
The Pauper Cube is a 450 card Cube originally designed by Adam Styborski, but now maintained by a players' committee[1]. It is singleton and adherers to (common-only) Pauper format legality.
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 18/02/2026
New York was the breakout event for Necropotence. A Swedish team realised that the recent restriction of Black Vice in Type 2 meant that this "bad" Ice Age rare was now actually quite powerful. Their new deck sent shock-waves across the tournament hall, and gave Leon Lindbäck a third place finish.
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Leon Lindbäck
Leon Lindbäck is a Swedish former professional Magic player. He was runner up in the 1995 Swedish National Championships, and 1996 Swedish Champion. Lindbäck is best known for his third place finish…
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 18/02/2026
While Michael Loconto was relatively unknown outside the New England area, his grand final opponent was anything but. Bertrand Lestrée was one of the biggest names in early Magic, having been the 1994 French National Champion and the runner-up at the 1994 World Championships.
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Bertrand Lestrée
Bertrand Lestrée is a French former professional player and inaugural National Champion. One of the game's early stars, Lestrée was a pre-tournament favorite to win the first ever Worlds, the 1994…
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 18/02/2026
Mike Loconto, who'd been enjoying liquid refreshments at the reception of PT New York, went up to Richard Garfield and told him that he'd be handing him the trophy on Sunday. True to his promise, on February 18, 1996 - 30 years ago today - Loconto became Magic's first ever Pro Tour champion.
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Michael Loconto
Michael "Mike" Loconto is a former Magic: The Gathering player. As a social worker from Grafton, Massachussets, he won the first ever Pro Tour (New York 1996).[1]
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 17/02/2026
Starting in 2021, Wizards of the Coast releases a series of promo cards to celebrate the lunar new year. The cards are exclusively distributed in the Asia-Pacific region. This year celebrates the horse across four cards, one token, and one full art land. mtg.wiki/page/Lunar_N...
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Lunar New Year promo
Lunar New Year promos are promotional Magic: The Gatherings given out since 2021 by Wizards of the Coast in the APAC region. They celebrate Chinese New Year, and are distributed to local game stores…
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 17/02/2026
恭喜發財 ! Welcome to the Year of the Horse. Celebrate the Lunar New Year with your favorite Magic horse, from Nightmare in Alpha to Calamity in OTJ and everything in between! #MagicTheGathering
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 16/02/2026
30 years ago today, the first "Black Lotus Pro Tour" kicked off. 239 of the best #MTG players had passed the rigorous qualifying process: they'd successfully managed to get through the overloaded #WoTC Customer Service phone lines. Consequently, New York 1996 was known as "Pro Tour Speed Dial".
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1996 Pro Tour New York
The inaugural Pro Tour event was held from February 16 to 18, 1996 in New York City.[1][2][3]
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 13/02/2026
Hungary has held #MTG National Championships annually for the last 30 years, not letting silly little issues like #WoTC cancelling Nationals - twice - stop them. Even better, they kept records of every Top 8! If you don't speak Hungarian, don't worry: we've got all the details. #FridayNightMagic
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Hungarian National Championships
National Championship tournaments were held annually in Hungary from 1996 through to 2011, then again in 2017 and 2018.[1][2] The winner of these events was named Hungarian Champion and headed the…
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 11/02/2026
Crim wasn't the only real-world reference to make it into Kamigawa: A Visual Novel. Can you guess who these other cameos belong to?
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 11/02/2026
On this day in 2022, @theasianavenger.bsky.social became a denizen of Kamigawa. Read about Crim's debut in Kamigawa: A Visual Novel, on the MTG Wiki. mtg.wiki/page/Kamigaw... #MagicTheGathering #NEO #Kamigawa
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 10/02/2026
We have a winner!
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RivalRowan @rivalrowan.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
For those not familiar, this is similar map included with the 12-month Magic: The Gathering calendar from 1997. It doesn't have the regions outlined nor the WUBRG color shading.
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 09/02/2026
Readers, we have a challenge! We want to source this map of Aerona and get a better photo/scan. We know it is • Different from the 1997 calendar • Printed 2000 or before • Maybe from a magazine? Not Duelist; possibly TopDeck 6, 7, 9, or 11 Can you help us track this down? mtg.wiki/page/File:Ma...
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 06/02/2026
Cole Swannack was 12 years old when he became New Zealand National Champion. He was 13 years old when he faced Raphaël Lévy in a Round 17 "win-and-in" at the 2002 Magic World Championships. After three close games Lévy took the match. Cole finished in 17th place. #FridayNightMagic #WaitangiDay #NZ
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Cole Swannack
Cole Swannack is a former professional player who became New Zealand National Champion at the age of 12.[1] He went on to finish a respectable 17th at the 2002 World Championships, being chosen for…
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 04/02/2026
Curious about what casual #MTG looked like in the early days? The decks from the 1997 "Shandalar" video game can provide some insight. The Warlock, for instance, includes the classic Dark Ritual and Hypnotic Specter combo, while the Enchantress can clear the way by placing Lure on a Cockatrice.
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Magic: The Gathering (MicroProse) Preconstructed Decks
The 1997 Magic: The Gathering game produced by MicroProse (which also referred to as Shandalar) included a number of preconstructed decks played by its enemy characters. Additionally, in the game's…
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 02/02/2026
This month's Events Guide is thin while we wait for news from @magic.wizards.com. The #MTGxTMNT publishing failure cut off spoiler season, so expect the rest of the cards... someday. And UB = no story; sorry Vorthos. We're also expecting a Commander Format Panel update "by the end of February". 🤷‍♂️
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 01/02/2026
One year ago today, we forked MTG Wiki from its previous hosting. We've had a busy year, averaging more than 200 edits per day!
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 30/01/2026
This weekend, the Pro Tour will return to Richmond, Virginia, for the second time. The first event that the city hosted, Pro Tour Dominaria in 2018, saw seven players reach the Top 8 by playing aggressive red decks. Will we see history repeating at Pro Tour Lorwyn Eclipsed? #FridayNightMagic
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Pro Tour Dominaria
Pro Tour Dominaria was the third Pro Tour of the 2017–18 season. It took place on 1–3 June 2018 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The event was dominated by red-based aggressive decks featuring…
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 28/01/2026
Looking for inspiration for a new deck? Then consider these musical numbers from a collaboration #MTGArena did with Post Malone in 2022! Brawl players could have a lot of fun in the casual queue with the stock decklists, but they could also be the basis of a fantastic new paper Commander deck too.
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Post Malone’s Arena Concert
A special phantom preconstructed Historic Brawl event was held on Magic: The Gathering Arena from October 20 to 24, 2022 in association with the Musician Post Malone.[1] While billed as a "concert,"…
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 26/01/2026
Cubes don't have to be a collection of the most powerful cards from Magic's history, they can be anything their designers can imagine. Completely novel drafting experiences can be created around some of the most unlikely cards imaginable: such as the classic zero-mana flier Ornithopter. #mtgcube
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100 Ornithopters
100 Ornithopters is a 360 card Cube designed by Andy Mangold, one of the hosts of the Cube focused Lucky Paper Radio podcast. As its name suggests, it consists of 100 copies of the artifact creature…
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 23/01/2026
Today is release day for Lorwyn Eclipsed! #MTGLorwyn Among the cards you might pull tonight at #FridayNightMagic is Formidable Speaker, the Player Spotlight card for 2023's World Champion, Jean-Emmanuel Depraz! @jedepraz.bsky.social mtg.wiki/page/Jean-Em...
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Jay Annelli @vorthosjay.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
It's time for my Lorwyn Eclipsed Legends thread! Let's start at the top of the order, with Ashling! Ashling has become the emblematic character of Lorwyn, and as a result has the most cards at five! Her original Shadowmoor transformation turned her into the Destroyer, but that wasn't the end...
Ashling the Pilgrim
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Legendary Creature — Elemental Shaman

{1}{R}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Ashling. If this is the third time this ability has resolved this turn, remove all +1/+1 counters from Ashling, and it deals that much damage to each creature and each player.

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Illustrated by Wayne ReynoldsAshling, the Extinguisher
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Legendary Creature — Elemental Shaman

Whenever Ashling deals combat damage to a player, choose target creature that player controls. The player sacrifices that creature.

The Aurora had transformed her into a relentless force of destruction.

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Illustrated by Wayne ReynoldsAshling, Flame Dancer
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Legendary Creature — Elemental Shaman

You don’t lose unspent red mana as steps and phases end.

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, discard a card, then draw a card. If this is the second time this ability has resolved this turn, Ashling deals 2 damage to each opponent and each creature they control. If it’s the third time, add {R}{R}{R}{R}.

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Illustrated by Michal Ivan
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 21/01/2026
Thank you. We've received a lot of feedback along the same lines today, both here and in our Discord, and we're discussing how we can improve our social media planning.
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 21/01/2026
The articles for those artists were written with high priority because of those controversies. Because they were complete and high-quality, they were picked as filler posts for social media. We're hearing loud and clear, here and in our own Discord, that it was a bad move.
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 21/01/2026
We've heard from several parties that today's post missed the mark. The goal was to engage curiosity about a well-known artwork to draw readers to an article that covers the artist in detail, not to make light of her political activity. We'll keep your feedback in mind going forward.
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 21/01/2026
We're hearing similar opinions from others. Thank you for reaching out.
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 21/01/2026
Thank you for your input.
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 21/01/2026
The article necessarily contains as many sides as we can reliably source. She is both an award-winning artist, and a pariah for her political behavior. The intent of the original post was to draw on the first as a hook to educate about the second. We're hearing that it's an unpopular approach.
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 21/01/2026
If the social media hook had focused instead on her recent behavior, would you still object to a post that linked her article?
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MTG Wiki @mtg.wiki · 21/01/2026
We're getting good feedback about the tone of this post. The intent of any of our articles is to inform and explain. Do you think that the linked article fairly treats the controversy surrounding Nielsen, as well as her art? Would you object to a Bsky post that focused attention on the former?
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