RivalRowan

RivalRowan

@rivalrowan.bsky.social

MTG Wiki admin. Johnny on the table, Vorthos at heart.

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Do any WotC Staff mutuals have provenance on this Mind Stone promo? We got a request to add it to Scryfall and the only thing I'm seeing is Reddit people/Ebay sellers claim it came from GameStop. No articles or posts anywhere else about it. Trying to determine origin. scryfall.com/card/pmei/20...

scryfall.comMind Stone{2} • Artifact • {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card. • Media and Collaboration Promos (PMEI) #2026-27 • Illustrated by Camille Alquier • Magic: The Gathering, MTG

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On January 1st, 2027, Scryfall will transition to providing only WebP for most of our images. More information available here for developers: scryfall.com/blog/new-web... PNG version isn't going away for content creators, but you won't be able to hotlink the PNGs anymore.

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It’s one of my favorite days in the internet as an Art Director, #portfolioday! Share your portfolios here but also a reminder @magic.wizards.com has a portfolio submission tool to get eyes in front of all of our art directors. I’m always looking human artists. company.wizards.com/en/freelance...

company.wizards.comFreelance Art Submissions | Wizards of the CoastAre you an aspiring Wizards of the Coast artist? Submit your portfolio today for review by our art directors!

If you've been keeping up with my obsessive tracking of every Unknown Event card on the Wiki, you can now see the actual things on Scryfall! Big shout out to @logan.scryfall.com for all the hard work!

Logan @ Scryfall.com@logan.scryfall.com

Unknown Event cards for MagicCon Amsterdam 2026 and Gen Con 2026 are now up on @scryfall.com. They should be available to brew with on <insert your favorite deck building site here> soon™️!

Last major Magic Story update for the year is done. If you're looking for something to occupy you until the Nauctis: The Sunken Realm story in January, check out the amazing resource that is MTGLore.com!

mtglore.comMTGLore.com – Magic: The Gathering Story SearchMTGLore.com is a search engine to help you find Magic: The Gathering stories and lore.
MTGLore.com@mtglore.com

Reality Fracture is now added on MTGLore.com! With Untold Stories: Jace concluded earlier this month, the final entries for 2026 are expected to be the FRA voice lines (Sept) and the Dark Horse comics for Liliana (Oct & Dec) and Teferi (Nov). 📚

There's not many people this change affects but for those that it does, check out this Scryfall thread on "is:fullart" and the new "is:translucent".

Lea // CathGuac@delayedtrigger.scryfall.com

❔What is translucent? ❔ "is:translucent" includes any card where a major part of the frame, normally the text box, is see-through but not fully transparent. This englobes colorless cards, run-of-the-mill borderless treatments, and most planeswalkers, among others.

Scryfall has set out their plans for the Alchemy sunset. Thankfully the history will be preserved.

Arena is sunsetting the Alchemy format. On September 22nd, the Arena client will revert all Rebalanced cards to their normal versions. On February 2nd 2027, it will drop support for the Alchemy format entirely. magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-... Here's how Scryfall's handling the Alchemy sunset. 🧵

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Reality Fracture's story will finish TOMORROW! It will be a double feature, with episodes 9 and 10 both posting--don't miss the grand finale!

If you love Magic story, do yourself a favour and jump on this. Amy loves lore and you won't be disappointed!

Amy the Amazonian@amytheamazonian.bsky.social

I'm not revealing any cards for Reality Fracture, nor am I an Ambassador for the set. That said, you should come to my channel tomorrow because OF COURSE I READ THE STORY AND I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY AND SO MANY FEELINGS AND WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT JACE.

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I’ve started work on dramatically expanding the @mtg.wiki page for Trix. If anyone wants to fire any good context and/or sources to help out that’d definitely be appreciated. I’m also worried that the section on how Alan Comer killed the deck focuses a little bit too much on Miracle Grow: thoughts?

mtg.wikiTrixTrix was a blue-based combo deck which wants to Donate an Illusions of Grandeur to an opponent, causing them to sacrifice it when they can't pay the Cumulative upkeep cost and lose 20 life. Some versi...

Sometime the Magic community just does some amazing work. Go "atag:gouache" or "atag:airbrush" on Scryfall and wonder at the breadth of talented artists. All art medium tags can be found here on Tagger: tagger.scryfall.com/tags/artwork...

Lea // CathGuac@delayedtrigger.scryfall.com

You can filter a quarter of all Magic artwork according to how it was made! Isn't that just crazy? Oil paint, gouache, collage, 3d renders, digital illustrations, photographs, acrylics. You can just go and look up this information! That's insane!!

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The Commander Format Panel is meeting with WOTC in a few weeks! Leave your comments and concerns Re: Commander below! I’ll keep them in mind when we have our conversations. Alternatively, I’ll do my best to answer questions if you have them, so you know where I’m at going into the meetings.

Or does the defining trait include being an expression of color pie philosophy? Whether that's an overlap of mechanics in both colors, moving a mechanic from one color to another, or defining a mechanic in color for the first time?

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Three storied players have been inducted into the Magic Pro Tour Hall of Fame! Join us in celebrating the Hall of Fame class of 2026: Ken Yukuhiro, Jean-Emmanuel Depraz, and Javier Dominguez! Read about their stories and accomplishments on magic.gg: magic.gg/news/announc...

Still wondering what all the Mystery Booster Commander Edition hubub was about? Loremaster Jay has you covered!

Jay Annelli@vorthosjay.bsky.social

My Mystery Booster Commander Edition Flavor Gems is out! www.coolstuffinc.com/a/mystery-bo...

If you're an aspiring artist *and* heading to MagicCon Atlanta in November, this might be for you.

MTG Festivals@mtgfestivals.com

We're excited to have Portfolio Reviews coming back to MagicCon: Atlanta! Artists, don't miss this chance to get feedback from the art directors behind your favorite Magic cards. Applications close 9/13 at 11:59 PM Pacific. mcatlanta.mtgfestivals.com/en-us/applic...

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Quick missing Magic lore request: The Invasion minisite's Rumors of War shockwave flash file appears to not have been archived. The original would have been at this address. (I remember how it played circa 2018.) If anyone locates the functional SWF file, send it my way for $20 bounty

MTGLore out here doing the good work! Give 'em a visit and show some love!

MTGLore.com@mtglore.com

Set story pages have been added for every qualifying set between Alpha and Secrets of Strixhaven! Since each links to previous set and next, it's one continuous chain from earliest to latest and back. #Vorthos

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I'm writing another mailbag column, this time focused on meta-questions on Magic, that is about why the game does certain things in the bigger picture. (For example, why are there five colors?) Please keep your questions to a single tweet, one question per post. Thanks. #WotCStaff

@raginglevine.com, both pointers in the CR for Anchor Word are currently pointing at the wrong rule. The anchor word glossary entry and rule 607.2m both have "See rule 614.12b." but the anchor word rule is 614.12c. I wasn't sure where else to point this, sorry.

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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

mtg.wikiHellHell 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...