I play a trading card game called Magic: The Gathering. This site features a gallery of parody Magic cards I've made, a collection of my Magic-related writing, and useful Magic resources, including hyperlinked comprehensive rules, rules changes from set to set, Oracle card reference zipped text files, Oracle changes from set to set, and creature type changes from printed text to Oracle wordings.
Updates
- 2012 April 30
- Hyperlinked Magic Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Avacyn Restored's May 1, 2012 rules release...from the future!
- Magic Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for Avacyn Restored. These are also from the future, when Avacyn Restored is legal in all relevant formats.
- Magic Rules Changes - Dark Ascension to Avacyn Restored
- Magic Oracle Changes - Dark Ascension to Avacyn Restored
- 2012 February 5
- Hyperlinked Magic Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Dark Ascension's February 1, 2012 rules release.
- Magic Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for Dark Ascension.
- Magic Rules Changes - Innistrad to Dark Ascension
- Magic Oracle Changes - Innistrad to Dark Ascension
- 2011 October 2
- Hyperlinked Magic Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Innistrad's September 30, 2011 rules release.
- Magic Rules Changes - Magic 2012 to Innistrad
- Magic Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for Innistrad. Added files for Innistrad block and Modern.
- Magic Oracle Changes - Magic 2012 to Innistrad
- 2011 July 15
- Hyperlinked Magic Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Magic 2012's July 15, 2011 rules release.
- Magic Rules Changes - Commander to Magic 2012
- Magic Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for Magic 2012.
- Magic Oracle Changes - Commander to Magic 2012
- 2011 June 19
- Hyperlinked Magic Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Commander's June 17, 2011 rules release.
- Magic Rules Changes - New Phyrexia to Commander
- Magic Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for Commander. (New cards in the Commander set are legal in Legacy and Vintage.)
- Magic Oracle Changes - New Phyrexia to Commander
- 2011 May 13
- Hyperlinked Magic Comprehensive Rules - Updated with New Phyrexia's backdated May 1, 2011 rules release.
- Magic Rules Changes - Mirrodin Besieged to New Phyrexia
- 2011 May 6
- Magic Oracle Changes - Mirrodin Besieged to New Phyrexia
- Magic Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for New Phyrexia. (New Phyrexia cards are not constructed legal until May 13.)
- 2011 March 7
- Magic Rules Changes - Scars of Mirrodin to Mirrodin Besieged
- Magic Oracle Changes - Scars of Mirrodin to Mirrodin Besieged
- Changes for previous sets will be added as they're completed.
- Changes for subsequent sets will be added on time.
- 2011 February 4
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Mirrodin Besieged's February 4, 2011 rules release.
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for Mirrodin Besieged.
- 2010 October 2
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Scars of Mirrodin's October 1, 2010 rules release.
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for Scars of Mirrodin.
- 2010 August 1
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for Magic 2011. The newly added scheme and vanguard cards are listed only in the All Sets file.
- 2010 July 31
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Magic 2011's July 16, 2010 rules release.
- 2010 June 22
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Archenemy's June 18, 2010 rules release.
- 2010 April 27
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Rise of the Eldrazi's April 23, 2010 rules release.
- 2010 April 16
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for Rise of the Eldrazi.
- 2010 February 10
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for Worldwake.
- 2010 February 8
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Worldwake's February 1, 2010 rules release. Hover over any linked rule or term in the Rules and Glossary for a new Javascript-enabled menu.
- 2010 October 10
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Zendikar's October 1, 2010 rules release. This update has always been here.
- 2009 September 5
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Planechase's September 4, 2009 rules release.
- Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules Changes - Magic 2010 to Planechase
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Changes - Magic 2010 to Planechase
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated with Planechase's Oracle changes. Zendikar previews, plane cards, and Vintage banned cards are listed only in the "All Sets" file. Also, some set and rarity information has been added to all files.
- 2009 July 27
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Powers and toughnesses of 0 (such as 0/5, 2/0, and 0/0) were erroneously omitted from the most recent update. This has been corrected. Thanks to Aleksander W. for bringing this to my attention.
- 2009 July 23
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for Magic 2010. Did you miss the Alara Reborn update? I sure did.
- 2009 July 11
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Magic 2010's July 11, 2009 rules release.
- I may not post Magic 2010's Oracle Changes or Comprehensive Rules Changes because of their massive scope. If you want to know more about these changes, read the Magic rules manager's July 2009 Update Bulletin.
- 2009 May 24
- 2009 May 5
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Alara Reborn's May 1, 2009 rules release.
- Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules Changes - Conflux to Alara Reborn
- Oracle-related updates are still in progress thanks to the new and improved Gatherer.
- 2009 March 25
- 2009 March 21
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for Conflux's constructed formats. I blame Gatherer for the delay.
- 2009 February 9
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Conflux's February 1, 2009 rules release.
- Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules Changes - Shards of Alara to Conflux
- 2009 February 8
- 2009 January 31
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated with Conflux cards and Oracle errata. (Conflux is not yet legal in constructed formats, so its new cards are listed only in the Allsets file.)
- 2009 January 30
- Magic: The Gathering Floor Rules Changes - 2008 September to 2009 January. Yes, it's very late.
- 2008 October 15
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for Shards of Alara's constructed formats. Shards of Alara has been legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended, Standard, and Shards of Alara Block since October 3. Gatherer took some time to update after that, and I took some more time to update after that.
- 2008 October 1
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Shards of Alara's October 1, 2008 rules release.
- Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules Changes - Eventide to Shards of Alara
- 2008 September 27
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Changes - From the Vault: Dragons to Shards of Alara
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated with Shards of Alara and coincident Oracle changes. Note that Shards of Alara is not yet legal in Vintage, Extended, or Standard, but it is listed in the Allsets file.
- Magic: The Gathering Creature Type Changes - Up-to-date with no changes.
- 2008 September 4
- 2008 August 24
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Changes - Eventide to From the Vault: Dragons
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated to reflect minor changes from the From the Vault: Dragons box set and Eventide's constructed legality as of July 25.
- Magic: The Gathering Creature Type Changes - Up-to-date with no changes. A dragon's a dragon.
- 2008 July 17
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Eventide's July 15, 2008 rules release.
- Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules Changes - Shadowmoor to Eventide
- 2008 July 11
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Changes - Shadowmoor to Eventide
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated with Eventide and coincident Oracle changes. Note that Eventide is not yet legal in Vintage, Extended, Standard, or Lorwyn-Shadowmoor Block, but it is listed in the Allsets file.
- Magic: The Gathering Creature Type Changes - Up-to-date with no changes.
- 2008 June 3
- 2008 June 2
- 2008 May 17
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for Shadowmoor's constructed formats. Shadowmoor has been legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended, Standard, and Lorwyn-Shadowmoor Block for a couple of weeks. My apologies if you build your decks based on these lists and you've been playing an outdated deck for the past two weeks.
- 2008 May 2
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Shadowmoor's May 1, 2008 rules release.
- Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules Changes - Added Morningtide to Shadowmoor.
- 2008 April 18
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Changes - Added Morningtide to Shadowmoor.
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated with Shadowmoor and coincident Oracle changes. Note that Shadowmoor is not yet legal in Vintage, Extended, Standard, or Lorwyn Block, but it is listed in the Allsets file.
- Magic: The Gathering Creature Type Changes - Updated with a Plant Wall.
- DCI Penalty Guide Changes - Added 2007 December to 2008 March.
- Magic: The Gathering Floor Rules Changes - Added 2007 December to 2008 March.
- 2008 February 2
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for Morningtide's constructed formats. Morningtide is now legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended, Standard, and Lorwyn Block.
- 2008 February 1
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Morningtide's Feburary 1, 2008 rules release.
- Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules Changes - Added Lorwyn to Morningtide.
- 2008 January 18
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Changes from Set to Set - Added Lorwyn to Morningtide
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated with Morningtide and coincident Oracle changes. Note that Morningtide is not yet legal in Vintage, Extended, Standard, or Lorwyn Block, but it is listed in the Allsets file.
- Magic: The Gathering Creature Type Changes - Updated with Morningtide creature type changes.
- 2007 December 16
- DCI Penalty Guide Changes - Added changes from 2007 September to 2007 December.
- 2007 December 2
- Magic: The Gathering Floor Rules Changes - Added changes from 2007 September to 2007 December.
- 2007 October 21
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for Lorwyn's constructed formats. Lorwyn is now legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended, and Standard, and Ravnica: City of Guilds, Guildpact, and Dissension are no longer legal in Standard.
- 2007 October 1
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Lorwyn's October 1, 2007 rules release.
- Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules Changes - Added Masters Edition to Lorwyn.
- 2007 September 29
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Changes from Set to Set - Added Core Set - Masters Edition to Lorwyn. Warning! This page is well over a megabyte large due to all the creature type changes.
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated with Lorwyn and coincident Oracle changes. Note that Lorwyn is not yet legal in Vintage, Extended, or Standard.
- Magic: The Gathering Creature Type Changes - Updated with Lorwyn creature type changes. Behold the Grand Creature Type Update!
- 2007 September 7
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Changes from Set to Set - Added Core Set - Tenth Edition to Masters Edition (a Magic Online-only set of reprints).
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated with Masters Edition and coincident Oracle changes.
- Magic: The Gathering Creature Type Changes - Updated with Masters Edition creature type changes. Among others, Centaur Archer is now a Centaur Archer and Baron Sengir is now a Vampire.
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Masters Edition's September 7, 2007 rules release.
- Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules Changes - Added Core Set - Tenth Edition to Masters Edition.
- 2007 September 1
- Magic: The Gathering Floor Rules Changes - Added changes from 2007 June to 2007 September.
- DCI Penalty Guide Changes - Added changes from 2007 June to 2007 September.
- 2007 July 20
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated for today's format rotation. Tenth Edition is now legal in Vintage, Legacy, Extended, and Standard, and Ninth Edition is no longer legal in Standard.
- 2007 July 13
- Changed the layout and URLs for pages in the Resources section. Older links will now redirect to the new URLs.
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Tenth Edition's July 13, 2007 rules release.
- Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules Changes - Added changes from Future Sight to Core Set - Tenth Edition.
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated with Tenth Edition and coincident Oracle changes. Note that Standard and Extended do not yet include Tenth Edition. I will post another update when they do—after July 20.
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Changes from Set to Set - Added Future Sight to Core Set - Tenth Edition.
- Magic: The Gathering Creature Type Changes - Updated with Tenth Edition creature type changes. Juggernaut is now a Juggernaut, and several Lords are Lords no more.
- 2007 June 1
- Magic: The Gathering Floor Rules Changes - Added changes from 2007 February to 2007 June for today's rules update.
- DCI Tournament Rules Changes - Added changes from 2006 December to 2007 June for today's rules update.
- DCI Penalty Guide Changes - Added changes from 2007 March to 2007 June for today's rules update plus a section to put it in.
- 2007 May 25
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Refreshed for May 20.
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Changes from Set to Set - Corrected an error in Planar Chaos to Future Sight that hid changes to timeshifted cards. Fortunately, none of the missing changes were significant; Defiant Vanguard, Dragonstorm, Kobold Taskmaster, Lord of Atlantis, Undead Warchief, Verdeloth the Ancient, and Zhalfirin Commander all received tribal updates, and Essence Sliver now grants lifelink. Thanks to Yann B. for pointing out these omissions.
- 2007 May 21
- Hyperlinked Vs. System Comprehensive Rules - Updated with the February 5, 2007 (v2.2) Vs. System rules release. I was recently e-mailed about this page, so I updated it. I still don't play VS, so future updates may lag behind rules releases. This page will be linked only from the front page because it doesn't fit into any existing section of this web site.
- 2007 May 3
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with Future Sight's May 1, 2007 rules release.
- Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules Changes - Added changes from Planar Chaos to Future Sight. There are a lot of them.
- 2007 April 20
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated with Future Sight and coincident Oracle changes.
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Changes from Set to Set - Added Planar Chaos to Future Sight.
- Magic: The Gathering Creature Type Changes - Several Weatherlight cards received creature type overhauls with the Future Sight Oracle update. Fungus Elemental is finally a Fungus Elemental.
- 2007 March 11
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated to include Planar Chaos in all relevant formats. The Allsets (Vintage plus un-sets) file is back thanks to a tip from Ricardo.
- 2007 February 22
- Magic: The Gathering Floor Rules Changes - Life now starts at thirty for DCI sanctioned Two-Headed Giant games.
- 2007 February 2
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with the February 1, 2007 rules release.
- Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules Changes - Added changes from Time Spiral to Planar Chaos.
- 2007 January 21
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated with the release of Planar Chaos. The new set is included in TimeSpiralBlock, but not yet in the other formats. I will update again when this changes in a month. The Allsets file has been removed, since Gatherer no longer wants to share it. I also removed the Legacy file because it's nearly identical to Vintage.
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Changes from Set to Set - Added Time Spiral to Planar Chaos. Happy new year!.
- 2006 December 14
- Magic: The Gathering Floor Rules Changes - The Magic Floor Rules (for DCI tournament play) were just updated, so I added a section detailing the changes.
- DCI Tournament Rules Changes - Ditto that for this.
- 2006 November 23
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Gatherer now includes Time Spiral in the appropriate tournament formats, and I was finally able to get a full Oracle without it timing out. The files on this page have been updated accordingly.
- 2006 October 29
- Parody Magic: The Gathering Cards - Updated. Thanks, Ted!
- 2006 October 22
- Removed Hyperlinked Vs. System Comprehensive Rules. It didn't fit in with my Magic focus; I don't play VS, so I haven't been making reliable updates. Rather than keeping an outdated version of the rules, I decided to discontinue this little-used page.
- 2006 October 21
- Updated the layout; now it expands in wiiidescreeen. The mysterious beige box has vanished as it appeared—mysteriously.
- 2006 September 26
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with the October 1, 2006 rules release. Another update from the future!
- Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules Changes - Added changes from Coldsnap to Time Spiral.
- 2006 September 23
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated with the release of Time Spiral. The new set is included in Allsets and TimeSpiralBlock, but not yet in the other formats. I will update again when this changes in a month.
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Changes from Set to Set - Added Coldsnap to Time Spiral. There were many changes this time, so I divided them into several sections. I hope you enjoy the new boxes for "timeshifted" cards; I painted each one purple by hand.
- Magic: The Gathering Creature Type Changes - Time Spiral! Witness the extinction of Squires, Uncle-Istvans, and more!
- 2006 September 15
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Gatherer finally includes Coldsnap in the appropriate tournament formats. The files on this page have been updated to reflect this.
- 2006 August 7
- Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules Changes - Another new page! This page is similar to the Oracle Changes page, except it details changes made to the Magic Comprehensive Rules with each set release.
- 2006 August 5
- Magic: The Gathering Creature Type Changes - A new page! This page lists all cards with at least one printed version whose printed creature types don't match the card's current Oracle creature types. It's useful for figuring out who gets what under a Coat of Arms. Thanks to Sean "Fever" Everard for inspiring the creation of this list.
- 2006 July 31
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Changes from Set to Set - Removed the Soul Burn entry from Dissension to Coldsnap because it was corrected in Gatherer.
- 2006 July 30
- Parody Magic: The Gathering Cards - There were too many cards on one page, so I removed them all. Don't worry, they're filed away into smaller pages—or even the old huge one if you really want it.
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - As promised earlier, now that Portal 1 is back in Gatherer, I've updated all the files with the latest Oracle texts. Again, only the Allsets file includes new Coldsnap cards, as the set isn't tournament legal until August 20. I'll update these files again then.
- 2006 July 29
- Parody Magic: The Gathering Cards - Added cards for July. Expect a dramatic drop in quantity from here out.
- 2006 July 28
- 2006 July 26
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with the July 15, 2006 Coldsnap rules release.
- 2006 July 25
- Redesigned the header to accommodate a mysterious beige box.
- 2006 July 20
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - I've updated all the files with the latest Oracle texts. However, only the Allsets file includes new Coldsnap cards, as the set isn't tournament legal until August 20. I'll update these files again then. Additionally, cards from the Portal set are mysteriously absent; if this is fixed in Gatherer before August 20, I will update at that time as well.
- 2006 July 11
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Changes from Set to Set - Word-by-word changes are now in bold text.
- 2006 July 10
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Changes from Set to Set - Added a page with changes from Dissension to Coldsnap. The changes this time around include various "snow-covered" to "snow", reversing some old power-level errata, and various Ice Age and other text adjustments.
- 2006 July 1
- Parody Magic: The Gathering Cards - No, there wasn't anything I liked in the last week of June.
- 2006 June 19
- Parody Magic: The Gathering Cards - Somebody asked me to update, so I did ... just a little. Maybe I'll update a little more later today.
- Parody Magic: The Gathering Cards - I updated a little more.
- 2006 May 22
- Hello MagicTheGathering.com readers!
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - Updated all files with the latest card texts from Gatherer to reflect Dissension's constructed legality as of May 20.
- 2006 May 18
- Parody Magic: The Gathering Cards - Updated! So...many...cards...
- 2006 May 16
- Hyperlinked Vs. System Comprehensive Rules - Newly created from the May 8, 2006 (v1.91) VS rules release. I don't play VS, but I know some people who do. Maybe they'll use this.
- 2006 April 27
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - Updated with the May 1, 2006 Dissension rules release. Yes, it's from the future.
- 2006 April 22
- The Dissension prerelease tournaments were today! I primarily play Magic Online, so I didn't actually attend one. However, this means there will be some updates to the Resources section as Wizards of the Coast makes various Dissension-related documents available.
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Changes from Set to Set - This is a new page and the first to updated for Dissension. When each new set is added to Gatherer, the official search engine for the Oracle, various cards from older sets also receive official wording changes. Check out a list of those changes here.
- Magic: The Gathering Oracle Zipped Text Files - I've updated all the files with the latest Oracle texts. However, only the Allsets file includes new Dissension cards, as the set isn't tournament legal until May 20. I'll update these files again then.
- 2006 April 12
- Hyperlinked Magic: The Gathering Comprehensive Rules - First, this page exists. Some of you may not have noticed this. I've removed the frames it previously used, redecorated, and added the date of the source rules document.
- 2006 March 17
- Rewrote this here front page to feature this here list of updates. Hear, hear.
- Parody Magic: The Gathering Cards - Added the notable cards I've made since August. Yeah, August. I got rather lazy about updating them.