User:Freighttrain/Magic - The Gathering

( Updated as of 14/01/2022 )

Contact e-mail : freighttrain@email.com

This is just a short description of my headcanon retcons from the Magic: The Gathering franchise, and in the same vein as most of my other blog posts, this is just to change it so that things make more sense. I do not have as comprehensive a knowledge of MTG lore as I do other franchises, as I only enjoy the card game and find the lore unattractive as it is too far-fetched, whimsically eclectic and often not aesthetically pleasing, and it is really only there because of the TCG anyway, and not the other way around. So at the moment I just focus on the New Phyrexia expansion and the corresponding narrative lore (which I disregard entirely in favour of the Mirrodin Pure continuity, including all events that occurred afterward that are directly related to 'New Phyrexia', which I retroactively alter to be in alignment with that of the Mirrodin Pure continuity), as well as the nonsense from June 2020. My headcanon retcons do not go into too much detail and are outlined in the notes section below.

Key :
 * WotC = Wizard of the Coast
 * MTG = Magic: The Gathering

Notes :
 * At the moment this is just a rough point-by-point summary.

= New Phyrexia (May 13, 2011) =
 * WotC should have gone with Mirrodin Pure instead of New Phyrexia as the third expansion in the Scars of Mirrodin block, meaning WotC should have concluded with the native Mirrans defeating the Phyrexians and reclaiming Mirrodin.
 * This is because I find that the plane of Mirrodin as it was, was a much more attractive and diverse aspect of MTG lore, Mirrodin's natural aesthetics are much more pleasing and diverse, while the twisted metallic 'eldritch' look is just ugly, disgusting, unimaginative and lazy.
 * Also I believe that going with New Phyrexia was a bad marketing choice, because if WotC had instead gone with Mirrodin Pure, then I would have purchased much more TCG cards and associated brand name accessories, and I'm sure most fans feel the same way.



= June 2020... =
 * When WotC banned seven cards from tournament sanctioned play and removed the card art from the official card index site Gatherer; cards dating back to 1994; because apparently they depict racist imagery, so WotC made a big mistake by deciding to pander to the contemporary 'social issues' bullshit, and because of this I would not be comfortable with purchasing any of their products from that point in time onward, until they properly correct their mistake.
 * The seven cards they banned are:
 * Invoke Prejudice
 * Cleanse
 * Stone-Throwing Devils
 * Pradesh Gypsies
 * Jihad
 * Imprison
 * Crusade