April Fools and Magic

by News | posted at 2011-04-03 15:26:00
tagged: MTG, Magic, Magic the Gathering, April Fools, SnarkingtonPost, Boobicorn

April Fools has come and gone, and here's a rundown of some of the appearances it made on various Magic sites around the world:

TheSnarkingtonPost.com

If you missed it, TheStarkingtonPost.com's annual April Fools' day issue was TheSnarkingtonPost.com this year. Readers visiting our mother site here on TheStarkingtonPost.com got a one time redirect to the April Fools' day site with a number of articles lampooning art in Magic, whiny tournament players, Evan Erwin's love of spoilers, and even a new set: "Return to Ulgrotha." If you haven't seen it yet, you don't want to miss it! Visit it at TheSnarkingtonPost.com.

Good Gamery

The internet's top Magic satirists, GoodGamery.com, celebrated April Fools as they always do: by doing absolutely nothing. The Onion could take a page from Magic's rogues by celebrating April 1st one year by ACTUALLY reporting news (though considering the state of news media coverage these days, it's not clear anyone would notice). You can check out the Good Gamery crew here.

DailyMTG.com

The official Wizards April Fools' day pranks included the announcement of "Duet Decks," a parody column from Brian David-Marshall, the full Standard deck, and even a crack from the Card of the Day. BDM's "bacon tokens" were a particular hit around the Twitterverse and blogosphere, and a "deck registration simulator" from the Wizards crew also drew a lot of laughs. Read BDM's piece here, Duet Decks here, the simulator here, and the Daily Deck here.

Magic Online

Not to be outdone by their web team peers at DailyMTG.com, the Magic Online team also got in on the April Fools' day festivities. Their prank? The world's most "interesting" March Invitational decklists. Our favorite was Aceman022's 4 Forest, 56 Thrun, the Last Troll concoction. See them all here.

DraftMagic

The DraftMagic crew got in on the festivities with a truly exciting "spoiler" from New Phyrexia: Mishra. Rather than just overselling it by spoiling the entire card, however, the team cleverly revealed just a TINY portion of the card to lend their story credibility. Read the article here.

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