Satoshi Shima is running for elected office in Japan and for some fantastic reason, has featured a beautiful white cat in some of his campaign posters. His posters seem to follow the common-uncommon-rare format found in Magic The Gathering and other collectible card games. The normal, common ... > Continue Reading
Magic: the Gathering
The Game Hub: ‘odors tend to linger’
I was walking past one of Hagerstown's two game stores, The Game Hub. It's located in downtown Hagerstown on Franklin street. They sell Magic The Gathering cards and have a play area in the back of the store. According to the above sign, they have a problem with customers in the play area not ... > Continue Reading
Convicted rapist banned from ‘Magic: the Gathering’ play
Wizards of the Coast suspended a player of Magic: the Gathering from competitive play until the year 2049. His Magic Online account, the online version of Magic: the Gathering played with digital cards, has been frozen and flagged for deletion. The reason? He's a convicted rapist listed on the ... > Continue Reading
Sports Card Radio: ‘Nothing against the Magic people, but most of them are not the most spendy, big-wallet type of people’
On the February 13 episode of Sports Card Radio, my new favorite podcast, host Colin Tedards interviewed Ryan Kent Jr. from BallCardsRadio.com. Ryan is a 14-years-old high school freshman who's been collecting sports cards for ten years, and he now has his own podcast that Colin has been listening ... > Continue Reading
Magic: The Counterfeiting
Evidently there is a custom playing card company in China, Shenzhen Wangjing Printing Co., that is producing and selling high-quality Magic: The Gathering counterfeit cards. The company was selling them on their website, but has since removed all traces of them. The fakes are different from any of ... > Continue Reading
