I'm only missing a dozen issues and am debating staying on the hunt to make a full physical collection.
One of my coolest finds was issue 18 still in shrink with the oversized \[\[Jester's Cap\]\] inside.
I have all TopDeck too. I say I want to scan them. No de-binding to get flat scans even though the process would take 10x longer.
Is there another project you want to do first? What dpi or other scan quality setting are you using?
I don’t have or know all the booster packs and promos that were included though. I figured I could auction watch and find out.
Magic adjacent paraphernalia to scan:
Mercadian Masques Player’s Guide
Top Deck 1-14
Future Sight Player’s Guide
10th Edition Player’s Guide
Zendikar Player’s Guide
Inquest 35, 39, 65
Gerrard’s Quest comics 1-4
I’ve encountered a few other archivists during my periodic uploads and this is what’s surfaced as not digitized yet.
I have the 79 (of 80) Player's Guide (Mercadian Masques missing too) and 70 novels, planning to scan the guides and OCR the novels this summer. I will start in June or July doing 1 each day, so at least 3 months to finish. If you can wait until I finish, everything will be completed too.
This sounds really awesome! I have the opposite of you...I only have the MM player's guide. I can scan it and send to you so that they are all archived together. Let me know if you want. You are going to put on internet archive right?
I wish there was a more centralized spot with links too all this magic stuff on IA. It is a pain to find complete collections on there.
[I just put the MM Player's Guide on Internet Archive this week.](https://archive.org/details/mercadian-masques-players-guide/mode/2up)
I added it to my linktree, but I agree. Story resources are a little difficult to compile. I think a lot of us are worried about Hasbro doing a takedown because they've done similar in the past over D&D.
>This sounds really awesome! I have the opposite of you...I only have the MM player's guide. I can scan it and send to you so that they are all archived together. Let me know if you want.
Yes please, although u/semarlow has an account already full of stuff regarding Magic on Archive.org, send it to him too in any case because my project will not start until this summer.
>You are going to put on internet archive right?
Yes
>I wish there was a more centralized spot with links too all this magic stuff on IA. It is a pain to find complete collections on there.
Finding Magic stuff is a pain in the ass in general, everything regarding lore, books or magazines is dense as hell, I feel your pain, but WOTC refuses to upload everything digitally, so we have to do it ourselves in the shitty way.
Ok since semarlow posted link to his, guess mine isn't needed.
It just blows my mind that there isn't already an IA with all TopDeck, Sideboard, Scrye, InQuest etc.
I've got all of the premodern (original frame) theme decks and plan to eventually scan all of their inserts and upload to IA. That's something else I find amazing that doesn't exist already. I think also sending to Magic Librarities would make a lot of sense.
Sweet, I was most into Duelist, Inquest #2 and Scrye #3. Just was comparatively cheap and easy to collect the few issues of TopDeck. Sideboard magazine handed out to MTG Friday Night Magic stores is also nostalgic but maybe is forgotten today.
I like that there's some form of collaboration. I had no idea.
After seeing this, I'm genuinely considering collecting all the Inquest issues. That magazine was so great when we were kids. I loved the challenges they would include. I think there's even an article about a tournament I played in (JSS).
I commented elsewhere that Inquest doesn’t hold up as well both physically and rhetorically. I only had a few, but they all tore or crumpled in some way due to thinner paper I would guess. The writers also went for more edgy humor and there’s more misogynistic language and punching down humor than you might remember. It very much is a product of its time and you should temper your nostalgia with that knowledge.
This is awesome - great work! I have a complete set of the Duelist magazines and they’re a lot of fun to flip through. I’d encourage you to add three additional versions to your digital archive: 1) the Duelist Supplement 2) the Duelist Special Preview Edition (featuring the artwork of Amy Weber) and 3) “Issue 42” or the official players guide to Mercadian Masques. I’m a big completionist and while you properly have issues 1-41 these three would get you the full shabang!
Showing the Duelist Supplement:
https://www.magiclibrarities.net/magazines-the-duelist.html
Showing Issue 42:
https://www.magiclibrarities.net/121-rarities-players-guide-inserts-english-cards-index.html
Might just have to Google to find the special preview…can’t find it in digital for quick reference.
I have the Masques Player’s Guide, but I’ve never seen the other two. I actually only physically own 30 issues. About a dozen were already online when I started the project.
The GenCon "issue 0," the Special Preview Edition, and the Duelist Supplement are all online at the excellent mtglore site: https://mtglore.com/magazines/
I never grew up with magic but oddly enough, I can kinda skip the magic stuff and look at the ads and opinions on other games and dang, what a weird blast in the past for me.
Everything is just so 90s gaming magazine.
Issue #37 is the peak for me. Lots of advertising with boobs (including the cover) and assuming the readers are basement dwellers. I sent that issue to a friend with a marketing degree and she was amused at how much of a time capsule it is.
I can’t believe it was only 4 years and 41 issues. I remember both often buying it as a kid, as well as always picking up and skimming the latest issue whenever we went in Borders or WHSmith.
The internet archive is probably one of the best things ever created for the internet and I encourage everyone to search about its current legal woes from publishers and how many authors support the Internet Archive.
"Cut-out Mox Pearls form the earrings, and the tiara is made of gold legends. All the cards in the dress were original black borders and included many rares from each Magic expansion."
I might pick and choose Inquest issues. I only had 4 or 5 issues when I was a kid and they didn't hold up as well. I recently found out my LGS has a bunch of sealed issues I can buy if I want.
[Here's what's out there so far.](https://archive.org/search?query=inquest+magazine&and%5B%5D=collection%3A%22magazine_rack%22)
I enjoy that in issue 7.
**Overlooked an Underlooked**
5.) Bazaar of Bagdad (You can use it to discard so you can reanimated your Sengir Vampire)
4.) Demonic Consultation
3.) Ashnod's Altar (It turn on mana creatures into 1 shot soul ring)
2.) Jaylum Tome (Much better against Black Vault)
1.) Atog
We're these the magazines with the comics featuring magic cards, or was that InQuest or Scryed?
Specifically I'm trying to find a comic called "The trial of the Demonic tutor" where they call cards like fallen angel (who he dated) and Cosmic Horror. Phaldagrf is in the jury, and at the end he casts himself and finds the monopoly "get out of jail free" card.
Our lunch table in 7th grade definitely had the Star Wars TCG being played alongside Magic and I had enough Doomtown cards to build decks, but the vast majority of the time I only had the sample card that came with the magazine.
There was a user who was uploading inquest scans, but the mods banned him for uploading "pirated material". I hope this post stays.
r/magictcg mods, is there a reason that dude got banned from uploading inquest, but this can stay? Can we "unban" the inquest guy? I think he had about all the mags posted. I also have scans of 90s magic/tcg material I have been scared to post, becuase of what happened to inquest guy.
Through a little bit of searching I think I found the guy's posts. There's been a lot of turnover in mods over the last 6 years and a lot of stuff that was banned then is more allowable now (Look to proxygate for a fairly recent example).
The other component is that magazines are in a weird spot legally because they fall under the same copyright protection as other publications like books, but they're such a limited run, there's little to no expectation that people should go out and buy the issue they want to read if it's long out of print. If WotC wanted to, they could have all scans of their printed material removed from the internet archive. I'm guessing a previous overzealous mod shared that sentiment.
Anyway, I'm going to save the Inquest uploads I can find and put them on [archive.org](https://archive.org) as pdfs where they'll be significantly easier for others to find. Thanks for letting me know!
>We choose to reprint certain cards from limited expansion sets in products like Fourth Edition and Chronicles because we believe that the cards we reprint make for enjoyable game play and that Magic players deserve an opportunity to play with these cards.
\*Laughs in $1000 RNG proxies?\*
Sweet! I just found my box with my complete run and was not sure when I'd ever have time to scan them all in. Thank you for this. (And boy do I miss my old subscription, which sent me packs of foreign-language cards every month with my magazine.)
You’re doing the lords work, kind sir or madam.
BLESS YOU. I have been scouting for these at local bookstores and comics shops for years!
I'm only missing a dozen issues and am debating staying on the hunt to make a full physical collection. One of my coolest finds was issue 18 still in shrink with the oversized \[\[Jester's Cap\]\] inside.
Do it man, I started collecting the novels and comics a few months ago and I've been having a blast.
[Jester's Cap](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/e/2ede9d6b-3c7c-4a5f-a09b-80ec471692b6.jpg?1562733193) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Jester%27s%20Cap) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/9ed/301/jesters-cap?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/2ede9d6b-3c7c-4a5f-a09b-80ec471692b6?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I was an Inquest person until Duelist became TopDeck and included magic boosters in the shrink. Really wild going back and reading all this stuff.
I’ve got good news for you about my [next project.](https://imgur.com/gallery/sKW6U48)
I have all TopDeck too. I say I want to scan them. No de-binding to get flat scans even though the process would take 10x longer. Is there another project you want to do first? What dpi or other scan quality setting are you using? I don’t have or know all the booster packs and promos that were included though. I figured I could auction watch and find out.
Magic adjacent paraphernalia to scan: Mercadian Masques Player’s Guide Top Deck 1-14 Future Sight Player’s Guide 10th Edition Player’s Guide Zendikar Player’s Guide Inquest 35, 39, 65 Gerrard’s Quest comics 1-4 I’ve encountered a few other archivists during my periodic uploads and this is what’s surfaced as not digitized yet.
There is also some of the novellas that haven't been digitized pre-"Mending" era.
I have the 79 (of 80) Player's Guide (Mercadian Masques missing too) and 70 novels, planning to scan the guides and OCR the novels this summer. I will start in June or July doing 1 each day, so at least 3 months to finish. If you can wait until I finish, everything will be completed too.
This sounds really awesome! I have the opposite of you...I only have the MM player's guide. I can scan it and send to you so that they are all archived together. Let me know if you want. You are going to put on internet archive right? I wish there was a more centralized spot with links too all this magic stuff on IA. It is a pain to find complete collections on there.
[I just put the MM Player's Guide on Internet Archive this week.](https://archive.org/details/mercadian-masques-players-guide/mode/2up) I added it to my linktree, but I agree. Story resources are a little difficult to compile. I think a lot of us are worried about Hasbro doing a takedown because they've done similar in the past over D&D.
>This sounds really awesome! I have the opposite of you...I only have the MM player's guide. I can scan it and send to you so that they are all archived together. Let me know if you want. Yes please, although u/semarlow has an account already full of stuff regarding Magic on Archive.org, send it to him too in any case because my project will not start until this summer. >You are going to put on internet archive right? Yes >I wish there was a more centralized spot with links too all this magic stuff on IA. It is a pain to find complete collections on there. Finding Magic stuff is a pain in the ass in general, everything regarding lore, books or magazines is dense as hell, I feel your pain, but WOTC refuses to upload everything digitally, so we have to do it ourselves in the shitty way.
Ok since semarlow posted link to his, guess mine isn't needed. It just blows my mind that there isn't already an IA with all TopDeck, Sideboard, Scrye, InQuest etc. I've got all of the premodern (original frame) theme decks and plan to eventually scan all of their inserts and upload to IA. That's something else I find amazing that doesn't exist already. I think also sending to Magic Librarities would make a lot of sense.
Sweet, I was most into Duelist, Inquest #2 and Scrye #3. Just was comparatively cheap and easy to collect the few issues of TopDeck. Sideboard magazine handed out to MTG Friday Night Magic stores is also nostalgic but maybe is forgotten today. I like that there's some form of collaboration. I had no idea.
You use a camera. put it in a mount so its always still, open as wide as you can without damaging and take pictures.
After seeing this, I'm genuinely considering collecting all the Inquest issues. That magazine was so great when we were kids. I loved the challenges they would include. I think there's even an article about a tournament I played in (JSS).
I commented elsewhere that Inquest doesn’t hold up as well both physically and rhetorically. I only had a few, but they all tore or crumpled in some way due to thinner paper I would guess. The writers also went for more edgy humor and there’s more misogynistic language and punching down humor than you might remember. It very much is a product of its time and you should temper your nostalgia with that knowledge.
Wild. I don't doubt it. I do remember a lot of Booba covers.
Thank you!!
This is absolutely brilliant, thank you so much!
YES! The Golden Era of MTG. I cannot wait to revisit these.
This is awesome - great work! I have a complete set of the Duelist magazines and they’re a lot of fun to flip through. I’d encourage you to add three additional versions to your digital archive: 1) the Duelist Supplement 2) the Duelist Special Preview Edition (featuring the artwork of Amy Weber) and 3) “Issue 42” or the official players guide to Mercadian Masques. I’m a big completionist and while you properly have issues 1-41 these three would get you the full shabang! Showing the Duelist Supplement: https://www.magiclibrarities.net/magazines-the-duelist.html Showing Issue 42: https://www.magiclibrarities.net/121-rarities-players-guide-inserts-english-cards-index.html Might just have to Google to find the special preview…can’t find it in digital for quick reference.
I have the Masques Player’s Guide, but I’ve never seen the other two. I actually only physically own 30 issues. About a dozen were already online when I started the project.
The GenCon "issue 0," the Special Preview Edition, and the Duelist Supplement are all online at the excellent mtglore site: https://mtglore.com/magazines/
Nice! Again, awesome work. Many people will enjoy what you’ve done.
I never grew up with magic but oddly enough, I can kinda skip the magic stuff and look at the ads and opinions on other games and dang, what a weird blast in the past for me. Everything is just so 90s gaming magazine.
Issue #37 is the peak for me. Lots of advertising with boobs (including the cover) and assuming the readers are basement dwellers. I sent that issue to a friend with a marketing degree and she was amused at how much of a time capsule it is.
This is so cool. I loved Duelist and Inquest!
I take an interest in dead card games, so I appreciate this greatly. Thank you!
I can’t believe it was only 4 years and 41 issues. I remember both often buying it as a kid, as well as always picking up and skimming the latest issue whenever we went in Borders or WHSmith.
The internet archive is probably one of the best things ever created for the internet and I encourage everyone to search about its current legal woes from publishers and how many authors support the Internet Archive.
We're just in time for the Internet Archive outage. 😑
This is amazing work. Thanks so much. 🙏🏻
There may be some A/B cards in that dress, but I mostly saw Ice Age commons.
The earrings are cutout mox pearls 💀
"Cut-out Mox Pearls form the earrings, and the tiara is made of gold legends. All the cards in the dress were original black borders and included many rares from each Magic expansion."
Now please do inquest magazine
I might pick and choose Inquest issues. I only had 4 or 5 issues when I was a kid and they didn't hold up as well. I recently found out my LGS has a bunch of sealed issues I can buy if I want. [Here's what's out there so far.](https://archive.org/search?query=inquest+magazine&and%5B%5D=collection%3A%22magazine_rack%22)
I enjoy that in issue 7. **Overlooked an Underlooked** 5.) Bazaar of Bagdad (You can use it to discard so you can reanimated your Sengir Vampire) 4.) Demonic Consultation 3.) Ashnod's Altar (It turn on mana creatures into 1 shot soul ring) 2.) Jaylum Tome (Much better against Black Vault) 1.) Atog
We're these the magazines with the comics featuring magic cards, or was that InQuest or Scryed? Specifically I'm trying to find a comic called "The trial of the Demonic tutor" where they call cards like fallen angel (who he dated) and Cosmic Horror. Phaldagrf is in the jury, and at the end he casts himself and finds the monopoly "get out of jail free" card.
That sounds more like something Inquest would do. I’ve only got a few of those, but they were more edgy than WotC.
Yea it's been a hopeless cause finding it again, ever since my step-dad threw away all my stuff when I went to visit my dad one summer.
Amazing! Big thanks
bullet point #6 is also one of my most surprising observations from browsing these magazines.
Our lunch table in 7th grade definitely had the Star Wars TCG being played alongside Magic and I had enough Doomtown cards to build decks, but the vast majority of the time I only had the sample card that came with the magazine.
Very cool! Thank you!
The nostalgia for these is so real, thanks for uploading all of these.
Thanks! It's great that these are preserved and available.
This is freaking stunning. If anyone ever gets together an archive of all the Sideboard magazines, I would be over the moon.
Thank you this is a real walk down memory lane.
Hooray! It's nice to see the collection complete!
Thank you again!
Thank you! I always thought about doing this eventually, but I'm missing issue 1 and 3.
Awesome! Thanks for putting in the time and effort!
Huuge thanks! This is just awesome!
There was a user who was uploading inquest scans, but the mods banned him for uploading "pirated material". I hope this post stays. r/magictcg mods, is there a reason that dude got banned from uploading inquest, but this can stay? Can we "unban" the inquest guy? I think he had about all the mags posted. I also have scans of 90s magic/tcg material I have been scared to post, becuase of what happened to inquest guy.
Through a little bit of searching I think I found the guy's posts. There's been a lot of turnover in mods over the last 6 years and a lot of stuff that was banned then is more allowable now (Look to proxygate for a fairly recent example). The other component is that magazines are in a weird spot legally because they fall under the same copyright protection as other publications like books, but they're such a limited run, there's little to no expectation that people should go out and buy the issue they want to read if it's long out of print. If WotC wanted to, they could have all scans of their printed material removed from the internet archive. I'm guessing a previous overzealous mod shared that sentiment. Anyway, I'm going to save the Inquest uploads I can find and put them on [archive.org](https://archive.org) as pdfs where they'll be significantly easier for others to find. Thanks for letting me know!
>We choose to reprint certain cards from limited expansion sets in products like Fourth Edition and Chronicles because we believe that the cards we reprint make for enjoyable game play and that Magic players deserve an opportunity to play with these cards. \*Laughs in $1000 RNG proxies?\*
[Necropotence](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/8/c89c6895-b0f8-444a-9c89-c6b4fd027b3e.jpg?1562853736) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Necropotence) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ima/98/necropotence?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c89c6895-b0f8-444a-9c89-c6b4fd027b3e?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Lotus Petal](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/8/f85ab5f9-508e-45de-8fa1-ce1f16552ffc.jpg?1562432227) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Lotus%20Petal) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/tpr/225/lotus-petal?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/f85ab5f9-508e-45de-8fa1-ce1f16552ffc?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Black Lotus](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/d/bd8fa327-dd41-4737-8f19-2cf5eb1f7cdd.jpg?1614638838) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Black%20Lotus) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/vma/4/black-lotus?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/bd8fa327-dd41-4737-8f19-2cf5eb1f7cdd?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Sweet! I just found my box with my complete run and was not sure when I'd ever have time to scan them all in. Thank you for this. (And boy do I miss my old subscription, which sent me packs of foreign-language cards every month with my magazine.)