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News! Official Reprint Policy & Revised Reprint Policy

Lately, the community (specially eternal players) has been worried about reprints due to the crazy increase of the prices of some cards. We’ve seen lots of rumors about the possibility of power 9 or dual lands being reprinted to boost eternal formats. But today, Wizards of the Coast has spoken and clarified their oficial reprint policy and the revised reprint policy.

These are the two links where they explain the new (or not so new) changes:

Oficial Reprint Policy

Revised Reprint Policy

So, the rules are quite clear now!

Are you satisfied with the announcement of the reprinting policies?

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On the other hand, tomorrow we’ll hope to get a review on the Banned & Restricted lists. Besides of the needed changes to Vintage, I believe that some changes to Legacy might be needed as well. What do you guys think?

Would you change something from the Legacy's Banned list?

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Use the comments to discuss whether or not Legacy needs some changes. You know how I feel, right?

Related article on TP:

Thoughts on breaking the reserved list – By JACO

WotC entrance door mat

Tired of your boring IKEA door mat at your home entrance? Well, Filippo Lietti, aka TroppoRicco suggests you should get one like this then:

I do hate IKEA door mats!

He found it in some shop in London while on vacation. Good one Filippo!

WotC empieza la persecución de los proxies

Con este sugerente título de entrada os informo que Wizards of the Coast ha empezado a mover abogados para denunciar la reproducción y distribución (con fines económicos) de proxies de cartas cuya propiedad es de WotC & Hasbro.

El primer caso se ha dado con un conocidísimo usuario de la comunidad de Vintage: Eric Dupuis, aka ELD. Seguramente muchos de vosotros le conozcáis ya que gracias a él pudimos disfrutar de unos excelentes torneos de Vintage durante el fin de semana del GP Madrid. Eric lleva tiempo regalando a los miembros de los top8′s de sus torneos unos proxies de fabricación casera. Cierto es que también los vendía a un precio más o menos económico, y es aquí donde WotC está en desacuerdo.

En el topic sobre alteraciones de SCG se está manteniendo una discusión (muy informativa) sobre los hechos. Os pongo aquí el enlace para que podáis seguir la resolución de dicha denuncia hecha por WotC y os adjunto parte del mail que le envió el abogado de WotC:

We are counsel for Wizards of the Coast, Inc. (“Wizards”), the owner of the copyrights and trademarks for the MAGIC: THE GATHERING® trading card game. We recently became aware that Mr. Dupuis is making, displaying, distributing and selling “ELD Proxies,” http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=36536.0, which are nothing more than derivative copies of genuine MAGIC: THE GATHERING® trading cards.

Mr. Dupuis’ unauthorized copying of the MAGIC: THE GATHERING® trading cards constitutes copyright infringement in violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501. His unauthorized use of the MAGIC: THE GATHERING® Mana and Tap symbols and other MAGIC: THE GATHERING® trademarks, including the overall look and feel of the trading cards, violates the federal trademark laws, including 15 U.S.C. §§ 1114(1) and 1125(a), by creating a likelihood of confusion with respect to Wizards’ authorization or sponsorship of or association with Mr. Dupuis’ cards and tournament. This unauthorized use is also likely to dilute the distinctive qualities of Wizards’ MAGIC: THE GATHERING® marks in violation of 15 U.S.C. § 1125(c) and the anti-dilution laws of numerous states.

On behalf of Wizards, we therefore demand that Mr. Dupuis immediately cease and desist from any further manufacture, display, distribution or sale of these “ELD Proxies,” destroy any existing ELD Proxies, remove them from themanadrain.com website and from wherever else they may appear, and assure us that Mr. Dupuis and themanadrain.com will make no future unauthorized use of Wizards’ intellectual property.

Personalmente, a pesar de que Eric me parece un tío que hace muchísimo para la comunidad de Vintage, me parece una buena medida para empezar a eradicar los proxies. Talvez las ligas que usan proxies en España deberían plantearse eso de “vender proxies” aunque sea a 1€/carta.

Obviamente, como siempre, habrá gente a favor y en contra de los proxies, así que si queréis continuar con la eterna discusión, os pido que lo hagáis de manera civilizada y sin faltar a nadie.

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Decks del Top8 del WotC 2008 Vintage Championship

Este pasado fin de semana se celebró en Chicago (si no recuerdo mal) el “campeonato del mundo de Vintage” (2008 Vintage Championship). Lo pongo entre comillas pq vendría a ser más bien un campeonato americano… pero bueno.

Al torneo acudieron más de 100 jugadores que competían para un Altered Art Framed Mox Ruby.

Podéis leer el Coverage entero que ha hecho Wizards of the Coast en su página con todas las barajas del Top8, incluyendo la del ganador: Paul Maestriano.

Vintage Championship Top 8 Coverage

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