Magi-Nation Duel

The History and Progress of Magi-Nation Duel

As a chronicle of the game of Magi-Nation Duel CCG/Franchise, these blogs will cover the history of the game, fan run activities, and show off some of the events and art from the game: Magi-Nation Duel.

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History with Interactive Imagination (2i)

The Storyline tournaments of the game let players help influence how the storyline would play out. This article covers a rough history of what these events featured, some of their winners, and how the storyline lore of the game was affected!

The Official story was written with numerous chapters and characters. Here's a quick synopsis for every official story printed! Also, read about the Traitor's Reach story through the relevant cards' flavor text!

Insiider History - 

Insiider.com was a fan site which had a lot of close connections to Interactive Imagination. Recently, we've found some relics from the site, and are re-publishing them here.

A virtual Tour of the 2i offices.
The fan storyline created and submitted as fan content and lore.  Basically official lore at this point. 

The Magi-Nation Official Events:

 Leagues and Tavel's Travels history and images from 2001-2003. 

Tavel's Travels. Phil Tavel, one of the original creators of the game, traveled across the continental US and battled fans in their local games stores in 2001.  


New Community Content

 

2003-2018

Updates of Fan events through early 2018

Magi-Nation, Fans and the Future. See what was done in the last part of the supported game, and what's gone on since then! Multiple fan tournaments, attempts at new formats, a fan storyline tournament, and at least a passing mention of Blue Furok, and the novelty custom cards. 

 

2019

Updates from the Community in 2019!
-New tournaments, new art, a gathering with Phil Tavel, and discoveries of lost Magi-Nation things!

 In 2019, u/Kroodhaxthekrood also released his regional reviews, which you can read below, analyzing all cards by region.  

2020

Updates from the Community in the first part 2020! A tournament, new fan art, and the GBA game was translated to English!

Tournament report for the summer event, Wence's Wandering Memorial Tournament

Updates from the Community in the second part of 2020!  Rich Werner opens commissions, custom art pieces from Animite days, and Insiider.com records were found (See above for direct links). 

Updates from the community, part three of 2020!  A leak finally released the official ROM of Keeper's Quest for the GameBoy Color!  You can now play it on an emulator!  Some amazing fan art and music was released! 

 

2021

Community updates from the game and fans!  Updates include fan creations and art, tournament updates.

Part One.  Stories from 2i, take them as you will.  Trailers from 2i, and some fan creations!

Part Two. A tournament, and more fan creations! 

Cataloging all the story relevant flavor text for Traitor's Reach

 

2022

Magi-Nation Taco cards

Artists and Art of official sources all compiled! 

Pop-culture references of the cards (Base-Awakening

More Magi-Nation Taco Cards

Pop-culture references from Dream's End and Nightmare's Dawn

Pop-culture references from Voice of the Storms

Pop-culture references from Traitor's Reach and Promos

Community Updates for 2022, Part 1

Custom fan set of Magi from MagiMutt, based on horror! 

Community Updates fro 2022, Part 2.

 


Fan-based Storyline Tournaments:

Fans are writing new Magi Nation Duel lore, starting with the adventures of Yaki in 2018 forward.

1. Seeds of Chaos Storyline Event - You can read the first storyhere. Winter (Jan-Feb) 2018.

2. Desperate Journeys Storyline Event - The second storyline tournament, which brought us our tale where Yaki and Sorreah begin a new mission! Fall 2018.

3. Next storyline event to be announced!


Magi-Nation Duel CCG articles:

Starter deck contents, read about what cards came in each of the starter decks published from base set to Voice of the Storms.
By user/PenAgain

Regional Reviews:
Here you can read about the regions' cards, and see a review of their strengths? 
u/Kroodhaxthekrood has graciously allow us to publish his Regional Reviews here:

1. Paradwyn
2. Bograth
3.The sands of d'Resh
4. Weave
5. Naroom
6. Kybar's Teeth
7. The Core
8. The Underneath
9. The deeps of Orothe
10. Cald
11. Arderial
12. Nar
13-ish: Universal!

Review of Daybreak and the Unreleased promos!

More fan and official info coming soon! Found something we're missing? Please comment below!

 

 


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