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User:Drbing2000/Brainburst

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magic.tcgplayer.com
Type of site
Magazine
Available inEnglish
OwnerAscension Gaming Network, Inc.
Created byVarious
URLhttp://magic.tcgplayer.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched1997

Magic.tcgplayer.com is a strategy website on the Wizards of the Coast trading card game Magic: The Gathering, better known as Brainburst. Brainburst is one of the most popular and influential Magic: The Gathering Websites, introducing decks which went on to have success in high-level competitive Magic.

In 2005, the site was rebranded as magic.tcgplayer.com. The URL brainburst.com still works, but is a redirect to magic.tcgplayer.com.

History edit

The site was started in the summer of 1997[1] and took open submissions for articles. Influential writers such as Mike Flores, Zvi Mowshowitz, and Kai Budde have written for Brainburst.

On March 18, 2003, Brainburst started a premium subscription service. [2]

After Brainburst was rebranded as magic.tcgplayer.com, they made all their articles available without paying for the premium service.

Magic Influence edit

Brainburst has provided decks to the Magic community which have gone on to have success, including Makeshift Mannequin[3] that propelled both Olivier Ruel and Matej Zatlkaj to top eight finishes at Grand Prix Krakow 2007[4] and Kotaro Otsuka's at the 2007 World Championships [5]. Kuan-Kuan Tian's Bubble Hulk deck [6] won a top 8 Pro Tour Qualifier slot[7], and William Spaniel introduced the dredge deck [8] which led all Extended deck archetypes with Pro Tour Qualifier wins by the end of January 2008[9] and had taken twenty-one Pro Tour Qualifier top eight slots by the end of February 2008.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] Through Brainburst, Mowshowitz introduced the viability of Psychatog as a competitive card [27], which Carlos Romao used in his 2002 World Championship deck [28].

Columns edit

magic.tcgplayer.com currently publishes approximately four to five articles per week, running one article each weekday. Several featured writers were selected from the TCGPPrentice contest[29].

  • Zaiem Beg
  • Jeremy Fuentes
  • Robin Russell
  • Thomas Travato
  • Kuan-Kuan Tian
  • David Whitelaw

Former writers edit

  • Adrian Sullivan
  • Ben Rubin
  • Ben Seck
  • Bill Stark
  • Brian Hegstad
  • Brian Kibler
  • Chad Ellis
  • Charles Mousseau
  • Dan Paskins
  • Dan Spiller
  • Darwin Kastle
  • Eric Franz
  • Eric Taylor
  • Frank Gilson
  • Gab Tsang
  • Gabe Carlton-Barnes
  • Gerald Linn
  • Jarrod Bright
  • Jay Schneider
  • Jeff Cunningham
  • Jeff Zandi
  • Jeroen Remie
  • JJ Stors
  • John Larkin
  • John Ormerod
  • Jonathan Loucks
  • Josh Lytle
  • Jun-Wei Hew
  • Justin Gary
  • Justin Polin
  • Kai Budde
  • Laura Mills
  • Mike Flores
  • Nicolai Herzog
  • Nicolas Labarre
  • Patrick Mello
  • Peter Szigeti
  • Riki Hayashi
  • Ruud Warmenhoven
  • Scott Johns
  • Sean McKown
  • Seth Burn
  • Steve Jarvis
  • Terry Soh
  • Victor Van Den Broek
  • William Jensen
  • William Spaniel
  • Zvi Mowshowitz

Notes and references edit

  1. ^ http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?id=2825
  2. ^ http://www.brainburst.com/news/020318.asp
  3. ^ http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?id=7831
  4. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/gpkra07/top8decks
  5. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/worlds07/top8deck
  6. ^ http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=7962
  7. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0216saltlakecity
  8. ^ http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?id=7463
  9. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/mf183
  10. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0105boston
  11. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0105orlando
  12. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0105roanoke
  13. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0105stlouis
  14. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0112fargo
  15. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0112toronto
  16. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0126houston
  17. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0126louisville
  18. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0126pittsburgh
  19. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0209atlanta
  20. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0209baltimore
  21. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0209columbus
  22. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0209denver
  23. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0209madison
  24. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0209mobile
  25. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0209montreal
  26. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/hollywood08ptq/0209winnipeg
  27. ^ http://www.brainburst.com/feature/zvi/020128.asp
  28. ^ http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=sideboard/events/worlds02
  29. ^ http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=7768

External links edit

  • [http:magic.tcgplayer.com]
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