Of all things Geek. I am…
When I set out to explore the roots of Magic: The Gathering, or as I define it “Old School Magic,” I wasn’t sure what I would discover. I also wasn’t sure what my parameters would be, other than starting with the first sets I played with. I also wasn’t sure when I would reach the end of my journey.
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With the news of researchers at the University of Rochester developing a “three-dimensional, transmitting, continuously multidirectional cloaking” device, it’s time to dream big.
This cloaking device is being related to Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak but, in truth, cloaking or invisibility has been a part of Dungeons & Dragons, science fiction, comics, gaming, and literature well before J.K. Rowling put pen to paper.
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Urza’s Destiny was released on June, 23rd 1999 as the last expansion for the Urza’s Block. It was the first expansion to fully embrace the new rules introduced in Classic Sixth Edition, because it was the first set released since Classic Sixth changed the game of Magic: the Gathering.
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Joseph Ferdinand Cheval was a French postman who spent 33 years building Le Palais idéal (the “Ideal Palace”) in Hauterives, France.
The building began in earnest in April 1879, at first with stones from his pocket. It gradually moved to stones in a basket and eventually included a wheelbarrow to move larger stones. It took him 33 years to build the palace, 20 of which were spent on the outer walls alone. From one stone to another along his postal route, he collected them while thinking to himself, “Since Nature is willing to do the sculpture, I will do the masonry and the architecture.”
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Resembling more Chronicles and less core set, Classic Sixth Edition was more than just a collection of cards. It was a prophetic look into the future, setting precedence with its changes for the core sets to follow in its near future. The set itself wasn’t very “classic” when it was released on April 28,
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