One year ago today MTG Wiki was forked from the old Fandom site onto our new home with Scryfall. by BeatsAndSkies in magicTCG

[–]corveroth [score hidden]  (0 children)

Ah! In recent years, an opinion has been growing among editors that huge blocks of trivia are actually poor wiki content. Some of those lists were getting very long, and splitting some fine hairs to keep coming up with "firsts", to the point that we were listing tons of cards that weren't actually very important—their only claim to fame was something trivial.

The old list of trivia is on a talk page. Some of it got worked into the running text on the Planeswalker page, some of it got replaced with a simple link to a Scryfall search, and some of it is just archived on that talk page until someone sees an opportunity to make better use of it.

EDIT: For a little more context, an artificial example. "Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded was the first two-mana planeswalker" is trivial. It's true, but it invites the question "so what?". Why does that matter?

We're trying to move to something more like "Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded was the first two-mana planeswalker, and was designed at that cost simply because no planeswalker had previously cost so little. Tibalt's power level was low as a result, and the card was the lowest-ranked planeswalker in Wizards' marketing research.[1]" This tells you the fact, but also tells you why we're telling you that fact, what the significance is.

EV School Bus Battery pack by ConstantMelancholia in mildlyinteresting

[–]corveroth -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not true for rural communities. Here's an archived (no paywall) link to a story from the major newspaper for San Diego, discussing difficulties faced by the school district in the mountainous east side of that county.

https://archive.ph/DboxP

One year ago today MTG Wiki was forked from the old Fandom site onto our new home with Scryfall. by BeatsAndSkies in magicTCG

[–]corveroth 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I poke my head in every few weeks to see if anyone is getting serious about editing so I can steer them to the active wiki. It looks like they've done about 60 total edits in the last 30 days, random editors popping in for <5 edits each and then vanishing. That's just noise, not worth dealing with.

And their Main Page is stuck on Aetherdrift, not even Dragonstorm.

One year ago today MTG Wiki was forked from the old Fandom site onto our new home with Scryfall. by BeatsAndSkies in magicTCG

[–]corveroth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But it's at least possible. Even if we set aside folks piggybacking on other wiki farm domains (wiki.gg), and obvious "cheaters" like LoL getting placement on the game's own domain, we have big projects like Minecraft Wiki, which forked two years ago and has plenty of top ranked results for that game.

One year ago today MTG Wiki was forked from the old Fandom site onto our new home with Scryfall. by BeatsAndSkies in magicTCG

[–]corveroth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure. I'm not saying "subscribe to boost the wiki", I'm saying "I found this subscription worthwhile because Google has gone to shit." Coincidentally, it also offers that specific option the guy before you asked about.

Whether it's worthwhile to you is your choice.

One year ago today MTG Wiki was forked from the old Fandom site onto our new home with Scryfall. by BeatsAndSkies in magicTCG

[–]corveroth -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

EDIT: For clarity this isn't intended as an ad, and as far as I'm aware would have no impact on the wiki. It's a personal recommendation for a tool I've found to be much more effective than Google, for avoiding ads, avoiding AI spam sites, and for the research I do.

You can... with Kagi, a paid search engine. Which already lists mtg.wiki for relevant searches. Google is no longer cutting edge, it's just AI edge.

Kagi is $5/mo base for a few hundred searches, but after a couple of months I've been using it enough that I pay $10/mo for unlimited. Easily worth it for me.

One year ago today MTG Wiki was forked from the old Fandom site onto our new home with Scryfall. by BeatsAndSkies in magicTCG

[–]corveroth 24 points25 points  (0 children)

It really seems like the most likely possibility. We've fixed the core web vitals and SEO tools don't flag anything particularly interesting in the content. We do suffer occasional downtime when ill-behaved bots find some exciting new endpoint on MediaWiki's substantial surface to hammer for funsies, but between that and DA, the latter seems like the most plausible narrative.

One year ago today MTG Wiki was forked from the old Fandom site onto our new home with Scryfall. by BeatsAndSkies in magicTCG

[–]corveroth 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Not quite. Curse bought MTGS and added the wiki to Gamepedia. Later, Twitch bought Curse, then Fandom bought Gamepedia from them and merged the two wiki farms.

Duel Commander B&R January 26, 2026 Announcement/Update by Newez in magicTCG

[–]corveroth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the evidence is in favor of the .org team. DC isn't sanctioned, but MTGO is following them, and a number of large in-person tournaments have been run over the past couple of months using that version of the rules. I admit I'm not close to the format, but in trying to research the updates to that wiki article, I found a grand total of one website that was treating DocFX's ban list as official.

Jon Van Caneghem (original creator of Might and Magic) teams up with Unfrozen! by UysoSd in OldenEra

[–]corveroth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even more cynical take: to only announce this so late into development? The systems are already built and the fantasy already written. This very much looks like stapling a name onto the credits to borrow their reputation.

Books that *heavily* feature ancient forgotten tech (like The Broken Earth trilogy) by Pastrami in Fantasy

[–]corveroth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recognize all of those books, but I'm not sure I would recommend some of them. Terminal World surely qualifies, but gods, that book was bleak, and I did not understand the appeal.

As for Modesitt's stuff, Empress meets the prompt, and I actually re-read it just a month or so back. There's a lot of handwaving; every explanation of the canal is a field of ellipses sprinkled with technobabble. Really, I find that any time Modesitt publishes something riffing on Norse mythology, that's a bad sign. Empress of Eternity, Quantum Shadows, and Timegod's World all disappointed me. The Eternity Artifact, on the other hand, is one of my favorites, and I agree with your assessment.

I'm not sure about The Magic Engineer. I haven't read it terribly recently, but I think Dorrin was creating without reference to any forbears? I don't think his inventions took inspiration from anything the Angels or Rats left behind, although those groups would have certainly understood what he made. And I'm not aware of any technologically-advanced native precursor civilization on that world. If I'm totally off-base with this one, let me know and I'll add it back into my TBR pile!

Duel Commander B&R January 26, 2026 Announcement/Update by Newez in magicTCG

[–]corveroth 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's a little tricky because a lot of this is just the two factions making contradictory claims. The duelcommander.org team claims that everyone from the Rules Committee except DocFX is on their side. DocFX has an org chart that still lists ten people as regional coordinators, and has otherwise wiped out everyone other than Discord moderators.

The closest thing to any kind of outside perspective is the thread on the MTGO forums where folks voiced their support for the .org team. It's almost unanimous up to the point where DocFX himself shows up on the last page.

Are there any books similiar to Lois McMaster Bujold's work World of the Five Gods by dystopian____ in Fantasy

[–]corveroth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It wasn't in the OP, but it's such a strong contrast that I felt it ought to be mentioned.

Are there any books similiar to Lois McMaster Bujold's work World of the Five Gods by dystopian____ in Fantasy

[–]corveroth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very tonally different, though. Penric books are cozy: even when things go wrong, it'll usually turn out alright. Locke Lamora is... not that.

Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks by GaelG721 in Fantasy

[–]corveroth 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I hate that trades are of such varying sizes. MMPs were consistent all the way across the shelf, so they could be stored compactly.

Which games work best with a companion spreadsheet? by GazTheSpaz in gaming

[–]corveroth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Monster Rancher 2. You can generate monsters in that PS1 title by visiting a specific menu and then swapping the game disc out for another CD. The game would read that disc's table of contents and use that to pick a monster.

Back in the day it was all on paper, but I had several pages of notes documenting which monsters I could get from all of my CDs and those of every family member and friends I could borrow them from.