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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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