It’s no secret that Magic: the Gathering has changed a lot over the past few years. The amount of product released alone tells a very different story than the rest of the game’s existence. With a history older than many of the game’s players, it’s safe to say that enough time has passed to create some famous moments. Whether it’s a crazy top-decked Lightning Helix or the terrifying Eldrazi Winter, it’s not uncommon to hear players reminisce amount the famous and infamous events that occurred in the game’s past. Unfortunately, many of the articles capturing these moments are being lost, and MTG history may be gone forever.

The Loss of Archived History

As MTG continues to adapt to the modern world, we see historical patterns fall by the wayside. This also means that Wizards of the Coast is updating their websites to keep up with the times. This, unfortunately, does not come without consequence. As Wizards continues to transfer their information to something cutting edge, old information is being lost. This has been pointed out by Twitter user JasonVorthos, calling out the absence of a series of articles covering legendary moments of MTG history.

As stated by MTG personality SaffronOlive, this wasn’t surprising for the MTG community. Wizards of the Coast announced these changes in an article dating back to November 2022. This article reveals that changes to DailyMTG, the hub for Wizards of the Coast’s articles, are the cause for the loss of all these articles. While this article does reassure that some content will be making a return, there will be some moments lost along the way:

“Q: Beginning November 10, will every DailyMTG article published beforehand still be available?

A: No, some content is going away. While enduringly popular and highly trafficked content, including Magic Story as well as Mark Rosewater’s Making Magic column, plus most content from the past few years, are moving to the new back-end, there are many older articles being retired.

There are a variety of reasons to sunset this content—it requires older technology or web solutions no longer in use, was temporal in nature by context or later updates, or it no longer meets our current editorial standards, among many others—and the extensive volume of content through the years means some of the old must make way for the new.

Any bookmarks you have to articles in English will get you to the right spot if the content made the move to the new back-end. Due to technical limitations, localized (non-English) content that is moving will not redirect to its new page. It will take a little time, but these articles will be accessible through search, similar to how many of you already find our important older content.”

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