Magic: The Gathering organized-play archive

pro tours · team play · premier play rules · player psychology

mulldrifting.com is a small, independent reference on the history of competitive Magic: The Gathering. It covers Pro Tour events and their Top 8s, the testing teams and official team formats behind them, rule changes to Wizards of the Coast's premier play, and the vocabulary players use to describe themselves. Every article lists the sources its facts come from.

Archive index

Dates refer to the period each entry covers, not a publication date.

• 1999–2019
  Team competition in Magic: team Pro Tours, testing teams and the Team Series

  A sourced history of team play in Magic: The Gathering, from Team Rochester Pro Tours (1999–2007) and famous trios to testing teams and the Pro Tour Team Series.

• Oct 2013
  Pro Tour Theros (Dublin, 2013): format, Top 8 and teams

  Pro Tour Theros, Dublin, October 11–13, 2013: Standard and Theros draft, 428 players, Jérémy Dezani's Mono-Blue Devotion win, full Top 8 and the testing teams behind it.

• Sep 2013
  Team rosters before Pro Tour Theros: how testing teams worked in 2013

  Before official Pro Tour teams existed, players formed testing teams. What those teams were, how they prepared, and who was on them around Pro Tour Theros 2013.

• 2002–2015
  The MTG personality types: Timmy, Johnny, Spike, Vorthos and Mel

  Mark Rosewater's psychographic profiles Timmy, Johnny and Spike, their sub-types and hybrids, plus the aesthetic profiles Vorthos and Mel (Melvin), with links to the original articles.

• May 2013
  Pro Tour Dragon's Maze (San Diego, 2013): results, Top 8 and testing teams

  Pro Tour Dragon's Maze, San Diego, May 17–19, 2013: Return to Ravnica Block Constructed, Craig Wescoe's win, the full Top 8, the Esper-heavy metagame and #TeamSCG's preparation.

• Apr 2013
  Summary of the 2013 changes to Wizards of the Coast premier play

  What Wizards of the Coast changed in April 2013: new Pro Players Club thresholds and benefits, the Grand Prix top-five rule, 15-round GPs, PT invites at big GPs and the 2014 schedule.

• Jul 2010
  Magic 2011 (M11): the core set, its prerelease and drafting basics

  Magic 2011 core set facts: July 2010 prerelease and release dates, 249 cards, scry, Titans, planeswalker signature cards, prerelease promos and Sealed/draft basics.

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