Magi Nation Duel Traitor's Reach

Early Shipping Goal achieved Shipping to charge for everyone next week. Final Call for Add-ons
6 months ago – Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 05:41:30 AM

Hello Everyone,

Thanks to all your support, we have crossed the threshold that will allow us to move the shipping window up! Since that is the case, and the because off site QC team members have started getting their orders as well, we are now preparing with Backerkit to be able to charge shipping charges next Friday 9/26 for the Kickstarter and backerkit pledges. The shipping section is copied below so that you know what to expect. The amounts have been kept to the initially projected amounts despite the turbulent circumstances of the last few years:

Shipping

Shipping tends to be volatile recently and even with an experienced Kickstarter fulfillment team we will charge shipping after the campaign once items are closer to ready to ship. US shipping will likely be close to $8, or $12 for orders with either 6+ decks or cases due to increase in weight or bulk. The international shipping will likely be approximately $18 or $22 based on the same conditions. The largest items such as posters will likely add an additional $5-8 to an order due to increased package size required. We will make an announcement if anything changes with these predictions before shipping happens.

So for clarity, US backers will be billed: $8 for orders with no bulky items and less than 5 decks, $12 for orders with bulky items or more decks, or $20 if the order contains posters or ormagon figurines.

For backers outside the US, the charges will be $18, $22, or $30 for the same categories respectively. Backers in the UK/EU will have your orders forwarded through our partner at Wordforge games in the UK to set proper expectations on tracking and tariffs if applicable in those zones.

Thank you all for working together with us to bring the Moonlands back.

Energize Your Dreams!

2I

P.S. Anyone that wants any items added to their pledge please contact us over the next week to make sure that they can be added before shipping charges. Items can continue to be added after that, but once a specific package has shipped it will no longer be eligible for backer or preorder discounts or promotions. 

P.P.S. We have received confirmation that the metal cards should get to us by the end of the month as well which will be the final add-on needed for completing all orders! (Outside of the digital rewards such as the free TTRPG pdf which will be distributed separately later.)

Paradwyn Dis…ray and Traitor's Reach Uncut Sheets for Sale
6 months ago – Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 06:08:25 PM

Hello Moonlanders!

Our folks at the Arcanist’s Armory have been hard at work QCing the product received from the printing company. You may have seen some pictures in the Discord server! So far all QC tests have passed inspection. We are aware of some discrepancies between the art files and the printed cards, namely the contrast seems to be higher than expected on some. We are currently reviewing our internal processes and communication with the print company to understand the reason behind the variance and ensure that future print runs will be even more accurate. Fortunately, we can confirm that the affected cards are readable and playable and still look really good!

You can check out QC videos of the foil decks and the booster box oppenings here.

Unfortunately, as much as we try to prepare and anticipate any errors or inconsistencies, there will inevitably be some that slip through our defenses. It seems as though someone let Korg design the Wildlands Booster Box and Booster Packs because Paradwyn was accidentally spelled with an “I” instead of a “Y.” Fortunately, this only affects the box and packs and not the cards themselves, though for those of you that like collecting printing errors this is a great opportunity to jump on this because we can assure you it will never, ever happen again. Yes, next time we’ll properly hand the assignment to Zet to avoid future di … dis … ray.

Also! As mentioned in our previous announcement, the print company has provided us with uncut sheets for sale! We have added them to the Arcanist’s Armory website and they run from $100–$350 depending on the type of sheet. We also still have uncut sheets from the original run in the early 2000s ranging from $75 for a damaged sheet to $400 for a rare uncut sheet from the later expansions (Nightmare’s Dawn and Voice of the Storms).

The exciting piece of this is that if we can raise $10,000 from sales of the uncut sheets then we can dedicate the funds to cover the holiday surcharge for shipping without billing any backers that don’t want new items anything more than the shipping charge that was promissed up front. This means we’ll be able to start to ship out product as soon as QC has completed, which is still slated for the month of October. We are currently at $3,000 of $10,000 since the sheets were posted, so we’re already almost a third of the way there!

If we don't manage to raise $10,000, then all proceeds will still go towards shipping fulfillment, albeit after the holidays. This will allow us to prepare all packages ahead of time to be ready to ship starting on January 18, rather than waiting for the shipping charge funds to be deposited before we can order packing material.

Either way, backers will still be charged shipping costs as advertised, but it will either be at the end of this month, or January 2026, depending on if we hit our goal. Whatever funds are  replenished thereafter when shipping charges normally will go towards a future project beyond fulfillment.

We are still a year ahead of our projected fulfillment, and the uncut sheets will help us remain ahead of schedule and even push us further ahead for fulfillment in 2025 rather than the proposed January 2026 fulfillment date from last announcement.

Of course, if there are any questions, please feel free to reply to this announcement or ask in the Discord server. We truly appreciate everyone’s patience and excitement. Things are really moving along and we trust everyone will be mighty pleased with the end product.

Until then, remember to …

Energize Your Dreams!

-2I

P.S. if anyone has any last minute items you want added such as decks, foils, booster boxes, or promos let us know. All add-ons from this point, through fulfillment, will also count toward the $10,000 line.  Remember that after your packages ship, many of the discounts or Kickstarter exclusive bundle options or foil decks will no longer be available.

They're Here!
6 months ago – Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 08:21:33 PM

Hello Magi-Nation Backers!

It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for! … Mostly ;)

We finally received our shipment from the print company!

So what's next? Starting now, and over the course of the next month or so, our team will QC the product to make sure it is up to standard before we start shipping it out to our loyal backers. What will this look like?

We anticipate QC to be finished during October. Barring any complications, we should then be ready to start locking in addresses and start calculating final shipping prices. However, due to the holiday season, shipping companies in the US increase their shipping prices drastically while also increasing the of lost packages so we are opting to wait until the holiday season is over before shipping packages. That will give our backers time to adjust any shipping addresses and credit cards on file and for our team to pull all the orders emphasizing accuracy so they are ready to ship as a batch.

The holiday season runs from October 5th to January 18th, therefore we ask our backers to have their addresses and cards up to date by January 2026 so we can start shipping in earnest as soon as the shipping companies end their holiday surcharges.  If you want to add any final addons to your pledge please get them to us sooner rather than later as having to repull an already picked pledge can increase the potential for errors.

We understand this may not be the ideal situation for some backers who want their Traitor’s Reach product sooner, but we made this decision to protect our backers from additional charges and to negate the increased risk of lost product or fulfillment errors during the holiday season.

For those with questions we encourage you to comment on the Kickstarter page or start a discussion in our Discord or Reddit.

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That’s the big news! In other news, there are the last uncut sheets from the original print run from the 2000s storage for sale on The Arcanist’s Armory website and we anticipate adding additional Traitor’s Reach uncut sheets over the course of the next few months as we move through the new product. Also, in addition to the official cards from the Traitor’s Reach Expansion Set, we will also have the final add-on—the metal cards—in hand soon; finished and ready to ship out with the rest of the product.

Another cool development is that we now have illustrated lore documents drawn by Bryan Taylor of the new Magi-Nation Art Team! You can purchase them at The Arcanist's Armory and Bryan has plans to continue drawing as long as folks remain interested!  We also now have an assembled lore team so watch for new lore releases coming out in the coming months.

And let’s not forget the tournament! If you have opinions about the competitive balance of MND or just want a chance to play online while waiting for your cards to come, sign ups are still open until Wednesday, August 27 @ 10:00am EST for our upcoming Banlist Tournament on Lackey. Whether you want to play with cards that will be in print as of the fulfillment of the Kickstarter, look ahead to the future meta of Daybreak, or both, this is your chance to help set the foundation for the future of organized play. Prizes for the top three placers in each tournament and the overall top finisher across both will be provided by The Arcanist's Armory.

You can sign up for the tournament here.

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We thank you all for your patience and continued support! Once again, if you have any questions, please let us know through the Kickstarter page or Discord.

And as always, remember to …

Energize Your Dreams!

-2I

Printing finished update
8 months ago – Tue, Jul 08, 2025 at 06:57:37 PM

Hello, everyone!

First and foremost, we hope everyone had a happy holiday this weekend, and for those that didn’t celebrate the Fourth of July, we hope your fourth of July was just as happy!

We are excited to announce that as of this week, printing is finished and fully paid for. Unfortunately, the tariff situation has pushed shipping back by a few months. Cards will ship out as soon as final negotiations have concluded, upon which they will receive a thorough quality control inspection from our friends at the Arcanist’s Armory to ensure the printing meets our standards. If the cards pass inspection and everything goes according to schedule, we should be ready to charge backers for shipping costs and start sending product in the early first quarter of next year.

We will also have a limited number of uncut sheets from each of the region decks in both standard and foil available. More news on that at a later date, but here’s a sneak peak at the Arderial sheet:

In other Moonlands-related news, Matt Holmberg has finished the second commission from the art auction, and the commissioner was gracious enough to share it! Drop by our Discord Server to talk about the piece or download a higher resolution version!

It is still such a cool experience to see new Magi-Nation art coming out after all this time!

We thank you all for the continued support, especially after the uncertainty we were thrust into with tariffs, but it seems as though the dust is settling and we finally have enough visibility to move forward. Thank you all again for your patience and understanding.

And as always, remember to …

Energize Your Dreams!

2I

Tariff Challenges Met and Exciting News
10 months ago – Wed, May 14, 2025 at 10:26:56 PM

Hello Backers,

For those of you who have been right here with us monitoring the tariff situation, it has been quite the month!  We were able to raise about $30,000 collectively—internally and externally—from the sales in the last announcement, which was really amazing to see.  Matt Holmberg is working on the first of the art commissions from the auction and results are looking cool so far. The commissions alone raised almost $5,000 of the funds!

With the recent reset of Chinese tariffs to 30% for 90 days we have received confirmation that the print run can complete and ship during that window!  We have a rate that is locked and not dependent on tariffs now as we are close enough that the company is willing to do that which means we have the cash on hand to pay for the contract now and get the cards to start shipping within a few months!

We were looking into alternate options, including printing via the printer’s US based print shops, but the price to make the exact same items in the United States is almost $100,000 more, and would not even be able to start production before mid next year. That said, we do also have the contact to work with them potentially on future projects now.

As hard as the situation with the tariffs has been, it did provide us with a great opportunity: While looking at any ways that we could cut costs without cutting quality, we looked into a new sheet configuration with the printer. The new configuration will save a bit of money on the whole contract (which is always good), but it also means that we get to add more cards to each of the decks and booster boxes! Each deck will get 5 additional cards (though, admittedly, most of them are duplicates of cards already in the decks, to allow quick QC on the process, because the window of opportunity was small). This also means that 15 more cards will be added to each booster box! You can see the updated lists here:  

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UnpbY37-uFbrgHFfaL1_HDe2E0m8I2tJ7tY1-PAfTHE/edit?usp=drivesdk

We will also be sending promo versions of Rayje’s Belt to backers as a thank you for your support through this all.  There will be copies made available for animite trade if you or your friends want more after fulfillment too.

In true Magi-Nation style, there are some cool secrets hidden throughout the final prints to find. But with this cute little guy we will give you a head start:

Since the lowering of the tariffs helped get us over the line, we will keep the additional pledge items discounts available until Saturday this week (5/17) at 10:00 PM Eastern Time.  The options are posted below for those that missed the last notice.
🔹 Additional Pledge Items – Backers who wish to expand their pledges can now add the following items at a discounted rate by messaging us here or Artimillies on the Discord:
Booster Box – $100
Foil Decks (x2) – $100
Bundle of 13 Decks – $100
Playset of Promos – $150
Foil Playset of Promos – $350

We appreciate your continued support and enthusiasm.  Together, we are overcoming all obstacles that stand in the way of delivering the Moonlands to everyone!