Magi Nation Duel Traitor's Reach

September Update everything still on track with some inner workings revealed.
over 1 year ago – Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 01:05:09 PM

Booster pack sets:

As previously announced with Kickstarter, we’re making four reprint booster boxes with three regions each, plus universal!

We’d like to give you some insight into what goes into picking cards and making the lists work. What makes these sets challenging is that we can only include 150 cards and must split it evenly between Rares, Uncommons, and Commons as well as mixing in promos. We want to also include cards players are excited about, but also avoid things we suspect are very common in the community (like cards that have multiple reprints from original or promotional starter decks or boosters).

As we get closer to releasing the second booster set list, we’ll go over more detailed choices. Ask us what choices you’d like to hear about!  We are also naming each of the four booster sets. The Naroom, Paradwyn and Weave set will be called “Traitor’s Reach: Wildlands”!

Templating for release:

Something people ask is why the timeline may be so long to release all the KS cards. What they don’t know is that we’re remaking the templates for Magi-Nation individually.

It’s unfortunate that not all of the original files (even art!) have made it through the years and survived, so it’s an arduous process to create each card template for all 13 regions and make each card individually—adding in art and making sure the text is set!

None of the team is on this full-time either, so we’re making steps forward as quickly as our time allows (when we’re not suffering cyber attacks from the dream plane). We hope to make steady progress, and these updates will hopefully give you all an idea of where we’re at!

Following up on last update, this is what the first deck print placement sheet looks like.  People have asked why there is a double backed card.  The sheet has to be 50 cards exactly and we were working on a 7 card rules quickstart as stores and players alike had told us that rules cards that allow a player to play their first game without needing a QR code were a must.  It turned out we were able to get the rules onto 6 cards and any extra rules that might be addable for the last slot either ended up needing more or less than the available space.  As such, there will be a double backed card in the Naroom deck.  This will work as a token or bookmark, and allow us to see a foiled cardback as well.  The choice was made as we hit up against the deadline for the first deck submission.  As each deck has a rolling deadline stretching through February, it is likely that the other decks will have something else in the slot as well, but not the same bookmark.  

Also, as a note, all deckboxes will have 3 animite on their tab just as the older deckboxes had.  We also will be accepting extra sets of rules quickstarts from backers for up to 6 months after the end of the campaign for 1 animite per nonfoil set and 10 animite per extra foil set.  For those new to Magi-Nation Duel, Animite is a crystal currency of the Moonlands.  In this case it is a key to the 2I point redemption program which allows collectors to trade in points for various promos or other items.  These trades and extra copies from the campaign will allow 2I to build a reserve of available rules sets to be sent to stores or new players in the future to allow any future decks made to free up slots that are not freeable in the current project.  The quickstart rules are very important inclusions in this round as it saves the project between $30-$50k in rulebook printing costs which is why it was announced from the start on the page that they were to be included in the boxes.

Finally, after several times advocating for the community with the printers we have been given an opportunity to have a very small number of uncut sheets added to the order.  There will be between 10-20 uncut sheets of each design produced.  Some will be available for future prizes and auctions to help fund future projects after this campaign closes. 

Playtesting:

Does the current draft of Possession, perhaps cast by way of Cleansing or Mantle of Shadows, enable a dangerous combo? Are Tony, Returned's cost reduction or ability to loop certain Relics too powerful or are they balanced by his difficulty casting Spells? Is Darkwood Furok too pushed, and if so, is the solution to reduce its starting energy, limit Summoning to once per turn, or something else?

Help us answer these and other questions by participating in Community Playtesting to some credit from the Arcanist's Armory!  See the announcement post for details!  

Details for those not on Discord: A limited time playtest promotion! Every person that wants to build a deck around 1 or more of the new promos and then play matches. For every documented match that you provide feedback on the promos for, AA can give you a $2.50 gift card up to a total of $25 per playtester. However, each promo can only count as a new promo for testing up to 3 times or $7.50 (of the $25 max) so to get all $25 and be eligible for the total amount you will need to try at least 4 different decks. I will also give a $100+ a promo of the tester’s choice (of those available in the remaining inventory at the time this is claimed) for the first 3 community members to claim $25 gift cards who have 10+ documented matches with feedback.

This will help prepare for the upcoming Final Playtest Tournament for the current batch of promos—both Duelworks and unreleased 2i designs—to be released as part of the Kickstarter redemption.

Top finishers in the tournament will receive cash prizes from Duelworks' design budget, and the champion will have the opportunity to commission a promo Spell design donated by the head of Duelworks!

First deck sent to print
over 1 year ago – Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 08:51:11 PM

Hello everyone,

We are on our way to getting these items made for you all.  As a reminder, the digital updating of the original files into modern photoshop for printing is a slow but steady and important process.  The first deck has officially been sent to the printers, and as the Naroom deck has 3 different regions of cards in it we can show off official previews of 3 cards sent in the batch for you to see the amazing new borders and the promised commemorative MH rarity mark. 
 

We will continue passing a new deck to the printers every 2-3 weeks until all have been transferred which means we are still exactly on time for the projected schedule.  Most addons have been paid for and are in production as well and should be finished well before the printed items.  In fact, we received word that all extra copies of the weebo dice should likely be here next month.

Thank you for your support.  We will continue to show previews of official new generation cards as we go forward.  

Energize your Dreams,

2I LLC

Booster Box contents for first box reveal and surveys closing reminder
over 1 year ago – Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 10:37:18 AM

Release of the First TR booster box card list

We’re excited to announce the team has finalized the first booster box card list for reprints of the Naroom, Paradwyn, and Weave Regions! You’ll find that all the exciting Traitor’s Reach cards from these regions will be found in the set, as well as reprints across all of Magi-Nation’s original sets. There are also some previously printed Limited promotional cards in the set, which will be included on the rare sheet. These booster boxes contain 150 individual cards, so check out the list below!

Here it is!

Reminder, surveys close tomorrow night so get everything finished before then.  Any pledges left at that point that have not collected through Kickstarter, or are just for $1-3 tips, will be marked as closed successfully or cancelled so that you will stop receiving reminders to fill your surveys if that applies to you.  If you do, however, want to upgrade your tier, then make sure to do it before end of day tomorrow.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT READ BY 7/12
over 1 year ago – Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 05:51:18 AM

Hello everyone,

We are excited to announce that black core card-stockhas been unlocked, all thanks to an enterprising member of the community who is looking to start a Magi-Nation focused store and campaign circuit.

All non-foil cards in decks, promos, and booster packs will now be upgraded with premium black core.  (The foiling process adds its own different foil stock which is why only nonfoils are gaining the core.)

• With black core unlocked by the exact amount in direct payment, we can move the next booster box up! This puts us only $38,000 away from the unlock of the Arderial, Orothe, and Nar box if it stays in the lead!
• However, it’s in hot contention with Cald, Kybar’s Teeth, and D’resh, and could be swapped out any time now!!

While the next booster box is still a ways off, and might not be reached at this time, even if it is not, it will likely be made soon after fulfillment! If you have been holding off to see if blackcore unlocks, now is the time to add something special!

We are extending the BackerKit survey one extra week to account for this new unlock and the US holiday this week. That way, we may update the printing company on the change, and also to give more time to that one-tenth of backers who still have not filled out their surveys.

• Please get your survey completed or updated by the night of July 12th.
• We will still be charging cards on July 15th. We will not need to push the planned schedule back.
• If you cannot find your survey, you can recover your link here if you are having problems, or please reach out to us at [email protected] or [email protected]. 

In other exciting news, an opportunity is allowing us to move the store & project storage to a larger climate controlled spot without any additional costs!   

Also, with the move, we are aiming to open a Magi-Nation specialized game store in Richmond, Utah! Assuming the proper permits and licenses go through, we’ll be in brick and mortar!

• This is very good for protection, insuring, and handling of the items.
• We also now own a company vehicle to make inventory transfer easier and safer.
• All these changes are super exciting, but it will make this month more busy than planned and you may experience a slightly longer than usual delay in response time from the team.

Finally, we will be announcing the contents list of the first booster box sometime next week if everything goes according to plan. In case you haven’t seen them yet, these are the current create-a-card promos that have been created and drafted:

Their text may change as playtesting occurs over the next few months, but it is so amazing to see so many awesome new cards and concepts coming out!

Remember to Energize your Dreams,

2I

$300,000 passed! New booster box unlocked and added to survey options
almost 2 years ago – Fri, May 31, 2024 at 05:42:40 PM

Hello Everyone,  

With the foils auction in full swing and more backers filling out their surveys, we have officially passed $300,000 pledged between the campaign and afterwards.  That means that it is time for a stretch goal unlock of a booster box!  And here are the results:  Out of the box pledges in backerkit, we have

Orothe/Arderial/Nar $4,052.00 Cald/Kybars Teeth/Dresh $3,784.00 and Core/Bograth/Underneath $5944

That means that Core/Bograth/Underneath has now unlocked and been added as a selectable option on pledge questions and addons as unlocked alongside the Weave/Naroom/Paradwyn box!  

The next stretch goal is now Black Core upgrade for all cards at $49,500 more needed or $19980 in direct pledges for it's unlockable addon in backerkit.  The all foils auction announced in the last update is just under $10,000 in total bids already which helped account for a large part of the jump towards this last unlock!  Thanks all for checking it out.  Almost every card has a bid and bids are still live for 2 more weeks.

If you are one of the 15% of backers that have not filled out their survey yet, or have lost it, you can find it at 

Have a great weekend and we are excited to see how much further we can travel together!  With two boxes officially unlocked, it practically guarentees that there will be enough money to release the other two eventually as we sell off stock after fulfillment as well as procuring rolling funding to keep production of new sets going while we work.  Congratulations to all of you, you truely are Heroes of the Moonlands!