Region themed decks for Magi-Nation Duel and further support for store play etc through promos and unlockable booster boxes. The shipping date shown is the very worst case scenario knowing that backerkit only orders tend to sort to the end of the fulfillment lists. Shipping will be charged all at once for backers and store late preorders later after the initial close in July closer to when fulfillment actually starts.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
1st Storage Auction, Backerkit Survey update, and BIG NEWS
about 2 years ago
– Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 07:44:22 PM
Hello Everyone,
First up, sorry for the delay in more info. The Survey is built and with backerkit for review, but it has passed their standard review time. I reached out to the project concierge that we were provided for the project passing $100k and they found that somehow the request was archived without being actually completed so hopefully we hear back in the next day or two on anything left to fix and can send smoke tests soon there after.
EXCITING NEWS Matt Holmberg has officially signed a contract with 2I LLC, the Arcanist’s Armory, and Duelworks LLC to work as the project Art Director for fulfilment on this project and to manage art production and quality into future projects! We welcome the artists that many consider the premier Magi-Nation artist officially into leadership over future art development. He has been supportive all along as a commissioned artist but it is very exciting to have him returning even more!
We got the storage safely moved from Seattle to Utah.
Its taking hundreds of hours to log everything, but we are ready to run the first test auction. Three booster boxes of every released set as well as 3 sealed starter deck displays (10 decks) for every set are now up for auction until 5 pm MNT on May 11. Bid instructions are at the top of the page but please let us know if there are any problems. Google docs has been known to take up to 4 hrs for some peoples info to update so make sure to bid early since bids that come in late might not be recorded by the cutoff so if its your style snipe at your own risk. Minimum bids have been set at around 2/3 of most recent sales prices and all sales will be used toward project expenses including 50% will be applied directly toward more booster boxes unlocking. All bids must be at least $1 more than the bid under them to get recorded.
After funds settled with dropped pledges we are only $50k away from the next unlock. Each box will be an unlockable addon in backerkit (only charged if the $50k needed is raised for that box or by stretchgoal in which case the most funded not yet unlocked box will unlock. More instructions and information on that will come with the Backerkit instructions.
Kickstarter Funded, Storage transferred, Geoh unlocked, giveaways, and Failed Payments/Next Steps
about 2 years ago
– Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 07:09:12 AM
Hello Heroes.
Status
We did it together! $266k with only $33,635 errored paymets across less than 10% of backers is actually very good for Kickstarter standards and 20 backers have fixed their payments already taking the uncollected balance down to $28,482. Now, just being good does not mean we don't need as much of that to collect as possible, how much exactly collects will determine how close to the second Booster Box we are when we enter the Backerkit survey phase.
Backerkit explanation
For those of you new to Kickstarter, or who just have not had the joys of a project large enough to use a pledge manager, Backerkit is a seperate website that we build a survey through to let you choose your decks and addons etc. You can choose to just fill out the survey, or to add new items. If any new item or pledge upgrades are added then they will be charged in early to mid July when the surveys are locked. Don't worry that you have not gotten your survey yet we are still building them and cannot send them within the first 2 weeks after the campaign since they need Kickstarter to have sent the collected funds to be able to import user data. We will put out an announcement when we have the surveys ready to send in the next 2-3 weeks when what is called a Smoke Test is sent to the first 5% of pledges to make sure everything is working before they go out to everyone. This will also allow us to continue collecting toward booster box unlocks as well as putting a specific addon for each that will only charge if the specific box gets enough to get made.
Storage
We were able to move the storage locker unit to the team at Arcanist's Armory in Utah. There were several amazing finds items under 15 in count will likely be auctioned or sold via private messages to help fund the unlock of new boxes etc for the Kickstarter, but some large quantity items, by comparison, will be added as selectable addons in the Backerkit survey limited to the quantity on hand. Examples will include hats for $25, white official MND Tshirts for $25, Booster Packs of Limited and Unlimited run (Cald/Orothe/Arderial/Underneath/Naroom came in this set) for their original MSRP of $3 a pack. Items like this will likely have a limit to the number any one backer can buy so as to keep them available for as many people as would like to get their hands on some original stock as possible. Watch for more announcements on this, and even if Discord is not your thing, we highly recommend joining the server (link at the bottom of the campaign page). The community is incredibly wholesome and it decreases your chances of missing out on important updates which will get posted here too but Kickstarter eats notifications a little easier than Discord does.
Below you can see 2I managing member Don Morris getting us into the unit as well as the packed items as secured for their 16 hour drive.
Geoh Unlocked
Failed payments are a known Kickstarter problem, and as such were planned for and since we passed $250k we will be making Holmberg’s Geoh magi and adding it as the last $10 promo or bundle pack inclusion. Bringing the playset bundle of promos count into the high 60s or even 70 if all of the create a card tiers come through! Matt Holmberg came out to help with the storage and sends his love to all of you and the work:
Ryan Shreeve also came out to help but was more camera shy (and also the phone died mid catalog).
Here is your peek at the new Geoh magi with effects and powers to be created/balanced before printing.
Giveaways
Clurman Art piece (For passing $250k): 359
Full Playset Foils Promo Pack (For passing $250k while the campaign was live): 13
Japanese Dan promo card: 126
FInal 7 Orangaran (PW): 949, 44, 419, 39, 198, 667, and 110
Final 7 Volcano Hyren: 853, 600, 254, 574, 461, 12, and 690
Congrats to all winners this last batch and the ones from the last announcement will be contacted before the Backerkit survey emails go out. We verified that at least the art and playset winners have current pledges. With 986 total backer numbers and 903 active pledges after removing the 39 pledges from the one cancelled backer early on, that means that we had under 5% of actual backer pledges drop. That is an amazing percentage, and shows how awesome and dedicated you all are. The Moonlands thank you!
3 New Decklist reveals
about 2 years ago
– Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 10:49:27 AM
Hello All,
We are entering the last 2 days and have only $16,000 to go for Holmber's Custom Underneath Magi Geoh being added to the promo bundles! Where we and the Armory reps will be very busy loading the storage unit for travel to Utah, we are going ahead and revealing the next 3 decklists now. We will watch and attempt to update as available, but it will be a bit more time between those updates as we are busy making sure that we can get as much cool stuff out to you as possible.
We have been testing out the a revived Animite redemption program for a few test promos. We received a set of Animite cards in yesterday and want to let you join in our celebrating its success we will giveaway half with 1 50 animite card, 7 25 animite cards, and 20 10 animite cards. We also have 3 more Volcano Hyrens and 3 PW Orangarans.
New unlocked promo reveal, giveaways, and sneak peaks
about 2 years ago
– Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 06:33:16 PM
As with other revealed promos Chelon's abilities will be tested for formatting, but thanks to artist Clurman and our passing the $200,000 stretch goal, Chelon will be added to the promos available in the choose a promo or all promos bundles.
For the promised giveaways we have the Clurman art piece and the standard promo bundle:
Clurman custom commission goes to 478
Bundle of all standard promos with playsets goes to 403
JING JACK POLL RESULTS
Thank you all for participating in the Jing Jack polls. With a whopping 67 responses the results are in with Purple with frame break winning at 53%. Very nice feedback overall!
ADDRESSING RUMORS AND INFO
There have been a lot of questions cycling one way or the other as things have gotten bigger recently and we want to address some things directly:
Are Kickstarter items exclusive? The items themselves are almost entirely not exclusive, while deck edition cards will have the commemorative Moonlands Hero edition mark, they will continue to be available for sale until the run has run out through retailers, Arcanist's Armory, and other ways and even then may be reprinted without the mark or released in other ways. Promos will be available for direct sale, tournament prizes, animite redemptions, and more. The only items slated to be exclusive are the special commemorative League elder cards, which as of yet only one has been claimed with a $10.000 tier. That does not mean that things will be easy to get after the Kickstarter, foil decks will only be sold together at the Kickstarter so buying them as individual cards or hunting them in decks will be the way forward to get all the foils if you do not buy the decks now, but they will be available. Random foils coming with decks will be Kickstarter Exclusive so, decks purchased after both the campaign and Backerkit survey closes will not have random foils added to the contents.
We, at 2I, are also quite involved and very excited to help our game return to the world. Sharik Peck is actually flying out to Seattle this weekend to drive our storage of old inventory and promotional material back to Utah to manage with the remainder of the inventory. All old stock will be inventoried and made available for sale to allow more access to original cards and accessories as long as supplies last, and all sales will count toward goals for box unlocks etcetera. People have expressed concerns that things may not be as planned as they would hope. That is not the case. The campaign is very well planned and things like the booster distribution have been addressed openly. We have announced every reason for what got us to the decisions that have been made and the reason that it could not be announced earlier. Many people want a list of all cards in all unlocked booster boxes. We will release card lists for the boxes, but it will not be in the next week or two. We are working very hard to utilize the 150 slots that each box opens for cards in such a way that it can make most people happy while staying balanced and playable.
With regard to the above, while all cards are backward compatible, we are announcing that following fulfillment, sanctioned tournament play will utilize a format with a cardpool comprised of cards released in the starter decks plus the released and any yet to be released contents of any boxes (if not yet available). Stores are welcome to host their own legacy nights using full collections, but only cards on the newly printed list will be allowed for official tournaments until another set releases after all of the booster boxes have been made in the current batch. This will help keep player footing and availability for deck construction balanced and fair without penalizing collectors for having collected before.
If I back for a booster box and the one I want doesn't unlock what happens?
In Backerkit, we have the opportunity to add addons that will only charge if they unlock, so people can choose whichever booster box they want and if any locked booster box reaches $50,000 it will be unlocked independent of overall funds raised for other items. For every $100,000 total raised for any other items we will also unlock a box. We are $22,000 away from Matt Holmberg's Geoh magi from unlocking. Even if your box does not unlock in backerkit, it is very likely it will be unlocked soon after fulfillment as we begin selling any remaining stock. Therefore, if you want a box that does not quite unlock, you can receive a voucher for a booster box for when it unlocks in the future to get it as soon as produced even if it is not unlocked in the next 3 months.
New Playmat Unlocked
Now you will have the Tony playmat selectable on the full background playmats like the Rayje and Amara when you make your choices in Backerkit.
$24k in 2 days you all get $2 credti! New promo reveal and POLL INSIDE
about 2 years ago
– Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 08:16:49 PM
WOW over $215,000! With a full 8 days left in the campaign we now enter the last week with the first booster box unlocked! Every Backer with a current pledge at the time of this update will get $2 added to your survey as a thank you for getting us this far!
Weave/Paradwyn/Naroom boosters can now be selected in Backerkit and have also been added as both stand alone pledge tiers and as addons to add to your pledges! Now many have asked, with the updated information on what can be in the booster boxes, how do we get the other 3 to unlock? This is a very reasonable question, and we can do it any of the following 3 ways:
$100,000 in general sales on the Kickstarter ($300,000 would unlock the next booster box option then $400,000 and $500,000 for the last) While these are lofty goals, we have already passed 10% of the way to the next one. A zealous fan already guessed all remaining region sets so we will disclose them here : Arderial/Orothe/Nar, d'Resh/Kybar's Teeth/Cald, Bograth/Core/Underneath. The order they will unlock by this method is not set so feel free to lobby for your favorite bundle in the comments.
$50,000 dedicated to a specific booster box in Backerkit. Backerkit allows items to be setup as addons that will only be charged if the threshold for the item is met. $50,000 pledged solely toward any booster box will unlock the ability to make that box and if not raised that addon gets cancelled out and you won't be charged for it. (With the 644 current backers thats less than $74 per backer to get any box unlockes ;) )
Finally, we are at a point where fulfilling this campaign will allow the unlock of the next box with after fulfilment sales and each box unlocks the next. This is the slowest of the options, with least perks to backers, but it means that the chances of your regions of choice not being unlocked at least eventually are very low since even the worst case scenario is good!
We have also unlocked the Clurman Orothe Magi which will be revealed in an update mid next week but this promo will be added to the promo bundle or $10 promo choices.
Now as was announced before, we will get a JingJack and there are 2 options. In the prepoll purple is leading over red 9 to 5 but feel free to comment your favorite of these two JingJack are color schemes:
We are also $35,000 away from Hopmberg’s custom magi, Geoh!
Thanks again for all your support, with the $200,000 passed at the next update we will draw the giveaway art for Clurman when we reveal his custom art magi.
