Talk:Magic: The Gathering

Categories

For those familiar with the game, collecting and playing or both, the game contains cards of vampires and angels. I’d like to see this game added to Category:Vampires in games and Category:Angels in popular culture Twillisjr (talk) 17:01, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Categories should be defining, per WP:CATDEF: A defining characteristic is one that reliable sources commonly and consistently refer to in describing the topic. Can you demonstrate that sources regularly refer to the fact that M:TG contains vampires and angels? M:TG contains nearly every fantasy (and many scifi) tropes that exist. We could put a million categories for dragons, vampires, elves, dwarves, orcs, angels, gods, demons, goblins, on and on. They are not defining. -- ferret (talk) 17:04, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Life-total, or life total?

In the article, both versions are used. We should standardize, and use just one version. I had never seen "life total" spelled with a hyphen before reading this article, so my initial impulse would be to use the version without the hyphen. Thoughts? Wafflewombat (talk) 01:13, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Update: I went ahead and standardized to "life total." Feel free to revert if there's a problem with this. Wafflewombat (talk) 00:41, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

vice Presidential candidate JD Vance admits to playing magic The gathering in his book Hillbilly Elegy since 1999

author and vice presidential candidate JD Vance admits to being a player of magic The gathering since 1999 in his book Hillbilly Elegy 75.118.50.197 (talk) 05:10, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

A number of years ago, I suggested an episode of Family Guy where a suicide bomber goes to Paradise to claim his 72 virgins, only to find they are in fact 72 unmarried Star Trek fans who are "just about to play a game of Magic: The Gathering"; but was slapped down because it lacked notability, or some such nonsense. Uh-huh. This time next year, ask someone who the hell J.D.Vance used to be.

Nuttyskin (talk) 04:35, 24 August 2024 (UTC)

GA concerns

I am concerned that this article no longer meets the good article criteria. Some of my concerns are listed below:

• There are uncited passages in the text, including entire paragraphs.
• There are several sections that are quite long: these should have the text reduced or split with level 3 headings.
• This article is over 10,000 words: WP:TOOBIG recommends that articles this big should be spun out or have the prose trimmed. I think this article should consider reducing the prose.

Is anyone interested in addressing these concerns, or should this article go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 02:42, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Duel Masters and Destroy all humans

It would be good to mention "Duel Masters" (until 2002) and "Destroy All Humans. They Can't Be Regenerated" manga and anime. which are based on MTG.Not sure where to put it in the article. 185.18.60.54 (talk) 11:34, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

GA Reassessment

Magic: The Gathering

Article (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch • Watch article reassessment page • Most recent review

Result pending

There is uncited text throughout the article, including entire sections and paragraphs. At over 11,000 words, this article is considered WP:TOOBIG and is probably too detailed in some areas. Some sections are quite large, affecting readability especially for mobile users. If there is still a lot of text in some of these sections after the prose is reduced, I recommend that it be broken up with headings. Z1720 (talk) 16:16, 23 November 2024 (UTC)