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Beast Wars: The Gathering

According to Transformers writer Simon Furman, the mini-series is set during the events of the season three episode, "Changing of the Guard".


And the Sky Full of Stars

This episode has great significance, as it is the first time that Jeffrey Sinclair begins to move towards understanding his missing 24 hours (mentioned in The Gathering) and realizing the role his identity means he must play, in the future and the past.

The episode title is derived from a line from Babylon 5s pilot: "…and the sky was full of stars, and every star was an exploding ship — one of ours."

André Coimbra

André Coimbra used to be a professional Magic: The Gathering player and now is a professional poker player, member of PokerStars Team Online.

Babylon 5: A Call to Arms

A Call To Arms (1999) is the fourth feature-length film set in the Babylon 5 universe (not including the pilot, The Gathering).

Beast Wars II

While its position in the Transformers continuity has previously been unknown, the IDW Publishing comic book mini-series Beast Wars: The Gathering and comments from Transformers writer Simon Furman have shown it is part of the Beast Wars continuity.

Brian Selden

Brian Selden (born in 1980 in San Diego, California) was the winner of the 1998 Magic: The Gathering World Championship.

Carol Heyer

She is known for her work on the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering.

Dirk Baberowski

Dirk Baberowski is one of the most successful professional Magic: The Gathering players.

A 63rd place at the World championship in Tokyo sufficed to take home the Rookie of the Year award.

Flavor text

Flavor text was popularized by the dossiers of 1980s toys, primarily G.I. Joe filecards and Transformers tech-specs, but is now more commonly associated with games such as Magic: The Gathering.

Franz Vohwinkel

Vohwinkel drew the cover art for the book Dataware (1998) for TSR's Alternity game, and illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.

Greenhills School

Students are also encouraged to start a club of their interest, such as the Harry Potter Club, Magic: The Gathering Club, Horse Club, an a capella Group, an Ultimate (Sport) team, and Photography Club.

Guido Guidi

His more recent work includes The Transformers: Spotlight issues on Galvatron and Mirage, profile art for the Beast Wars: Sourcebook series and the final issue of Beast Wars: The Ascending, as well as work on issue 5 of Titan UK's Transformers magazine.

Indianapolis Union Station

The Grand Hall of Union Station is also rented out for banquets and other special events, such as a Magic: The Gathering prerelease party.

Indyfans and the Quest for Fortune and Glory

In 1995 he played the character Bobby Fricker in the film Now and Then, followed by his role as Josiah in Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996), the young version of the character James Whale in Gods and Monsters (1998), and the character of Young Kevin in Free Enterprise (1998).

Itaru Ishida

In addition to his Grand Prix success, Ishida had success in the teams format, with second place finishes at Pro Tour Seattle 2004 and at the Master Series in Tokyo (2001) and Osaka (2002).

Jens Thorén

That season, he also finished second in the Player of the Year race to Kai Budde.

Jitte

In the card game Magic: The Gathering, a Jitte is referenced in Betrayers of Kamigawa (see Umezawa's Jitte).

Kazuki Takahashi

Originally intended as a one-shot in the manga's episodic introduction of new games, the game was named "Magic and Wizards" as a reference to the card game Magic: The Gathering and its publishing company Wizards of the Coast (the card game's name was changed to "Duel Monsters" in the anime adaptations).

Magi-Nation Duel

The game was originally designed as a bridge between Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh! the classic trading card game.

Magic: The Gathering – Tactics

Magic: The Gathering – Tactics is an online turn-based strategy game developed by Sony Online Entertainment, and based on the Magic: The Gathering trading card game series.

Magic: The Gathering video games

Included are cards from all expansions starting with Mirage with the exception of the parody sets Unhinged and Unglued which would not easily translate to computer play.

Marco Blume

Marco Blume is one of the most successful professional Magic: The Gathering players.

Marietta Marich

Most recently, she appeared in 'Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering', as well as the 2003 remake of 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre', starring Jessica Biel.

Mark Leiren-Young

His love of comic books inspires his work on a number of animated series, including ReBoot and Beast Wars: Transformers.

Mike Turian

Michael Turian is a successful professional player of Magic: The Gathering.

Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa

Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa (born September 29, 1987) is a Brazilian Magic: The Gathering player.

Psi Corps

By the time of the pilot movie, Babylon 5: The Gathering, the Corps has degenerated to the point where many potential and former members prefer a life on-the-run as rogue psychics (referred to by the Corps as blips) to the safety and comfort of living and working under its wing.

Romas Kukalis

Kukalis also illustrated seven cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.

Shouta Yasooka

Shouta gained fifty-two Pro points through the season placing him in joint seventh place in the 2011 Pro Tour Player of the Year standings, alongside Yuuya Watanabe and Josh Utter-Leyton.

Stephen Daniele

He has also produced artwork for other games including Extreme Vengeance (Archangel Entertainment), Sovereign Stone (Sovereign Press, Inc), and Hollow Earth Expedition (Exile Studios), and illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.

Transformers Comic UK

These included brand new strips written by Simon Furman (his work continued into volume 2) and some re prints such as the Beast Wars series (also by Furman) and the Movie Prequel.

Tyler Jacobson

Jacobson is best known as a fantasy artist, due to his significant contributions of art to Magic: The Gathering trading card game cards, package art, and promotional materials, as well as character design and game art for Dungeons & Dragons.

Yoshitaka Murayama

He is currently writing a manga adaptation of Laura Resnicks Magic: The Gathering novel The Purifying Fire with artwork by Yoshino Himori.

Zvi Mowshowitz

Zvi Mowshowitz is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player who also held a developer intern position at Wizards of the Coast Magic R&D.


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