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14 unusual facts about Magic: The Gathering


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.

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.

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.

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.

Jitte

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

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.

Marco Blume

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

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.

Romas Kukalis

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

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.

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.


Akuji the Heartless

The game centres on the voodoo priest and warrior Akuji (voiced by Richard Roundtree), who had his heart ripped out on his wedding day, and through the use of voodoo magic is now cursed to wander the Underworld.

American Fairy Tales

Baum adapted "The Box of Robbers" and "The Magic Bon Bons" as chapters 1 and 3 of his lost film series, Violet's Dreams, both with Violet MacMillan in the role of child protagonist.

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.

Andy's Gang

Buckner & Garcia paid tribute to Smilin' Ed McConnell and Froggy the Gremlin on a 1982 novelty song "Froggy's Lament" about the Sega arcade game Frogger from their album Pac-Man Fever with its lyrics "Hiya kids" and "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!".

Babi ngepet

The association of boar or pig with magic concerning fortune probably originated from Javanese pre-Islamic and pre-Hindu-Buddhist beliefs that associate the boar or pig with domestic richness, fortune and prosperity, similar to its connections with ancient Javanese piggy bank.

Casino Magic

Casino Magic is a casino brand owned by Pinnacle Entertainment, from its acquisition of Casino Magic Corp..

Celebrate the Magic

The show premiered with the original Christmas segment from The Magic, the Memories and You.

D. P. Walker

The book examines the role of magic in the lives and thought of such diverse figures as Marsilio Ficino, Francis Bacon and Tommaso Campanella, and its overall influence on the Renaissance.

Dancing Diva

Tsai has done this for her past albums Magic, Castle, and J-Game, but this is the first time that none of the videos are of live performances.

David Saxe

Writing and developing acts came naturally to David and at the age of 17, he launched his sister's show Melinda Saxe - First Lady of Magic at Bourbon Street Hotel and Casino making him the youngest producer in Las Vegas’ history.

Derek Dingle

His first main release to the magic world was a small book written by Harry Lorayne.

Difang and Igay Duana

Dan Lacksman of Deep Forest, in collaboration with Magic Stone Records and the Duanas, produced the chart-topping ethnic electronica album, Circle of Life.

Ewa Malas-Godlewska

Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute production by Bob Wilson, Paris Opera, L'Opera Comique, Le Theatre du Chatelet, Le Theatre des Champs Elysees, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers and Parisian Bastille Opera, the Houston Grand Opera in Texas

Flesh Gordon

The character names are suggestive innuendos, based on the character names from the first of those multi-chapter serials: the hero Flesh Gordon; his love interest Dale Ardor; the evil Emperor Wang the Perverted; Dr. Flexi Jerkoff; Amora, Queen of Magic; and a very gay Robin Hood-like character called Prince Precious.

Gidi Gov

In addition to his musical career, during the 1970s Gov also participated in the 1974 Israeli TV series "The Magic Door" (דלת הקסמים), and in the 1977 Israeli film "Masa Alonkot" (מסע אלונקות), and in Ram Loevy's 1978 film "Khirbet Khize", the 1978 film "Ha-Lehaka" ("The Troupe") which described the life in an Israeli military band, and the 1979 film "Dizengoff 99", and the 1979 film "Do not ask if I love" (אל תשאלי אם אני אוהב).

Howard Thurston

Thurston is mentioned and appears briefly in Glen David Gold's novel Carter Beats the Devil (ISBN 0-7868-8632-3), concerning fellow stage magician Charles J. Carter and the Golden Age of magic in America.

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).

Ingeborg Hallstein

In opera she sang some of the most demanding roles in the coloratura Fach, e.g. Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, Zaide in Mozart's Zaide and the already mentioned Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute.

James Treadwell

In the story, magic was once an actual daily reality on Earth, but was destroyed in the Renaissance.

Kefka Palazzo

Originally designed by Yoshitaka Amano, he appears in Final Fantasy VI as a clown-like, nihilistic psychopath who acts as the game's main antagonist and as the God of Magic, physically transforming into a Lucifer-esque fallen angel.

King Creosote

Anderson also contributed to the Cold Seeds collaborative album along with Frances Donnelly of Animal Magic Tricks, and Neil Pennycook and Pete Harvey from Meursault; which was released on the Edinburgh-based indie label Song, By Toad Records.

Magic Cap

Several electronic companies came to market with Magic Cap devices, the most notable of which being the Sony Magic Link released in 1994 and the Motorola Envoy, also released in 1994.

Magic: The Very Best of Olivia Newton-John

#"Summer Nights" (Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey) - 3:36, duet with Travolta

Mara Lopez

She had a small role in ABS-CBN's Star Magic Presents: Abt Ur Luv and had guest appearances in some shows in ABS-CBN.

Max Holden

In 1929 Maxwell retired from the stage and with the help of fellow magician, Lewis Davenport, opened a magic shop in Manhattan with later branches in Philadelphia and Boston.

MM8

Might and Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer, a 2000 video role-playing game in the Might and Magic series

Númenor

According to the novel, Merlin of the Arthurian Legend was the last in a long line of wizards familiar with the magic of Middle-earth, brought to the shores of prehistoric Britain by refugees from the sunken continent.

Periodic systems of small molecules

(a) the BohrSommerfeldsolar systematomic model (with electron spin and the Madelung principle), which provides the magic-number elements that end each row of the table and gives the number of elements in each row,

Peter Valance

This award, which is the highest honor in the international magic community, was also given to David Copperfield, Siegfried & Roy and Criss Angel.

Pohjola

The Sampo is a magic mill of plenty like the Cornucopia, which churns out abundance, but its churning lid has also been interpreted as a symbol of the celestial vault of the heavens, embedded with stars, revolving around a central axis or the pillar of the world.

Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?

Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You? (titled Pontoffel Pock & His Magic Piano for the sing-a-long videocasette release) is an animated musical television special written by Dr. Seuss, directed by Gerard Baldwin, produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, completed in 1979 and first aired on ABC on May 2, 1980.

Post-classical editing

Director Lawrence Kasdan states in the documentary titled The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing, that the generation of people who grew up on MTV and 30 second commercials can process information faster, and therefore demand it.

PowerDirector

Other notable new features include direct links to Flickr and Freesound, the option to apply multiple fixes at once using Magic Clean, and beat detection technology – which syncs audio with movie content.

Psychedelic drug

Classical or serotonergic psychedelics (agonists for the LSD (also known as "acid"), psilocin (the active constituent of psilocybin mushrooms, commonly known as "magic mushrooms" or "shrooms"), mescaline (the active constituent of peyote), and DMT (the active constituent of ayahuasca and potentially an endogenous psychedelic compound).

René Lavand

In between international tours, he resides in Tandil, Argentina and has adapted a train wagon which he turned into a magic saloon where he teaches illusion.

Rhadamanthus

In the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode The Magicks of Megas-tu, Rhadamanthus is invoked by the character Lucien in order to make the Enterprise operational in an alternate universe in which magic works like science does in our universe.

Ron Sweed

The character of Froggy, together with his own catch phrase "Hiya Kids! Hiya! Hiya! Hiya!" and the associated command "Pluck your magic twanger, Froggy" (his signal to appear from a puff of smoke together with a twanging sound effect) are actually remnants from a much earlier children's television show Andy's Gang where an identical rubber frog toy made appearances as Froggy the Gremlin.

Scholomance

The warlocks in Bungie's Myth II: Soulblighter are described as having been trained at a school of magic named the Scholomance, and in Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft, the Scholomance is a ruined castle held by the Scourge whose cellars and crypts are now used to train necromancers and create undead monsters.

Serious Magic Inc.

On October 19, 2006, Adobe Systems acquired Serious Magic Inc. and its line of products.

Silent e

In Alphablocks, Magic E is E's impish alter-ego, with a black body and a top hat.

Sparky's Magic Piano

In 1978, Mancunian folk poet Les Barker released a comic parody entitled 'Sparky's Magic Contraceptive' on his live album, 'Mrs. Ackroyd: Superstar!'.

SpectroMagic

The main theme for SpectroMagic ("On This Magic Night") was composed by film composer John Debney.

Tempestarii

Agobard of Lyons also referenced a related belief amongst his parishioners--a belief that tempestarii were in league with a mythical race of cloud-dwellers who came from a land named 'Magonia' ("Land of Magic", "Land of Thieves").

The Mercury Wonder Show

The Mercury Wonder Show was a 1943 magic-and-variety stage show by the Mercury Theatre, produced by Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten, directed by Welles, and starring Welles, Cotten, Agnes Moorehead and Rita Hayworth (with Hayworth's part later filled in by Marlene Dietrich).

The Sideboard

The cover story was a preview of the upcoming Magic World Championships.

Tom Lyon

Along with Drummond Money-Coutts, he toured Kenya performing magic in 2007, and a DVD, Kenyan Conjurations, was produced about their exploits.

He attended Eton College in the 1990s, where he met fellow magician Drummond Money-Coutts with whom he reformed the Eton College Magic Society, hosting such performers as Uri Geller.

Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Cinderella: Masks, Magic and Mirrors (Sept. 2 - Mar. 31 2008) which included materials from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

Wacaday

In fact, many of Timmy's trademarks, such as his giant pink mallet, Magic, Pinky Punky (introduced in 1990) and Timmy's 'bleugh!' catchphrase originated on Wacaday.

Wendy MacLeod

The House of Yes, which premiered in San Francisco at the Magic Theatre and was the theatre's second-longest running show, became an award-winning film by the same name starring Parker Posey and earned a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival.