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* [[Follow the Leader]]: Magic was the "leader". See the [[Collectible Card Game]] and [[Trading Card Lame]] articles for those who followed.
* [[He Also Did]]: Mark Rosewater, Head Designer of Magic R&D, was a writer for ''[[Roseanne]]'' for a short time before he worked at Wizards of the Coast. This fact has become something of a [[Running Gag]] in his weekly column on the official website.
* [[Official Fan
** ''Magic'' has held a "You Make the Card" event three times, allowing players to submit and vote on cards that would eventually become [https://web.archive.org/web/20130513114516/http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220583 Forgotten Ancient], [https://web.archive.org/web/20131105195336/http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=129480 Crucible of Worlds], and [https://web.archive.org/web/20121106034334/http://gatherer.wizards.com/
** The now-discontinued annual [https://web.archive.org/web/20130807071618/http://wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/Magic_Invitational Magic Invitational] tournament invited the game's top players to compete for the chance to submit their own custom card to the game and get their face featured in its artwork.
* [[Promoted Fanboy]]: Many current members of the R&D team that creates the game started off as regular players. Notably, contestants in the [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/designersearch/home Great Designer Search] received internships in R&D as a reward for winning a card design competition, and are now full-time employees.
* [[Throw It In]]: [http://magiccards.info/zen/en/103.html Mindless Null], ''Zendikar'''s much-maligned three-mana 2/2 creature with a drawback, [http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/61 was originally intended to cost two mana]. Due to a typographical error, its mana cost was accidentally increased by 1. R&D decided to stick with the mistyped version, and the rest is history.
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** The codename for ''Tempest'' was "Bogavhati", which led to an in-joke when the character Vhati ''il''-Dal was named after the set's [[Working Title]].
** Interestingly, up until ''Alliances'', each set's code name ended up being its final name as well.
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: There's some wikis, one from [https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Main_Page gamepedia] and the other from [http://mtg.wikia.com/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering_Wiki wikia].
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