MTG Wiki:Content guidelines

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This page documents recommendations for article content.

Common tools

Many frequently used wiki tools are documented on the MTG Wiki Cheatsheet and Wikipedia Cheatsheet.

Citations and maintenance templates

Templates are available to help you easily cite sources or flag articles for attention from other editors.

Card and deck tags

MTG Wiki has tools for linking cards and decks with integrated Scryfall tooltips. Cards should be linked every time they are named.

Other franchises

MTG Wiki is dedicated to Magic, and does not cover other franchises in depth. However, Universes Beyond and Dungeons & Dragons cards exist, and introduce card types that are covered under our notability standards for game mechanics. Articles for those mechanics may include a brief explanation of what those types represent. Other lore topics for external franchises do not belong on MTG Wiki.

When Magic lore elements are present in other franchises, those appearances should be covered. For example, each of the Dungeons & Dragons sourcebooks for a Magic setting has an article.

New sets

If you are the first editor on the scene when a new set is announced, create a new article named Set Name and save the page with this code: {{subst:ExpansionDummy}} This automatically builds the standard framework for a set article. Edit the page again to begin filling in content.

The same applies to new articles in the Secret Lair Drop Series, using {{subst:SecretLairDummy}}

If the set takes place on a plane of the same name, begin that article with the name Set Name (plane).

Real people

Articles covering real people should consider the real world privacy interests of those subjects. Articles should focus on their contributions to Magic, and avoid excessive or unrelated biographical detail. For example, educational or professional histories may be relevant, but their childhood and family relationships are usually not.

Adhere to Wikipedia:DEADNAME. Do not deadname, misgender, or out transgender or non-binary persons.

Professional players

When writing about a notable professional player, include an Accomplishments section documenting their performance in all of the following contexts:

• Top 8 of a Pro Tour (2022-current)
• Arena Championship Top 8s (2022-current)
• Top 4 of the World Championship (2012-current)
• Magic Online Champions Showcase Top 2s (2022-current)
• Winner of a Regional Championship (counted as Regional Top Finish).
• Winner of a Magic Spotlight (counted as Regional Top Finish).

Disqualifications and suspensions

To avoid undue reputational harm, all statements alleging a disqualification or suspension must have citations.

Articles for players with multiple disqualifications, or any disqualifications at the Pro Tour level or higher, should list all such events. DCI suspensions should also be listed. For player with only a single disqualification at or below the Regional Championship level, that event may be omitted.

ISBN

For articles citing books, the ISBN-13 standard is preferred. For older books, use the ISBN-13 Online Converter.

Infobox statistics

For statistic infoboxes for creature types and mechanics, if a card falls under any of the following categories it is excluded from the card count:

• Playtest cards (incl. Mystery Booster test cards, Unknown Event/Planechase Unknown cards, that one Counterspell, etc.)
• Celebration cards (incl. Heroes of the Realm, 1996 World Champion, the Garfield cards, etc.)
• Commemorative cards (i.e. the gold bordered cards like World Championship Decks or 30th Anniversary Edition, etc.)
• Digital cards **not** on Magic Online or MTG Arena (e.g. Astral* cards, the Sega cards excl. Arden Angel, etc.)
• The card is not the thing being counted (mostly for mechanics where a card might give said mechanic but doesn't have the mechanic itself).

For tokens exclusively:

• If the card creates a token using the "a copy of [object] except it's [type] (in addition to it's other types)" style, it won't be included because it's a copy first and Wizards almost never prints a token card for these types of tokens.

As with any good cataloguing system, there are exceptions to the above.

• If the article is about a playtest-exclusive thing, the count will include playtest cards. The same is true for the other categories.
• The Deb Thomas card is counted because, as far as we can tell, it fits the criteria used to define a regular *Magic* card (standard card back, black border, no playtest mechanics, etc.) and noone from WotC has confirmed it's not.

Please keep in mind a couple of things:

• Rebalanced cards are counted separately
• The card counts are all manual, so they may not be up-to-date and/or people may have made mistakes.
• Newer editors tend to just do a Scryfall search and then use the number returned without actually double checking if all the cards meet the criteria.