Sideboard (magazine)
Sideboard (The Duelist Sideboard, Sideboard Magazine) was a magazine and online website (Sideboard.com, Sideboard Online) that Wizards of the Coast created to help promote organized play.[1] It used to cover Magic tournament play, rules changes and the banned and restricted list. It included player profiles, event coverage and recurring columns.[2][3] The magazine ran from July 1996 till November 2003 (49 issues), at which time the rapidly increasing use of the internet led to the decision to stop spending resources on the print content.[4]
After The Duelist magazine rebranded to TopDeck in 1999, broadening its focus away from Magic: The Gathering specifically, Sideboard picked up some of the slack and drifted away from purely tournament-oriented coverage, including things like headline stories on new cards and sets.[4] However, Sideboard Online continued to focus on competitive events, and magicthegathering.com was created in 2001 as the web hub for general game content. Until that site's launch, Sideboard Online was the only website actively publishing Magic content by Wizards of the Coast, and the new site's complement of weekly columns was designed "not to step on the toes" of Sideboard.[1] The Sideboard website was eventually closed as a separate site and incorporated most content into the main Magic website in 2004, including several of its regular columns.[4]
With the rise of Magic esports in 2018-2019, an indirect successor to the Sideboard website was created in the form of magic.gg, a hub and guide to competitive play in both tabletop and digital formats.
Gallery
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Sideboard #38 -
Sideboard #48
References
- ↑ a b Mark Rosewater (January 02, 2012). "Turning Ten". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12.
- ↑ Magic Arcana (March 22, 2010). "Banned/Restricted Icons". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2020-12-05.
- ↑ Blake Rasmussen (July 10, 2014). "The Sideboard: Hall of Fame Edition". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2014-07-15.
- ↑ a b c Wizards of the Coast (August, 2007). "Ask Wizards - August, 2008". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2019-03-22.