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Magicthegathering.com is the official website of Wizards of the Coast to promote and offer information on their trading card game ''Magic: The Gathering''. It was started in January 2002 to act as Wizards of the Coast's official mouthpiece for information on ''Magic'' and to act as a replacement for ''The Duelist'', a magazine covering ''Magic'' formerly published by Wizards of the Coast. The site was reworked in 2008 as a general introduction to ''Magic'', with the online magazine aspect moved to a "Daily MTG" section. The magazine was generally referred to as Magicthegathering.com before the redesign. ==History== The site was first started in 2002 with 5 columns, one for each day of the week. Mark Rosewater decided it would be best to bookend the week with the "behind the scenes" columns, and hence placed the Design column on Monday and the Development column on Friday. There was also one Featured Article per week, written by a variety of guest columnists. A Saturday column in Saturday School was added later. The site also became the main clearing house for more mundane and static information concerning ''Magic'', such as beginner guides, lists of cards in each set, and the formal rules of ''Magic''. In February 2004, the Magicthegathering.com website was combined with columns from ''The Sideboard'' and the ''Magic Online'' site, which had previously been semi-independent. Some additional columns were added as well, increasing the number of articles per week from 6 to 11 (though some of the columns had merely moved). In 2007, the number of columns per week was reduced to 10 and then 9 with the discontinuation of a Saturday column and the ''Magic Online''-based column. The site is known for hiring popular writers from ''Magic'' fansites, and offered an avenue to employment with Wizards of the Coast. On August 4, 2007, Scott Johns announced in the last Magic Academy article that sometime in 2008, the site would be redesigned to take "maximum advantage of what the web is capable of".〔(Lessons Learned )〕 This was complete in 2008, with the aspects aimed toward explaining and selling the game toward newcomers placed at the fore of the website. The magazine elements were moved to the "Daily MTG" tab. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Magicthegathering.com」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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