Wizards of the Coast announced Monday that there will be another change to the reserve list. The cards Hurricane and Tsunami will be placed on the reserve list so as to honor those who lost their homes and lives to these horrendous acts of God.

Wizards’ PR department released a notification on the event explaining, “We feel that after recent events it would no longer be tasteful to keep these two cards in print.” They further clarified their decision by saying, “A large reason we decided to add these two cards to the reserved list was really the outcry of the players. As many people remember, we changed Champions of Kamigawa’s abbreviation to CHK after penis jokes flooded the internet. We knew that if we let these cards remain everyone would all soon grow tired of ‘I didn’t know Florida had flying’ and ‘Southeast Asia shouldn’t have tapped out.’”

When questioned how this decision might affect the competitive magic community, Wizards commissioned Aaron Forsythe to write an article explaining Wizards decision, as he does every time something changes or Skullclamp is printed. In his article Aaron writes, “The addition of these two cards to the reserve list really doesn’t change anything in the current environment as you can still play with them in the formats they are currently legal in. Also, no one plays those cards except scrubs anyways.”

This is not the first time Wizards has changed the reserved list to accommodate events happening outside the nerd community. Mark Rosewater, a long time Wizards employee, elaborated, “When Dolly the sheep was cloned way back in 1996 we knew we wanted to fit the card Clone into a set as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the Wizards of the Coast higher ups were far less open to such drastic changes as they were before the design of Onslaught started.”

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Wizards of the Coast announced Monday that there will be another change to the reserve list. The cards Hurricane and Tsunami will be placed on the reserve list so as to honor those who lost their homes and lives to these horrendous acts of God.

Wizards’ PR department released a notification on the event explaining, “We feel that after recent events it would no longer be tasteful to keep these two cards in print.” They further clarified their decision by saying, “A large reason we decided to add these two cards to the reserved list was really the outcry of the players. As many people remember, we changed Champions of Kamigawa’s abbreviation to CHK after penis jokes flooded the internet. We knew that if we let these cards remain everyone would all soon grow tired of ‘I didn’t know Florida had flying’ and ‘Southeast Asia shouldn’t have tapped out.’”

When questioned how this decision might affect the competitive magic community, Wizards commissioned Aaron Forsythe to write an article explaining Wizards decision, as he does every time something changes or Skullclamp is printed. In his article Aaron writes, “The addition of these two cards to the reserve list really doesn’t change anything in the current environment as you can still play with them in the formats they are currently legal in. Also, no one plays those cards except scrubs anyways.”

This is not the first time Wizards has changed the reserved list to accommodate events happening outside the nerd community. Mark Rosewater, a long time Wizards employee, elaborated, “When Dolly the sheep was cloned way back in 1996 we knew we wanted to fit the card Clone into a set as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the Wizards of the Coast higher ups were far less open to such drastic changes as they were before the design of Onslaught started.”

Discuss this article in the Magic: the Gathering Forums!

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• Anonymous User Reveals CoK To Magic Players
• Skullclamp Finally Laid to Rest on June 20th
• Forsythe forced to be Timmy