First of all, we would like to thank everyone who reads our blog. You guys are the reason we continue to create this content. As such, it is our goal to continue to produce content that you guys will enjoy and to produce a lot more of it.

We would like to apologize for the current dry spell in content. I will be correcting that soon with a new Ideas Unbound post later this week. I believe Jonathan is also working on another commander oriented Final Judgment post as well. What I’d like to do now is talk about some of the changes we have planned for next year.

The Name

While The Phyrexian Arena is an excellent name, it is going to hinder some of our plans going forward. We have plans to expand the blog and team to include merchandise like t-shirts, playmats, lifepads, etc. Unfortunately, the word Phyrexia is part of the Magic: the Gathering intellectual property and we don’t want to run into any potential copyright issues with Wizards of the Coast. This means we have to change the name.

We do not currently have a new name picked out, but will be selecting one soon. However, we would like to include our friends and readers in this process as well. We will be taking suggestions for a new name for both the blog/team. There are two requirements for the new name though:

1 - It has to work as both the name of our team as well as the name of the blog since they are connected. We would also prefer it to be in the form Team "Name", but this is not required.

2 - It needs to invoke a feeling of Magic without actually using anything specific to the Magic IP. So it can’t use words like Phyrexia or Ravnica. It can be the name of a card, as long as its not IP spefic. Channel Fireball is an excellent example of this.

If we choose to use the name you submit, we will send you a free T-Shirt once we have them made.

Once the new blog goes live we will post all of the information here. We will also be importing all of the content from this blog over the new blog so it will all be in one place.

New Content

In addition to the blog posts we currently post, we are looking to create new types of content for next year. I’ve been working on getting video content created for the blog for awhile. Earlier this year, I posted a video of a Momir Basic daily I did, and the video went well, even if it was for a less popular format. Based on that success I will be looking to create more video content soon with more relevant formats.

In addition to recorded video content, we are also looking into the possibility of streaming content as well. There are no plans set in stone for this at this time, however. We are going to make sure we get the recorded video content going before setting up any sort of stream.

We are also looking at the potential of doing a podcast as well. As with the streaming content, there are no current plans for this yet, but is something I would like to have going next year. Our goal is to provide a variety of content for our audience.

Contributors

With all of the content we are hoping to produce next year, we are looking for people to help produce the content. We are looking for people who want to write, record, or both. I started writing this year in an attempt to help me improve my own gameplay and I feel that it has definitely helped. If this is something you would like to do as well, please contact us in regards to this.

That’s all the news I have for today. As I mentioned earlier, I will be posting a new Ideas Unbound later this week. As always, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to post them here or on our Facebook page, or you can even email me directly using the address at the bottom of the post. Thank you again to all of our readers.


Eddie Walker
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praethus at gmail dot com