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Magic: The Gathering was one of the Sports and recreation good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
October 19, 2005	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
February 2, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
December 2, 2008	Good article reassessment	Delisted
April 28, 2009	Peer review	Reviewed
August 11, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed
December 8, 2024	Good article reassessment	Delisted
A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on August 5, 2023.
Current status: Delisted good article

Jace Beleren was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 03 February 2014 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Magic: The Gathering. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Planeswalker was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 18 October 2013 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Magic: The Gathering. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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vice Presidential candidate JD Vance admits to playing magic The gathering in his book Hillbilly Elegy since 1999

author and vice presidential candidate JD Vance admits to being a player of magic The gathering since 1999 in his book Hillbilly Elegy 75.118.50.197 (talk) 05:10, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A number of years ago, I suggested an episode of Family Guy where a suicide bomber goes to Paradise to claim his 72 virgins, only to find they are in fact 72 unmarried Star Trek fans who are "just about to play a game of Magic: The Gathering"; but was slapped down because it lacked notability, or some such nonsense. Uh-huh. This time next year, ask someone who the hell J.D.Vance used to be.

Nuttyskin (talk) 04:35, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA concerns

I am concerned that this article no longer meets the good article criteria. Some of my concerns are listed below:

There are uncited passages in the text, including entire paragraphs.
There are several sections that are quite long: these should have the text reduced or split with level 3 headings.
This article is over 10,000 words: WP:TOOBIG recommends that articles this big should be spun out or have the prose trimmed. I think this article should consider reducing the prose.

Is anyone interested in addressing these concerns, or should this article go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 02:42, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Duel Masters and Destroy all humans

It would be good to mention "Duel Masters" (until 2002) and "Destroy All Humans. They Can't Be Regenerated" manga and anime. which are based on MTG.Not sure where to put it in the article. 185.18.60.54 (talk) 11:34, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

Magic: The Gathering

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Result: Delisted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:43, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is uncited text throughout the article, including entire sections and paragraphs. At over 11,000 words, this article is considered WP:TOOBIG and is probably too detailed in some areas. Some sections are quite large, affecting readability especially for mobile users. If there is still a lot of text in some of these sections after the prose is reduced, I recommend that it be broken up with headings. Z1720 (talk) 16:16, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.