Happy New Year Top8Magic Fans,

BDM, Mike and I want to wish all of you a Happy New Year! We have many exciting plans for this upcoming year and we want to thank you all for your support.

BDM will be posting a cool draft walk through with a podcast that he recorded right before Christmas with Steve Sadin.

We are also recording a podcast with The Zvi to discuss My Files Part 1 and we hope to have a preview of My Files Part 2 out this week.

We also want to thank all of you who picked up a copy of My Files Part 1 and wanted to know what you thought of it. We have not seen any reviews yet, so please send them over or post your thoughts here.

Best,

Matt Wang

Fans,

My Files is at the printers and we will make sure that all preorders will make it to you before the holidays!

If you have not purchased one, order a copy for a friend as a gift  (500+ pages of Magic’s past by one of its best writers)!

Thanks for your patience and support!

Happy Thanksgiving from the Top8Magic Crew!

After a handful of delays, Top8Magic.com is about to publish our second collection of Magic: The Gathering writing from the game’s most respected and prolific authors. This time out we will be publishing a collection by Pro Tour Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz that begins with his earliest works and follows his nomadic writing career from website to website.

There is hardly a Magic site of note that Zvi has not written for in his career and he was among the very first to treat writing about Magic as a way to augment a Pro Player’s salary. This is common-place in the modern era but — as Zvi points out in the new material he wrote for the section on his Magic Dojo careeer — that was not always the case.

Zvi has written abundant new material for this volume including “director’s commentary” after many of his more famous and favorite selections. As Mike did with  Deckade, Zvi has also written new material to sum up each era of his career. I am happy to present Zvi’s thoughts on The Dojo Philosophy. We hope you enjoy it and if you are interested in purchasing this volume, which will ship late September/early October, you can do so by clicking on this link.

The Dojo Philosophy
by Zvi Mowshowitz

In the beginning, we didn’t write because we were paid. We wrote because we wanted to share our wisdom. We wrote to make our name, to claim our ideas as our own while sharing them. We wrote because we enjoyed writing. We wrote because we felt it was part of our obligation to the Magic community in general and the Dojo in particular. We took in the words of others, and followed Sensei’s motto: Study and grow strong. In exchange, when our time came, we would report back on our decks, our tournaments and our ideas. Read the rest of this entry »