On this page, I have links to all version of all rules documents pertaining to the card game Magic: The Gathering that I could locate on the internet. Many of these files were hard to find.
This page has been harvested by the Wayback Machine, so it and the documents it links to should be preserved forever.
This page will not be updated to contain documents after 2015. If you want those, updated and comprehensive archives are at Venser’s Journal.
Welcome to my new website!
The company that hosted my previous website decided to cancel its freehosting plan. Their paid plans are poor and expensive so I’m now hosting my website myself. I even bought a domain name! 🙂 I wanted to put a notice on my old site that I’m moving but it seems the company blocked FTP access already so I cannot access the data. I think they have some file permission issues on their server because even browsing my old webpages directly causes 403 errors.
I don’t want to link to them from here (because that would increase their PageRank), but make sure not to host your web presentations on IC.cz. 🙂
You may notice some changes from before:
Happy new year, everybody!
I mention on my website that I am a fan of My Little Pony.
The community around the show is amazing and so I contributed as well by creating several games with My Little Pony themes. You may look at them here. I received positive feedback from the community and I am grateful for it.
Fangames, however, stand on shaky legal ground. I have done extensive research and as far as I know, there hasn’t ever been any lawsuit involving copyright infringement concerning fangames or fanfiction in any country. However, that does not mean it is necessarily legal in all jurisdictions to produce such content.
In fact, some companies issue cease-and-desist letters. These are warning e-mails from a company’s legal department that order a game developer to remove download links for fangames from his or her sites and to stop developing the game. The e-mails sometimes threaten with legal action if the developer does not comply.
Hasbro Inc., the company that owns the intellectual property of My Little Pony, is generally supportive of the brony fanbase, acknowledges its existence and cooperates with us. People involved with the show’s production such as animators, voice actors and composers expressed awe over the community and voiced their support. However, several fangames did receive cease-and-desist letters.
The most high-profile case among these was of the game Fighting is Magic, a fighting game with ponies as characters. When the game became popular and it was decided that it would showcase on a major fighting game fair, it received a cease-and-desist letter from Hasbro. The developers decided to comply, but, unexpectedly, the show’s creator herself, Lauren Faust, offered to freely help the creators develop their own character designs!