Evan Symon
Evan Symon is a seasoned journalist with stops at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cracked, GeekNifty, Pasadena Independent, and California Globe.
A graduate of University of Akron, Symon has covered stories in Vietnam, South Africa, Namibia, Germany, North Korea, Slovakia, and Switzerland (in addition to across the U.S. as well, of course).
He enjoys content creation, baseball, politics, and gaming. When it comes to Magic: The Gathering, he tends to lean towards Selesnya (G/W).
The hard marketing lesson of Fallen Empires
In the mid-1990s, the Fallen Empires expansion proved to be a bridge too far to cross for Magic: The Gathering, printing an extremely high number of cards.
Chub Toad: MTG R&D's inside joke anagram card
In 1995, the Ice Age card Chub Toad saw print. It was an in-joke and ended up with a sequel 26 years later.
Shahrazad: The inception of a Magic card that will never (ever) come back
In the first Magic: The Gathering expansion, there was a card so crazy that it was eventually banned in practically every format.
The Strangest Magic Ban in History
In 2014, Wizards of the Coast gave down one of their strangest bans in history (and, no, it wasn't a card).
The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale has seen as resurgence in recent years. There's a reason for that.
An Interview with 'Magic' Artist Paul Scott Canavan
Magic Untapped interviews Scottish Magic: The Gathering artist Paul Scott Canavan.
A Look Into the Power Nine: Ancestral Recall
Every Magic card has a story, so let's look into one of the Power Nine: Ancestral Recall.
Havic: The Bothering - The First Attempted Parody of MTG
Magic: The Gathering has had many imitators over the years. And one of the first was a one-off parody in the late 1990s.
An Interview with 'Magic' Artist Chris Rahn
Nebuchadnezzar: The real life person who actually made it onto a Magic card
Back in 1994, Legends nearly introduced a handful of real-life people and characters with cards of their own. One actually made it to print.