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Mission Statements
To excel as a net provider of information regarding Magic: the
Gathering.
To become a great CASUAL deck resource via content.
To gather great and unique decks from around the world.
To serve as a portal for all Magic: the Gathering players on the net.
To provide reference material to design decks.
To provide well written articles
regarding casual magic.
To never charge money for any content on this site.
Brief History
Magic Deck Vortex
was founded in August, 2002 by John Streetz and Jason Streetz.
It started as just an EXCEL database of 100 decks John Streetz had
collected from a variety of sources (60 of which were actually put
together as actual decks for casual play at the time). Note:
Jason does not play magic... he helped to establish MDV by hosting it
on his site: www.streetzuite.com.
Many thanks to Jason for his help in the beginning.
Originally, Magic
Deck Vortex brought people in by having a deck clinic, regular
contests and a deck
submission page. Magic Deck Vortex as a 'magic' site has
been expanding internally and
externally ever since August 2002 through other means such as
articles, it's combo and deck database, and it's linking network
across the net. Now, Magic Deck Vortex is linked to on over 70 different websites around the net including web rings and popular
portals like www.dutchmagic.com,
www.maroox.com, and
others.
Since the beginning, MDV has grown from 100 decks to over 1500.
Features have expanded from minimal to better. This trend will
continue until there is nothing left to expand (which is impossible
considering the many different directions of the site now). One of the hopes
of the webmaster is to have the site referenced and/or mentioned
on the main site, www.magicthegathering.com.
[Who am I kidding.. MDV isn't
www.brainburst.com.
Oh well. Until then...]
Current
Focus
Magic Deck Vortex
has so many facets it is tough to really explain what the current
focus is. However, as of 8/28/06, here are my goals to complete
until the end of the year.
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To continue to add new and
innovative casual and tourney worthy decks throughout the year.
Right now the average deck postings is about 20 a month.
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To give the site
a newer look. Although the red background will always stay.
I have already added better navigation buttons throughout many parts
of the site.
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To provide a 'better' search
engine for the site.
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To incorporate more articles into
MDV on a daily basis.
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To keep expanding
the visual spoilers and creature type spoilers by adding older
spoilers like Tempest, Mirage and so on and also other creature
types with more than 10 creatures in that type (not currently
posted).
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To excel as a net provider of MTG
related stuff.
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To offer something for everyone
that visits the site.
That's it for
now. Those are in no particular order. If you would like
to chime in, please email me and I will re-evaluate this list.
Or you could post your concerns in the forum (which I recommend over
emailing me).
Webmaster
John Streetz, a.k.a. Ghilias
Layout
Design
John Streetz, a.k.a. Ghilias Content Editors/Review Team
John Streetz, webmaster
Lionden_56, editor & writer
Chris Newton (Tynion), editor & writer
Death_By_Beebles, editor & writer
EinsteinMonkey, editor & writer
Forum Team
Death_By_Beebles, admin
EinsteinMonkey, global moderator
Ghurhgs, moderator
Lionden_56, admin
Neuromancer, moderator
stolin, global moderator
John Streetz, admin & owner
Tekkactus, moderator Special Thanks
You!!! ... for visiting this humble website
Richard Garfield and WotC who brought us this fantastic game.
Jason Streetz for getting this site from my laptop to the net in
the beginning!
Jason Streetz for funding the site for the first year.
The Tremblays @ www.mtgfanatic.com
for supporting this site from day one.
The Internet MTG community for promoting the game.
Advertising
Information
See this page for more information about advertising on Magic Deck Vortex.
Contact Information
You can reach the webmaster, John Streetz, at streetz@magicdeckvortex.com
DISCLAIMER.
Magic
the Gathering is TM and copyright Wizards of the Coast, Inc, a subsidiary
of Hasbro, Inc. All rights reserved. All art is property of their
respective artists and Wizards of the Coast. This site is not
produced or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast, Inc.
Magicdeckvortex.com is a service provided by John
Streetz to promote the knowledge and accessibility to casual use of Magic:
the Gathering as a collectible card game. Magic Deck Vortex works for you.
All pictures
are displayed for visual use only to enchant particular features on
articles on the site and are not posted for any means to make profit on
the webmaster's part.
This is a free site and the
webmaster makes no money from this endeavor. This site is based in
Illinois.
The webmaster spends a
great deal of time making sure the pages are updated regularly and
things are posted correctly and accurately. Should you ever find
any errors on any page, please advise the webmaster via email (magicdeckvortex(@)hotmail.com).
Thank you, as always, for visiting Magic Deck Vortex. Your help
and support will make this one of the best Magic: the Gathering sites
on the web. Magic Deck Vortex is, after all, more than meets the
eye... and what the casual players use!!!
This page was last
updated 8/28/2006.
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