Scrye
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SCRYE (Scrye Collectible Card Game Checklist and Price Guide) was a gaming magazine published from 1994 to April 2009 by Scrye, Inc.
History
Joanne M. White, publisher of the role-playing game magazine Cryptych, launched the magazine in mid-1994 after being introduced to Magic by its publisher, Wizards of the Coast's Peter Adkison, in July 1993.[3]: 78 Issue #4, dated February 1995, was the first issue to carry a publication date, leaving the magazine's exact launch date difficult to determine.
In 1996 SCRYE published a second magazine as a market test. The magazine Mastyr, covered tournament Magic. Sales were not strong enough to support a separate publication and the features of Mastyr were rolled into SCRYE after a single issue.
White sold the magazine on November 15, 1999, to
On Nov. 15, 2006, the magazine's publisher purchased gamingreport.com, an independent game news site, to serve as the official website for the magazine.
On January 29, 2009, the magazine's publisher sent an
Contents and influence
White would send copies of Magic: The Gathering card lists to retailers before each issue, and they would mark the prices at which each individual card was sold.[3]: 78 She collected this information into a spreadsheet in order to create a printable price guide with low, median, and high prices received from responding retailers, who were paid for their input.[3]: 78
Initially created as a price guide for Magic: The Gathering cards, SCRYE also provided prices and strategy tips for the many other collectible and trading card games that followed. In the mid-1990s, SCRYE and
When collectible card games underwent a second surge of popularity in the United States with the 1999 release of Pokémon, White added translations of Japanese cards to the magazine.
The magazine has produced a number of affiliated one-shot publications, including ones devoted to Pokémon, Magic, and The Lord of the Rings collectible card games. The "Scrye counter", one of the earliest pewter miniature scorekeeping devices specifically designed for collectible card games, was produced in the mid-1990s by Reaper Miniatures through a licensing agreement with the magazine.
Reviews
- Dragon #212 (December 1994) p94
References
- ^ a b "Scrye". Faraway Press. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
- ^ "Well it is official Magic Librarians ... Scrye ... gone". Magic Librarities. 29 January 2009. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-78618-067-4.
- ^ Greenholdt, Joyce. SCRYE 131 (April 2009): 6.
External links
- Scrye on the Internet Archive
