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  • Magic The Gathering Grand Prix, Washington DC. <br />
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  • Pro players.<br />
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  • Players learning about counterfeit cards from an expert. <br />
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  • A few casual  players wore costumes. <br />
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  • Magic The Gathering Grand Prix, Washington DC. <br />
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  • Judge from Italy. People from around the world. <br />
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  • This woman plans on getting her PhD in anthropology focusing on Magic The Gathering. <br />
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  • Cosplay woman and fans<br />
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  • Not much racial diversity. Found one team of 3 black players. <br />
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  • Registration. <br />
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  • Much fewer women than men. But seems that has improved over the years. <br />
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  • Registering for side-events. <br />
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  • Artist examines a rare card. <br />
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  • Fans in line for autographs from famous artist. <br />
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  • Judges come from all over. <br />
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  • The featured match section with pro players. <br />
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  • Guy who attends events around the country just to buy/sell/trade cards. <br />
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  • A couple that plays together. <br />
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  • While the majority of Magic: The Gathering players have traditionally been straight white males, the company has made efforts to broaden the community's demographics. A character card that was released in January 2015 called Alesha, Who Smiles at Death, is a trans woman. <br />
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  • Adrienne Reynolds, cosplaying for the first time at a Magic event, is a non-traditional undergraduate student studying anthropology at Bryn Mawr College. Her senior thesis focuses on Magic: The Gathering, and she plans on continuing her research into a PhD program. <br />
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  • Artist Terese Nielsen and Dawn Rickadaugh, right, have been married for 21 years, since before Nielsen received her first commission from Magic: The Gathering, a card called Force of Will. A female version of that card was released in a recent set. <br />
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  • Megan Yancer, 11, from Frederick, MD, learned to play Magic: The Gathering with nine other family members, including three younger brothers and her grandmother. <br />
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  • In between rounds, players gathered around vendor booths to buy, sell, and trade cards. While some aim to create powerful decks for game play, others are in it for the collectibles. <br />
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  • Dylan Rogers, 10, long hair, from Columbia, MD ponders his next move. <br />
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  • Thousands of unique Magic: The Gathering Cards have been printed since the game's premier in 1993. Vendors set up booths to buy, sell, and trade cards at all levels. The most expensive present over the weekend was a Black Lotus for $6,000. In 2013 a mint Black Lotus sold for $27,302 on eBay.<br />
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  • A well-known presence in the Magic community, Christine Sprankle cosplays as Magic: The Gathering characters to the amusement of fans. However, when she began attending events she was only one of few women, she said. "The backlash was unreal. Pure hatred." In the last few years she has seen significant improvements. "There are growing pains," she said, "but it's changing for the better."<br />
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  • Terese Nielsen autographs fans' Magic cards illustrated with her artwork , which she began contributing to the game about twenty years ago. The company has commissioned hundreds of artists over there years as new sets are released. <br />
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  • Some casual player teams made uniforms with colorful names. Players looking to earn points toward the Pro Tour tended to dress casually, but without the flare. <br />
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  • While adults make up the majority of Magic players, some start young. <br />
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  • Magic: The Gathering reports about 20 million players and fans worldwide. The game is printed in 11 languages and sold in about 70 countries. <br />
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  • Creatures and spells decorate the battlefield of a Magic: The Gathering match. Players typically begin with twenty hit points that their opponent must reduce to zero to win the game. At the Grand Prix in DC, in contrast to traditional one-on-one Magic tournaments, the format was set up for three-person teams. <br />
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  • Bonny Embrey, 28, from Woodbridge VA, has been playing Magic for about two years. <br />
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  • Terese Nielsen autographs fans' Magic cards illustrated with her artwork , which she began contributing to the game about twenty years ago. The company has commissioned hundreds of artists over there years as new sets are released. <br />
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  • A team of adults took in a talented ten-year old teammate during the tournament. The young boy said he learned to read through playing Magic. <br />
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  • Close to 4,000 people attended a Grand Prix tournament of Magic: The Gathering at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC over the weekend of March 12-13. Every year the company runs more than 50 Grand Prix events worldwide. <br />
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  • Dice of tantalizing colors for sale through vendors at the Grand Prix. Players use them as "counters" that mark changes in game play. <br />
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  • Close to 4,000 people attended a Grand Prix tournament of Magic: The Gathering at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC over the weekend of March 12-13. Every year the company runs more than 50 Grand Prix events worldwide. <br />
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  • A team of enthusiastic players made custom Team Swole uniforms for the tournament. <br />
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  • While adults make up the majority of Magic players, some start young. Sebastian Templeton, almost two years old, played with dice while his parents competed in tournament events. His mother, Heather Templeton, went into labor soon after a competition in Anchorage, Alaska. His parents have been avid Magic players since they were married ten years ago. They plan to buy a box of cards with the release of each new set. "By the time he's 16, it'll probably be enough to pay for his college," said his father James Templeton.<br />
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  • Nathan Comstock, 28, came from Boston to team up with his twin brother and a friend to form the team Empty Geniuses in the Grand Prix. For good luck, he said, they color coordinated their suits and matching cards sleeves. <br />
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