List requestor: Jeff Boes <[log in to unmask]> Proposed name for list: mtg-team-virtual List purpose: Group discussion of Magic: the Gathering collectible card game. Explanation: Many serious students of the game Magic: the Gathering belong to a "team": a loose association of players who meet for playtesting, deck design open discussions, and practice. Others, especially those in geographic areas without a lot of serious MtG play or tournaments, have no such face-to-face opportunities. This list will be an attempt to address that inequity by connecting these "lone wolf", serious students of the game. Members would discuss current deck designs, contribute to tuning and playtesting each other's decks, and schedule on-line games (via Apprentice or similar Internet play aids) or e-mail games. The intent is to offer serious opponents who would be willing to take up a "sparring partner" role, playing a particular type of deck against a playtester trying to tune his or her deck. Participants would be expected to play the "sparring partner" as often as they do the deck-playtester. We are also working to set up a Web page at which new deck designs could be uploaded and downloaded for use in these online playtest sessions. The list is expected to be fairly low-volume, and a digest-only mode would be acceptable if posted once a day. The subscriptions would be closed, only so we can filter out those who would "lurk" and thus learn more than they teach and aid. It is our intent to let anyone in, at least for a trial period. I am not a participant in the LSTSRV-L list, so please send responses to the address in the signature. -- Jeff Boes [log in to unmask] (not what you may see in the header...)