Scrye
The final issue of Scrye: Issue # 131
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| Former editors | JM White, John Jackson Miller Joyce Greenholdt |
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| Categories | Collectible card games |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Year founded | 1994 |
| Final issue — Number |
April 2009 131 |
| Company | SCRYE, Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| ISSN | 1540-0565 |
SCRYE (Scrye Collectible Card Game Checklist and Price Guide) is a discontinued gaming magazine that was published from 1994 to April 2009. It was the longest-running periodical to have ever reported on the collectible card game hobby. It was also the leading print resource for secondary-market prices on Magic: The Gathering. JM White, publisher of the role-playing game magazine Cryptych, launched the magazine in June 1994 after being introduced to Magic by its publisher, Wizards of the Coast's Peter Adkison, in July 1993.
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 InQuest were, by far, the two CCG magazines with the largest circulation.
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.
When collectible card games underwent a resurgence of popularity in the United States with the 1999 release of Pokémon, White added translations of Japanese cards to the magazine.
White sold the magazine on November 15, 1999 to Krause Publications, which was later acquired by F+W Publications Inc.. John Jackson Miller became the editor and added collectible miniature game coverage to the magazine in 2000 prior to the release of Mage Knight. Under later editor Joyce Greenholdt, the magazine's frequency increased to monthly. Miller and Greenholdt also produced two volumes in 2001 and 2003 covering all collectible card and miniature games to date, the Scrye Collectible Card Game Checklist and Price Guide.
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