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| license: odc-by
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| task_categories:
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| - text-retrieval
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| language:
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| - en
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| tags:
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| - mtg
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| - magic-the-gathering
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| - web-archive
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| ---
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| # mtg-links
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| This dataset contains 9,879,486 URLs pointing to Magic: The Gathering (MTG) content. These links come from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. They cover major MTG community sites, strategy blogs, and official news outlets.
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| This dataset is the index for a project to build a complete text corpus of Magic: The Gathering strategy, lore, and history.
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| ## Content breakdown
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| | Site | Domain | Link Count |
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| | :--- | :--- | :--- |
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| | mtgsalvation | www.mtgsalvation.com | 5,960,584 |
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| | mtg_wiki | mtg.fandom.com | 1,302,074 |
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| | mtggoldfish | www.mtggoldfish.com | 800,910 |
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| | mtgtop8 | www.mtgtop8.com | 418,340 |
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| | tappedout | www.tappedout.net | 292,573 |
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| | gatherer | gatherer.wizards.com | 258,891 |
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| | edhrec_articles | edhrec.com | 222,499 |
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| | tcgplayer | www.tcgplayer.com | 103,334 |
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| | mtgazone | mtgazone.com | 90,819 |
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| | draftsim | draftsim.com | 85,657 |
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| | cardmarket_insight | www.cardmarket.com | 84,241 |
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| | cardkingdom | www.cardkingdom.com | 63,381 |
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| | 17lands | www.17lands.com | 52,724 |
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| | commandersherald | commandersherald.com | 25,637 |
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| | wizards | magic.wizards.com | 21,558 |
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| | facetofacegames | www.facetofacegames.com | 19,060 |
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| | mtgcommander | mtgcommander.net | 17,260 |
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| | hipstersofthecoast | www.hipstersofthecoast.com | 12,273 |
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| | coolstuffinc | www.coolstuffinc.com | 10,478 |
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| | hareruyamtg | hareruyamtg.com | 8,647 |
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| | quietspeculation | www.quietspeculation.com | 8,227 |
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| | lrcast | lrcast.com | 5,859 |
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| | starcitygames | www.starcitygames.com | 4,647 |
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| | themanapool | themanapool.libsyn.com | 2,495 |
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| | magic_gg | magic.gg | 2,417 |
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| | paupermtg | paupermtg.com | 2,097 |
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| | eternalcentral | www.eternalcentral.com | 1,871 |
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| | mtgmintcard | www.mtgmintcard.com | 559 |
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| | aetherhub | aetherhub.com | 347 |
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| | channelfireball | www.channelfireball.com | 27 |
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| ## Dataset structure
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| The dataset is a single CSV file, `links.csv`, with the following columns:
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| - `url`: The full URL found in the Internet Archive CDX index.
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| - `site`: The identifier for the source website (e.g., `mtggoldfish`, `edhrec_articles`).
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| - `http_code`: The HTTP status code returned by the Wayback Machine for that URL.
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| ## Collection method
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| URLs were pulled using the Internet Archive CDX API. The crawler targeted specific domains known to host Magic: The Gathering content, searching for all unique URLs indexed by the Wayback Machine.
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| This specific snapshot covers URLs indexed between **2025 and 2026**.
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| To replicate the discovery process, use the provided `fetch.py` script:
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| ```bash
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| python fetch.py discover --from-year 2025 --to-year 2026
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| ```
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| ## License
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| The list of URLs is provided under the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By). You must follow the terms of service and robots.txt of the source websites if you use these links to download content.
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