Scrye
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Scrye (Scrye Collectible Card Game Checklist and Price Guide) is the longest-running periodical reporting on the collectible card game hobby and the leading print resource for secondary-market prices on Magic: The Gathering. Joanne White, who had previously published the role-playing game magazine Cryptic, launched the magazine 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 cards, Scrye later provided strategy tips on that and the many other collectible 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 tried to establish a second magazine, Mastyr, which was to cover tournament Magic. However, sales were not strong enough and the features of Mastyr were rolled back 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, later known as 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.
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.
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.
The name, a trademark, is adapted from a Middle English word meaning "to tell the future."
