{"id":468,"date":"2025-12-19T16:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/?p=468"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:25:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:25:43","slug":"magic-spotlight-series-liverpool-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Magic Spotlight Series \u2013 Liverpool 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"468\" class=\"elementor elementor-468\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-245b7ef9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"245b7ef9\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-537a2a4c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"537a2a4c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p><strong>Exhibition Centre <\/strong><strong>31<sup>st<\/sup> October 2025<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-92fcb6c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"92fcb6c\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e742a0c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"e742a0c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mark-Poole-scaled.jpg\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Mark Poole\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6NDY5LCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczpcL1wvc2Ftc2FyYS1ncy5jby51a1wvbWFnYXppbmVcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjVcLzEyXC9NYXJrLVBvb2xlLXNjYWxlZC5qcGcifQ%3D%3D\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mark-Poole-1024x601.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-469\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mark-Poole-1024x601.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mark-Poole-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mark-Poole-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mark-Poole-1536x902.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mark-Poole-2048x1203.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f9b7bb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5f9b7bb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><b>Art: Mark Poole<\/b><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c2b7a30 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c2b7a30\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-191a649 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"191a649\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 \u00a0At the end of October 2025 I had the privilege of being invited to attend this Magic the Gathering event along with fellow fantasy artist David O\u2019Connor and our agent \/ facilitator and fellow art lover Guy Coulson. I haven\u2019t had a lot to do with Wizard of the Coast for many years, but I have had a continuous stream of interest from the wonderful MTG fans over the years in the form of artist proof signings and original art creation on the back of said artist proofs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0\u00a0 The Magic spotlight series is a collection of open invite events, run by Fanfinity, that let anyone play high level \u2018Magic\u2019, win awesome prizes and gather to see who has the skill to claim \u2018Magic\u2019 greatness, so says the Magic spotlight website and this definitely is what I witnessed that weekend. I have been out of the MTG loop for some time, but from what I ascertained the theme of this event, or the latest IP they have acquired, was Marvel\u2019s \u2018Spiderman\u2019.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> <a href=\"https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/?p=468#more-468\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Continue reading Magic Spotlight Series \u2013 Liverpool 2025\">(more&hellip;)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhibition Centre 31st October 2025 Art: Mark Poole \u00a0 \u00a0At the end of October 2025 I had the privilege of being invited to attend this Magic the Gathering event along with fellow fantasy artist David O\u2019Connor and our agent \/ facilitator and fellow art lover Guy Coulson. I haven\u2019t had a lot to do with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/?p=468\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magic Spotlight Series \u2013 Liverpool 2025&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[49,47,48,45,25],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-david-o-connor","tag-guy-coulson","tag-magic-the-gathering","tag-spotlight-series-2025","tag-steve-luke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsara-gs.co.uk\/magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}