A Comprehensive History of Woke D&D – Appendix B: Woke Outrage

In Lawrence Harmon's letter the the "Community members" voicing concerns are the following:

1. Lawrence Harmon himself. professional MtG player (black).

2. Patrick Dickmann. Describes himself as a "White, straight, male" Magic: the Gathering Player. German former professional MtG player. No career connection to MtG (white).

3. Helene Bergeot. Director - Global Organized Play and eSports 2013 to May 2017 (white).

4. "@MarcelMTG" whose real name I've been unable to find. Seems to have been professional MtG player, seems to not be any of the Marcels I find when looking into reporting on MtG tournaments (black).

5. Rick Shay, professional Magic player who quit playing around the time of and due to the controversies of 2020. A "one quarter Syrian and one quarter Lebanese" who grew up in a "heavily Irish-Catholic Massachusetts town". His Twitter post which is included as a screen capture in the letter is also accompanied by screen captures of 9 reactions disagreeing with him (partially middle-eastern).

6 & 7. MtG Judges Liz Richardson and Brandon Miller whose conflict with Chris Lansdell, a judge in some sort of manager position above them, over issues of representation is recounted in the letter (black & black).

8. Riki Hayashi, a judge marketing himself as someone with the will and skillset to fix issues of diversity in MtG (asian).

9. Greg Orange, a player who believed he should have been given a diversity slot which he was not (black).

10. Sam Pardee, professional Magic player (white)

11. Ben Rasmussen. professional Magic player (white)

12. Elizabeth Rice who at the time of the letter " recently pointed out that the Magic community as a whole is struggling to name more than two black players". In 2021, she was hired as associate game designer at WotC (white).

13. Anthony Lowry, professional MtG player. Now also games journalist (black).

In Zaiem Beg's letter, the "Community members" voicing concerns who are not also mentioned in Harmon's letter are the following:

1. Zaiem Beg himself. A former contributing editor, then editor-in-chief for major Magic: The Gathering retailer and strategy website Channelfireball.com (asian).

2. Jason Chan (nickname: Amaz). A Chinese-Canadian streamer mostly known for playing Hearthstone but also Magic. In 2019 he was disqualified from "Grand Prix Vegas" (some MtG contest) for aggressive behavior. Pushing or bumping into a judge, depending on whose account you believe. Zaiem writes: "Getting disqualified from a Grand Prix for aggressive behavior toward a judge typically carries a suspension from playing in live Magic tournaments. However, Wizards can’t continue to use Amaz for advertising their new digital platform if they announced he’s not and didn’t want to deal with the PR and outrage, so they just quietly banned him behind the scenes and gave him a shadowban so they could keep him out of their Magic tournaments, but still reap the rewards of the audience he brings to their game. This is one of the open secrets that are whispered in private messages, and these shadowbans have been effective in managing the PR strategy."

WotC still had him make a "Cube writeup" (a sort of article on a sort of deck of cards for the game) for an event. They put this "cube" up on the channels without crediting, citing "scheduling reasons". After Chan complained to the company, the added his name to the article. Chan does not claim anything of this has to do with racism and Zaied only gives this as an exampe of how "there's never any public accountability" with WotC (asian).

3. Eric Froehlich, professional Magic player (white).

4. Marco Nelor, artist selling his work to WotC, among other clients (black).

5. Josh Krause, Magic the Gathering art dealer (white).