#MtgForLife

The #MtgForLife movement started in the autumn of 2015. The goal was to give up a few of the cards we didn't really need to try and make a few horrendous situations slightly less abysmal. The first milestone with our 40-day long crowdfunding campaign was to gather $10,000 from Magic players to donate to Doctors without Borders.
The start of the movement and the crowdfunding campaign can be read about in the following posts:
The mentality of #MtgForLife went on after the campaign was over. During e.g. the 2016 national UK championships in Blackpool, the players decided on having a higher entry fee to give some of the proceeds to people who can't afford food, let alone a 93/94 decks. Half of the fees at the annual BSK tournament in Sweden are now donated to a charity of the winner's choice. A lot of players and organizers around the world hold on to the mindset, keeping the spirit of #MtgForLife as a part of the MtgUnderground.

If you are doing an event in the name of #MtgForLife, please let me know and I'll be happy to update some info about it here, and send a token card as appreciation if you want (maybe to have as a small prize in the tournament).

As for the first core campaign in the autumn of 2015, these are the heroes in the local communities who contributed:

Erik Åstedt 
Magnus de Laval
Svenskamagic.com Föreningen
Svenskamagic.com Butiken
Viktor "Oldschool" Peterson
Mikael Mällroth
Shaman Ben Perry
Magnus Nilsson
Elof Gottfridsson
Søren Madsen
Per Algander
Greg Titcomb
Lars Harald Nordli
Joakim Jansson
Magnus Wiberg
Jakob Edén
Jim Sharkey
Daniel Miller
Bryan Garfoot
Timothy M Wells
Joshua Schwartz
Adam Shaffer
Nikhil Rode
Chris Moyer
Mikael Johansson
Christoffer Modig
ottifant9
Lorenzo Novaro
Minelli Valerio
neushed
Fredrik Joelsson
Lewis R Black
Martin Jordö
Audun Døssland
Mikael Lindén
Marc Lanigra
Andy Goodell
Alexander Auvenshine
Alexander Frey
Stian Lindqvist
John Russell
Martin C Hardselius
Constantine Prishvitsin
Daniel Siboska
Markus Guldbrandsson
Simon Adolfsson
Darlene Biggs
Craig H Ostriyznick
Erik Larsson
Carl Olzon
Koivisto Antti
James Tuckey
David R Firth Bard
Henrik Wallin
Michael R Mason
David Montag
Raymond Meeks
Ong Hak Tiong
Matt Shields
Minelli Valerio
Necrogenesis
Guillaume Soucy
Timothy M Wells
Marc Lanigra
David Calås
Danny Friedman
Jakob Knutsson
Carter
Arvid Alfredsson Grahn
Alessio Fauci
Adam B. Hartman
Kevin Hicks
Xzanaku
Johanna Virtanen
Patrick Sullivan
Benjamin A Mohr
Stian Haga
Aaron Krisberg
John Michael Collier
Martin Lindström
Kristoffer Lindqvist
Andreas Axelsson
N.K. Moes
Andrew K Rudiger
Jefferey M Lindner
Georg de Laval
Drakersasser
Joe Koop
Jason L Eikmeier
Andreas Schneider
Tomas Sukaitis
Simon Winther Nielsen
Robert John Richard
Aaron Swerdlow-Freed
Krister Trangius
R. Steelman
Peter Salomon Nielsen
Mikkelib
William Zimmerman
Martin Gallogly
Kyle Parsons
Jacob Weile
Nicholas Escandon
Victor Risso
Daniel Ahlberg
Bernhard Zander
Patrik Cassersten
Dan Hyland
Johan Fransson
Christopher S. Mason
Sapit
Mat Shaw
Simone Esposito
Jimmy Levinsson
Hans Henrik Rasmussen

Thank you so much. Together, we raised money equal to the yearly gross domestic product per capita for thirty-two people in the South African Republic. Enough to pay the salary for a nurse in South Sudan for years. It's enough to vaccinate over 1,250 kids against pneumonia, even with the current high prices of the shots. It is highly probable that you managed to use your hobby to actually save real lives. Well played.

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