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Magic realism
Magic realism (magical realism): narrative mode interweaving fantastical elements into realistic, known-world settings; coined by Franz Roh in 1925 for painting, central to Latin American fiction since Carpentier and García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Magic Repo Man
Magic Repo Man (貸した魔力は〖リボ払い〗で強制徴収) is a Masakichi web novel about Lent, who lends MP to party members and later repossesses it. Manga by Shingō Iijima; 2026 SynergySP anime on TV Asahi, streamed on Crunchyroll.
Magic Robot (MagicAtom)
Magic Robot, known as 魔法原子 (MagicAtom), is a Chinese embodied-AI startup in Wuxi, incubated by Dreame Technology, that develops humanoid robots, quadrupeds, and dexterous hands.
Magic Roundabout (Swindon)
The Magic Roundabout is a ring junction in central Swindon, England, opened in September 1972, made up of five mini-roundabouts around a central island that carries traffic anti-clockwise.
Magic square
A magic square is a square array of numbers in which every row, column, and main diagonal sums to the same value; the oldest known example is China's 3×3 Lo Shu square.
Magic square of squares
A magic square of squares is a 3 × 3 magic square whose nine entries are all perfect squares; whether one exists with distinct entries is an open problem.
Magic state distillation
Magic state distillation is a fault-tolerant quantum computing procedure that turns many noisy magic states into fewer, cleaner ones, supplying the non-Clifford resource for universal computation.
MAGIC stereo system
The MAGIC stereo system, also called the MAGIC Florian Goebel Telescopes, is a pair of 17-meter gamma-ray Cherenkov telescopes on La Palma, Spain, operating together since 2009.
MAGIC syndrome
MAGIC syndrome (mouth and genital ulcers with inflamed cartilage) is a rare autoinflammatory overlap of relapsing polychondritis and Behçet's disease, first named by Firestein et al. in 1985; its status as a distinct entity is debated.
Magic SysRq key
The Magic SysRq key, also known as Magic SysRq, is a Linux kernel feature that issues low-level commands to a crashed or unresponsive system, documented since 1998.
Magic System
Magic System is an Ivorian zouglou group formed in Abidjan in 1996 by A'Salfo, Manadja, Tino, and Goudé, known for "1er Gaou" (1999) and "Magic in the Air" (2014).
Magic Touch
Magic Touch is a 1991 six-track remix album on which Birmingham producer Bally Sagoo remixed Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's qawwali vocals over house and hip-hop rhythms.
Magic Tour (Queen)
The Magic Tour was Queen's 1986 European concert tour supporting A Kind of Magic, with 26 shows ending at Knebworth Park, their last tour with Freddie Mercury.
Magic Tree House
Magic Tree House is Mary Pope Osborne's Random House children's chapter book series, begun with Dinosaurs Before Dark in 1992, in which siblings Jack and Annie time-travel in a magic tree house; over 143 million copies sold in 39 languages, with Merlin Missions, Fact Trackers, and graphic novels.
Magic word
Magic word: a word spoken to help a trick work, such as abracadabra or hocus pocus, historically the formula of charms and incantations; abracadabra was first recorded by Serenus Sammonicus in 2nd-century Rome as a fever amulet.
Magic-angle graphene
Magic-angle graphene is graphene stacked in atomically thin sheets twisted to about 1.1 degrees, where the electronic bands become nearly flat and host superconductivity and correlated insulating states.
Magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene
Magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene (MATTG) is a moiré material of three graphene sheets, the middle rotated by a magic angle, whose flat electronic bands host unconventional superconductivity first reported in 2021.
Magic-size cluster
A magic-size cluster is an atomically precise semiconductor or metal cluster with a fixed atom count and higher stability than neighboring sizes, named for "magic" atom counts that survive synthesis.
Magic: The Gathering
Magic: The Gathering, trading card game by Richard Garfield released 1993; Commander is its 100-card, 40-life multiplayer format; famously complex, Turing complete.
Magic: The Gathering Arena
Magic: The Gathering Arena (MTG Arena) is Wizards of the Coast's free-to-play digital collectible card game, announced 2017, fully released September 2019, on PC, Mac, Android, and iOS, with Standard, Alchemy, Historic, Pioneer, Timeless, Brawl, and Limited formats and a wildcard-based economy.
Magic: The Gathering Commander
Commander, originally Elder Dragon Highlander (EDH), is Magic: The Gathering's casual multiplayer format with 100-card singleton decks led by a legendary commander; it is the game's most popular format.
Magic: The Gathering formats
Magic: The Gathering formats are named rule sets defining players, legal cards, and deck construction. Constructed (Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander) versus Limited (Draft, Sealed), with format-specific banned and restricted lists.
Magic: The Gathering Online
Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO, MODO) is Wizards of the Coast's official digital Magic client, launched June 2002 by Leaping Lizard Software, now run by Daybreak Games; PC-only, with owned tradable cards, set redemption, and Legacy, Vintage, Modern, and Commander formats.
Magic: The Gathering rules
Magic: The Gathering rules: the Comprehensive Rules governing the trading card game, covering golden rules, deck construction, the stack, state-based actions, and the Commander variant's 100-card singleton rules.
Magic: The Gathering video games
Magic: The Gathering video games are digital adaptations of the trading card game, including the 1997 MicroProse RPG Shandalar, Duels of the Planeswalkers (2009), and the current official clients MTG Arena and Magic Online.
Magic!
Magic! (MAGIC!) is a Canadian reggae fusion band from Toronto, formed 2012 by Nasri Atweh, Mark Pellizzer, Ben Spivak, and Alex Tanas. Their debut single "Rude" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks in 2014; distinct from Disney MagicBands and the MAGIC gamma-ray telescopes.
Magic.dev
Magic.dev is a San Francisco AI startup, founded in 2022 by Eric Steinberger and Sebastian De Ro, developing code-specialized models with extremely long context windows.
Magical Buffs: The Support Caster Is Stronger Than He Realized!
Magical Buffs: The Support Caster Is Stronger Than He Realized! (雑用付与術師が自分の最強に気付くまで) is a Haka Tokura light novel and Shin Arakawa manga from Futabasha about support mage Wim Strauss and the A-rank party Nachtlibelle, licensed in English by Seven Seas, with an anime premiering January 4, 2027.
Magical Coastal Park
Magical Coastal Park (Jadyly Kenar, or Magic shore) is an amusement park in the Avaza national tourist zone on the Caspian Sea coast near Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan, opened in 2015.
Magical creatures in Harry Potter
Magical creatures in Harry Potter: the beings, beasts, and spirits of J.K. Rowling's wizarding world, classified by the Ministry of Magic since Grogan Stump's 1811 definition, rated X to XXXXX for danger, hidden under the Statute of Secrecy, and drawn from world mythology and folklore.