After a second stint with the Dojo, Gary was hired by sideboard.com, the official website of the Magic:the Gathering Pro Tour as staff writer and columnist. He served in that capacity from 1998-2003. During 1999-2001 he frequented an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Magic the Gathering channel. This room was named channel MTGWACKY and has since gone defunct. It was here that many Magic The Gathering professionals shared some of the more casual aspects of Magic the Gathering as well as new "tech" of the time. Magic drafts had just become popular, and a program was used in conjunction with IRC called netdraft.