{"id":28549,"date":"2025-09-02T09:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=28549"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:16:24","slug":"magisk-joins-astralis-after-being-benched-by-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/magisk-joins-astralis-after-being-benched-by-falcons\/","title":{"rendered":"Magisk Joins Astralis After Being Benched by Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It seems like <strong>Emil \u201cMagisk\u201d Reif will join Asatralis once again <\/strong>after Team Falcons benched him. The legendary player was a part of the team <strong>between 2018 and 2021,<\/strong> during which he won three Major titles, as well as many other Tier 1 events.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Magisk is Back with Astralis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the reasons why Astralis decided to add Magisk to their roster is <strong>Martin \u201cstavn\u201d Lund\u2019s decision to step back from the starting lineup<\/strong>. While we do not know the exact reasons why this happened (more about it below), it seems to be <strong>related <\/strong>to his health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Astralis confirmed their new signing on X, after which Magisk said that the team means a lot to him. He also mentioned his <strong>motivation to contribute<\/strong> to the team\u2019s future development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why did Magisk Leave Falcons?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/FalconsEsport\/status\/1962440294366105855\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As mentioned, one of the reasons why Magisk decided to join Astralis is because <em>Falcons benched him<\/em>. Interestingly, the player and his previous team <strong>achieved good results<\/strong>, such as a second place at PJL-Club Napoca 2025, BLAST Rivals Spring 2025 and a few other events. The team even <strong>won the PGL Bucharest 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, <strong>even these results were not enough<\/strong> to keep Magisk in the active roster. The organization decided to bench him <strong>after signing Maksim \u201ckyousuke\u201d Lukin<\/strong>. The young talent seems to have a promising future ahead of him and the Falcons decided to rely on him in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, <strong>Falcons thanked Magisk for his contribution<\/strong> once it became clear that he will play for Astralis. It will be interesting to see how this change will affect the team\u2019s performance at <strong>FISSURE Playground 2<\/strong>. The latter will take place in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why is stavn no Longer a Part of Astralis?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As mentioned, Magisk steps in after stavn decided to step down from CS2. According to him, he <strong>needed a break<\/strong> and he also said that \u201chealth comes first and <strong>he will take some time off to deal with personal things<\/strong>\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the roster change, Astralis\u2019s fans seem to be <strong>happy that they will see a familiar face<\/strong> back in action. Old-school fans remember his glorious years with the club, but we will have to wait and see if he will live up to the expectations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like Emil \u201cMagisk\u201d Reif will join Asatralis once again after Team Falcons benched him. The legendary player was a part of the team between 2018 and 2021, during which he won three Major titles, as well as many other Tier 1 events.&nbsp; Magisk is Back with Astralis One of the reasons why Astralis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":28550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,11],"class_list":{"0":"post-28549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-cs2","9":"tag-cs2-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28551,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28549\/revisions\/28551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}