No archive.org backups?
Now I'm curious if the MSPA forums were given much of a heads-up before the shutdown. I used to be on the old Wizards of the Coast forums back in the day and my little community scrambled to save as much as we could in the... I think it was a month we had? Not the whole of what we deemed "the mothership" mind you, but all the important bits of the Magic Flavor subforum we were a part of.