Wizards of the Coast is an American games publisher founded by Peter Adkison in 1990 just outside Seattle, WA. The company mainly publishes table top games in the fantasy and science-fiction genres.
Wizards of the Coast started as a basement-run RPG publisher and popularized the collectible card game genre thanks to the success of Magic: The Gathering. They are also known for publishing the Dungeons & Dragons RPG after purchasing the original D&D developer TSR in the mid-1990s. Until 2003, Wizards published the licensed Pokémon Trading Card Game.
Theyalso publish novels based on games such as Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, and Legend of the Five Rings.
Wizards of the Coast has been a subsidiary of Hasbro since 1999.
The team behind Dungeons & Dragons issued a statement this week regarding some of their legacy titles and the content within them. In recent weeks after the rise of Black Lives Matter and addressing cultural insensitivity across all ethnicities, some people took to social media to point out some of D&D's earlier works didn't meet […]
Let's face the facts for a moment folks – Magic: The Gathering's art style has suffered from a glut of works that many people could deem as "too digital" for years now. One such piece that falls in this category is the Khans of Tarkir art for Monastery Swiftspear. It's a piece that simply feels too […]
Hello there, loyal readers, and fans of Dungeons & Dragons! Our tabletop writer has been busy with writing up the plot for their homebrew campaign, called "Dastarque," and, after quite a bit of deliberation, implementation, and play, the plot is ready to be discussed with you! So, some simple character profiles for the players' characters, before […]
Heritage Auctions, a Texas-based auction house for comics, trading cards, and memorabilia among various other things, has recently put an unopened box of Magic: The Gathering's infamous Collectors' Edition onto the auction block. This item is presently (at the time of this article's conception) going for $6,000 USD and the auction ends on July 9th. This collection […]
Texas-based auction house Heritage Auctions has many comics, trading cards, and pieces of memorabilia on auction. From Pokémon cards to Batman comics and back again, Heritage Auctions is a major hub for some very high-end collectibles. It's no surprise, then, that they'd have a vintage Magic: The Gathering card like Chaos Orb available to bid on and […]
Commander is one of those major Magic: The Gathering formats that needs to update every so often, even if whole sets don't necessarily follow a rotation schedule. Today, the Rules Committee for the format spoke about their updates for the quarter, which included no changes – at least, nothing that wasn't already announced in the last […]
Wizards of the Coast has released its State of Magic: The Gathering Arena article for June, and, as expected, it's a big one. Many important topics were covered, including rotation of formats in September and what that will mean, Brawler's Guildhall and its abolition in favor of everyday Standard Brawl (you read that correctly!), and Jumpstart's […]
One of the bigger online shows to go off their air during the COVID-19 outbreak was Critical Role, as the cast and crew went into self-quarantine. While the majority of Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder shows are already done over systems like Skype, Discord, and Zoom, the CR crew do live broadcasts from their own […]
Hello, fans of Commander, the primary player-driven format for Wizards of the Coast's hit trading card game Magic: The Gathering! Today, much like we did with Nethroi, Apex of Death roughly a month ago, we will be re-inspecting a commander that we looked at not long ago through a second deck tech. However, unlike that previous […]
Mac users who play Magic, you can finally rejoice, for the wait is over – Magic: The Gathering Arena is coming to your Apple computers! The digital interface for Wizards of the Coast's famous trading card game will launch on Macs on June 25th, 2020 on the Epic Games Store. Coinciding with Core 2021, Arena's launch to Macs everywhere […]
Hello and greetings to all fans, players, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's classic trading card game Magic: The Gathering! Previews for Magic's July release, the Sealed-centric expansion they've called Jumpstart, have mostly come and gone; we have not gotten a full spoiler for the entirety of the new set, and previews are still seemingly ongoing. However, […]
Hello (and hello again) to the fans, players, and collectors of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game by Wizards of the Coast! June 19th was one interesting day for Jumpstart reveals, but now the preview season for the Sealed-centric expansion set has officially concluded. But hey, we got to see some really cool cards to […]
Hello there, fans, players, and collectors of Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game! Magic's come a long way over the years, and along that path, some cards have gotten ever the more scarce for players to get ahold of. However, Jumpstart, an upcoming Limited-style expansion set for Magic, will be coming out in July […]
There were a lot of things to take in with D&D Live 2020's stream yesterday, but there were many things not covered or shown off. Which, to be fair, they had a LOT that needed to be shown off. So since we don't know if or when any of this stuff will be talked about, […]
Welcome, fans of the history and lore behind Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering! When we last left off, Urza, an ambitious artificer with a newly-ignited Planeswalker spark, had bore witness to the corruption of Phyrexia, machinated by Yawgmoth and his grand, yet twisted, designs. Urza then and there swore […]
Hello, players, fans, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's famous trading card game Magic: The Gathering! While the July release, the Limited-style expansion known as Jumpstart, will have a bunch of reprinted cards in it, quite a few of the 20-card packs will feature cards that are completely new to the game. Let's look at […]
As part of the reveal for the new Icewind Dale adventure today, D&D will be releasing a new set of dice to complement the campaign. As you can see below, the dice set is basically tailor-made for this campaign. The company has done a really awesome job of creating a set that, to the best […]
Beadle & Grimm's have revealed their next D&D Platinum Edition will be for the upcoming adventure, Icewind Dale: Rime Of The Frostmaiden. Like previous sets before it, this will include the complete adventure, maps, items, and a slew of other content for DMs to use to not only enhance the story but bring it to […]
During D&D Live 2020, WizKids revealed their line of miniatures and figures for the new adventure, Icewind Dale: Rime Of The Frostmaiden. The big additions to the mix are the Sapphire Dragon and White Dragon premium figures that are just massive and will put fear into the hearts of any player looking at them on […]
During D&D Live 2020, Ten Speed Press revealed all of the new books they have coming for Dungeons & Dragons in 2020. Among the new books on the way are a cookbook called Heroes' Feast: The Official Dungeons & Dragons Cookbook, a new specialty journal for adventurers called The Book of Holding (Dungeons & Dragons): […]
