Archenemy Archives

Hello and welcome, all players, collectors, and fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed, developed, and produced by Wizards of the Coast! Last week, we made our triumphant introductions between you and Archenemy: Nicol Bolas, the 2017 sequel release to the Archenemy releases of 2010 This week, we will begin to analyze[...]

Hello and welcome, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed, developed, and produced by Wizards of the Coast! This article will see a slight break from the usual scheme analyses for the Archenemy format, but expect a return to these articles next week In the meantime,[...]

Hello and welcome, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed, developed, and produced by Wizards of the Coast! As quickly as they arrived to grace Bleeding Cool's Games section, our articles detailing the promotional cards from the Archenemy format will be concluding this week[...]

Hello and welcome, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed, developed, and produced by Wizards of the Coast! Last week, we closed a door on the Archenemy format's supplemental cards from the first Archenemy release It was bittersweet, having spent nearly four months on coverage of the[...]

Hello and welcome, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed, developed, and produced by Wizards of the Coast! Well, it's been a long stretch of time since we've started — all of fifteen weeks, to be exact — but we are finally at the last article[...]

Hello and welcome, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed, developed, and produced by Wizards of the Coast! There's an old adage that relates to the theme for this week's Archenemy column: "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good[...]

Hello and welcome back, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed, developed, and published by Wizards of the Coast! In this installment of our series on the cards from Archenemy, the 3-on-1 supplemental multiplayer format that has one player acting as a Big Bad Evil Guy (or[...]

This has mostly been the case for our series on Archenemy thus far However, there is a secret we will let you in on right now: Those correlations are mostly caused by the naming conventions surrounding the groups of three scheme cards we've been looking over each week Therefore, it is with no levity that we[...]

Hello and welcome, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed, developed, and produced by Wizards of the Coast! In the previous two-thirds of our installment about Archenemy, we went over various themes that seemed pretty appropriate for each of the blocks of three schemes cards we[...]

Hello and welcome, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed, developed, and produced by Wizards of the Coast! This is our tenth entry into our series on the Archenemy format, a 3-versus-1 multiplayer format where the singular player has a distinct set of advantages leveraged against[...]

Welcome, all players, collectors, and fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed, developed, and produced by Wizards of the Coast! Over the past few weeks, we have gone over some really interesting schemes for the Archenemy format, a 3-on-1 game that pits you, the titular Archenemy, against three "heroes" who think[...]

Hello all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed, developed, and produced by Wizards of the Coast! This week, for this installment of our ongoing series on Magic's most diabolical 3-versus-1 format Archenemy, we have a fairly simple suite of schemes to share our opinions on[...]

Being evil is a very social event, especially as the archenemy of a 3-on-1 game of Magic! Today, we will be looking at another three schemes from the original set of Archenemy cards, all with their own spin on the idea of making friends and consequently terrorizing people. The art for Into the Earthen Maw, a[...]

Welcome back, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed and produced by Wizards of the Coast! In the past few articles in our series on Archenemy, Magic's fascinating 3-on-1 format, we went over the first 15 schemes in the course of the month of July[...]

Hello and welcome back, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed, developed, and produced by Wizards of the Coast! We come to you today posing a new question: How best can non-Archenemy players love themselves in a game of Archenemy? After all, it's clear that the[...]

After all, "Every Villain Is Cardboard" makes very little sense except when we are talking about things like Archenemy, Magic's one-versus-many supplemental series of releases The reference is from an older episode of Spongebob Squarepants, for what it's worth Look up "Every Villain Is Lemons" after reading this piece for some more insight[...]

Welcome, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game, designed and produced by Wizards of the Coast! Before we get into the third installment of our series about the various oversized Archenemy supplemental cards that grace this game, we'd like to introduce you to a helluva cool word: psychopomp. Psychopomp[...]

Hello and welcome, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game designed and produced by Wizards of the Coast! For the last few weeks we covered the ins and outs of the Vanguard series of supplemental cards for the game, and last Sunday we began a neat little[...]

Today, we are going to talk about Archenemy, the latest of the game's formats to utilize functionally-relevant oversized cards If you're interested in learning more about some of the cards of this format of supervillains, you're in for a treat Are you ready to get a little evil? Let's roll! The art for All In Good Time,[...]

While the indie superhero film Archenemy explores some dark places, star Skylan Brooks provides the glimmer of hope to get things moving as Hamster, the sidekick of Max Fist, played by Joe Manganiello I spoke with Brooks about how Hamster fits into Max's paradigm, becoming his inspiration and drive to try to get his powers[...]

Adam Egypt Mortimer's latest film, Archenemy, is born out of his love for comic books What's surprising is that he didn't just want to create any superhero film like your typical Batman or Superman origin story The writer and director drew from an unexpected inspiration, director Darren Aronofsky I had a chance to speak to[...]

When you think about all the stories and tall tales relatives might tell at family gatherings, they might describe it the way Joe Manganiello does if he/she were a superhero in RLJE Films' Archenemy Make no mistake; this is not some indie film masquerading as a tentpole blockbuster It's more grounded in the style of[...]