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Magic: The Gathering's online and mobile gameplay client Magic Arena has been booming Since the pandemic began, business in the digital card game enterprise has been at an all-time high for Wizards of the Coast This may have something to do with less people "gathering" to play, but even so, some players are left pining for[...]

Wizards of the Coast has unveiled their newest silver-bordered set for Magic: The Gathering.

Today, we will be going over a Commander deck tech for Questing Beast, a creature that for many should need no introduction, considering how well it slew the competition in the Magic: The Gathering: Arena scene last weekend (my example wasn't as prolific, but it's here for anyone who wants to see it) Historically, the[...]

Hang onto your hats for the next few weeks, folks – Magic: The Gathering: Arena speculation is about to get a bit hectic. Source: Wizards of the Coast Twitter page @MagicEsports, the account that manages the Twitter page for Magic: The Gathering: Arena, has posted a tweet as of yesterday (October 9th) stating that the next Banned[...]

The biggest issue I had with picking this deck up was that my local gaming store was selling these decks for $40 USD apiece.

I mean, friendship is magic, after all… Ponies and Knights! Source: Wizards of the Coast Anyway, this past weekend I participated in the "Win Every Card" challenge on Magic: The Gathering: Arena (costing me a bit more time to write about that), and if you saw the things I'd seen, and subsequently how I did in the[...]

The playmats are made by UltraPro and are selling for a resounding $100.00 USD each (with $80 of it going towards charity), while the digital sleeves, used for Magic: The Gathering: Arena, are being sold in the in-game storefront for $3.99. Source: Wizards of the Coast Source: Wizards of the Coast Source: Wizards of the Coast Source: Wizards of[...]

the standard packs, and not the Collector's Edition packs), and a deck box to go along with it all. Snazzy! Source: Bleeding Cool Additionally, these decks come with a code each to input into Magic: The Gathering: Arena, which will provide the user access to these decks on the said software interface In this way, you can[...]

Finally, I got a couple of codes for Magic: The Gathering: Arena – one for me, and one for a friend. What a wonderful gift! So, naturally, I opened the booster box and while I'm going to keep the exact contents to myself, at least for the time being, I will say that the 36 packs were each[...]

From their Core 2019 commercial tying into their software interface Magic: The Gathering: Arena (wherein they hired Danny Trejo for a spot in the advertisement) to the addition of NFL athlete Cassius Marsh, linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals, to the Command Zone's "Game Knights" videos, Magic has had its share of celebrity appearances. Source: The Grumps (YouTube) Therefore,[...]

I want to take this opportunity as well to make sure you remember that, if you play Magic: The Gathering: Arena, the event that started yesterday is still going on Therein, you can play any and all cards that are in the new Standard environment! I played Esper Control for a bit before switching into mono-red[...]

For example, The Grand Calcutron is now a card with, in addition to its original text, Oracle text that reads "The Grand Calcutron can be your commander." – which even then is not something Wizards of the Coast does to black-bordered cards (they have since apologized to the Nephilim cycle). Wait… What? Source: Wizards of the[...]

In fact, they've already released in on their software interface, Magic: The Gathering: Arena! The set will release on October 4th of this year, with prerelease events beginning tomorrow, September 27th and lasting through the 29th. Source: Wizards of the Coast Coinciding with the Throne of Eldraine general set release, conveniently enough, is the release of Magic's[...]

Today, Wizards of the Coast released their newest expansion set for Magic: The Gathering, Throne of Eldraine, onto their gameplay interface software, Magic: The Gathering: Arena This release marks the 82nd full expansion set that Wizards has fully designed and developed for the game, but it also marks the sixth time that a set has been released[...]

Starting this year, Collegiate Starleague, the world's premier collegiate esports organization, is bringing Magic: The Gathering: Arena into its roster of league games According to CSL, "For the first time, Magic: The Gathering Arena will be among CSL's offerings with a scholarship prize pool of $50,000 up for grabs, the largest in CSL this year." Source: Wizards[...]

Howdy all, I'd like to start this article off with a slight retraction to a date I mentioned yesterday – with all of the things happening for Magic: The Gathering: Arena, sometimes it's awfully hard to keep track of what's going on and what is not Therefore, I'd like to mention that the "Giant Opportunity" I mentioned[...]

Wizards of the Coast has published an article about the state of Magic: The Gathering: Arena, their digital interface for their world-famous trading card game Within the "State of the Game" address, Wizards talks about the progression of Arena over the next few months to a year in time. The first major update discussed in the article[...]

It comes with sixteen Collector's Packs, a themed card binder, a foil copy of Garruk, Cursed Huntsman, a non-foil copy of Kenrith, The Returned King, an art poster of Garruk, Cursed Huntsman, a three-by-three-card strip of a sheet of Throne of Eldraine, and a number of goodies (given through a mega-code) for their software interface,[...]

Oh, the things people will do to obtain their cardstock. Source: Brightside.me The contest winner receives a full foil set of both the Throne of Eldraine and War of the Spark sets, as well as a Deluxe Collectors Edition of Throne of Eldraine, and ten codes for Throne of Eldraine packs usable for Magic: The Gathering: Arena[...]

Throne of Eldraine will release to Magic: The Gathering: Arena a day earlier, on September 26th, marking a new Standard rotation. …And there was much rejoicing Throne of Eldraine, Magic: The Gathering's 82nd expansion set, has been fully revealed at long last, and with it, its tokens and a release notes document In the document (featured[...]

Magic: The Gathering's 82 expansion set, Throne of Eldraine, is coming out remarkably soon – October 4th, or, if you play Magic: The Gathering: Arena, September 26th – and preview cards have been rolling out like mad Knights based on Arthurian fables are being printed alongside creatures and characters inspired by the fairy tales of[...]

However, they will be usable – and certainly used – in Brawl, so naturally, there's a market for them in Commander. Wizards of the Coast also made a point to introduce Brawl into Magic: the Gathering: Arena, their software interface for Magic The interface went about this by holding the Eldraine Courtside Brawl, an event that showcased the[...]

Magic: The Gathering has made a decision to roll back on some of the changes they have been thinking of instituting for their software interface, Magic: The Gathering: Arena This comes after much outcry from their consumers. Source: Wizards of the Coast In their previous plan to implement the Historic format for the interface, Wizards of the[...]

I wrote up an article exactly one month ago about the new innovations which Magic: The Gathering: Arena is slated to roll out for the near future If you recall from that article, in 2020 Wizards of the Coast will be implementing a number of changes to their competitive structure both online and on the tabletop. Writing[...]

Prerelease events are September 27th-29th, and Magic: The Gathering: Arena will see the set launch on September 26th. Magic: The Gathering's 82nd expansion set, Throne of Eldraine, has a plentitude of fantasy tropes, making it one of the biggest, most ambitious crossovers in childhood fairytale history (Dreamworks' movie Shrek also coming to mind). Get out of our Swamp[...]

However, this isn't the only reason they are excited. Source: Wizards of the Coast The long-awaited Brawl format has come to Magic's software version, Magic: the Gathering: Arena This has caused quite a surge in the format's popularity overall, as it adds a new interface with which to play within the format. Source: Wizards of the Coast The format[...]

So, when the digital age began and e-sports emerged as a major form of entertainment, Wizards of the Coast got on the bandwagon with Magic: the Gathering Arena A near-instant success, Arena has, according to one Reddit thread investigating the numbers, an estimated 6-8 million players So, with 2019 so far being Arena's most prosperous year to date,[...]

Here's a look at the Batmobile from the upcoming Batman Live! worldwide arena tour And here's his driver… There's an interview with the Batmobile designer here, with the full unveiling And a video confrontation with The Joker and his crew… The show focuses on Robin's quest for justice, following his hero Batman, to the disgust of his[...]