Magic: The Gathering Archives

Last week, last month, last year, and last decade, Wizards of the Coast revealed a ton of spoilers for their upcoming set for Magic: The Gathering, titled Theros: Beyond Death Today, we at Bleeding Cool want to go over a few of the cards that were spoiled, and highlight them – some of these are far too good[...]

Happy New Year, everybody! Just because it's a whole new year doesn't mean I'm about to stop writing Magic: The Gathering deck techs, and just because its the Wednesday of an entirely new decade doesn't mean I'll be withholding any Oathbreaker content from you all And, to celebrate the coming of the new year and the[...]

Today's final Commander deck tech for Magic: The Gathering in 2019 pertains to a mountain of a man – a character so calculating, so smart, so… so numerical that he only needs one introduction: the ineffable and esteemed… Baron Von Count! Source: Wizards of the Coast The decklist to be discussed in this article can be found here. This is[...]

Today, the YouTube page for Tolarian Community College's Brian Lewis (or, as he is better known, The Professor) shared The Professor's top five worst points for Magic: The Gathering in the past year of 2019 This comes after Saturday's video by The Professor detailing his picks for the top five best things to happen to Magic this[...]

This past week, Wizards of the Coast, the creative force behind their spectacularly-popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering, revealed a few new cards from their next expansion set, Theros: Beyond Death Theros: Beyond Death is a sequel to the highly-praised Theros block of three sets, released between 2013 and 2014 overall Theros, the plane of[...]

Well, I'm back, everyone! After a massive bout dealing with Nicol Bolas, I'm back and ready to write up some more news for you. Source: Wizards of the Coast Yesterday (December 24th, 2019 – Christmas Eve for many!), Wizards of the Coast's Twitter page for their digital  Magic: The Gathering interface, Magic: The Gathering: Arena, spoiled a new[...]

It is I, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, supreme overlord of the Multiverse, and dragon-god about town! I have decided to commandeer the next few Magic: The Gathering posts by this author in order to firmly place myself within the ranks of Bleeding Cool authordom! Quiver with fear at my Overwhelming Splendor! Source: Wizards of the Coast As a final[...]

It is I, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, supreme overlord of the Multiverse, and dragon-god about town! I have decided to commandeer the next few Magic: The Gathering posts by this author in order to firmly place myself within the ranks of Bleeding Cool authordom! Quiver with fear at my Overwhelming Splendor! Source: Wizards of the Coast At this time,[...]

It is I, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, supreme overlord of the Multiverse, and dragon-god about town! I have decided to commandeer the next few Magic: The Gathering posts by this author in order to firmly place myself within the ranks of Bleeding Cool authordom! Quiver with fear at my Overwhelming Splendor! Source: Wizards of the Coast Did you miss[...]

It is I, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, supreme overlord of the Multiverse, and dragon-god about town! I have decided to commandeer the next few Magic: The Gathering posts by this author in order to firmly place myself within the ranks of Bleeding Cool authordom! Quiver with fear at my Overwhelming Splendor! Source: Wizards of the Coast For this article,[...]

It is I, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, supreme overlord of the Multiverse, and dragon-god about town! I have decided to commandeer the next few Magic: The Gathering posts by this author in order to firmly place myself within the ranks of Bleeding Cool authordom! Quiver with fear at my Overwhelming Splendor! Source: Wizards of the Coast Within this article,[...]

Oh no… Oh dear gods abov- AHEM. It is I, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, supreme overlord of the Multiverse, and dragon-god about town! I have decided to commandeer the next few Magic: The Gathering posts by this author in order to firmly place myself within the ranks of Bleeding Cool authordom! Quiver with fear at my Overwhelming Splendor! Source: Wizards of[...]

Today, we will be going over a slightly more peculiar option in the realm of Magic: The Gathering decks that have the capacity to go tall and outspeed opponents This deck is capable of winning games quite early, with its average converted mana cost of 2.10 (which is probably around competitive Commander levels, to be[...]

Happy Winter, everybody! Today, we will be focusing on a special Magic: The Gathering deck tech to commemorate the season And just who is our commander for this Commander deck tech? Why, it's none other than the Soul of Winter himself, Ojutai! Ojutai, Soul of Winter, that is! Source: Wizards of the Coast The decklist, as discussed[...]

Recently, the Game Grumps YouTube channel uploaded a video wherein one of their hosts, Arin Hanson, played Magic: The Gathering: Arena (the online interface for Wizards of the Coast's wonderfully-popular game Magic: The Gathering), while co-host Danny Avidan watched intently, bringing his own nostalgia into the mix. Source: The Grumps (YouTube) A few months back, the Grumps tried their hand[...]

Today (December 16th, 2019), Wizards of the Coast in their Banned and Restricted list update for their massively-popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering stated that there would be no changes to the list this week However, the real news is that going forward, Wizards would no longer pre-announce the dates when they would be making[...]

The official Discord for the upcoming MMO action-RPG by Cryptic Games, Magic: Legends, has revealed some new information on the game, based on the tabletop trading card game Magic: The Gathering According to this Discord board, there is a randomized mechanic of being able to cast spells, which in essence means that the game is also a[...]

But a good many Magic: The Gathering players were delighted to see the cinematic trailer teasing Wizards' next upcoming expansion set, Theros: Beyond Death. Source: Wizards of the Coast In the trailer, the Planeswalker known as Elspeth Tirel makes an attempt to escape the Underworld of Nyx, the realm of the Theroan divine Will she succeed, or will[...]

Wizards of the Coast has been repeatedly raising the bar with their Magic: The Gathering brand Recently, they've come out with various gimmicks for their trading card game (the original tabletop version), and have been pushing Magic: The Gathering: Arena, their digital version of their trading card game, more and more as of late. But what comes next[...]

Users of Twitch Prime are eligible from December 3rd to February 10th to receive a copy of the "Liliana's Legion" deck on Magic: The Gathering: Arena This deck is blue and black and is a decent preconstructed deck. Source: Wizards of the Coast The 60-card decklist is as such: Planeswalker (1) 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General Creature (22) 3 Aven Eternal 3 Eternal Skylord 2 Faerie[...]

After two weeks bearing no changes, Wizards of the Coast has finally made the decision to ban more cards from the Pioneer format of Magic: The Gathering The three cards banned from Pioneer as of yesterday are Once Upon A Time, Field of the Dead, and Smuggler's Copter. Their time has come Goodbye, banned cards! Source: Wizards[...]

Brr! To help us begin to adapt to the idea of a whole new year (albeit a month early), we at Bleeding Cool have another Commander deck tech for Magic: The Gathering for you Today, we will be focusing on one of the mightiest, most powerful, and most attractive characters that red has to offer us[...]

Today, I'm offering you a Magic: The Gathering decklist you can't refuse I'm going to try to make the messages behind this Commander deck tech as clear as a horse head at the foot of your bed Capische? As an addition to the end-of-month fun we had with Mary O'Kill and her beloved pet Killbots earlier[...]

Happy end of November, loyal readers! We at Bleeding Cool get that November has been long-winded, cold, and unforgiving, much like our end-of-month Magic: The Gathering deck techs for the Commander format Personally, I think that as the months go by and winter rears its ugly head, it'll be great to just duck into our coats[...]

Happy Turkey Day to all our loyal readers from Bleeding Cool! After we wrote up our Oko, Thief of Crowns Magic: The Gathering deck tech (days in advance of Thanksgiving, to be frank), we figured you'd all probably have room for seconds So, we cooked up another batch of deck techs for those with a more… insatiable[...]

Happy Turkey Day to all those in the United States who celebrate! To commemorate this day of questionable decisions, both in history and on the third helping of stuffing, we at Bleeding Cool have written up another Oathbreaker deck tech for Magic: The Gathering Oathbreaker, for those just beginning to read Bleeding Cool's deck techs on[...]

Last time, it was Magic: The Gathering's "Mystery Boosters"; this time, they've finally revealed their new project for Magic: Secret Lair. Something is (practically) here! Source: Wizards of the Coast For those of you who somehow missed my last article on the subject, Secret Lair seemed to be a loot-drop sort of release[...]

Hey there friends and loyal readers of Bleeding Cool's segments on Magic: The Gathering! When I covered the Gods of Amonkhet over the course of the past few weeks, I did so with a purpose: I wanted to segue into a discussion of the Gods of Theros And, now that the talk of Amonkheti deities is out[...]

A few weeks ago, prior to MagicFest Richmond, we at Bleeding Cool reported on the existence of the Mystery Booster product for Magic: The Gathering, essentially a grab-bag of a product which had in it cards from most of Magic's 26-year history Additionally, when it was unveiled at MagicFest Richmond at long last, it was revealed to also[...]

This rare Magic: The Gathering deck had been printed with both sides of the printing on one face of each and every nonfoil card. Source: Emiel Van Daele We had interviewed Emiel and his colleague, Charly Traarbach, back then and inquired as to the offers that were being made at the time As Emiel and Charly recounted, the[...]