Magic: The Gathering Archives

This past weekend, it was revealed that Pioneer, the newest format to grace the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game, would be receiving updates to its ban list every Monday Yesterday, November 4th, was the first day that the updates started rolling out. This update took a bit of time for Wizards of the Coast to write[...]

In news that should surprise absolutely nobody, MagicFest Lyon was dominated by players who used "Food"-based decks.

Yesterday, an article was posted on Bleeding Cool's "Comics" hub about how Magic: The Gathering is becoming an institution that isn't supporting its player base In this article, I intend to rebuke this as well as I can, because I feel strongly that Wizards of the Coast is doing their sincere best in accommodating their players. Source: Wizards[...]

Magic: The Gathering has very recently been shaken up with the addition of a new format called Pioneer The format is less than a month old and currently contains only five banned cards (the original allied fetchlands, for those looking for those bans) Aside from those initial bans, the format contains all cards from expansion[...]

There has been so much news in the realm of Magic: The Gathering information lately that we here at Bleeding Cool could not contain all of our content for October into the month It's been one hectic month I may have nearly worked myself to death! I even missed the chance to concoct a final "Oathtober" tech[...]

Magic: The Gathering has been a successful game franchise for close to 27 years now With a theoretically-literal multiverse of branding and merchandise, Magic has also been pretty good overall at keeping their trade secrets under lock and key However, sometimes their secrets do slip out, be it by rogue employees, manufacturing errors, or simple ignorance. This[...]

Happy Halloween everyone! It's October 31st, so hopefully, you know what's in store for you with regards to this particular Magic: The Gathering Commander deck tech. So very spoopy Source: Wizards of the Coast Over the past two months, we at Bleeding Cool have been going over a multitude of different legendary creatures from Throne of Eldraine,[...]

It's an announcement that could reshape the very fabric of the Magic: The Gathering Commander community, and it's one that people have been speculating on and awaiting for a long time. https://youtu.be/T1ncWcr7PksVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Big Commander Announcement! l Wizards of the Coast official l Magic: The Gathering (https://youtu.be/T1ncWcr7Pks) For those who either don't[...]

Throne of Eldraine, Magic: The Gathering's newest expansion set, is full of amazing legendary creatures The set as a whole is based on a unified blend of Arthurian and Grimm folklore alike, making for an exquisite setting for the newest world in the Magic Multiverse. Of course, not all is daisies and roses in Eldraine, the eponymous[...]

Or, "A Love Letter to Magic Esports". A couple of months ago, sometime before I was hired by Bleeding Cool, I never would have guessed that I'd be playing Magic: The Gathering: Arena I was vehemently opposed to Magic: The Gathering Online and felt very strongly about my stance How could I even think about paying for digital cards when actual[...]

Throughout the years, Magic: The Gathering has ebbed and flowed as far as being a game themed in high fantasy Some of the sets are styled in themes similar to Ancient Greece or Egypt, one takes place in an Arthurian-inspired setting, and some are even as close to science fiction as fantasy can get. We have been[...]

Collectors of the world-famous trading card game Magic: The Gathering can get their hands on uncut sheets of cards through an auction for charity beginning tomorrow, October 23rd. An uncut rare/mythic rare sheet of the New Phyrexia set, to be auctioned off for charity Source: Wizards of the Coast Beginning tomorrow at 11:00 PM Pacific Time (that's 2:00[...]

Magic: The Gathering has announced a new format! It's called Pioneer, and it comes with some rather interesting parameters – and some very interesting baggage. Source: Wizards of the Coast Pioneer, the format Pioneer, as indicated from the infographic above, is going to support sets from 2012's Return to Ravnica all the way to the present[...]

Hello, loyal readers! It's time again for another Magic: The Gathering Oathbreaker deck tech Oathbreaker, for those who have not been caught up on the subject, is a 60-card singleton format made by the WeirdCards Charitable Club, and inspired by Commander and similar formats. Source: Wizards of the Coast Oathbreaker games represent a conflict between Planeswalkers and[...]

I'm not entirely sure what this will mean for any players on Magic: The Gathering: Arena who has at least one copy of the card, but the last time there was a ban in Standard, any copies of that card had been refunded in the form of wildcards We will see if that holds true for[...]

Magic: The Gathering has been around for 26 years It is older than many real-life issues, and even some celebrities But do you know what is older than Magic? The Green Giant. Source: Wizards of the Coast Yes, the Green Giant brand of canned vegetables Those icky, slimy green beans and corn that my parents force-fed me at a[...]

Congratulations to Javier Dominguez for winning Magic: The Gathering: Arena's fifth Mythic Championship! Source: Wizards of the Coast Javier ran a Gruul (red-green) Aggro deck throughout the event, and bested a multitude of other professional players, including Stanislav "StanCifka" Cifka (whose rise and return to Magic we have covered before), Gabriel Nassif (a veteran pro-player from when I was[...]

During the Magic: The Gathering tournament, Tain took to the stage to express himself a couple of times between rounds One of which, as you can see here, has him wearing a red scarf over his face during an interview. Credit: Wizards of the Coast Considering what's been happening the past couple weeks in other esports circles,[...]

Wizards of the Coast, hot on the heels of the glaring success of Magic: The Gathering: Arena, has issued another "State of the Game" article for the software They did the same in September, and it seems that it was a much more triumphant article than this month's piece. We went over the September article as well[...]

When I say Magic: The Gathering is without question my favorite game, I mean that beyond the shadow of a doubt I love the fantasy themes blended with the underscoring tropes of modern science-fiction, I love the characters and setting, and I love the gameplay When I say that my favorite color of Magic is black by[...]

It's Oathtober, so we are giving you a ton of Oathbreaker deck techs fo Magic: The Gathering! Oathbreaker is a format started by the WeirdCards Charitable Club and is so very fun! We've given you the devilishly fun Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded, hobnobbed a bit with the vampiric Sorin, Lord of Innistrad, and delved into the[...]

To me, it's the very best color in all of Magic: The Gathering It's got all of the best and most powerful effects available to it – removal, card draw, direct life drain, reanimation, you name it! – at a rather minimal cost to you of a few additional resources It's wonderful, especially if you[...]

The biggest tournament in Magic: The Gathering: Arena, the Mythic Championship, is reaching its fifth go-around, and will be conducted this coming weekend 68 players from across the globe are set to compete for thousands of dollars in prizes at that time, in Los Angeles, California at Thunder Studios. Source: Wizards of the Coast With that, Wizards[...]

Magic: The Gathering has had a ton of new releases each year Generally, expansion sets release each quarter, and other products release during the months not associated with those releases (though there are some glaring exceptions, such as the Brawl decks releasing with the Throne of Eldraine set as a whole). Source: Wizards of the Coast It[...]

The WeirdCards Charitable Club unbanned Recurring Nightmare, one of the most controversially-powerful cards still on the Commander ban list.

Probably with no credit to Bleeding Cool for our deck tech on The Grand Calcutron or the upcoming Halloween deck tech for Grusilda, Monster Masher, Wizards of the Coast has unveiled their newest silver-bordered set for Magic: The Gathering Called "Unsanctioned", this set contains five 30-card mini-decks with silver-bordered, completely unsanctioned (heh) cards, save for basic lands[...]

Magic: The Gathering is chock-full of monsters – from Dragons, to Centaurs, to Merfolk and Leviathans, Magic has more than its share of interesting and complex creatures Sometimes, however, some of these creatures are a little too hard to index These creatures are often shoehorned into the categorical creature type of "Beast", which oftentimes doesn't do[...]

Hello, and welcome to another Oathtoberfest* article for Magic: The Gathering's latest up-and-coming format, Oathbreaker! For those unaware, Oathbreaker is a relatively young format fostered by the WeirdCards Charitable Club, a charity whose goal is to teach Magic to young people who may not have other outlets WeirdCards created the format, and now we, the public,[...]

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[...]

I picked up a copy of the "Knight's Charge" preconstructed Brawl deck for Magic: The Gathering yesterday I quickly learned thereafter that it was an investment that was made amid a temporary and artificial scarcity on the part of Wizards of the Coast's methodologies The biggest issue I had with picking this deck up was that[...]