Magic: The Gathering Archives

Last Friday, I wrote up a deck tech for Oathbreaker, a relatively fresh format for Magic: The Gathering created by the WeirdCards Charitable Club This tech revolved around Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded, a Planeswalker card which is seen a pretty bad in every other format Surprisingly, Tibalt is remarkably powerful in this one, and that makes worlds[...]

It's going to be a fair few weeks of techs, but by the time we are done, I'll have gone over all of the major potential commanders for the set.

Surprisingly, a lot of you seem to have enjoyed the My Little Pony/Magic: The Gathering crossover article 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[...]

With the release of Throne of Eldraine out of the way, it is time once more for Magic: The Gathering's competitive events to commence! Last week saw a slight lull in this field of coverage because of the prerelease, but this past weekend things heated back up at MagicFest Montreal with Throne of Eldraine limited! Source: Wizards[...]

Magic: The Gathering can be a real lesson-granting sort of game You win some games, and you lose some games But the games one plays in a casual setting are far different than what one would find in a competitive setting, especially if it's within a newly-developing metagame This is no less true on Magic: The[...]

Magic: The Gathering is full of different formats – some that make certain cards better, and some that make cards worse Today, we are shining a spotlight on Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded, a card which is infamously known to many, many players as the "worst Planeswalker card ever" However, we will be doing this through the[...]

Wizards of the Coast, owner of the world-famous card game Magic: The Gathering and a subsidiary of Hasbro, has teamed up with their mother-corporation to create a three-card crossover release for the card game based on the My Little Pony franchise. Yes, you read that correctly, every pony MLP is coming to MTG. Source: Wizards of the Coast In partnership[...]

Tomorrow (Friday, October 4th), Wizards of the Coast will be finalizing the release of its 82nd expansion set for Magic: The Gathering, Throne of Eldraine This comes after a successful launch on their digital interface, Magic: The Gathering: Arena, and their prerelease events last weekend Certainly, for many the tension to see what's in their booster[...]

Hey all! I'd like to show you a relatively new and very interesting format for Magic: The Gathering Some of you may have already heard about it, possibly from earlier articles of mine that mention it in passing It's called Oathbreaker, and it's a blast to play. Source: Weirdcards Oathbreaker is a format created by the WeirdCards Charitable[...]

Yesterday, we reported on how awesome the booster boxes for Magic: The Gathering's newest set, Throne of Eldraine, are This was through the acquisition of all manner of Throne of Eldraine products in the process, including a Bundle and the two Planeswalker Decks, something we're very grateful for. What my eyes beheld, once more! Source: Bleeding Cool Today,[...]

Hello to our lovely readers! Somehow my two most recent Magic: The Gathering articles from the past two days are very popular, so I wanted to thank you all for the continued readership Furthermore, I totally apologize for last Sunday's "surprise" deck tech on The Grand Calcutron It was topical and fun and raised important[...]

Magic: The Gathering is rolling out their 82nd expansion set, Throne of Eldraine, and even though many, many people attended the prerelease events that Wizards of the Coast had held for the set, October 4th (this Friday!) can't come soon enough. That in mind, working at Bleeding Cool has its perks, for just last night I received[...]

With Magic: The Gathering's newest expansion set, Throne of Eldraine, releasing on Friday (October 4th), players are coming back from prereleases with differing opinions on the set Most players I've heard from are speaking very positively about the draft environment and the fun they had at the prerelease Some others, not so much. Source: Wizards of the[...]

As a surprise for readers of Bleeding Cool's Magic: The Gathering content, I've decided to write up an extra deck tech for all of you for the month of September Brace yourselves, it's a bit of a doozy. Source: Wizards of the Coast Prior to the Comprehensive and Oracle rules changes which came about soon after Magic's newest set,[...]

Magic: The Gathering has had its share of celebrity content, especially recently 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[...]

It's been a tradition, whenever Wizards of the Coast comes out with an all-new Magic: The Gathering release to hold events in celebration of the new product Whether or not it's an expansion set like Core 2020 or Guilds of Ravnica, or even a supplemental set like Conspiracy or the Commander decks, Wizards has made a[...]

Magic: The Gathering has been an ever-shifting game for the past 26 years To put that into perspective, I was only a year old when the game came out I don't feel any younger saying this, but as a truth, it needs to be said Regardless of the age of the game (or this author),[...]

Magic: The Gathering is in the process of releasing its 82nd expansion set, Throne of Eldraine, to players of the famed beloved card game 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[...]

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[...]

Magic: The Gathering is releasing their 82nd expansion set, Throne of Eldraine, in the course of a couple of weeks from now. With the general release, Wizards of the Coast will be releasing a set of four decks geared especially for the Brawl format. Now, I'm not someone who that release is 100% marketed towards, and as[...]

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[...]

Magic: The Gathering is coming out with one of their most industrious sets, Throne of Eldraine, early in October With it, they are coming out with all sorts of gimmicks and contests which are geared to make sales for the set, including the "Great Eldraine Bake-Off", a baking contest themed around the world of Eldraine,[...]

Prepare thy stomachs, it's time for The Great Eldraine Bake-Off! In a bid to entice more Magic: The Gathering fans into getting into their newest expansion set, Throne of Eldraine, Wizards of the Coast has devised a baking competition for the Internet to look into Called "The Great Eldraine Bake-Off," this baking competition boasts a glut[...]

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 in full here), as always, are notes on rulings that have come up in Magic R&D's development sessions for the cards, as well as a[...]

Back in May, IDW announced a new Magic: The Gathering comic book series by James Asmus and Eric Koda, focussed on Chandra Nalaar and dubbed The Trials Of Alara. Intended for publication in August, the first issue of Magic The Gathering: Chandra: The Trials Of Alara wasn't published Nor was the second The comic was delayed[...]

Magic: The Gathering is well into its 26th year of play, and with its 82nd expansion set, Throne of Eldraine, Wizards of the Coast has outdone itself yet again Between Collector's Packs, normal booster packs, the Brawl decks slated for release alongside the set, and the Buy-A-Box Promo, Throne of Eldraine is worthwhile for any[...]

In Magic: The Gathering, players often are directed to make use of the best cards and the best strategies in order to gain the best outcome – that is, victory But what if I told you that giving resources to other players could give you a victory of another sort? Welcome to Magic Philanthropy 101. Source: Wizards[...]

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[...]