Magic: The Gathering Archives

Over the past year, I've been looking at the prices of individual Magic: The Gathering cards get progressively more expensive It's disheartening, but with a growing player base, cards of many kinds are becoming more and more in-demand for quite a few different decks This only got worse when Wizards of the Coast, the company[...]

When Magic: The Gathering releases their 82nd expansion set, Throne of Eldraine, on October 4th, 2019, they will have created an immense world filled with legendary stories and rightfully legendary creatures Additionally, the set will officially feature support for Brawl, their newest officially-sanctioned format. However, Brawl has been hit-or-miss for the majority of players I've spoken to[...]

I wrote an article just before this which explains how Magic: The Gathering is a global phenomenon, and how the MagicFest events allow players to break national boundaries and attain greatness within the game's parameters When the Spanish team called "Team Blasco de Garay 15 & Ronda de Sant Pere 44" took MagicFest Ghent this[...]

Magic: the Gathering is such a popular game that a good number of competitive venues operate at any given time Relative to the United States, this past weekend saw a number of tournaments being hosted both globally and domestically As of yesterday's MagicFest event at the Flanders Expo in Ghent, Belgium, the newest champions are[...]

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[...]

It's clear that games like Magic: the Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh! are games which hold a crowd's gaze for a long time They're not just fads and they are even seen as culturally-relevant as vital games in history It seems to me that these games will last as long as the public's attention wills it, however, and this[...]

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[...]

They are also home to the Toy Hall of Fame, where the most renowned and popular games and toys from across history are noted for posterity. Magic: the Gathering, a collectible trading card game which started being played in 1993, is now among the nominees for this year's inductees. Source: Wizards of the Coast Wizards of the Coast,[...]

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 Source: Wizards of the Coast While Throne of Eldraine is chock-full of Arthurian and Grimm tropes alike, between[...]

Hey all! I wanted to write a piece on proper threat assessment in Magic: The Gathering multiplayer formats, namely Commander The research I did made me reconsider a few personal opinions I had about my own level of play as a result It seems to me that, in my playgroups, I might be the problem! Let's explore[...]

Magic: The Gathering's 82nd expansion set, Throne of Eldraine, is in its spoiler season, and Wizards of the Coast has been showcasing a plethora of new cards from the set. Source: Wizards of the Coast As is generally customary with the early spoiler season, WotC showed players some of the better cards first Between Oko, Thief of[...]

Hey all! I figured after yesterday's article on The Golden Age of Magic, I'd write up an article about the different ways that people personalize their Magic: the Gathering decks This article will go beyond just "pet cards", or cards people put into their decks because of some personal attachment The gist of this article[...]

Magic: The Gathering has undergone a large number of overhauls to their Modern format lately From banning Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis and Faithless Looting to including the infamous Stoneforge Mystic, Modern has been shaken up to a degree that… Might be beneficial to Magic as a whole? Hear me out, just for a second or two[...]

Magic: The Gathering's upcoming 82nd expansion set, "Throne of Eldraine", has started its spoiler season, and fans are rejoicing 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[...]

Magic: The Gathering continues into its 26th year of play with well over 19,000 cards and is nearly at the point where their Research and Development team has come out with a smattering 82 expansion sets The game gets more and more complex not just with the number of cards and sets that come out,[...]

Yesterday, Wizards of the Coast, the company behind Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, and other games, teased that they were going to host a stream of new information for Magic's 82nd expansion set "Throne of Eldraine" This teaser itself included a few card spoilers for the Arthurian/Grimm-themed set. Source: Wizards of the Coast Today, the Twitch stream[...]

Magic: The Gathering has been a powerhouse of a game for the past 26 years There are millions of players of this game at tables across the globe, and their newest venture, Arena, already has members numbering in the thousands Wizards of the Coast is still making cards for an ever-growing, ever-hungry tabletop presence And[...]

Source: Wizards.com, Artist credit: Chris Rallis According to Forbes.com, Oko, full name to be determined, is the newest Planeswalker character for the Magic: the Gathering trading card game Oko is explained in a Forbes interview with Nic Kelman, Head of Story and Entertainment at Wizards of the Coast, to be a male "Fey" (possibly a Fae,[...]

Once again, the annual Commander product for Magic: The Gathering proves to be a great success for the format at large From the first reveal of the set's themes, players knew to expect amazing things from this release, and when it came around, it did not disappoint The mechanics expanded on include Morph, Flashback, Populate, and[...]

Magic: The Gathering has outdone themselves yet again with their yearly Commander product The four Magic preconstructed decks in this release each have coherent mechanical themes and do not pull too many punches when it comes to power level As it stands, the decks as constructed revolve around four mechanics: Morph, Flashback, Populate, and Madness[...]

At long last, Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis has been banned from Modern in Magic: The Gathering. Source: ChannelFireball.com From its release within the Modern Horizons set in June this year to just yesterday when five Hogaak decks made Top Eight during MagicFest Las Vegas, Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis has been a powerhouse in the Modern circuit[...]

Like something out of the Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Emiel van Daele has found a Magic Golden Ticket, so to speak. When Emiel, a Magic: the Gathering player from the Netherlands, opened his Commander 2019 "Mystic Intellect" deck, he was shocked to find that the cards were all, save for the foil Commanders,[...]

The card game Magic: The Gathering is arguably the most complex game known to humankind so far It continues to baffle AI seeking to determine an algorithm able to declare a winner early in any given game Artificial intelligence can do that with chess, with hardly any difficulty at all! Seeing how intricate chess is, and how[...]

With over 19,000 cards in the game, Magic: the Gathering has cemented itself as the most complex game known to humankind so far Deckbuilding is as much an art form as it is a science, and many players look at their decks are labors of love and art This is very true of Commander players especially,[...]

At MagicFest Birmingham, part of the Grand Prix circuit in Europe for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game, Rory Kear-Smith took the title of Champion for the event after taking down Simon Nielsen. Source: ChannelFireball.com Kear-Smith was playing a form of the classic "Death's Shadow" deck which appeared to be mainly geared to take down decks revolving around Hogaak,[...]

Magic: the Gathering has been a worldwide phenomenon, with the card game debuting at GenCon in 1993 and only growing in scope from there It's a game with over 35 million players 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:[...]

Magic: the Gathering is an immensely multifaceted game, and according to studies is the most complex game currently known to man There is no necessary algorithm that can predict a winner out of a two-player game of Magic, largely due to the sheer amount of different individual cards in the game So, it suffices to say[...]

At GenCon 2019 this past weekend, Wizards of the Coast unveiled their newest Commander deck themes for Magic: The Gathering What's more, they revealed that on each day from August 5th-8th, they are revealing a new decklist The themes are Morph, Madness, Populate, and Flashback, themes that are very popular for many players Today, Wizards[...]

During GenCon 2019 this past weekend, Wizards of the Coast unveiled their newest Commander deck themes for Magic: The Gathering What's more, they revealed that on each day from August 5th-8th, they are revealing a new decklist The themes are Morph, Madness, Populate, and Flashback, themes that are very popular for many players. Today, Wizards of the[...]

During GenCon 2019 this past weekend, Wizards of the Coast unveiled their newest Commander deck themes for Magic: The Gathering What's more, they revealed that on each day from August 5th-8th, they are revealing a new decklist The themes areagicorph, Madness, Populate, and Flashback, themes that are very popular for many players. Source: Reddit.com Today, Wizards revealed[...]