Magic: The Gathering Archives

So now that we've been able to get into some games online and experimenting with this book, we can finally give a proper review of it. Credit: Wizards of the Coast So if you're not familiar with Mythic Odysseys Of Theros, this is the second Magic: The Gathering-themed sourcebook, which serves as a companion piece to Guildmasters'[...]

If you haven't had a chance to play the game yet, this is basically a much faster action-packed version of Magic: The Gathering where the rules of the game have been boiled down into a quicker system for you to dish out spells and creatures if you know how to play MTG, this is a[...]

The folks behind our favorite twisted online animated universe Cyanide & Happiness have teamed up with the Magic: The Gathering animation studio to show the humorous side of… hostage situations?!? On Thursday, Explosm (Joking Hazard, Purgatony, Freakpocalypse) and animation studio Octopie (Paranormal Action Squad, Celebrity Animal Encounters) premiered the first two episodes of its new[...]

This means it's no surprise that, as usual, the team responsible for Magic: The Gathering made a showing, namely Head Designer Mark Rosewater, who gave a half-hour long panel from his home about the things we can broadly expect from the next set to hit Standard, Zendikar Rising. A still from the San Diego Comic-Con panel featuring Magic: The[...]

Hello there, fans, players, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! As you may know by now, preorder sales have begun on Magic's newest expansion set, Double Masters To the chagrin of many players who can't quite cough up the money for so many releases in the first place, that's[...]

Heritage Auctions, a Texas-based auction house for comics, trading cards, and memorabilia among various other things, has recently put an unopened box of Magic: The Gathering's infamous Collectors' Edition onto the auction block This item is presently (at the time of this article's conception) going for $6,000 USD and the auction ends on July 9th. A partial shot[...]

It's no surprise, then, that they'd have a vintage Magic: The Gathering card like Chaos Orb available to bid on and this auction ends on July 9th. The artwork for Chaos Orb, a card from Magic: The Gathering Illustrated by Mark Tedin. Chaos Orb is a card relevant to the overall history of Magic: The Gathering in that[...]

Commander is one of those major Magic: The Gathering formats that needs to update every so often, even if whole sets don't necessarily follow a rotation schedule Today, the Rules Committee for the format spoke about their updates for the quarter, which included no changes – at least, nothing that wasn't already announced in the last[...]

Wizards of the Coast has released its State of Magic: The Gathering Arena article for June, and, as expected, it's a big one Many important topics were covered, including rotation of formats in September and what that will mean, Brawler's Guildhall and its abolition in favor of everyday Standard Brawl (you read that correctly!), and Jumpstart's[...]

Hello, fans of Commander, the primary player-driven format for Wizards of the Coast's hit trading card game Magic: The Gathering! Today, much like we did with Nethroi, Apex of Death roughly a month ago, we will be re-inspecting a commander that we looked at not long ago through a second deck tech However, unlike that previous[...]

Mac users who play Magic, you can finally rejoice, for the wait is over – Magic: The Gathering Arena is coming to your Apple computers! The digital interface for Wizards of the Coast's famous trading card game will launch on Macs on June 25th, 2020 on the Epic Games Store Coinciding with Core 2021, Arena's launch to Macs everywhere[...]

Hello and greetings to all fans, players, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's classic trading card game Magic: The Gathering! Previews for Magic's July release, the Sealed-centric expansion they've called Jumpstart, have mostly come and gone; we have not gotten a full spoiler for the entirety of the new set, and previews are still seemingly ongoing[...]

Hello (and hello again) to the fans, players, and collectors of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game by Wizards of the Coast! June 19th was one interesting day for Jumpstart reveals, but now the preview season for the Sealed-centric expansion set has officially concluded But hey, we got to see some really cool cards to[...]

Hello there, fans, players, and collectors of Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game! Magic's come a long way over the years, and along that path, some cards have gotten ever the more scarce for players to get ahold of However, Jumpstart, an upcoming Limited-style expansion set for Magic, will be coming out in July[...]

Welcome, fans of the history and lore behind Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering! When we last left off, Urza, an ambitious artificer with a newly-ignited Planeswalker spark, had bore witness to the corruption of Phyrexia, machinated by Yawgmoth and his grand, yet twisted, designs Urza then and there swore[...]

Hello, players, fans, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's famous trading card game Magic: The Gathering! While the July release, the Limited-style expansion known as Jumpstart, will have a bunch of reprinted cards in it, quite a few of the 20-card packs will feature cards that are completely new to the game Let's look at[...]

Hello there, fans of Magic: The Gathering lore, fluff, and flavor! In this series revolving around Magic in-game history, we have already looked at the nature and origin of Phyrexia This retrospective on the compleated monstrosities was left open, but do not worry! We will be seeing more of them quite soon For now, though, it is[...]

Hello there, fans, players, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card Magic: The Gathering! If it feels like it's only been a day or two since our last preview season, that's because that's actually true! Jumpstart preview season is now afoot, despite Core 2021 having concluded its official preview season just yesterday[...]

Hello there, loyal fans, players, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering! Today we didn't get to see any new preview cards for Core 2021, but that's because, for what it's worth, the entire set has been revealed! However, that won't stop us from showing you some of the showcase[...]

It's about that time, dear readers and fans, players, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering Preview season for Core 2021 is nearly at a close (insert sighs of relief, and complaints alike, here) This does mean that tomorrow we will not be showcasing any new cards for the set,[...]

Greetings, loyal fans, players, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! Today, as there were only roughly two to three particularly-new Core 2021 previews to show you, we here at Bleeding Cool were initially stumped as to how to present this article for your reading pleasure But then, we[...]

Hello there, loyal readers! We here at Bleeding Cool have been working hard to bring you a bunch of articles pertaining to the various creature types in Magic: The Gathering We are calling it our "Magic Tribal Spotlight." Depending on when you are reading this, we either have or will have an article pertaining to Zombies, as[...]

Hello, loyal fans, players, and collectors of the premier card game by Wizards of the Coast known as Magic: The Gathering! Today's previews for Core 2021 mark a point that's in every preview season, where the preview card announcements tend to dwindle a bit However, there are still more than enough cards to go over from[...]

Hello there, fans, collectors, and players of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! We here at Bleeding Cool have been tracking the various previews for Core 2021, Magic's next upcoming expansion set, and boy howdy, do we have some great previews for you! In fact, they're so great, some might consider them… Colossal. The[...]

Hello, fans and players of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering! We here at Bleeding Cool have been looking at the previews for the next upcoming expansion set for Magic, Core 2021, and we'd like to share what we have seen and know with all of you, as well as share our observations[...]

Hello there, loyal readers and fans of Magic: The Gathering, the hit trading card game by Wizards of the Coast! Our tabletop writer has begun writing about various creature types in Magic, but there's one particular race in the game that merits special attention, namely due to its lack of creature type representation This abominable cabal[...]

Hello there, loyal readers and fans of Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game! We had quite a few different preview cards crop up throughout the span of the day and we would like to discuss a few of them with you now. Cropped artwork for a new Planeswalker card depicting Garruk Wildspeaker[...]

One such company that has been under duress lately due to various reasons is Wizards of the Coast, mostly under allegations from various black members of the Magic: The Gathering community on Twitter and elsewhere Today, Wizards of the Coast issued an official apology for depictions of an offensive and even racist manner in various Magic[...]

Magic: The Gathering's preview season for Core 2021, their newest upcoming set, is still in full swing! We here at Bleeding Cool wanted to emphasize the level of bridging between themes and concepts in this new expansion set with a marriage theme to a few of our preview articles We already covered something old, Core 2021 is doing[...]

Earlier today, we mentioned that we were going to emphasize the marriage of old and new themes, concepts, and cards in Core 2021, the newest upcoming set for Magic: The Gathering Well, what better way to emphasize a marriage than by sharing things old and new, borrowed, and perhaps even blue? This article will delve into only[...]