Magic: The Gathering Archives

Wizards of the Coast, the creator of world-renowned card game Magic: The Gathering, tends to design and develop their Magic cards with very few oversights Most of their sets are relatively tame in a general sense, save for the occasional uptick in power creep here and there However, every once in a blue moon a card[...]

The article ties into my own setting of Dastarque, but should serve as a good example for all you aspiring homebrewers on how to make these things your own. Artwork for Scheming Symmetry, a card from Magic: The Gathering's Core Set 2020 Illustrated by Seb McKinnon. A few years back, Loreley Weisel,  a writer who now freelances writing Magic:[...]

After what felt like a very long month's wait due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Wizards of the Coast has finally released their newest Magic: The Gathering set in a physical form. Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths can now be found in stores in North America, Latin America, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, either in local gaming[...]

Magic: The Gathering has had its share of misprint errors, especially when it comes to Commander products and other supplemental products While Wizards of the Coast has delayed the release of Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths and Commander 2020 until May 15th, on May 12th an anomalous preconstructed deck surfaced on a Facebook page, three days ahead of[...]

At a selling rate of one item per minute, Magic: The Gathering has been ranked as the number one most popular game sold on eBay For this reason, eBay has decided to partner with ABUGames, a popular site for grading and selling single cards, to auction off Magic cards from the earliest sets in the game's history. The[...]

Hello, Magic: The Gathering players! This is the sixth and final installment of our review of the top cards in Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Limited Before this, we have gone through all five colors in Magic and done so in a top ten capacity However, this time we are only able to do a top five. Wizards of the[...]

This creature is very much equipped to support your mutating creatures, something fairly of note in green. Essence Symbiote, a new card from the Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths set for Magic: The Gathering. #9 Titanoth Rex Titanoth Rex is a creature on a very opposite side of the spectrum from Essence Symbiote It's absolutely massive and doesn't care[...]

Double Strike is no joke! On top of that, Raking Claws has cycling, which, if you've read our earlier articles reviewing Ikoria Limited, you'll know is a powerhouse of value. Raking Claws, a new card from the Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths set for Magic: The Gathering. #9 Ferocious Tigorilla A long time ago, Ferocious Tigorilla would have been[...]

Magic: The Gathering may have a large number of humans at the forefront of most conflicts in the game, but by no means is the game mundane We recently went over a deck tech for a tribal Humans Commander deck, led by Jirina Kudro Now, we get a chance to look into the monstrous beings[...]

We here at Bleeding Cool have written our top ten picks for the best black common and uncommon cards in the Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Limited environment for Magic: The Gathering Not even two weeks ago, we went over our picks for the ten best commons and uncommon in white and in blue, and today, we go[...]

One of the most prolific and populous creature types in Magic: The Gathering is also one of its least magical, as chances have it Humans: You either love them and relate to them as a tribe, or you hate playing against them with a passion Modern and Pioneer decks have been built en masse in order[...]

The effort is designed to provide educators and librarians with additional resources to help engage their communities with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering virtual play options This is to help those who are practicing social distancing to engage with others while at home The move comes as part of their "Stay At Home,[...]

Magic: The Gathering players and fans of the Godzilla, rejoice once more! Wizards Of The Coast has announced the release of a new Secret Lair drop series: Godzilla Lands, and we here at Bleeding Cool couldn't be more excited to write about this! The five land cards from the Secret Lair: Godzilla Lands release for Magic: The Gathering. Each[...]

Competitive Commander players rejoice! The Rules Committee has decided to ban Flash from the Commander format of Magic: The Gathering, after much deliberation and input from their advisory group This decision comes after the printing of Thassa's Oracle made competitive EDH (short for Elder Dragon Highlander, another name for the format) untenable for a good many[...]

Welcome, Magic: The Gathering players and fans of the Batman franchise alike! This week was Batman Week here at Bleeding Cool, and today is our last entry into the hypothetical "Batman Series" of Magic card analogues On Monday we went over the heroes of the Batman canon, and on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday we covered its villains[...]

Greetings, Magic: The Gathering players! As you may have heard by now, Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths has been released on Magic: The Gathering: Arena, and with it, player-versus-player drafts! So, naturally, we here at Bleeding Cool have compiled a whole bunch of  Top Ten lists for the best cards in Ikoria Limited, color by color[...]

For this reason, TCGPlayer's workers have unionized, and in the process, they've gotten support from Vermont senator Bernie Sanders. The fitting artwork for Solidarity of Heroes, a card from the Journey Into Nyx set for Magic: The Gathering, with art by Eric Deschamps. Today, Senator Sanders voiced his support for the union in an unexpected but inspiring[...]

Hey there, Magic: The Gathering players and Batman fans! Batman Week continues here at Bleeding Cool and the Games department has even more in store For the past three days now, we have been covering what cards would make great analogues for key characters and concepts We'll be covering the concepts I just mentioned tomorrow, but for now,[...]

It's Batman Week here at Bleeding Cool! As mentioned in earlier articles, the Games department wanted a slice of the pie, so to speak, so today we are continuing this series about Magic: The Gathering analogues to well-known Batman characters and concepts! Yesterday, we went over some of the most devious villains to ever grace[...]

Magic: The Gathering has always been a game where the power levels of colors in the game fluctuates with every new set to come out There have been times where green has been weak, and white has been amazing (and don't even get us started on blue) Generally, with each set to come out, there's[...]

Hey there, Magic: The Gathering players and Batman fans alike! As I mentioned in my last article, it's Batman Week here at Bleeding Cool and we folks at the humble Games department wanted a piece of that action Furthermore, Wizards of the Coast has decided to break out from using only Magic: The Gathering's intellectual[...]

Throughout this week, we will be taking a leaf out of Wizards of the Coast's Godzilla Series treatment for Magic: The Gathering and applying that treatment to existing Magic cards – and of course, we will be giving our own Bat-spin on everything. DC Comics' Batman character, in all of his masked, vigilante-style glory. Before we do this,[...]

For about as long as Magic: The Gathering Arena has been in the public's grasp, there has been an outpouring of feedback about interactivity This is true namely regarding the ability for players to draft together Thankfully, Magic: The Gathering: Arena is getting this long-awaited feature on April 16th. An example of Magic: The Gathering: Arena's draft[...]

Today, I learned an awful trick within Magic: The Gathering's rules, though by "awful," I'm probably more apt to say it's awfully strong. To this end, I built an entire Commander deck geared around it, based on the current rulings as-written While today we did see all of the new cards to be released in Magic: The[...]

Today, we present you with a Magic: The Gathering Commander deck tech featuring one of the all-new legendary creatures from Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths With Wizards of the Coast delaying Magic: The Gathering's next set, it is a given that a majority of the cards in this deck will not be released for a little[...]

Yesterday, Wizards of the Coast began their spoiler season for Ikoria: Lair Of Behemoths, the newest set for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. Bleeding Cool will aim to keep up with these spoilers and provide you with up-to-date highlights of this monstrously-awesome new set. Ikoria, Lair of the Behemoths artwork from Wizards of the Coast. Of course,[...]

Wizards of the Coast has issued a statement regarding the unfortunate naming of a card – or, at least, the unfortunate timing surrounding that name. Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths key artwork from Wizards of the Coast. Magic: The Gathering's newest set, Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths, is due to release worldwide next month However, the initial printing process for cards[...]

Wizards of the Coast has officially teamed up with TOHO CO., Ltd., the creator of a variety of movies, television shows, and theater in Japan, to bring the world of Godzilla to Magic: The Gathering Wizards of the Coast parent company Hasbro and TOHO CO., Ltd have a licensing deal that has also given us as[...]

The tabletop and card game industry is being especially wracked right now, with not only local game stores, but distributors and even gaming companies themselves all being heavily affected worldwide. Therefore, it's no surprise that Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, is being hit pretty hard at the moment. Source:[...]

Hello there, Magic: The Gathering fans and Commander players new and experienced alike! It's been a tough month and "March, March, March!" hasn't quite gone as fantastically as anticipated, but don't think I've forgotten about that aspect of the month. To be frank, I was conflicted about submitting this specific deck tech to Bleeding Cool's annals at the[...]