Magic: The Gathering Archives

Channel Fireball, a group of prestigious tournament organizers for Magic: The Gathering, have decided to cancel various different MagicFest events for 2020 These cancellations were made (unsurprisingly) due to concerns over the spread of COVID-19, Coronavirus. Source: ChannelFireball The cancelled events, for the time being (because remember, Coronavirus hasn't been dealt with as of yet!), are as follows: MagicFest[...]

Hello again, loyal readers! It's still "March, March, March!", and that means that there are a few more Commander deck techs I'll be writing up for Magic: The Gathering To recap the deck techs written already for "March, March, March!", we here at Bleeding Cool have already covered Soldiers and Warriors To me, that means that today[...]

Hello there, fans of Wizards of the Coast's highly-acclaimed trading card game Magic: The Gathering and its Commander format in particular! Today, I have another deck tech for you as a part of what I've been calling "March, March, March!" For this event, I'm dredging up an old deck of mine from the days of yore (but[...]

Wizards of the Coast has done it again – they've released the second of the March Secret Lair box drops for their card game Magic: The Gathering! The release this time is a full playset of Thalia, Guardian of Thraben. Source: Wizards of the Coast This four-card special edition release is geared mainly for Eternal players, as Wizards has[...]

Hello, loyal readers and any fans of Magic: The Gathering (or even just the Commander format)! Today, we will be taking a stark departure from the sort of coverage that my competitive deck tech overview for The Gitrog Monster did, and instead, we will be looking at a commander who is fairly more straightforward[...]

Welcome! If you are looking for Part Four of this series, you can find that over here. Well, it's taken us some time, but here is the final installment of my Commander hot takes for Wizards of the Coast's hit game, Magic: The Gathering We've been through a lot over the course of the past two days[...]

There is no fathomable reason to sit through the credits until the bitter end… unless you are the geekiest f geeks (like me). Because if you do sit through all the names of all the many animators from all over the world, get past the song credits and all those company logos (so many logos), there[...]

I kind of hate deja-vu at times, don't you? Anyway, this is a series of pieces covering my bases in regards to my opinions on Magic: The Gathering's Commander format, and the more troubling trends in the cards – and the cards alone And, if you couldn't already guess, this portion of the series is about[...]

Welcome! If you are looking for Part Two of this series, you can find that over here. Sometimes, there's an odd trend in Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast's ever-popular trading card game, where, in all formats, something is troubling Some cards just provide boatloads of value and since value is the name of the game[...]

This series, as I'd mentioned in my last part, deals with the many hot takes that Magic: The Gathering players have about cards in the Commander format, and how my thoughts align with those thoughts I'm not dealing with meta-issues such as the Commander RC, the CAG, the DCI, R&D, or any other acronym-ed Magic organizations[...]

The news leaked over the weekend, but this morning, Wizards Of The Coast announced a new Magic: The Gathering addition to Dungeons & Dragons The company will be releasing another sourcebook centered around the world of Magic: The Gathering A followup to Guildmasters' Guide To Ravnica, Mythic Odysseys of Theros is a D&D campaign sourcebook[...]

Wizards of the Coast has made mistakes in the past, with regards to the printing of certain cards in Magic: The Gathering I mean, just look at cards like Gaea's Cradle or the brunt of the cards banned in Standard from the original Mirrodin block! Today and tomorrow, I'd like to go over some of these[...]

Hey there, fans of Magic: The Gathering and Magic: The Gathering: Arena! I come to you first posing a question: Have you purchased the "Year of the Rat" Secret Lair drop but have no reason to use the Pack Rat sleeves that came with it for Arena? If so, I have great news for you, and good news[...]

For International World Women's Day, Wizards of the Coast has decided to release a special Secret Lair drop for their smash-hit trading card game Magic: The Gathering. Source: Wizards of the Coast In this release, those who purchase it will find five different full-art cards, each depicting a female Legendary Creature, perfectly suited for Commander play (or whatever[...]

Ribbit. Errrrr, hello, loyal readers! Happy Leap Day! Normally we over here at Bleeding Cool would be ending the month with a silver-bordered Commander deck tech for Magic: The Gathering, but we have decided this month to do things a little differently Today we are going over my fellow Rochester Commander player Paul Toal's competitive list based on his[...]

Hold on to your donkeys – Magic: The Gathering's newest silver-bordered expansion, Unsanctioned, has been released! Source: Wizards of the Coast After three previous full-on silver-bordered releases and a fair smattering of other cards in a similar vein, Unsanctioned is an entirely new concept for the silver-bordered world of Magic Instead of a completely new set with nothing[...]

Today, in the middle of a rather humdrum, possibly lacklustre day of news, this author was amazed to find a new product announcement by Wizards of the Coast for their basically-immortal trading card game Magic: The Gathering Within this announcement is an all-new way to go about playing a brand-new Sealed environment: "Jumpstart" is here –[...]

Hello there, loyal readers and fans of the ever-popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering! For those of you looking to invest in single cards from Magic's latest expansion Theros: Beyond Death, I am afraid I may have a spot of bad news for you This may be an opinion piece but it's based in[...]

Congratulations to Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa on winning the 26th Magic: The Gathering World Championships! Source: Wizards of the Coast At  Magic Worlds XXVI, sixteen competitors faced off against each other for prizes totaling one million dollars, and the games played were remarkably grueling During Day One, the once-reigning World Champion, Javier Dominguez was taken out of the[...]

This weekend is a solid one for competitive Magic: The Gathering Between Worlds XXVI and various other tournaments occurring concurrently, it's fairly safe to say that competitive Magic has never been stronger on a professional level. With this in mind, Wizards of the Coast has announced the decklists for the newest batch of Challenger Decks, decks geared[...]

Hello, loyal readers! Today, February 16th, 2020, marks the final day for the 26th Magic: The Gathering World Championships! Before I go into any coverage of the final, momentous day of this prestigious tournament, I want to go over what has transpired over the last two days thereof. Source: Wizards of the Coast Day One To start, Day One[...]

The minds behind such Netflix documentary series as The Toys That Made Us are developing a new documentary about the genesis, origins, and impact of Wizards of the Coast's ever-popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering. Source: Wizards of the Coast The documentary, entitled "Igniting the Spark", will be produced by The Nacelle Company, the production company behind The Toys[...]

Javier Dominguez, reigning and defending Magic: the Gathering World Champion, took on longtime friend and colleague Andrea Mengucci during the Day One events at the 26th Magic World Championships in Honolulu, Hawaii. Source: Wizards of the coast, via Twitch Javier, having drafted a Golgari (black/green) Draft deck with some very tough decisions regarding inclusions, took on Mengucci's rather exquisitely-sculpted[...]

I hope you're ready for Magic: The Gathering's newest drop release for Secret Lair: "Stargazing"! Source: Wizards of the Coast The "Stargazing" release, available only for the duration of this weekend alone – and I mean only this weekend – contains five different drops The drops have three cards each and are themed after the gods of the Theroan[...]

For years, Magic: The Gathering has been not just a card game, but a conversation I'm all for using this analogy because it lends itself to discussion and in time, the big discussion And, as it stands, this conversation has had a large handful of big-ticket controversies within the design of the game (not to mention discourse[...]

Hello there, loyal readers! Today I figured we would get down and dirty – and I do mean downright dirty – with a new Commander deck tech for Magic: The Gathering This deck tech will be showcasing one of the most disgustingly powerful commanders recently printed for the format, Muldrotha, the Gravetide. Source: Wizards of the Coast The[...]

Hello, loyal readers! I cannot believe I nearly overlooked this but Wizards of the Coast has added a new entry to their "State of Arena" series of update articles for Magic: The Gathering's esports interface It's relevant because while it does highlight a few of the promises made in the previous State of Arena article, so far[...]

The Tolarian Community College YouTube channel has posted a number of videos pertaining to how to properly craft a mana base in the Commander format of Magic: The Gathering By no means is it a strict guideline, and Brian Lewis, known on that YouTube channel as "The Professor", makes that very known. Source: Wizards of the Coast However,[...]

Hello there, loyal readers! Today, I'll be going over a deck tech for another new Magic: The Gathering commander, who, like Kroxa, my previous deck tech's subject, is also an Elder Giant (and no, before you ask, I'm not engaging in any Changeling shenanigans here) Today, as my title suggests, we will be giving a[...]

For the course of three days, starting on February 14th you can play on Magic: The Gathering: Arena with the decks of the pros playing at the Magic World Championships! Source: Wizards of the Coast Following hot on the heels of giving players a choice of representative champion for Worlds XXVI, this event actually allows players to pilot[...]