Magic: The Gathering Archives

Hello there, loyal readers! Today, following up on both of the Theros: Beyond Death booster draft box review I have done as well as that of the Planeswalker Deck gameplay from the very same set, I wanted to see how Sealed gameplay works out for the newest set from Magic: The Gathering. Source: Wizards of the[...]

Yes, you read the above headline correctly, folks – Wizards of the Coast is finally sanctioning Commander League play for Magic: The Gathering! Source: Wizards of the Coast For the first time ever, Wizards of the Coast has devised a ruleset for an achievement-style level of gameplay for Commander This will involve an achievement list and a set[...]

Hello, loyal readers and fans of the Planeswalker Decks for Magic: The Gathering! Today, I wanted to go over some notes I had about the Planeswalker Decks from Magic's newest set, Theros: Beyond Death I had gotten a game in with both of them pitted against each other and I'm a bit baffled. Source: Wizards of the Coast[...]

Joel Larsson of Sweden is the Champion of Players Tour Brussels, a large-name professional Magic: The Gathering event! Joel Larsson's winning Pioneer decklist Source: Wizards of the Coast Larsson, back from retirement after having won Pro Tour Magic Origins back in 2015, used a homebrew deck dubbed by sources in the media as "Swedish Sultai", an apt[...]

Hello there, loyal readers and fans of Magic: The Gathering, both invested and prospective! Today, I'm going to be discussing the Planeswalker decks for Magic's newest set, Theros: Beyond Death. Source: Wizards of the Coast (photo credit: Josh Nelson) As can be observed from the image above, the Planeswalker decks for this set, which is inspired by Ancient Greek[...]

Hello loyal readers! It's been a bit of a while since I last showcased any Magic: The Gathering Commander deck techs for you, but today I will be returning to this with a new deck that is a great example of inspiration on my part. A lot of decks in Commander nowadays are built with optimization[...]

Hello, loyal readers! Yesterday, I noted with gratitude the package that I had received from Wizards of the Coast; it contained a Booster Draft Box, a Bundle, and the two Planeswalker Decks, all from Magic: The Gathering's newest set, Theros: Beyond Death Today, I want to review the overall contents of the Bundle I'd received[...]

Hey there! So, a box came into my possession a couple of days ago, and I wanted to inspect it and talk about it with my loyal readers today. Source: Wizards of the Coast (photo credit: Josh Nelson) So, this box, a gift from Wizards of the Coast for being a member of the reviewing press, was[...]

has teamed up with Wizards of the Coast to create their first-ever Magic: The Gathering game: Magic: Manastrike! Source: Wizards of the Coast / Netmarble Corp. Like the old game Magic: Battlegrounds for the original Xbox, Manastrike takes the Magic: The Gathering property and crafts from it a Player-Versus-Player environment where the renowned Planeswalkers from the brand face each other in spell-slinging[...]

Are you a Magic: The Gathering superfan? Do you love full-art basic lands? Are you simply jonesing for silver? Well, dear superfan, Wizards of the Coast has finally revealed new details for their new boxed set – Unsanctioned! This is the first bit of information since the initial announcement back around the time we had heard about[...]

Tomorrow, Wizards of the Coast is putting the next installment of their "Secret Lair" drop series for Magic: The Gathering out for purchase. Source: Wizards of the Coast The drop for January 2020 celebrates the Lunar New Year, which occurred yesterday on the 25th, with the aptly-devised "Year of the Rat" release. Source: Wizards of the Coast The contents of[...]

StreamElements has announced today that they have formed a new partnership with Wizards of the Coast to forge the Magic: The Gathering Creator Program The program will be using StreamElements' SE.CAP system, which will allow them to manage and grow their influencer program across YouTube, Facebook, Mixer, Instagram, and Twitch The program is now open[...]

Today, the Theros: Beyond Death prerelease events for the ever-popular Magic: The Gathering collectible card game are set to end The events have been going on since Friday, and now's probably the nest time for players to join up for Sealed pools of this set. Source: Wizards of the Coast Why now, if you haven't already done[...]

Today marks the beginning of prerelease events for Magic: The Gathering's newest set, Theros: Beyond Death Events are apt to begin sometime this afternoon at the very earliest and continue into Sunday. Source: Wizards of the Coast At the Theros: Beyond Death prerelease event, players will be handed a prerelease pack: six booster packs of the new set,[...]

Wizards of the Coast wants players to escape their fates, through recorded, fifteen-second films! Source: Wizards of the Coast Yesterday, the company behind Magic: The Gathering and its derived games wrote an article detailing a contest they are holding known hereafter as the "Theros International Film Festival" The base rules of the competition are fairly simple – contestants[...]

It seems that Oko, Thief of Crowns is a card that needed to be taught a lesson. Source: Wizards of the Coast Today, Wizards of the Coast updated their banned and restricted list for the Modern format of Magic: The Gathering The article stating so named Oko, along with Mox Opal and Mycosynth Lattice, as major contributors to[...]

A landmark restaurant in Seattle, Washington is about to have a tie-in of mythic proportions. Source: Wizards of the Coast / Zippy's Giant Burgers According to a press release by gaming company Wizards of the Coast, Zippy's Giant Burgers is teaming up with the branding department for Wizards of the Coast's ever-popular collectible card game Magic: The Gathering[...]

New features are coming soon to Magic: The Gathering: Arena, Wizards of the Coast's online interface for their massively-popular collectible card game Magic: The Gathering! Source: Wizards of the Coast According to an article written regarding the state of the game, players can look forward to seeing various tweaks to the interface begin to pop up very soon[...]

Wizards of the Coast's upcoming set for Magic: The Gathering, titled Theros: Beyond Death, is a set much unlike we have seen in recent years It's heavily graveyard-centric without being as focal on death as its name suggests, and features many new spins on old Greco-Roman folklore. Source: Wizards of the Coast However, where the set is quite[...]

We as players are fortunate to have their services as they work hard in multiple different departments to ensure Magic: The Gathering continues as a game, and to an extent, a multi-component piece of cultural artistry. Source: Wizards of the Coast Today, we at Bleeding Cool wish to go over four more neat cards spoiled in the last couple[...]

Today is one of the last couple of days before the full spoiler for Wizards of the Coast's next upcoming set for Magic: The Gathering, Theros: Beyond Death, will be revealed to the public In the meantime, it looks as though the renowned games company has left some of the very best cards for last[...]

The first trailer for Magic: Legends, the first massively multiplayer online RPG set in the Magic: The Gathering Multiverse, has been released. Source: Wizards of the Coast / Cryptic Games The gameplay trailer can be found below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLqYT9CSYZAVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Exclusive Magic: Legends Gameplay Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLqYT9CSYZA) If you look carefully, you'll see objectives that mention[...]

Magic: The Gathering has had a fair amount of issues pertaining to plot continuity, but generally one thing has held very firm to the truth within the auspices of the storyline That thing is this: the Planeswalker spark, the essence of magic imbued within a Planeswalker that is the source of their ability to planeswalk,[...]

It's time to get excited, either out of sheer astonishment or sheer panic, because the Titans of Theros have been unleashed upon Magic: The Gathering! Oh dear Source: Wizards of the Coast Let's back up a second though – we only got this spoiler (and another, among other less-than-titanic spoilers) today and we have a few days more[...]

Hey there, loyal readers! I wanted to address a couple of things regarding Magic: The Gathering: Arena and my usage thereof over the past few weeks Normally, I'd save this sort of article for a day mid-month, but I think it's got some relevance now, before Theros: Beyond Death is released. Source: Wizards of the Coast So, for[...]

Today, I'd like to go over one of the toughest Commander deck builds in Brooklyn, New York, to sate all of your competitive Magic: The Gathering needs! Today, we at Bleeding Cool are looking into a Vilis, Broker of Blood list sent to us by Alan Betts of Brooklyn's notorious "Ramp Gang", as the collective of competitive[...]

Hello, loyal readers! I've been going over spoilers for Magic: The Gathering's newest upcoming set, Theros: Beyond Death, and I finally thought I was updated fully as of yesterday However, the weekend is often known to be a sparse time for new card reveals since the main Magic news site, DailyMTG.com, doesn't conduct themselves on weekends. At[...]

The newest Magic: The Gathering expansion set, Theros: Beyond Death, is coming fast, and heralding it are a multitude of spoilers! There have been so many spoilers lately that we here at Bleeding Cool have had some difficulty keeping up 100% with them That changes today, however, as we keep ourselves – and you, of course –[...]

Hello loyal readers! I'll be getting up-to-speed with Theros: Beyond Death spoilers for Magic: The Gathering in a bit, but first I wanted to write about a card that's been on my mind for a fair amount of time now, since being spoiled on December 31st Apparently the card has some rather large implications for the "playtest"[...]

I started writing spoiler reviews for Wizards of the Coast's newest upcoming expansion set for Magic: The Gathering, Theros: Beyond Death, today, and it turns out that over the past week there have been so many spoilers that I couldn't bear to fit them into one article And so, as a companion piece to that[...]