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Today, Wizards of the Coast released a new streaming video over YouTube that officially kicked off previews for Core 2021, the upcoming set for Magic: The Gathering This video was framed as a "variety show" featuring many Magic celebs both in R&D and on the professional player circuit, as well as a fair amount of bloggers[...]

Today, a decision by Wizards of the Coast was made to delay the official debut stream for Magic: The Gathering's upcoming set, Core 2021 The set's unveiling was delayed out of respect for the National Day of Mourning in America However, some sources debuted preview cards officially despite this information. Key art for Core 2021, the newest[...]

We made Josh write up a Sliver deck to illustrate our point. The artwork for the notorious Sliver Queen, from Magic: The Gathering's set Stronghold Illustrated by Ron Spencer. However, when we tried to figure out how to pitch this idea to Josh, the writer allowed it – on Josh's own terms, of course The result? The[...]

Wizards of the Coast, after having done away with the manufacturer-suggested retail prices on their Magic: The Gathering product, has shown that their product is one that people will buy despite spikes in unregulated retail prices However, lately, a fair few vocal people in the Magic community on Twitter have spoken out against the experimental prices[...]

Wizards of the Coast, in a rather surprising move, has officially given functional errata to a major new rule in their acclaimed trading card game, Magic: The Gathering This rule change, which affects the mechanics of the Companion mechanic from Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths, comes after an extreme influx of Companion cards used as such in[...]

For the last few decades, Magic: The Gathering has thrived on the thrill of its competitive play From Grand Prix to Pro Tours, to Worlds and the Magic Invitational, this game has been played by pros for a long time However, when push comes to shove there is a time and a place for everything, and[...]

Hello there, loyal readers! Today we will be discussing the nature and etiquette of emotes in Magic: The Gathering: Arena, Wizards of the Coast's online interface for Magic: The Gathering play I'd like to begin with a disclaimer that none of these opinions reflect any entity bigger than myself – they aren't the opinions of Bleeding Cool,[...]

Wizards of the Coast's Head Designer for their acclaimed trading card game, Magic: The Gathering, has made a statement regarding the complexity of their newest set, Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths. Mark Rosewater, head of design for Magic's Research and Development team, has openly admitted that Ikoria has been an experiment on determining just how high of a capacity players, both[...]

Today, Wizards of the Coast gave us a Secret Lair drop to reveal for Magic: The Gathering, to massive acclaim There were so many images included in our planned initial reveal that we couldn't actually reveal them all to you So, please allow us to indulge a bit more by giving you the full art[...]

Are you ready for this? Here we go: We are happy to announce Secret Lair's newest drop for Magic: The Gathering: "Full Sleeves"! That's right, folks, it's a new Secret Lair drop for Magic: The Gathering! For the greater part of May, we've seen tons of people inquiring online about when this will come to light, knowing[...]

Hello, loyal readers and fans of Wizards of the Coast's iconic trading card game Magic: The Gathering! Nearly two months ago, we here at Bleeding Cool wrote up a Commander deck tech for Nethroi, Apex of Death Well, now that Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths and Commander 2020 have officially been released worldwide, we decided to take another look at[...]

Today, from seemingly out of the blue, Wizards of the Coast announced a new Masters-style Magic: The Gathering set – the first in about two years – called Double Masters The new set, geared to release in August of this year, examines the concept of doubling as one theme therein. The artwork for Doubling Season, a[...]

Wizards of the Coast, creator of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game, has released their notes on Magic: The Gathering: Arena, the game's online interface, for May Their article includes not only notes on reception and bug reports but also serves as an official slew of announcements for new and continuing events such as Brawlers'[...]

Magic: The Gathering's new concept of a Companion creature is an interesting one to consider, especially in the context of the Commander format There are ten Companions, each of a distinct color combination and each lending itself to a certain archetype Between Lurrus of the Dream-Den and Lutri, the Spellchaser, though, it's not exactly clear[...]

Today, Wizards of the Coast announced a new promotion for Magic: The Gathering players, designed to encourage them to support their local gaming and hobby venues Dubbed the Love Your Local Game Store program, this promotion offers players incentives for buying Magic products from local stores. A promotional image from DailyMTG, Magic: The Gathering's news hub, showcasing[...]

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[...]

He writes on Magic, Marvel and maintaining his customer base in this time of trial, Bleeding Cool ran an article recently about a comic store that closed due to having to wait for Diamond to start shipping comics again. One vendor for all comics is not a good idea We have had a lot of success over[...]

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[...]

You will lose to this card out of nowhere pretty quickly if you don't have some way to provide yourself with a control aspect like countermagic or buff enough creatures Even in the case of the latter, though, be prepared to lose that creature Double Strike is no joke! On top of that, Raking Claws[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Motherland: Fort Salem Bellweather Season was filled with a bit too much teen angst but was saved by a very shocking and gory ending.

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[...]