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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[...]

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 second episode of Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem is much more concise and feels more linear—not sure how to explain it. Pretty sure it might be

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[...]

Hey there, card game enthusiasts and those with minor crafting skills! Today, I want to go over how to, with your very own hands (or those of a parent, if you're very young – hey kid, ask your parents' permission!), create a webcam stand for the sake of remote tabletop Magic: The Gathering play with[...]

Starting today, the company has decided to shut down all Magic: The Gathering in-store sanctioned play as far as May 10th of this year at the very soonest This affects North America, the European Union, and Latin America at present, but this mandate by Wizards of the Coast may increase in range in due time. Source:[...]

Wizards of the Coast has announced that their well-established weekly institution, Friday Night Magic, will be hosted digitally on Magic: The Gathering Arena, via local hobby stores This announcement comes soon after another announcement detailing the actions Wizards of the Coast is taking to combat any lack of productivity or recreation in the face of COVID-19,[...]

We'll continue to update this page as new information becomes available, and we will be recapping this news on our weekly Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering streaming shows. There will be changes to events: In the past weeks we've followed official guidance from the CDC and health advisories of local governments and cancelled in-person events[...]

Mark Rosewater, head designer for Wizards of the Coast's huge-name trading card game Magic: The Gathering, has hunkered down in his home to self-quarantine out of concern for the spread of COVID-19, also known as Coronavirus As far as we are aware, he doesn't have it, but he is still working from home in order to[...]

Hey there, fans of Magic: The Gathering in all its various shapes and forms! Today, I'd like to talk for a moment about the "Mystery Booster" phenomenon, and how it's generally a boon, but at times can be a bust. Source: Wizards of the Coast So, by now, if you play Magic: The Gathering to such a degree that[...]

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[...]

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[...]