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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[...]

Last week, last month, last year, and last decade, Wizards of the Coast revealed a ton of spoilers for their upcoming set for Magic: The Gathering, titled Theros: Beyond Death Today, we at Bleeding Cool want to go over a few of the cards that were spoiled, and highlight them – some of these are far too good[...]

This kind of thing is the most attainable part of the hobby for me, in that I am definitely able to play things like Magic: The Gathering from the comfort of my own home through Magic: The Gathering: Arena and similar interfaces (and yes, I'm counting card games as tabletop for the purposes of this list of[...]

Happy New Year, everybody! Just because it's a whole new year doesn't mean I'm about to stop writing Magic: The Gathering deck techs, and just because its the Wednesday of an entirely new decade doesn't mean I'll be withholding any Oathbreaker content from you all And, to celebrate the coming of the new year and the[...]

Today's final Commander deck tech for Magic: The Gathering in 2019 pertains to a mountain of a man – a character so calculating, so smart, so… so numerical that he only needs one introduction: the ineffable and esteemed… Baron Von Count! Source: Wizards of the Coast The decklist to be discussed in this article can be found here. This is[...]

Today, the YouTube page for Tolarian Community College's Brian Lewis (or, as he is better known, The Professor) shared The Professor's top five worst points for Magic: The Gathering in the past year of 2019 This comes after Saturday's video by The Professor detailing his picks for the top five best things to happen to Magic this[...]

This past week, Wizards of the Coast, the creative force behind their spectacularly-popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering, revealed a few new cards from their next expansion set, Theros: Beyond Death Theros: Beyond Death is a sequel to the highly-praised Theros block of three sets, released between 2013 and 2014 overall Theros, the plane of[...]

Well, I'm back, everyone! After a massive bout dealing with Nicol Bolas, I'm back and ready to write up some more news for you. Source: Wizards of the Coast Yesterday (December 24th, 2019 – Christmas Eve for many!), Wizards of the Coast's Twitter page for their digital  Magic: The Gathering interface, Magic: The Gathering: Arena, spoiled a new[...]

It is I, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, supreme overlord of the Multiverse, and dragon-god about town! I have decided to commandeer the next few Magic: The Gathering posts by this author in order to firmly place myself within the ranks of Bleeding Cool authordom! Quiver with fear at my Overwhelming Splendor! Source: Wizards of the Coast As a final[...]

It is I, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, supreme overlord of the Multiverse, and dragon-god about town! I have decided to commandeer the next few Magic: The Gathering posts by this author in order to firmly place myself within the ranks of Bleeding Cool authordom! Quiver with fear at my Overwhelming Splendor! Source: Wizards of the Coast At this time,[...]

It is I, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, supreme overlord of the Multiverse, and dragon-god about town! I have decided to commandeer the next few Magic: The Gathering posts by this author in order to firmly place myself within the ranks of Bleeding Cool authordom! Quiver with fear at my Overwhelming Splendor! Source: Wizards of the Coast Did you miss[...]

It is I, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, supreme overlord of the Multiverse, and dragon-god about town! I have decided to commandeer the next few Magic: The Gathering posts by this author in order to firmly place myself within the ranks of Bleeding Cool authordom! Quiver with fear at my Overwhelming Splendor! Source: Wizards of the Coast For this article,[...]

It is I, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, supreme overlord of the Multiverse, and dragon-god about town! I have decided to commandeer the next few Magic: The Gathering posts by this author in order to firmly place myself within the ranks of Bleeding Cool authordom! Quiver with fear at my Overwhelming Splendor! Source: Wizards of the Coast Within this article,[...]

Oh no… Oh dear gods abov- AHEM. It is I, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, supreme overlord of the Multiverse, and dragon-god about town! I have decided to commandeer the next few Magic: The Gathering posts by this author in order to firmly place myself within the ranks of Bleeding Cool authordom! Quiver with fear at my Overwhelming Splendor! Source: Wizards of[...]