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Hey all! Today, I would like to continue my ongoing monthly segment where I check in on how Magic: The Gathering: Arena is from a player perspective. Javier Dominguez, triumphant after Mythic Championship V Source: Wizards of the Coast Before I do that, however, I was given a few confirmed clarifications to my last article, directly from[...]

On November 14th, Wizards of the Coast sent out an email blast to users of Magic: The Gathering Online and Magic: The Gathering: Arena, stating that users' data had been compromised in a security breach. Source: Wizards of the Coast According to this email, while much data was breached (including first and last names of users, users' email addresses,[...]

(Or, "Get In Nerds: The Party Bus Cometh!")

Well, this is one Magic: The Gathering article I didn't want to write, but I totally expected it would come up It was an inevitability as early as this past Friday evening (November 8th), and now we at Bleeding Cool are here to make sense of the wreckage Here we go. Source: Twitter After nonbinary Magic professional player Autumn Burchett's cards[...]

A recent book covering the latest plots in the storyline of Magic: The Gathering entitled "War of the Spark: Forsaken" has come under scrutiny by gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer Magic players (among many others) for its content Greg Weisman, the author, seems to have done a lot of people in the community dirty, according[...]

In news which may absolutely floor a ton of Magic: The Gathering players while being completely predictable to a good many others, Commander may be the most played Magic format. Source: Wizards of the Coast According to Magic: The Gathering Head Designer Mark Rosewater in an answer to a question posed on his Tumblr blog Blogatog, data suggests that[...]

Of all of the innovations in Magic: The Gathering, there is none so insidious as the ones which force other players to sit and do nothing while you get to play and win These sorts of cards are tough to deal with and frustrate many a player on a regular basis The very worst offenders among[...]

Hello friends! It's time again for another set of two Magic: The Gathering Commander deck techs Sometimes, I find it's best to step away from the battlefield when writing up techs for my readers and take a moment to be mindful of things like burnout, writer's block, and other similar worries But then I think[...]

As we covered on the site on Saturday, Autumn Burchett, a Magic: The Gathering pro player who openly identifies as nonbinary, had been instructed by a Wizards of the Coast official to remove the basic land cards from their deck before playing in the main event in MagicFest Richmond. I was instructed by tournament officials to remove[...]

I attended a Commander-format Magic: The Gathering tournament benefitting the ExtraLife charity on Saturday, November 9th The event, while fun as it could be, raises some concerns about what exactly constitutes a competitive Commander deck and what doesn't quite cut it. I had gone with using my Chainer, Dementia Master deck in this tournament – the very[...]

Last night (Friday night, November 8th) at MagicFest Richmond, professional Magic: The Gathering player Autumn Burchett purportedly was instructed to remove two cards from their deck after the cards were found to have potentially divisive messages written on them The messages included "No TERFs[…]" and "Trans Rights are Human Rights", which, while to some are[...]

I wrote an article around this time a year ago about how Chainer, Dementia Master, is among the best of the best when it comes to reanimator commanders within Magic: The Gathering This was written on a website called "Commander Fight Club", where players could make content about the Commander format (the website has yet to[...]

In continuation of our pair of white Magic: The Gathering deck techs for today (having kicked it off with Oketra the True), I now present the second Commander deck tech We are preparing for the arrival of Theros, Beyond Death through these techs, and as such we are giving special focus to the Gods in Magic. White is[...]

Today, we at Bleeding Cool have a special set of two Commander Magic: The Gathering deck tech articles for you! This is the first of them. But first,  before I reveal which Commander I'll be writing for you, a bit of background information Theros: Beyond Death, Magic: The Gathering's 83rd expansion set, is coming out in January[...]

Nearly a month ago, Wizards of the Coast unveiled plans to release a "Mystery Booster" product for Magic: The Gathering The details – any and all of them, save for the packaging and its existence at MagicFest Richmond onwards – were completely hidden from anyone Today, MagicFest Richmond's high point occurred when the mysterious booster pack[...]

Among them, coloring books, Matchbox cars, and – as the title of my article suggests – Magic: The Gathering. Source: Strong Museum of Play Head of Tabletop Gaming for Magic, Bill Rose, spoke a bit about how the game has never been better, and how as Magic enters its 27th year in 2020, the game is only going to improve[...]

Throughout the ages, there have been reports of magically-inclined human beings practicing their craft to the shock, awe, and also the rage of other less-magical people These wizards, witches, warlocks, and so forth all purportedly existed in the medieval environment and had woven themselves into the very fabric of legend The greatest legendary medieval wizard,[...]

Magic: The Gathering is full of characters each with different story arcs Often times, we as players and consumers of the Magic storyline will see characters with multiple different cards meant to represent their continuing character development It's quite a sight to see someone petulant like Chandra Nalaar become responsible and focused on her goals and[...]

So to that end, I saw all of the love for this day on Bleeding Cool's queue and thought, "I should do something to celebrate!" So here we are, with me crafting a Magic: The Gathering Oathbreaker deck to commemorate this day Oathbreaker, for those who are just tuning into my articles on it today, is a format[...]

This past weekend, it was revealed that Pioneer, the newest format to grace the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game, would be receiving updates to its ban list every Monday Yesterday, November 4th, was the first day that the updates started rolling out. This update took a bit of time for Wizards of the Coast to write[...]

The winner of MagicFest Lyon has been decided! Source: ChannelFireball In news that should surprise absolutely nobody, MagicFest Lyon, lasting from November 1st to November 3rd, was dominated by players who used "Food"-based decks Five of the decks in the Top Eight were based on Food, to be precise There were other deck archetypes representing the Top[...]

Yesterday, an article was posted on Bleeding Cool's "Comics" hub about how Magic: The Gathering is becoming an institution that isn't supporting its player base In this article, I intend to rebuke this as well as I can, because I feel strongly that Wizards of the Coast is doing their sincere best in accommodating their players. Source: Wizards[...]

Magic: The Gathering has very recently been shaken up with the addition of a new format called Pioneer The format is less than a month old and currently contains only five banned cards (the original allied fetchlands, for those looking for those bans) Aside from those initial bans, the format contains all cards from expansion[...]

There has been so much news in the realm of Magic: The Gathering information lately that we here at Bleeding Cool could not contain all of our content for October into the month It's been one hectic month I may have nearly worked myself to death! I even missed the chance to concoct a final "Oathtober" tech[...]

Magic: The Gathering has been a successful game franchise for close to 27 years now With a theoretically-literal multiverse of branding and merchandise, Magic has also been pretty good overall at keeping their trade secrets under lock and key However, sometimes their secrets do slip out, be it by rogue employees, manufacturing errors, or simple ignorance. This[...]

Happy Halloween everyone! It's October 31st, so hopefully, you know what's in store for you with regards to this particular Magic: The Gathering Commander deck tech. So very spoopy Source: Wizards of the Coast Over the past two months, we at Bleeding Cool have been going over a multitude of different legendary creatures from Throne of Eldraine,[...]

It's an announcement that could reshape the very fabric of the Magic: The Gathering Commander community, and it's one that people have been speculating on and awaiting for a long time. https://youtu.be/T1ncWcr7PksVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Big Commander Announcement! l Wizards of the Coast official l Magic: The Gathering (https://youtu.be/T1ncWcr7Pks) For those who either don't[...]

Throne of Eldraine, Magic: The Gathering's newest expansion set, is full of amazing legendary creatures The set as a whole is based on a unified blend of Arthurian and Grimm folklore alike, making for an exquisite setting for the newest world in the Magic Multiverse. Of course, not all is daisies and roses in Eldraine, the eponymous[...]

Or, "A Love Letter to Magic Esports". A couple of months ago, sometime before I was hired by Bleeding Cool, I never would have guessed that I'd be playing Magic: The Gathering: Arena I was vehemently opposed to Magic: The Gathering Online and felt very strongly about my stance How could I even think about paying for digital cards when actual[...]

Throughout the years, Magic: The Gathering has ebbed and flowed as far as being a game themed in high fantasy Some of the sets are styled in themes similar to Ancient Greece or Egypt, one takes place in an Arthurian-inspired setting, and some are even as close to science fiction as fantasy can get. We have been[...]