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Collectors of the world-famous trading card game Magic: The Gathering can get their hands on uncut sheets of cards through an auction for charity beginning tomorrow, October 23rd. An uncut rare/mythic rare sheet of the New Phyrexia set, to be auctioned off for charity Source: Wizards of the Coast Beginning tomorrow at 11:00 PM Pacific Time (that's 2:00[...]

Magic: The Gathering has announced a new format! It's called Pioneer, and it comes with some rather interesting parameters – and some very interesting baggage. Source: Wizards of the Coast Pioneer, the format Pioneer, as indicated from the infographic above, is going to support sets from 2012's Return to Ravnica all the way to the present[...]

Hello, loyal readers! It's time again for another Magic: The Gathering Oathbreaker deck tech Oathbreaker, for those who have not been caught up on the subject, is a 60-card singleton format made by the WeirdCards Charitable Club, and inspired by Commander and similar formats. Source: Wizards of the Coast Oathbreaker games represent a conflict between Planeswalkers and[...]

I'm not entirely sure what this will mean for any players on Magic: The Gathering: Arena who has at least one copy of the card, but the last time there was a ban in Standard, any copies of that card had been refunded in the form of wildcards We will see if that holds true for[...]

Magic: The Gathering has been around for 26 years It is older than many real-life issues, and even some celebrities But do you know what is older than Magic? The Green Giant. Source: Wizards of the Coast Yes, the Green Giant brand of canned vegetables Those icky, slimy green beans and corn that my parents force-fed me at a[...]

Congratulations to Javier Dominguez for winning Magic: The Gathering: Arena's fifth Mythic Championship! Source: Wizards of the Coast Javier ran a Gruul (red-green) Aggro deck throughout the event, and bested a multitude of other professional players, including Stanislav "StanCifka" Cifka (whose rise and return to Magic we have covered before), Gabriel Nassif (a veteran pro-player from when I was[...]

Wizards of the Coast, hot on the heels of the glaring success of Magic: The Gathering: Arena, has issued another "State of the Game" article for the software They did the same in September, and it seems that it was a much more triumphant article than this month's piece. We went over the September article as well[...]

When I say Magic: The Gathering is without question my favorite game, I mean that beyond the shadow of a doubt I love the fantasy themes blended with the underscoring tropes of modern science-fiction, I love the characters and setting, and I love the gameplay When I say that my favorite color of Magic is black by[...]

It's Oathtober, so we are giving you a ton of Oathbreaker deck techs fo Magic: The Gathering! Oathbreaker is a format started by the WeirdCards Charitable Club and is so very fun! We've given you the devilishly fun Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded, hobnobbed a bit with the vampiric Sorin, Lord of Innistrad, and delved into the[...]

To me, it's the very best color in all of Magic: The Gathering It's got all of the best and most powerful effects available to it – removal, card draw, direct life drain, reanimation, you name it! – at a rather minimal cost to you of a few additional resources It's wonderful, especially if you[...]

The biggest tournament in Magic: The Gathering: Arena, the Mythic Championship, is reaching its fifth go-around, and will be conducted this coming weekend 68 players from across the globe are set to compete for thousands of dollars in prizes at that time, in Los Angeles, California at Thunder Studios. Source: Wizards of the Coast With that, Wizards[...]

Magic: The Gathering has had a ton of new releases each year Generally, expansion sets release each quarter, and other products release during the months not associated with those releases (though there are some glaring exceptions, such as the Brawl decks releasing with the Throne of Eldraine set as a whole). Source: Wizards of the Coast It[...]

The WeirdCards Charitable Club unbanned Recurring Nightmare, one of the most controversially-powerful cards still on the Commander ban list.

Brian Poller writes, Math is better than magic It has secret symbols unlocking special knowledge I just think that math is cool But to be honest, I was never a great math student I never enjoyed studying or taking math tests I struggled through high school and college courses, and yet I still believed that math[...]

Probably with no credit to Bleeding Cool for our deck tech on The Grand Calcutron or the upcoming Halloween deck tech for Grusilda, Monster Masher, Wizards of the Coast has unveiled their newest silver-bordered set for Magic: The Gathering Called "Unsanctioned", this set contains five 30-card mini-decks with silver-bordered, completely unsanctioned (heh) cards, save for basic lands[...]

Magic: The Gathering is chock-full of monsters – from Dragons, to Centaurs, to Merfolk and Leviathans, Magic has more than its share of interesting and complex creatures Sometimes, however, some of these creatures are a little too hard to index These creatures are often shoehorned into the categorical creature type of "Beast", which oftentimes doesn't do[...]

Hello, and welcome to another Oathtoberfest* article for Magic: The Gathering's latest up-and-coming format, Oathbreaker! For those unaware, Oathbreaker is a relatively young format fostered by the WeirdCards Charitable Club, a charity whose goal is to teach Magic to young people who may not have other outlets WeirdCards created the format, and now we, the public,[...]

Hang onto your hats for the next few weeks, folks – Magic: The Gathering: Arena speculation is about to get a bit hectic. Source: Wizards of the Coast Twitter page @MagicEsports, the account that manages the Twitter page for Magic: The Gathering: Arena, has posted a tweet as of yesterday (October 9th) stating that the next Banned[...]

I picked up a copy of the "Knight's Charge" preconstructed Brawl deck for Magic: The Gathering yesterday I quickly learned thereafter that it was an investment that was made amid a temporary and artificial scarcity on the part of Wizards of the Coast's methodologies The biggest issue I had with picking this deck up was that[...]

Last Friday, I wrote up a deck tech for Oathbreaker, a relatively fresh format for Magic: The Gathering created by the WeirdCards Charitable Club This tech revolved around Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded, a Planeswalker card which is seen a pretty bad in every other format Surprisingly, Tibalt is remarkably powerful in this one, and that makes worlds[...]

Between Kenrith, the Returned King, the Throne of Eldraine prerelease, the Brawl decks being converted to Commander decks, My Little Pony's crossover with Magic, and so much of my procrastination getting to finally provide you with a deck tech for Syr Gwyn, Hero of Ashvale, I've been remarkably hard at work for you, dear readers[...]

Surprisingly, a lot of you seem to have enjoyed the My Little Pony/Magic: The Gathering crossover article I mean, friendship is magic, after all… Ponies and Knights! Source: Wizards of the Coast Anyway, this past weekend I participated in the "Win Every Card" challenge on Magic: The Gathering: Arena (costing me a bit more time to write[...]

At NYCC, we had the chance to experience the magic behind the scenes of movement in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with the cast and crew Moderating the panel, we had James Snyder (Harry Potter) and joining him on stage Benjamin Wheelwright (US Resident Movement Director) and James Brown III (Movement Captain for Broadway[...]

With the release of Throne of Eldraine out of the way, it is time once more for Magic: The Gathering's competitive events to commence! Last week saw a slight lull in this field of coverage because of the prerelease, but this past weekend things heated back up at MagicFest Montreal with Throne of Eldraine limited! Source: Wizards[...]

Magic: The Gathering can be a real lesson-granting sort of game You win some games, and you lose some games But the games one plays in a casual setting are far different than what one would find in a competitive setting, especially if it's within a newly-developing metagame This is no less true on Magic: The[...]

Magic: The Gathering is full of different formats – some that make certain cards better, and some that make cards worse Today, we are shining a spotlight on Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded, a card which is infamously known to many, many players as the "worst Planeswalker card ever" However, we will be doing this through the[...]

Wizards of the Coast, owner of the world-famous card game Magic: The Gathering and a subsidiary of Hasbro, has teamed up with their mother-corporation to create a three-card crossover release for the card game based on the My Little Pony franchise. Yes, you read that correctly, every pony MLP is coming to MTG. Source: Wizards of the Coast In partnership[...]

Tomorrow (Friday, October 4th), Wizards of the Coast will be finalizing the release of its 82nd expansion set for Magic: The Gathering, Throne of Eldraine This comes after a successful launch on their digital interface, Magic: The Gathering: Arena, and their prerelease events last weekend Certainly, for many the tension to see what's in their booster[...]

Hey all! I'd like to show you a relatively new and very interesting format for Magic: The Gathering Some of you may have already heard about it, possibly from earlier articles of mine that mention it in passing It's called Oathbreaker, and it's a blast to play. Source: Weirdcards Oathbreaker is a format created by the WeirdCards Charitable[...]

Yesterday, we reported on how awesome the booster boxes for Magic: The Gathering's newest set, Throne of Eldraine, are This was through the acquisition of all manner of Throne of Eldraine products in the process, including a Bundle and the two Planeswalker Decks, something we're very grateful for. What my eyes beheld, once more! Source: Bleeding Cool Today,[...]