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Magic: The Gathering has undergone a large number of overhauls to their Modern format lately From banning Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis and Faithless Looting to including the infamous Stoneforge Mystic, Modern has been shaken up to a degree that… Might be beneficial to Magic as a whole? Hear me out, just for a second or two[...]

Magic: The Gathering's upcoming 82nd expansion set, "Throne of Eldraine", has started its spoiler season, and fans are rejoicing However, this isn't the only reason they are excited. Source: Wizards of the Coast The long-awaited Brawl format has come to Magic's software version, Magic: the Gathering: Arena This has caused quite a surge in the format's popularity[...]

Magic: The Gathering continues into its 26th year of play with well over 19,000 cards and is nearly at the point where their Research and Development team has come out with a smattering 82 expansion sets The game gets more and more complex not just with the number of cards and sets that come out,[...]

Yesterday, Wizards of the Coast, the company behind Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, and other games, teased that they were going to host a stream of new information for Magic's 82nd expansion set "Throne of Eldraine" This teaser itself included a few card spoilers for the Arthurian/Grimm-themed set. Source: Wizards of the Coast Today, the Twitch stream[...]

Magic: The Gathering has been a powerhouse of a game for the past 26 years There are millions of players of this game at tables across the globe, and their newest venture, Arena, already has members numbering in the thousands Wizards of the Coast is still making cards for an ever-growing, ever-hungry tabletop presence And[...]

Source: Wizards.com Brace yourselves, Magic fandom, for Oko, the newest planeswalker to grace the Blind Eternities! Oko's debut art Source: Wizards.com, Artist credit: Chris Rallis According to Forbes.com, Oko, full name to be determined, is the newest Planeswalker character for the Magic: the Gathering trading card game Oko is explained in a Forbes interview with Nic Kelman, Head[...]

Once again, the annual Commander product for Magic: The Gathering proves to be a great success for the format at large From the first reveal of the set's themes, players knew to expect amazing things from this release, and when it came around, it did not disappoint The mechanics expanded on include Morph, Flashback, Populate, and[...]

Magic: The Gathering has outdone themselves yet again with their yearly Commander product The four Magic preconstructed decks in this release each have coherent mechanical themes and do not pull too many punches when it comes to power level As it stands, the decks as constructed revolve around four mechanics: Morph, Flashback, Populate, and Madness[...]

At long last, Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis has been banned from Modern in Magic: The Gathering. Source: ChannelFireball.com From its release within the Modern Horizons set in June this year to just yesterday when five Hogaak decks made Top Eight during MagicFest Las Vegas, Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis has been a powerhouse in the Modern circuit[...]

Like something out of the Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Emiel van Daele has found a Magic Golden Ticket, so to speak. When Emiel, a Magic: the Gathering player from the Netherlands, opened his Commander 2019 "Mystic Intellect" deck, he was shocked to find that the cards were all, save for the foil Commanders,[...]

The card game Magic: The Gathering is arguably the most complex game known to humankind so far It continues to baffle AI seeking to determine an algorithm able to declare a winner early in any given game Artificial intelligence can do that with chess, with hardly any difficulty at all! Seeing how intricate chess is, and how[...]

With over 19,000 cards in the game, Magic: the Gathering has cemented itself as the most complex game known to humankind so far Deckbuilding is as much an art form as it is a science, and many players look at their decks are labors of love and art This is very true of Commander players especially,[...]

At MagicFest Birmingham, part of the Grand Prix circuit in Europe for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game, Rory Kear-Smith took the title of Champion for the event after taking down Simon Nielsen. Source: ChannelFireball.com Kear-Smith was playing a form of the classic "Death's Shadow" deck which appeared to be mainly geared to take down decks revolving around Hogaak,[...]

Magic: The Gathering is an extremely complex game With so many ways to improve a deck, deckbuilding can be sen as almost as much of a competition as the gameplay itself On Tuesday, August 13th, we went over the Faceless Menace deck for Commander 2019, and made twenty changes to its contents Today, Bleeding Cool goes[...]

Magic: the Gathering has been a worldwide phenomenon, with the card game debuting at GenCon in 1993 and only growing in scope from there It's a game with over 35 million players So, when the digital age began and e-sports emerged as a major form of entertainment, Wizards of the Coast got on the bandwagon with Magic:[...]

Magic: the Gathering is an immensely multifaceted game, and according to studies is the most complex game currently known to man There is no necessary algorithm that can predict a winner out of a two-player game of Magic, largely due to the sheer amount of different individual cards in the game So, it suffices to say[...]

The more things in the Magic: the Gathering tournament scene change, the more it seems they stay the same. credit//WotC Justin Plocher defeated Jonathan Corzo in the Modern finals at MagicFest Minneapolis on Sunday, August 11th Both players used variants of the infuriatingly-popular Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis decklist Plocher used a variant that manages to power out a[...]

During GenCon 2019 last weekend, Wizards of the Coast unveiled their newest Commander deck themes for Magic: The Gathering What's more, they revealed that on each day from August 5th-8th, they are revealing a new decklist The themes are Morph, Madness, Populate, and Flashback, themes that are very popular for many players Today, Wizards of[...]

At GenCon 2019 this past weekend, Wizards of the Coast unveiled their newest Commander deck themes for Magic: The Gathering What's more, they revealed that on each day from August 5th-8th, they are revealing a new decklist The themes are Morph, Madness, Populate, and Flashback, themes that are very popular for many players Today, Wizards[...]

During GenCon 2019 this past weekend, Wizards of the Coast unveiled their newest Commander deck themes for Magic: The Gathering What's more, they revealed that on each day from August 5th-8th, they are revealing a new decklist The themes are Morph, Madness, Populate, and Flashback, themes that are very popular for many players. Today, Wizards of the[...]

Amazon Prime Video released an official teaser for fantasy series 'Carnival Row', starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne and debuting August 31.

Wizards of the Coast have implemented a brand new change to the mulligan rules today for Magic: The Gathering that will go across all forms gameplay The news broke this morning as part of the new Core Set 2020 as they're introducing it to all competitive formats They originally tested this at the Mythic Championship[...]

Perhaps the biggest news heading into this week's first-season finale of the CW's Charmed "The Source Awakens" took place away from the camera. At last

Sanchez has worked with Eliot for years and he has astounded us yet again with the imaginative and layered world of Motherland: Fort Salem." – Adam McKay Now, viewers are getting an extended look at the upcoming series – where Witches becoming warriors…and here is where their history-changing training begins, in this first official trailer for Freeform's[...]

In this preview for CW's Charmed "Red Rain." it looks like Galvin's taking center stage as Mel, Macy, Maggie, and Harry try to help him save his patients.

That it occurred on SYFY's The Magicians is not surprising in the least. So much happened on this latest episode, I will try to touch on most of those notes without slipping too far into the summary zone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MdYUMct1uQVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: THE MAGICIANS | Season 4, Episode 12: Tease | SYFY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MdYUMct1uQ) So[...]

Penny (Arjun Gupta) and Marina (Kacey Rohl) find themselves imprisoned by a magician desperate to send them to their home dimension in "A Timeline and Place", one of the more interesting examinations of the multiverse on SYFY's The Magicians to date. Stoppard is a horomancer, someone who creates magical devices to manipulate magical energy[...]

With all of the Eliot-centric shenanigans going on during last week's The Magicians, it would be easy to forget that Penny (Arjun Gupta) was abducted part way through the episode! Don't worry, Penny We'll never forget you, Boo. Except, maybe we will? It looks like Penny and Marina (Kacey Rohl) are at the mercy of a magician[...]

How is it that week after week, a supposedly light-hearted show about magical twenty-somethings trying to figure out their place in the world can nail the intricacies of friendship, love, loyalty, and heartbreak so well? The Magicians somehow manages to pull that off… and each and every week the SYFY series somehow gets deeper and[...]

Margo (Summer Bishil) decides that she's going to help Josh find a cure, and we're launched into a very creative parable of modern dating, consent, and remorse. "Marry, F**ck, Kill" is one of those episodes of SYFY's The Magicians that cleverly works current social issues into its broader narrative, and it works very well. THE MAGICIANS —[...]