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Just when they are about to take drastic measures, the Winchester Bros arrive.  Chaos, quips, and violence ensue.  "Superlander" What a fine group of gentlemen! (No whisky involved)#JIBLAND @mishacollins @sasharoiz @jarpad @grahammctavish pic.twitter.com/2ouJYTuB43 — Sam Heughan (@SamHeughan) May 24, 2016 Sam Heughan and Padalecki's joint panel at JIBLAND 2016 is the  closest we'll ever get to having a Jamie Fraser[...]

Hey all! I wanted to write a piece on proper threat assessment in Magic: The Gathering multiplayer formats, namely Commander The research I did made me reconsider a few personal opinions I had about my own level of play as a result It seems to me that, in my playgroups, I might be the problem! Let's explore[...]

Magic: The Gathering's 82nd expansion set, Throne of Eldraine, is in its spoiler season, and Wizards of the Coast has been showcasing a plethora of new cards from the set. Source: Wizards of the Coast As is generally customary with the early spoiler season, WotC showed players some of the better cards first Between Oko, Thief of[...]

Hey all! I figured after yesterday's article on The Golden Age of Magic, I'd write up an article about the different ways that people personalize their Magic: the Gathering decks This article will go beyond just "pet cards", or cards people put into their decks because of some personal attachment The gist of this article[...]

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[...]