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Wizards of the Coast, the tabletop game company that is the driving force behind its premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering, and DreamHack, an ESL Gaming brand, have announced their partnership for upcoming Regional Championships and Qualifiers thereof for organized Magic play This partnership will culminate in the Magic Pro Tour and the World Championships. The full[...]

Heritage Auctions, an auction house based in Dallas, Texas, that mainly deals in auction lots and listings primarily pertaining to comics, video games, trading cards, and other items of a similarly collectible nature, has put a rare, Unlimited Edition copy of Word of Command from the Magic: The Gathering trading card game up for auction! This card[...]

On March 17th, 2022, Star City Games published an article by Sheldon Menery, best known in the Magic: The Gathering community as the co-founder of Commander, the most popular organized format in the game (besides simple kitchen-table Magic, according to Head Designer Mark Rosewater) In his article, Menery addresses an ongoing issue with the format known as "speed[...]

Wizards of the Coast, creators of the premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering, have come up with some really inventive ways to spice up events for their card game's prereleases Some that come to mind are the Hero's Path event, which went ongoing for the prereleases of the entire Theros block, the "minigame" for Dragons of Tarkir[...]

Hello there, fans, players, and collectors of Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game! Magic: The Gathering, as many of you certainly know, is a game with varying degrees of fantasy and folklore behind it Expansion sets like Lorwyn are higher fantasy-derived, deriving from Welsh folktales of fae, boggarts, and giants, while Kaldheim[...]

Hello again, fans, collectors, and players of Magic: The Gathering, the premier trading card game by Wizards of the Coast! Today, we return with a new deck tech for the Commander format, this time focusing on the red, white, and black Elder Dragon from Modern Horizons 2, Piru, the Volatile! There was recently a poll that we[...]

Magic: The Gathering is a lot of things – it is first and foremost a tabletop trading card game by Wizards of the Coast, it is an esports phenomenon through Magic Arena, and it is soon to become a television show on Netflix – but one thing nobody really expected it to be was ambient[...]

On February 15th, Wizards of the Coast, the makers of Magic: The Gathering, released a fully-animated trailer showcasing an abridged version of the storyline for Magic's newest expansion, Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty This set's plot has a ton of nuance to it, and Wizards has put very careful planning into the trailer's design so that players could get hyped[...]

Video game developer and publisher Capcom has announced that Wizards of the Coast, the tabletop game company behind Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, will be be an official sponsor for the Capcom Pro Tour 2021 Season Final As a sponsor, Wizards will be officially showcasing the Universes Beyond crossover cards for Magic: The Gathering x Street[...]

We recently got some of our questions answered by Bob Means, Director of Trading Cards at eBay, about their new Authenticity Guarantee.

Wizards of the Coast, the tabletop gaming giant behind Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, has begun the rollout of new previews to usher in the spoiler season for their next Magic set: Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty! This set is a mashup of many different genres that are majorly influenced by Japanese history and pop culture alike, and man,[...]

An exceedingly rare Black Lotus card from Magic: The Gathering, bearing signatures from both the artist of the card Christopher Rush and the game's creator Richard Garfield, was stolen from a local game store in Southern California this past Friday, January 7th The store's owners are now looking to get the card back and have provided[...]

Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, has been preparing itself and its player base for a year of massive crossovers with such intellectual properties as Fortnite, Street Fighter, Warhammer 40,000, and others In 2020 we saw a crossover with TOHO's Godzilla and also one with The Walking Dead, and this past year[...]

Happy holidays, players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier trading card game by Wizards of the Coast! With New Year's Day coming in hot for the year 2022 AD, many of us are wondering what we will do to improve ourselves inside and/or out for the new year With the Multiverse being[...]

Heritage Auctions, an auction house based in Dallas, Texas that deals primarily in auction listings pertaining to comics, video games, trading cards, and other such items of a collectible nature, has put a rare, graded copy of Volcanic Island from the Unlimited expansion set of Magic: The Gathering up for auction! Notably, Volcanic Island is one of[...]

Heritage Auctions, an auction house based in Dallas, Texas that deals with auction lots and listings primarily based in the realms of comics, video games, trading cards, and other such items of a similarly collectible nature, has put a rare, Revised Edition copy of Plateau from the Magic: The Gathering card game up for auction! Plateau[...]

And when that happens, Wizards will have to delve into other intellectual properties (an initiative that has already begun for Magic: The Gathering with Universes Beyond!), who will also eventually run out of material for whatever reason So, when Wizards runs out of intellectual properties to collaborate with, they will have to delve into things they[...]

Which claims that Leah Williams has announced that her next X-Men comic book to follow Trial Of Magneto will be about "Magic, X-Files and Lesbians" I'm sorry but that's just not true. I listened, most entertainingly to the most recent House Of X – An X-Men Podcast cited in the article which does feature Leah Williams, and[...]

Greetings to all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier trading card game by Wizards of the Coast! We've had a rough two years, haven't we? COVID-19 has been a tough subject (and for many, a touchier one than others) in this time, and it's quite valid to state that no[...]

Magic: The Gathering has gone through many changes in the past few years due to the design principles established when Magic Arena was first developed Most recently, a huge innovation we saw included the creation of cards with digital-only abilities, as seen in Jumpstart Horizons Another big one came in the form of an event where[...]

Heritage Auctions, an auction house based in Dallas, Texas, that deals primarily in auction listings mainly pertaining to comics, video games, trading cards, and other such items of a collectible nature, has put a rare, sealed booster box of packs from Magic: The Gathering's silly, silver-bordered expansion set Unglued up for auction! Collectors of this wonderfully mirthful[...]

In the winter of 2019, Wizards of the Coast, a major gaming company and a branch of Hasbro, announced a major idea that would ideally revolutionize their trading card game, Magic: The Gathering Beginning that very season, Wizards would begin to sell single cards in major drops known as the Secret Lair series, in order[...]

Heritage Auctions, an auction house based in Dallas, Texas, that conducts auctions with lots pertaining primarily to comics, video games, trading cards, and other such items of a collectible nature, has put a sealed booster box of Legions, an expansion set from Magic: The Gathering, up for auction! Veteran players will often remember that Legions is a set[...]

Heritage Auctions, an auction house based in Dallas, Texas, that primarily deals in auctions and auction lots pertaining to comics, video games, trading cards, and other such items of a collectible nature, has put a booster box of Unhinged, a silver-bordered set from Magic: The Gathering, up for auction! This set was best known for its crudely[...]

Wizards of the Coast has been known for experimenting with the many different formulas that make their premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering, an innovative powerhouse, especially in the past couple of years In those years, Wizards has introduced the Booster Fun initiative, which introduced new styles of Magic card frames to conventional packs of the[...]

Magic: The Gathering has always been a game that divides people just as much as it gathers them This is very true in player-to-player interactions, but Bleeding Cool writer Rod Lamberti has shown us in his recent op-ed what this division looks like from the perspective of a comic store owner And while Rod raises some interesting (and,[...]

But one particular company, Wizards of the Coast, has been doing quite well, especially regarding their trading card game Magic: The Gathering This is particularly true because, despite a lack of in-person contact over the better part of last year and even part of this one, Wizards has Magic's newest digital interface, Magic Arena, to thank for[...]

A major game store in Roanoke, Virginia, has opened a very special Secret Lair drop card from Magic: The Gathering, the premier trading card game by Wizards of the Coast In turn, this card, never seen before, is raising some interesting questions about the precedents it sets. The reverse-faced copy of Viscera Seer found in the[...]

Hello and welcome, players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier trading card game by Wizards of the Coast! Over the whole of the month of October 2021, we looked at cards from Innistrad, the game's gothic horror setting, that evoke a series of very specific emotions For the most part, these evocative[...]

As such, Magic: The Gathering's various artists deserve massive kudos for their work on the cards set on the plane of existence known as Innistrad We took a look at all the sets that take place on Innistrad – Innistrad proper, Dark Ascension, Avacyn Restored, Shadows Over Innistrad, Eldritch Moon, and Midnight Hunt, and found what we believe to be the[...]