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Heritage Auctions, an auction house based in Dallas, Texas, that deals primarily in auctions pertaining to comics, video games, trading cards, and other similar items of a collectible nature, has put the original art for Island Sanctuary, the artwork for a card painted by Mark Poole for Wizards of the Coast's trading card game Magic: The[...]

Hello players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier trading card game by Wizards of the Coast! Today, there was a major preview presentation streamed over YouTube and Twitch for Innistrad: Crimson Vow, the next upcoming expansion set for the illustrious card game There will be a lot to unpack for you in[...]

Get ready for the motherlode, Magic collectors: Heritage Auctions, an auction house based in Dallas, Texas, that primarily deals in auctions pertaining to comics, video games, trading cards, and other such items of a collectible nature, has put an amazing, 9-grade copy of Black Lotus from Magic: The Gathering's first set, Limited Edition Alpha, up for[...]

Hello there, fans, players, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering! We have been delving into the meanings of certain words that resonate well with the setting of the most current Magic set, the gothic-horror world of Innistrad, and showcasing some of the most resonant cards for those words[...]

Innistrad, the spooky Germanic-inspired gothic horror setting of one of the planes of existence within the Magic: The Gathering multiverse, has always been subject to the use of various horror tropes From the original gothic horror tropes of the first Innistrad block to the cosmic horror of Eldritch Moon to the folk horror of Midnight Hunt, this setting[...]

Magic: The Gathering has had a really strong recent influx of major names praising the premier trading card game, From such celebrities as musical artist Post Malone to NFL Lineback Cassius Marsh, Magic has been flush with all sorts of big names We got the chance to interview Marsh in anticipation of a box break event at[...]

Hey there, players, collectors, and fans of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! It's October, and it's getting quite chilly here in the Northern Hemisphere A crisp autumnal wind is blowing, and that means that fall has begun October also means it's drawing ever nearer to that wonderfully spooky holiday, Halloween[...]

So too, is this the case with the world's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering This article seeks to look at five instances where Magic has been seen in the wild of film and television. #1. Invasion Poster in Spider-Man One of the earliest and most notable appearances of Magic memorabilia in a film is the infamous[...]

At 9:00 AM Pacific Time, or 12:00 PM Eastern Time, Wizards of the Coast conducted a stream on YouTube and Twitch pertaining to their upcoming Magic: The Gathering set, called Innistrad: Midnight Hunt This stream revolved around the theme of the "Harvesttide Festival", a ritual enacted by humans on Innistrad to ward off evil In the[...]

Wizards of the Coast, creators of the premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering, have always been quite detail-oriented in their worldbuilding The stories they tell through the cards they design, develop, and print have always been remarkably in-depth and immersive But stories all have a different sort of perspective to them For example, New Phyrexia,[...]

Today, Wizards of the Coast conducted their Showcase 2021 stream for Magic: The Gathering, the first trading card game to hit markets anywhere In addition to showing a bit of information from the next couple of sets for 2021, this stream showed off a ton of teasers for what we as consumers can come to expect[...]

Secret Lair, Wizards of the Coast's most major marketing shift in recent years for their premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering, has seen a ton of different iterations in the past couple of years From tattoo styles to Phyrexian-language editions of the Praetors of New Phyrexia, Secret Lair products have run the gamut of what can[...]

Netflix, Hasbro, and Entertainment One's upcoming CG-animated series adaptation of Magic: The Gathering is seeing a major change in creative leadership, with Joe Russo and Anthony Russo amicably departing the project over creative differences regarding how to best adapt the game to series Executive producer Jeff Kline (Transformers: Prime) will oversee a new creative team[...]

Drafting a Limited deck on Magic Arena, the online interface for Magic: The Gathering, is quite an impersonal task Unlike in physical drafts, on Arena players contend with people remotely The bright side is that while you are behind the ultimate poker face (that is to say, no face at all), you can also run simulated draft pools[...]

Greetings to the players, collectors, and fans of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! In the past, we have gone over what decks are in vogue in Commander, along with a few ways to upgrade them, through abridged deck techs and content reviews Rest assured, these will not stop, but[...]

Not even two days after the conclusion of the spoiler season for Jumpstart: Historic Horizons, Wizards of the Coast has already begun to tease Magic: The Gathering players with the next set for the premier trading card game: Innistrad: Midnight Hunt! Today, over Twitch's WeeklyMTG stream, Wizards of the Coast employees Chris Peeler, Mike Turian, and Ethan Fleischer revealed some[...]

Wizards of the Coast has been extremely diligent in fixing bugs and updating Magic Arena, their online interface for Magic: The Gathering On top of that, they've been fairly communicative about what they do for the client, and how it will affect players trying to get their dailies in, grind for Mythic, or prep for their[...]

If a booster box of Magic: The Gathering cards or Pokémon cards didn't have the logo-etched shrinkwrap on it, it was deemed to be tampered with and therefore potentially tampered product However, some light has been shed upon a new practice by third-party vendors to actually sell shrinkwrap with Wizards of the Coast's logo on it, thereby[...]

Wizards of the Coast has been cooking up a lot of content revolving around their premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering Be it the tease of a Stranger Things crossover or their major set crossover with Dungeons & Dragons, another intellectual property of Wizards of the Coast, it seems that they are preparing for something major. Perhaps to prime[...]

Over the years, Wizards of the Coast has made a lot of special Magic: The Gathering cards under particular circumstances that celebrated major milestone events, such as the World Championships of the game in 1996, the opening of the DCI Tournament Center in Tokyo, Japan, or the individual births of Magic creator Dr Richard Garfield's two children[...]

Heritage Auctions, an auction house based in Dallas, Texas, that primarily deals with comics, video games, trading cards, and collectibles, has put a pair of tournament packs from the Mercadian Masques expansion set of Magic: The Gathering up for auction! While not the most powerful set of its day (as it immediately followed the Urza's Saga block), Mercadian[...]

Hello and welcome, players, collectors, and all manner of fans of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! Today, we are happy to showcase an exclusive preview from Magic's next digital-only expansion for Magic Arena, JumpStart: Historic Horizons! This full-pack preview is of the "In The Machine" pack, half a Sealed deck worth of[...]

Hello and welcome, players, collectors, and fans of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! Through this showcase series, we have discussed a lot of quirky and rare, sometimes even sentimental, cards from Magic's rich history The card we will be going over today may be one of the most well-known rare[...]

Hello and welcome, players, collectors, and fans of all things Magic: The Gathering! We have covered quite a bit in the "Rarity Showcase" series We've looked at the cards that celebrate company achievements, and the myriad major life events of its creator Today, we are starting to look at something quite a bit different: cards that[...]

Heritage Auctions, an auction house based in Dallas, Texas that deals primarily in comics, video games, trading cards, and other collectible items, has put a graded, Excellent copy of Chaos Orb from Magic: The Gathering's Alpha set up for auction! One of the few black-bordered manual dexterity cards, Chaos Orb, is typically illegal for play in most[...]

Hello and welcome, players, collectors, and fans of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! Through this article series, we have covered quite a few firsts from this mega-popular card game We covered many cards that celebrated industry achievements, as well as a few cards that commemorated the various major life events[...]

Heritage Auctions, an auction house based in Dallas, Texas that deals mainly in comics, video games, trading cards, and other collectible items, has put a rare, sealed display box of Unlimited starter decks from Magic: The Gathering onto the auction block! In conducting this auction, Heritage Auctions is effectively offering the winner twenty chances to[...]

1994, in particular, was even more ancient than you can remember it being, especially if your faces were buried in Magic: The Gathering rules manuals The game has aged like a fine, fine wine With each set that comes out nowadays, the game gets just that much more complex Today, some cards are absolutely covered[...]

This time around, it's a sealed starter deck from Magic: The Gathering's Alpha set That's right, the first-ever Magic set still has sealed items, and this one could be yours! Prospective bidders have until Saturday, July 24th at 12:50 PM Central Time (or 1:50 PM Eastern Time) to place a bid on this piece of Magic history. The front[...]

Hello and welcome, players, collectors, and other fans of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! As we have covered in the past two articles surrounding the showcase of extreme card rarities within Magic, the game's creator, Dr Richard Garfield, has, on many an occasion, commissioned Wizards of the Coast to create special Magic[...]