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The big one has landed! Heritage Auctions, a Dallas, Texas-based auction house that primarily deals in comics, video games, trading cards, and other collectible items, has acquired a rare, graded copy of Black Lotus from Magic: The Gathering's Beta set and has put it on the auction block! Prospective bidders for this magnificent piece of Magic history[...]

Nearly anyone who has heard of Magic: The Gathering has heard tales of the most valuable widely-released cards in existence: The Power Nine These nine amazingly scarce, powerful cards are mana-efficient cards that can easily blow out a game Six of them, one of which is the most expensive card in the history of the[...]

This Magic: The Gathering Rarity Showcase article will delve into what we know about Splendid Genesis, one of the cards designed by Dr Richard Garfield, Ph.D to commemorate important events in his life and the lives of those around him This one, in particular, looks at the birth of his first child, a daughter named Terry[...]

Magic: The Gathering is a wonderful card game Wizards of the Coast has made something quite special, but, with some degree of collaboration with its player base, they've made something even better in the form of the Commander format Anyone who has read our articles knows that Commander is our favorite format by miles We've[...]

Hello and welcome, players, collectors, and fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier trading card game by Wizards of the Coast! With the prerelease of Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, Magic's next set, upon the horizon, Wizards is releasing four new decks for the Commander format to coincide with this set, based on their other big game, Dungeons & Dragons![...]

Magic: The Gathering, the premier trading card game by Wizards of the Coast, is an endlessly complex game of luck, logic, and skill Cards create logical components that, in certain scenarios, can act as simple computers (and we use the word "simple" quite loosely here) However, it can also be used as a tool to[...]

Welcome, players, collectors, and fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier trading card game by Wizards of the Coast! A couple of days ago, we went over three of the four cards from 2019's Heroes of the Realm awarded to various Wizards of the Coast employee teams for projects they excelled in Today, we will[...]

Hullbreacher has been a thorn in the side of casual and competitive Commander, the format deemed the "most popular" in Magic: The Gathering by Wizards of the Coast's Head Designer for Magic, Mark Rosewater. since its release in December of last year With its ability to stifle drawn cards and create a mana-producing Treasure token for[...]

Hello and welcome, players, collectors, and fans of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! Over the past few years, Wizards has been commemorating the achievements of its many project teams by making Magic cards that celebrate those milestones and achievements They call this series Heroes of the Realm[...]

Welcome, players, collectors, and fans of Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game! We have a special treat for you today In anticipation of the "Planar Portal" preconstructed Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Commander deck, we snagged a copy of "Merciless Rage" from Commander 2019, in hopes that we could compare the[...]

Welcome, players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier trading card game created by Wizards of the Coast! Today, we will be continuing our overview of cards that are so rare that only Wizards employees ever receive them: The Heroes of the Realm series However, today we will be looking at four cards[...]

Wizards of the Coast has decided to add $50,000 in appearance payouts for each of the qualifying players in the next World Championship event for Magic: The Gathering This is pretty good news for professional Magic players, at least those who qualified for the Magic World Championship XXVII that's happening this October! An infographic put out by[...]

Hello and welcome to players, collectors, and fans of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! A few short days ago, we began a small set of articles about some of the rarest cards in the game: the Heroes of the Realm cards To refresh memories, these cards were only given out[...]

Well, what would a Magic: The Gathering preview event be without a few previews from the latest set? Today, in addition to going through a really awesome Dungeons & Dragons-style role-playing adventure, we saw a bunch of previews from Adventures in the Forgotten Realms And now, we will be showcasing some of them to you! The full artwork for[...]

Today was, suffice to say, an interesting day for many content creators focused on Magic: The Gathering, the premier trading card game by Wizards of the Coast Quite a few people got the exclusive invitation to attend a meeting through Gather, an online meeting interface that is typically used for office conferences but can be[...]

Magic Arena, the online interface for Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering, has seen a lot of profit in the last year The interface has also been growing to accommodate the players who have been shut in their houses by the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdowns When Arena began to showcase the[...]

Hello and welcome, fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier trading card game by Wizards of the Coast! This game has gone through a great many iterations, and as such, quite a few cards are no longer ever going to be in print (save for the potential dissolution of Wizards of the Coast's much-maligned Reserved List[...]

The preview season for Magic: The Gathering's next expansion set, Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, is picking up some major speed now that we are a week into the spoilers For those not yet in the know, the next set for Magic is a crossover event with Dungeons & Dragons, Wizards of the Coast's other major intellectual property,[...]

Magic: The Gathering has started to roll out the contents of the preview season for its most ambitious expansion set yet: A fully integrated crossover with creator Wizards of the Coast's other big intellectual property, Dungeons & Dragons! Today we will be looking at some of the coolest cards from the past couple of days[...]

Adventures in the Forgotten Realms is the next expansion set for Magic: The Gathering that crosses the card game over into mother company Wizards of the Coast's other huge intellectual property, Dungeons & Dragons Its preview season has now officially begun and as such, we have some things we can show you which were revealed[...]

They have put a valuable, sealed box of Collector's Edition cards from the iconic trading card game Magic: The Gathering up for auction This release commemorates the first year worth of Magic cards released by Wizards of the Coast, weighing in at a resounding 302 different cards and 61 basic lands By all accounts, this special commemorative[...]

Magic: The Gathering, the premier trading card game designed by Wizards of the Coast, has gone through a massive amount of changes over its 28-year history Many cards are recognizable for their strengths or their scarcity, but few are as iconic as the cards from Legends, the first set to include multicolor cards and legendary creatures[...]

Wizards of the Coast has announced today the reveal of a Secret Lair product for Magic: The Gathering that crosses over with Netflix's original television series Stranger Things This product is part of Wizards' Universes Beyond initiative, which uses intellectual properties licensed by other companies in order to showcase what they'd be like in the worlds of Magic. As-of-yet untitled[...]

Magic: The Gathering has been a source of many great tales and settings From Dominaria's epic saga to the more recent stories about the settings of Eldraine, Ikoria, and Strixhaven, Magic has not failed to impress with their original content However, many fans continue to need their fix of other intellectual properties (which is a fine[...]

Magic: The Gathering's online and mobile gameplay client Magic Arena has been booming Since the pandemic began, business in the digital card game enterprise has been at an all-time high for Wizards of the Coast This may have something to do with less people "gathering" to play, but even so, some players are left pining for[...]

For the past few years, Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering, has had a major quality control problem In places with dry humidity levels, foil Magic cards have been subject to terrible degrees of curling This came to its worst point yet with the Commander Legends expansion set back late last year,[...]

Today, Wizards of the Coast, the game company responsible for bringing Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons to players worldwide, released information that will appeal to both parties of players, so to speak The "Summer of Legend" initiative is a new project for Wizards regarding Magic: The Gathering, which includes two new expansions to the game:[...]

Recently, I wrote an article about the considered addition of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, to Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering On such a note I want to clarify that I absolutely adore the game in all its forms, but feel that adding NFTs to the game's itinerary would be a[...]

As you may have read from sources earlier this week, Hasbro, the company that owns Magic: The Gathering's design and development teams at Wizards of the Coast, seems to be considering the idea of putting the game on the map where NFTs are concerned Is this better than the alternative? Read on, and consider the pros[...]

The latest embracing of nerd culture by the musician, however, is his love of Magic: The Gathering. Musical artist Post Malone has been teased for an episode of Game Knights, a show on YouTube created by the Command Zone channel. There has been a fair amount of buzz generated by Post Malone's presence in the Magic community[...]