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As we predicted, now that Boom Studios first issue of their Magic The Gathering comic book series has hit store shelves, they've had to go back for a third printing despite it already being the highest selling Magic comic book in history And that's after having to fire up a second printing before the first[...]

Beast, also known by his real name of Jimmy Donaldson, is going to be going on to Magic Arena, Magic: The Gathering's online gameplay interface, and giving $25,000 USD to each of two lucky opponents. A screenshot of Magic Arena, Magic: The Gathering's hub for online gameplay Screenshot attributed to r/MagicArena on Reddit. According to the press release by[...]

Have you ever wanted to smash serious face in Magic: The Gathering's "most popular format", Commander, but didn't want to commit to a single color at all? Has the notion of tentacles firmly wrapped itself around the deckbuilding part of your brain, literally or otherwise? Well fret not, friends, for we have written up a deck[...]

Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, is releasing their 87th expansion for the game, Strixhaven: School of Mages, on Friday, April 23rd However, in traditional Magic fashion, local gaming stores across the globe will be hosting prerelease events for the new set, and they'll be doing so tomorrow, April 16th! Promotional key art[...]

On Thursday, April 15th, school will finally be in session! Magic Arena, the digital interface for Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering, will be adding Strixhaven: School of Mages, the newest upcoming set for the illustrious game. A promotional image from Magic: The Gathering, showcasing the five enemy-color colleges of Strixhaven: School[...]

Hello and welcome to the second part of our thoughts on the top ten coolest Mystical Archive cards from the new Magic: The Gathering set, Strixhaven: School of Mages! We have compiled our ranked tenth through sixth in this series in another piece, and in this one we will be going over our ranked fifth through first[...]

Hello, Magic: The Gathering fans, players, and collectors! Over the past few years, Wizards of the Coast has been fantastic about creating novel inclusions in packs of their premier trading card game through the initiative known as "Booster Fun" These innovative showcase cards include those with new frames, such as what can be seen in Throne[...]

Yesterday, a tweet thread started by the official Magic: The Gathering Esports Twitter account gave brief obituaries to those who lost their placement in the Magic Pro League However, one strange case came out of the thread of tweets where Ally Warfield, one of these pros, was seemingly mistaken for another pro entirely This chain of[...]

Trading cards, such as Pokémon cards and Magic: The Gathering cards, but also sports cards of various types, have been limited to three, two, or even one of a kind of product per customer This feels absolutely unfair to most of the consumers of these products, namely because it feels like Pokémon collectors are expressly the issue. A[...]

At last, the final Commander deck coinciding with the Strixhaven: School of Mages expansion for Magic: The Gathering has been revealed, and it's… a doozy, of sorts It's a great deck, please do not misunderstand, and it ranks highly with the other four decks revealed earlier this week, but it is a tad more odd than we[...]

But saving the world is a tall order, especially when you're not even sure what your place is in that world and now the whole magical community is looking to you. Photo: Kailey Schwerman/The CW — © 2021 The CW Network, LLC All Rights Reserved. With the extinction of The Elders, The Charmed Ones are faced with[...]

Hello there, fans of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! From time to time, we all like to get a little spooky Usually this desire to get macabre happens around October, just before and during Halloween festivities, but for the more-inclined among us, we tend to keep it dark all year round[...]

Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering has revealed yet another strong Commander deck coinciding with their newest expansion set, Strixhaven: School of Mages! This time, we have been treated to a black-white preconstructed deck, called "Silverquill Statement" The deck is remarkably political in nature, meaning that in a multiplayer setting deals will[...]

Sometimes a Magic: The Gathering deck speaks to a player's sensibilities to a degree that is so real it feels incredible For others, it's so incredible that the reality is a surprise Sometimes it's both In the case of the "Quantum Quandrix" preconstructed Commander deck, the truth is not so simple Math is magic, you see,[...]

Magic: The Gathering has always been a game about breaking the rules The Comprehensive Rules of the game state that in case of a card's text contradiction of the document's own text, the card takes precedence After all, magic break the solid rules of reality, so why shouldn't the game be overruled by the spells[...]

Wizards of the Coast is further proving their adeptness in crafting Commander preconstructed decks! Previously, we reported how the "Lorehold Legacies" Magic: The Gathering precon shored up issues previously held by white and red decks, but the blue/red "Prismari Performance" deck has no such prior problems As such, this deck exhibits a relatively uninhibited example of[...]

Hello, Magic: The Gathering players, namely those involved in our favorite format, Commander! It's been a fair while, but now it's time to resume writing up abridged Commander deck techs for your viewing pleasure Today, we will be focusing on Mairsil, the Pretender, a legendary creature from all the way back in the Commander 2017 set[...]

Today, Magic: The Gathering-based YouTube channel The Command Zone, a channel known for Commander reviews and gameplay, showed off one of the five upcoming preconstructed decks to go along with the release of Strixhaven: School of Mages "Lorehold Legacies", the red/white precon of the coinciding Commander 2021 release, gives red and white decks alike a much-needed booster[...]

That and we're hearing from an inside source that Geiger might be the start of something even bigger… PrintWatch: Magic #1 PrintWatch: While the Magic: The Gathering licensed comic from Boom Studios has also gone to second printing a week before the first has gone on sale (more usual for Boom) Magic #1 by Jed MacKay, Ig[...]

Previously, we reported claims of art theft by Magic: The Gathering illustrator Jason Felix against fan artist and aspiring Wizards of the Coast illustrator Kitt Lapeña and fantasy artist Raymond Swanland We have received updated word that Felix has now apologized publicly for his part in the art theft on the card Crux of Fate from the[...]

Wizards of the Coast has issued a statement announcing their suspension of work with Magic: The Gathering illustrator Jason Felix following allegations of plagiarism on the artwork for Crux of Fate in the Strixhaven: School of Mages "Mystical Archives" This statement comes on the heels of Kitt Lapeña, the fan artist whose art was allegedly plagiarized, making said[...]

But saving the world is a tall order, especially when you're not even sure what your place is in that world and now the whole magical community is looking to you. Photo: Colin Bentley/The CW — © 2021 The CW Network, LLC All Rights Reserved. With the extinction of The Elders, The Charmed Ones are faced with[...]

At long last, Wizards of the Coast has released the iOS version of Magic Arena for the global Magic: The Gathering community! Right this second, players across the world can download MTG Arena and install it All of the key features of the desktop version are now available on iPhones, Android devices, iPads, and other tablets[...]

Magic: The Gathering has begun its preview season today for Strixhaven: School of Mages, their next upcoming expansion set, and we are very excited to show you just a few things that were revealed! Strixhaven is a magical university set on the plane of existence called Arcavios We don't know much about Arcavios just yet[...]

But saving the world is a tall order, especially when you're not even sure what your place is in that world and now the whole magical community is looking to you. Photo: Colin Bentley/The CW — © 2021 The CW Network, LLC All Rights Reserved. With the extinction of The Elders, The Charmed Ones are faced with[...]

It's even managed to take the "gathering" out of Magic: The Gathering But as COVID-19 begins to (at least seem to) subside, we have a glimpse at the light at the end of that long, long tunnel, and boy, oh boy, is it bright So, with some tabletop card gamers feeling pretty aimless in their[...]

It's Magic time… Boom Studios appears to be poised to take another massive worldwide franchise historically underestimated by the direct market and turn it into a mainstay in comic shops They did it with Power Rangers, which is hitting new heights entering its fifth year, and by reimagining and reinvigorating longtime Dark Horse anchors Buffy[...]

Boom Studios recently acquired the comic book license to the Magic: The Gathering from Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast LLC and in April will be publishing a new comic, Magic, by Jed MacKay, Ig Guara, Arianna Consonni, and Ed Dukeshire. But this week, ahead of that, Boom Studios will be sending one copy of a[...]

While the world of magic's been saved, our Charmed Ones (Melonie Diaz, Madeleine Mantock, and Sarah Jeffery) and the rest of the magic world are paying a price for that saving And while Maggie, Mel, Macy, and Harry (Rupert Evans) look to find a "vaccine" for the "allergy" that's keeping them from physical contact (Harry and[...]

During their presentation at ComicsPRO, after taking a bit of a victory lap with retailers, Boom Studios' Morgan Perry just dropped a big tease for their upcoming Magic: The Gathering series launching in April. As announced earlier, Boom Studios recently picked up the license and announced a new ongoing series, entitled simply Magic by Black Cat[...]