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It's down to the wire for our Charmed Ones (Melonie Diaz, Madeleine Mantock, and Sarah Jeffery) and Harry (Rupert Evans) heading into this week's episode of The CW series, "Triage." With the death of magic happening at a much faster rate than they expected, the last line of defense before all magic is lost forever[...]

On February 10th, Wizards of the Coast announced their newest Secret Lair superdrop for their ever-popular trading card game Magic: The Gathering, just in time for Valentine's Day It's called Secret Lair: Smitten, and, as expected, we are in love with it! Alongside this announcement came a surprising sub-announcement nestled within, and we will get[...]

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[...]

Can our Charmed Ones (Melonie Diaz, Madeleine Mantock, and Sarah Jeffery) keep The Destruction of the Sisterhood from happening? Is all of magic fated to fall into the hands of The Faction? Those questions and more are in play when The CW's Charmed returns this Sunday with the ominously-titled "Someone's Going to Die." But as[...]

A rare, gem-mint-graded copy of Black Lotus from Magic: The Gathering's Alpha set has been sold on eBay for a resoundingly-high sum of $511,100 USD, making this card the most expensive Magic card ever sold at auction The auction lasted for ten days As of the first day of bidding, due to its extremely-high value[...]

Magic: The Gathering, the premier trading card game created by Wizards of the Coast, has been given notoriety as the most complex TCG in the world, and even managed to consistently stump famed AI program Deep Blue, according to Newsweek But one website claims they have an app that can predict the outcome of players'[...]

Macy (Madeleine Mantock), Maggie (Sarah Jeffery), Mel (Melonie Diaz), and Harry (Rupert Evans) can expect the new season to not give them a lot of time getting used to being back, especially now that there's the "death of all magic" matter to address One group that's expected to be a major obstacle in the Charmed[...]

Magic: The Gathering, a game which to many needs no introduction, is the oldest trading card game out there today Millions of players play this card game, some even professionally both on paper and through digital means such as MTG Arena Others are in the game's throes, specifically not to play but to collect This[...]

We know that Macy (Madeleine Mantock), Maggie (Sarah Jeffery), Mel (Melonie Diaz), and Harry (Rupert Evans) will attempt to stop the death of all magic, but to do that? Our Charmed Ones will have to make the "greatest sacrifice." But while the old laws may still be in place, the Power of Three represents a "New[...]

Wizards of the Coast has activated another Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair on Cyber Monday this year, and shoppers can find more limited-time prints in the Secretversary, another release featuring thematic reprints We're taking a look to offer a value recap but, be forewarned — these sales have about as much to do with Cyber[...]

It's not every day that Magic: The Gathering players can get their hands on original, iconic art from the game What's more, usually the art of older cards is sold are repaints or fabrications of the original art pieces used for the card illustrations For example, artist Christopher Rush's iconic art for Black Lotus has often been[...]

Upcoming Magic: The Gathering bans for Zendikar Rising are around the corner, and that's probably because in the time that you've read this sentence, 100,000 Scutes were made. Right before that, one Lotus Cobra crawled through a Fabled Passage, effectively giving its controller three rainbow mana That even happened twice in the same turn, because two[...]

Whether that's Magic, Walking Dead, Supernatural or more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Magic, Walking Dead, Supernatural-The Daily LITG, 10th September 2020 Supernatural, Mandalorian, Pokemon, the ten most-read stories yesterday… What you were reading yesterday,[...]

The Land's Wrath Commander deck, tying in as one of two Magic: The Gathering precons with the game's newest upcoming expansion, Zendikar Rising, is being revealed right here, right now! And, to top it off, we have an exclusive interview with Gavin Verhey, Lead Deck Architect. Obuun, Mul Daya Ancestor, the face of the Land's Wrath[...]

The debut for Zendikar Rising, the newest upcoming set for Magic: The Gathering, has hit Twitch.tv and as such, it brought with it a whole slew of new information regarding the future of the beloved trading card game by Wizards of the Coast Hang on to your hats, folks – it's about to get epic. The artwork for[...]

Anyone who is a big fan of Magic: The Gathering, the premier trading card game by Wizards of the Coast, can tell you that Magic-themed merchandise goes far beyond the cards From t-shirts to keychains and even cars, Magic merch is a huge wellspring that Wizards of the Coast probably ought to tap into more (if you'll[...]

Greetings, players and fans of Magic: The Gathering: Arena, Wizards of the Coast's digital interface version of their hit trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! Wizards has just recently released a Historic-format-only set called Amonkhet Remastered, which features key cards from the double-set Amonkhet block and more As it stands, we wanted to write a bit about[...]

Wizards of the Coast, creators of their premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering, revealed some new information for a much-anticipated set today at CommandFest, a tournament-slash-convention that is being held online this weekend due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Commander Legends, a new set with the intention of drafting Commander decks (or perhaps Commander-style decks), will[...]

A few days ago, our tabletop writer Josh Nelson heard an interesting question posed in the wake of a series of significant (and arguably poorly-timed) bans in Magic: The Gathering: "What would happen if every combo in Magic was suddenly banned from all formats of the game?" Josh believes that ruin would follow The game would[...]

Greetings to fans, players, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's ever-popular trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! We have gotten a few chances so far to write up articles pertaining to various Magic artists From new and bold artists such as Seb McKinnon to older, iconic artists like Carl Critchlow, the game has a vast number[...]

In it, we received a bunch of Magic: The Gathering cards – two copies of Teferi, Hero of Dominaria, two foil copies of History of Benalia, a Gaea's Cradle, a few original Revised dual lands, and a Mox Diamond from the From the Vaults: Relics release It seemed too good to be true, as these[...]

This means it's no surprise that, as usual, the team responsible for Magic: The Gathering made a showing, namely Head Designer Mark Rosewater, who gave a half-hour long panel from his home about the things we can broadly expect from the next set to hit Standard, Zendikar Rising. A still from the San Diego Comic-Con panel featuring Magic: The[...]

Hello there, fans, players, and collectors of the premier trading card game by Wizards of the Coast, Magic: The Gathering! Today we are looking into the previews that have begun to pop up for Double Masters, a highly-advanced expansion set for the card game This article will feature some, but not nearly all, of the cards that[...]

Magic: The Gathering, the classic trading card game by Wizards of the Coast, has had a great many artists work on the art for its cards over the years Some artists are well-known, like Seb McKinnon or Rebecca Guay Others have been pivotal to the artistic process of the game, like Mark Tedin or Rob Alexander[...]

Hello there, fans, players, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! As you may know by now, preorder sales have begun on Magic's newest expansion set, Double Masters To the chagrin of many players who can't quite cough up the money for so many releases in the first place, that's[...]

Hello there, fans, players, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! Recently, we took a look at artist Seb McKinnon's works of art as they've featured on Magic cards in the past, and now we wish to take a look at Carl Critchlow's pieces, commissioned for cards in the popular[...]

Hey there, Magic: The Gathering art fans! We recently took a good look at the works of Seb McKinnon, a Magic artist from Canada whose art has made a near-immediate and very lasting splash in the fandom of the game Today, we thought we would go a bit deeper into insights about another artist for Magic who[...]

Let's face the facts for a moment folks – Magic: The Gathering's art style has suffered from a glut of works that many people could deem as "too digital" for years now One such piece that falls in this category is the Khans of Tarkir art for Monastery Swiftspear It's a piece that simply feels too[...]

Heritage Auctions, a Texas-based auction house for comics, trading cards, and memorabilia among various other things, has recently put an unopened box of Magic: The Gathering's infamous Collectors' Edition onto the auction block This item is presently (at the time of this article's conception) going for $6,000 USD and the auction ends on July 9th. A partial shot[...]

It's no surprise, then, that they'd have a vintage Magic: The Gathering card like Chaos Orb available to bid on and this auction ends on July 9th. The artwork for Chaos Orb, a card from Magic: The Gathering Illustrated by Mark Tedin. Chaos Orb is a card relevant to the overall history of Magic: The Gathering in that[...]