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Commander is one of those major Magic: The Gathering formats that needs to update every so often, even if whole sets don't necessarily follow a rotation schedule Today, the Rules Committee for the format spoke about their updates for the quarter, which included no changes – at least, nothing that wasn't already announced in the last[...]

Wizards of the Coast has released its State of Magic: The Gathering Arena article for June, and, as expected, it's a big one Many important topics were covered, including rotation of formats in September and what that will mean, Brawler's Guildhall and its abolition in favor of everyday Standard Brawl (you read that correctly!), and Jumpstart's[...]

Hello, fans of Commander, the primary player-driven format for Wizards of the Coast's hit trading card game Magic: The Gathering! Today, much like we did with Nethroi, Apex of Death roughly a month ago, we will be re-inspecting a commander that we looked at not long ago through a second deck tech However, unlike that previous[...]

Mac users who play Magic, you can finally rejoice, for the wait is over – Magic: The Gathering Arena is coming to your Apple computers! The digital interface for Wizards of the Coast's famous trading card game will launch on Macs on June 25th, 2020 on the Epic Games Store Coinciding with Core 2021, Arena's launch to Macs everywhere[...]

Hello and greetings to all fans, players, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's classic trading card game Magic: The Gathering! Previews for Magic's July release, the Sealed-centric expansion they've called Jumpstart, have mostly come and gone; we have not gotten a full spoiler for the entirety of the new set, and previews are still seemingly ongoing[...]

Hello (and hello again) to the fans, players, and collectors of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game by Wizards of the Coast! June 19th was one interesting day for Jumpstart reveals, but now the preview season for the Sealed-centric expansion set has officially concluded But hey, we got to see some really cool cards to[...]

Hello there, fans, players, and collectors of Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game! Magic's come a long way over the years, and along that path, some cards have gotten ever the more scarce for players to get ahold of However, Jumpstart, an upcoming Limited-style expansion set for Magic, will be coming out in July[...]

Welcome, fans of the history and lore behind Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering! When we last left off, Urza, an ambitious artificer with a newly-ignited Planeswalker spark, had bore witness to the corruption of Phyrexia, machinated by Yawgmoth and his grand, yet twisted, designs Urza then and there swore[...]

Hello, players, fans, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's famous trading card game Magic: The Gathering! While the July release, the Limited-style expansion known as Jumpstart, will have a bunch of reprinted cards in it, quite a few of the 20-card packs will feature cards that are completely new to the game Let's look at[...]

Hello there, fans of Magic: The Gathering lore, fluff, and flavor! In this series revolving around Magic in-game history, we have already looked at the nature and origin of Phyrexia This retrospective on the compleated monstrosities was left open, but do not worry! We will be seeing more of them quite soon For now, though, it is[...]

Hello there, fans, players, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card Magic: The Gathering! If it feels like it's only been a day or two since our last preview season, that's because that's actually true! Jumpstart preview season is now afoot, despite Core 2021 having concluded its official preview season just yesterday[...]

Hello there, loyal fans, players, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering! Today we didn't get to see any new preview cards for Core 2021, but that's because, for what it's worth, the entire set has been revealed! However, that won't stop us from showing you some of the showcase[...]

It's about that time, dear readers and fans, players, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering Preview season for Core 2021 is nearly at a close (insert sighs of relief, and complaints alike, here) This does mean that tomorrow we will not be showcasing any new cards for the set,[...]

Greetings, loyal fans, players, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! Today, as there were only roughly two to three particularly-new Core 2021 previews to show you, we here at Bleeding Cool were initially stumped as to how to present this article for your reading pleasure But then, we[...]

Hello there, loyal readers! We here at Bleeding Cool have been working hard to bring you a bunch of articles pertaining to the various creature types in Magic: The Gathering We are calling it our "Magic Tribal Spotlight." Depending on when you are reading this, we either have or will have an article pertaining to Zombies, as[...]

Hello, loyal fans, players, and collectors of the premier card game by Wizards of the Coast known as Magic: The Gathering! Today's previews for Core 2021 mark a point that's in every preview season, where the preview card announcements tend to dwindle a bit However, there are still more than enough cards to go over from[...]

Hello there, fans, collectors, and players of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering! We here at Bleeding Cool have been tracking the various previews for Core 2021, Magic's next upcoming expansion set, and boy howdy, do we have some great previews for you! In fact, they're so great, some might consider them… Colossal. The[...]

Hello, fans and players of Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game Magic: The Gathering! We here at Bleeding Cool have been looking at the previews for the next upcoming expansion set for Magic, Core 2021, and we'd like to share what we have seen and know with all of you, as well as share our observations[...]

Hello there, loyal readers and fans of Magic: The Gathering, the hit trading card game by Wizards of the Coast! Our tabletop writer has begun writing about various creature types in Magic, but there's one particular race in the game that merits special attention, namely due to its lack of creature type representation This abominable cabal[...]

Hello there, loyal readers and fans of Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game! We had quite a few different preview cards crop up throughout the span of the day and we would like to discuss a few of them with you now. Cropped artwork for a new Planeswalker card depicting Garruk Wildspeaker[...]

One such company that has been under duress lately due to various reasons is Wizards of the Coast, mostly under allegations from various black members of the Magic: The Gathering community on Twitter and elsewhere Today, Wizards of the Coast issued an official apology for depictions of an offensive and even racist manner in various Magic[...]

Magic: The Gathering's preview season for Core 2021, their newest upcoming set, is still in full swing! We here at Bleeding Cool wanted to emphasize the level of bridging between themes and concepts in this new expansion set with a marriage theme to a few of our preview articles We already covered something old, Core 2021 is doing[...]

Earlier today, we mentioned that we were going to emphasize the marriage of old and new themes, concepts, and cards in Core 2021, the newest upcoming set for Magic: The Gathering Well, what better way to emphasize a marriage than by sharing things old and new, borrowed, and perhaps even blue? This article will delve into only[...]

It's time again for a series of Magic: The Gathering previews for their newest expansion set, Core 2021! Today, we here at Bleeding Cool want to emphasize the seeming marriage of old and new themes in this Premier expansion set With that in mind, here are a few things that exemplify something from Core 2021 that could be seen[...]

Looking into the Invocation Series of cards from Magic: The Gathering as a prime example of this, there are various cards in this series that are notoriously hard to look at, and some might go so far as to call them relatively-ugly. The Omniscience Invocation from Hour of Devastation, an expansion set for Magic: The Gathering. Let's take[...]

Hello there, Magic players and fans alike! Today, we are going through a whole slew of Core 2021 previews for Magic: The Gathering, and boy oh boy, are there a lot! We have already looked into a few earlier today, but we haven't even scratched the surface We here at Bleeding Cool apologize for hounding you, but throw us[...]

Magic: The Gathering's preview season is back in full swing! It feels a bit too soon after Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths' preview season, and yet here we are After a slight delay due to solidarity with the National Day of Mourning in the United States, Wizards of the Coast began their preview season for Core[...]

Today, for some content that seems like a fun time, we are here to share with you a Magic: The Gathering tribal spotlight So, we will be looking at various Zombies from Magic, in form and function. The artwork for Magic: The Gathering's Walking Corpse card, originally from the Innistrad expansion set Illustrated by Igor Kieryluk. In the[...]

At the most recent CommandFest, taking place digitally today, the Commander Rules Committee revealed their plans to alter a major tenet of the rules for the player-driven Magic: The Gathering format With an official announcement to be made soon after the Core 2021 prerelease events conclude, Commander will now facilitate "death" triggers for commanders. The artwork for Kokusho,[...]

Magic: The Gathering's preview season for Core 2021 has officially started! Wizards of the Coast has begun to roll out card previews for the set, following yesterday's delay in observance of the National Day of Mourning in the United States But now, the wait is over and we finally get to see some of the goodies[...]