vanguard Archives

Magic: The Gathering: Vanguard Series 4, Pt.2: The Final Batch
Over these past 8 weeks, we have gone through the ins and outs of the Vanguard series of supplemental cards for Magic, starting off with a rather tame, if unbalanced, first series, delving into some of the same in Series 2, and getting a bit more experimental with Series 3 In the oft-elusive Series 4, we[...]
Magic: The Gathering: Vanguard Series 4, Pt. 1: "Attack On Wallet"
Hello and welcome, players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast's premier trading card game! For a few weeks now, we have covered many series of the game's Vanguard supplemental releases in paper In that time we have divided these various series into two parts apiece, and today, we are going[...]
Magic: The Gathering: Vanguard Series 3, Pt. 2: A Queen's Bounty
Hello and welcome, players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast's own premier trading card game! During the past five weeks, we have looked at various character cards from the Vanguard supplemental releases for the game We've also explored how these oversized cards, not typically used or even usable in most[...]
Magic: The Gathering Vanguard, Series 3 Pt. 1: Calm Before A Storm
Hello and welcome, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game by Wizards of the Coast! We have been delving into the Vanguard series of Magic cards for the past few weeks, evaluating the iconic character cards mechanically and financially Last weekend we went over the second half of[...]
Magic: The Gathering: Vanguard Series 2, Pt. 2: The First Uptick
Hello and welcome, all players, collectors, and other fans of Magic: The Gathering, the premier collectible trading card game by Wizards of the Coast! These past three weeks, we have covered the basics of the first two series of Vanguard cards for the game, most recently discussing the first half of Series 2 The oversized supplemental[...]
Magic: The Gathering: Vanguard Series 2, Pt.1 - Same As The First?
Hello and welcome to all players, fans, and collectors of Magic: The Gathering, the world-famous collectible trading card game designed, developed, and produced by Wizards of the Coast! We are back again to discuss the Vanguard series We have so far discussed the eight cards from the first series of Vanguard characters, a set of oversized[...]
Magic: The Gathering Vanguard Series 1, Pt. 2: Unbalanced, But Fun
Otherwise known as Vanguards, these cards are super rare and somewhat-miraculously quite valuable despite having fallen out of the public eye lately One Vanguard character card in particular, which we will discuss in the weeks ahead, markets for upwards of $350.00 USD as of the time we have penned this article! However, are these Vanguard cards[...]
Magic: The Gathering Rarities: Vanguard Series 1 Pt.1 & How To Use
Vanguards, a supplemental card type, represent characters in Magic's history and can be portrayed through special cards that grant effects of very different sorts This may sound similar to Commander, but it's very different and even can supplement that format! Read on, and we will show you four of the first eight characters within Vanguard. The full[...]
Mantic and Red Scar Publishing Announce Kings of War Role Playing Game
Mantic's Kings of War franchise has already enjoyed a considerable amount of success, first as a massive, rank-and-flank miniatures wargame, then a series of fiction books, the Dungeon Saga series, and then the Vanguard skirmish game, which allows small groups of brave warriors to clash over objectives that can influence later Kings of War games. Courtesy[...]
Vanguard – British Superheroes to Save the Day!
By Joe Glass Dan Butcher, creator and artist of UK webcomic series Vanguard, has put together a collected edition of his British superheroes series. Set in the near future, Vanguard features a small team of genetically-engineered super-humans who are employed by the British government at home and abroad to protect the nation's interests Set mainly in the[...]