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Today during the first day of PAX Unplugged, Wizards of the Coast revealed more details of their upcoming show D&D Presents First and foremost, the image you see below is the new logo for the show The show will focus on new content coming out from D&D and how to use it in your game,[...]

After two weeks bearing no changes, Wizards of the Coast has finally made the decision to ban more cards from the Pioneer format of Magic: The Gathering The three cards banned from Pioneer as of yesterday are Once Upon A Time, Field of the Dead, and Smuggler's Copter. Their time has come Goodbye, banned cards! Source: Wizards[...]

Who am I even kidding? It's Norin the Wary. Source: Wizards of the Coast Norin the Wary was originally featured in a good amount of flavor text from various older sets, such as Ice Age and Alliances (if you can't find them that's because they've since run far away) He was finally printed as a card in[...]

Source: Wizards of the Coast There are plenty of things that we can do with Frankie Peanuts in this deck We can force blocks, we can bluff our way out of dire situations, and we can calculate our best plays from the answers to the questions posed These plays are mostly made possible from a blend[...]

Lasers. Source: Wizards of the Coast Now that I've got your attention (with lasers), today's first Un-Commander deck tech (yes, first – there are two) will revolve around Mary O'Kill, one of the villainous masterminds of the League of Dastardly Doom What does Mary do? Well, let's look at her card for a second… This is not Mary[...]

Source: Wizards of the Coast As an added course to today's news feast, we have written up a Commander deck tech revolving around Thromok the Insatiable, because we can't resist making food jokes at this time of year. The decklist as discussed in this article can be found here. This deck is based upon a three-step process: First,[...]

This may also have to do with the fact that now he's banned from Standard, where he'd been a format-warping stand-out for all of a month or two before the announcement. Good riddance! Source: Wizards of the Coast But speaking in terms of Oathbreaker playability, he's as good as any Planeswalker for the most part[...]

Both for the players and for those looking to become a Dungeon Master leading the game. Credit: Wizards of the Coast Inside you have an adventure book called Dragon of Icespire Peak, which is a standard adventure for low-level characters that will help them get started You're given a rulebook with all of the necessary information to[...]

Wizards of the Coast has done it again! They have successfully hidden a product from its consumers until the very moment it matters for public consumption Last time, it was Magic: The Gathering's "Mystery Boosters"; this time, they've finally revealed their new project for Magic: Secret Lair. Something is (practically) here! Source: Wizards of the Coast For those of[...]

Are you ready? I sure am; we are only going forward from here! Source: Wizards of the Coast Today's focus, if you haven't already guessed it from the title or the thumbnail, is Heliod, God of the Sun Heliod, much like other pantheonic leaders like Zeus or Jupiter (who are the same god under different names), is[...]

Source: Wizards of the Coast As it stands, a lot of the playtest cards are also unmarked in price so far, meaning that it's entirely possible that some of them will be even more expensive than Time Sidewalk (pictured above) And, heck, Time Sidewalk may not even be able to retain its $350 price tag for too[...]

Emiel Van Daele has had notoriety following his discovery of a misprinted Commander 2019 deck.

After one heck of a long week since the novel's release, Wizards of the Coast has finally issued a statement apologizing for the seeming erasure of character Chandra Nalaar's bisexuality in Greg Weisman's book "War of the Spark: Forsaken" This apology arises amid a plethora of tweets and complaints by the LGBTQ+ players of Magic:[...]

Currently, we are covering the fate of poor Rhonas, the "indomitable" snake-headed god of the Egyptian-styled plane of existence that is Amonkhet. Source: Wizards of the Coast Rhonas was the first of the prime Gods of Amonkhet to die when faced against the gods corrupted 60 long years prior by Nicol Bolas in his attempt to achieve[...]

You're gone, but not forgotten. Source: Wizards of the Coast The deck we will be discussing in tribute to poor Rhonas here is based around a typical green strategy – produce lands, produce creatures, turn creatures sideways (to attack, of course!), and win in that way. The decklist to be discussed in this article can be found here. Another[...]

There are a few (more) mysteries afoot at Wizards of the Coast! Following (rather closely) in the footsteps of the Magic: The Gathering Mystery Boosters and their appearance at conventions such as MagicFest Richmond, Wizards has revealed a product via Twitter to be fully publicized this coming Monday, November 25th. Source: Wizards of the Coast Now, despite a[...]

Hazoret the Fervent never made her way to Ravnica during the War of the Spark storyline arc, so of course in the spirit of cycle completion, Wizards of the Coast needed a legendary red God for the set. Enter Ilharg, the Raze-Boar Ilharg, the harbinger of the End-Raze, the Gruul guild's interpretation of the end of[...]

She's missing an arm now, but that is no matter to a god, right? Source: Wizards of the Coast At any rate, today's deck tech revolves around Hazoret the Fervent You may remember from days of yore that I actually wrote a piece about my time recovering from an injury where I had no access to the[...]

Source: Wizards of the Coast So, as can be seen from the above list, all cards from Return to Ravnica on towards present day's current set Throne of Eldraine were legal from the creation of Pioneer, save for the fetchlands These cards were always known to be powerful deck-thinning forces of eventual mana ramp, as well[...]

Pioneer, the newest sanctioned Magic format, replaced it for the Invitational, to the joy of many competitors. This could have been the culprit! Source: Wizards of the Coast During the Modern Invitational, Four-Color (Black-Blue-White-Green) Humans took the tournament, headed by Chris Barone Chris managed to beat out a bunch of Tron decks (surprise surprise!), some Simic (Blue-Green) Urza decks,[...]

Today (November 18th), Wizards of the Coast has announced a smattering of additions to their Banned and Restricted List for Magic: The Gathering The additions are as follows: Standard: Oko, Thief of Crowns is banned. Once Upon a Time is banned. Veil of Summer is banned. Brawl: Oko, Thief of Crowns is banned. Legacy: Wrenn and Six is banned. Vintage: Narset, Parter of Veils is restricted. A grim day for Oko[...]

This article will focus on the eternalized version of Bontu, the aptly-named God-Eternal Bontu. Source: Wizards of the Coast Bontu, now made into an Eternal warrior, embodies the flipside of what black represents in Magic: she is the epitome of selfishness, ruthlessness, and, at least now, thoughtlessness She now works under Nicol Bolas, her God-Pharaoh, in command of[...]

Only green can really do this much better than black on a regular basis, but black has a real knack for using creatures which can do this all by themselves – and with a little bit of mana as payment, of course. Black is a color of ambition, and so I pose this question: In the[...]

Source: Wizards of the Coast Before I do that, however, I was given a few confirmed clarifications to my last article, directly from the mouth of  Wizards of the Coast (two points, to be exact) One of these you may already be well aware of but one is totally new to me The first clarification to[...]

On November 14th, Wizards of the Coast sent out an email blast to users of Magic: The Gathering Online and Magic: The Gathering: Arena, stating that users' data had been compromised in a security breach. Source: Wizards of the Coast According to this email, while much data was breached (including first and last names of users, users' email addresses,[...]

(Or, "Get In Nerds: The Party Bus Cometh!") Today in Oathbreaker deck techs, we have a Serra the Benevolent deck prepared especially for any Angel fans who wish to get into this illustrious format (created by the WeirdCards Charitable Club). Source: Wizards of the Coast This deck tech is based on a Gisela, Blade of Goldnight Commander deck[...]

Here we go. Source: Twitter After nonbinary Magic professional player Autumn Burchett's cards altered with trans rights slogans were stifled from seeing play during the sixth Mythic Championship at MagicFest Richmond – and then when the decision was reversed – people remarked a ton over Twitter and Reddit that the reversal of Wizards of the Coast's decision would incite[...]

Source: Wizards of the Coast With the recent controversy surrounding openly-nonbinary Magic pro player Autumn Burchett being censored by Wizards of the Coast and then having that decision be rescinded (but only slightly), Magic: The Gathering players, especially those within the LGBTQ+ community, already had reason to be wary of Wizards of the Coast. Source: Twitter But to many,[...]

In news which may absolutely floor a ton of Magic: The Gathering players while being completely predictable to a good many others, Commander may be the most played Magic format. Source: Wizards of the Coast According to Magic: The Gathering Head Designer Mark Rosewater in an answer to a question posed on his Tumblr blog Blogatog, data suggests that[...]

The very worst offenders among cards that facilitate such a board state may well be the ones that provide players extra turns of play. With that preamble, I'd like to introduce the other commander for my Magic: The Gathering deck techs today: the corrupted version of Kefnet the Mindful, the powerful legendary creature known as God-Eternal[...]