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Cards getting super soggy aside, this is a hysterical and… enlightening video (for lack of a better term). Splash! Source: Wizards of the Coast For those of you who are wondering what decks each of the Grumps used, Danny was using the Vivien Planeswalker deck from Core 2020, the Magic expansion set that released a few months[...]

It's been a tradition, whenever Wizards of the Coast comes out with an all-new Magic: The Gathering release to hold events in celebration of the new product Whether or not it's an expansion set like Core 2020 or Guilds of Ravnica, or even a supplemental set like Conspiracy or the Commander decks, Wizards has made a[...]

As Magic goes into releasing its 82nd expansion set, Throne of Eldraine, Wizards of the Coast has graciously provided its player base with a reasonably-sized list of comprehensive and "Oracle" rules changes. Source: Wizards of the Coast The Comprehensive Rules updates pertain primarily with new set releases and the new set of mechanics emerging from therein[...]

In fact, they've already released in on their software interface, Magic: The Gathering: Arena! The set will release on October 4th of this year, with prerelease events beginning tomorrow, September 27th and lasting through the 29th. Source: Wizards of the Coast Coinciding with the Throne of Eldraine general set release, conveniently enough, is the release of Magic's[...]

Today, Wizards of the Coast released their newest expansion set for Magic: The Gathering, Throne of Eldraine, onto their gameplay interface software, Magic: The Gathering: Arena This release marks the 82nd full expansion set that Wizards has fully designed and developed for the game, but it also marks the sixth time that a set has been released[...]

Magic: The Gathering is releasing their 82nd expansion set, Throne of Eldraine, in the course of a couple of weeks from now. With the general release, Wizards of the Coast will be releasing a set of four decks geared especially for the Brawl format. Now, I'm not someone who that release is 100% marketed towards, and as[...]

According to CSL, "For the first time, Magic: The Gathering Arena will be among CSL's offerings with a scholarship prize pool of $50,000 up for grabs, the largest in CSL this year." Source: Wizards of the Coast Magic: The Gathering has gained unwavering popularity this year through their Arena interface With a new influx of college students[...]

I apologize for the misinformation. Source: Wizards of the Coast However, the bright side about this is that there's still plenty of time to prepare for not only the event where players can temporarily use every card in Standard to their best potential but also for the event where players will compete (with their own cards) for[...]

Wizards of the Coast has published an article about the state of Magic: The Gathering: Arena, their digital interface for their world-famous trading card game Within the "State of the Game" address, Wizards talks about the progression of Arena over the next few months to a year in time. The first major update discussed in the article[...]

They are also coming out with a premium box called the Throne of Eldraine Deluxe Collection. Source: Wizards of the Coast At first glance, the Deluxe Collection is quite extravagant It comes with sixteen Collector's Packs, a themed card binder, a foil copy of Garruk, Cursed Huntsman, a non-foil copy of Kenrith, The Returned King, an art[...]

Prepare thy stomachs, it's time for The Great Eldraine Bake-Off! In a bid to entice more Magic: The Gathering fans into getting into their newest expansion set, Throne of Eldraine, Wizards of the Coast has devised a baking competition for the Internet to look into Called "The Great Eldraine Bake-Off," this baking competition boasts a glut[...]

In the document (featured in full here), as always, are notes on rulings that have come up in Magic R&D's development sessions for the cards, as well as a couple of entries with a bit of sass to them. Source: Wizards of the Coast   For example, on the entry for one new card, Lovestruck Beast: "If Lovestruck Beast's[...]

We'll be talking about the adventure later, but first, we got dice! Every so often, Wizards of the Coast will put together a special version of the needed dice to play a regular D&D game together The last set we reviewed came to us for their 2017 adventure, Tomb Of Annihilation, and they released a[...]

Magic: The Gathering is well into its 26th year of play, and with its 82nd expansion set, Throne of Eldraine, Wizards of the Coast has outdone itself yet again Between Collector's Packs, normal booster packs, the Brawl decks slated for release alongside the set, and the Buy-A-Box Promo, Throne of Eldraine is worthwhile for any[...]

But what if I told you that giving resources to other players could give you a victory of another sort? Welcome to Magic Philanthropy 101. Source: Wizards of the Coast Magic: The Gathering is a highly-competitive card game with a cutthroat metagame and very rare and/or sought-after components Magic is also full of people who have spent[...]

It's quite the feat, but Wizards of the Coast is succeeding in their interpretation of the fairy tale tropes. Source: Wizards of the Coast This in mind, many different ideas are coming together at once as far as Throne of Eldraine is concerned It's possible that there may be too many ideas Previews don't actually seem to[...]

This only got worse when Wizards of the Coast, the company responsible for Magic, abolished a vital financial reference point in the manufacturer-suggested retail price of their products (many of you will know that more commonly as the MSRP). Source: Wizards of the Coast This can be seen in many cases over the past year[...]

When Wizards of the Coast came out with their Dominaria expansion set, they revealed their initial plans of bringing Brawl into their gallery of formats, but many players played it for a very short while before sloughing it off to play either Standard, which boasts the same list of cards that Brawl's format consists of,[...]

When the Spanish team called "Team Blasco de Garay 15 & Ronda de Sant Pere 44" took MagicFest Ghent this weekend, the Team Modern event saw a perfect example of this. Source: Wizards of the Coast Besides just being a global sensation, Magic: the Gathering is a local one too Being based in the United States, it is[...]

Despite their previous victories, Team Kanalreiniger did not get the chance to take the Top Two place, and Team Blasco de Garay 15 &  Ronda de Sant Pere 44 went on to the finals. Urza: too strong? Source: Wizards of the Coast At the finals, the team took on the decks of "Team BNJ" (a Whirza deck[...]

This comes after much outcry from their consumers. Source: Wizards of the Coast In their previous plan to implement the Historic format for the interface, Wizards of the Coast originally made the decision to make Historic wildcards, one of the better ways to gain new cards, cost two cards rather than one This caused a public backlash,[...]

If you recall from that article, in 2020 Wizards of the Coast will be implementing a number of changes to their competitive structure both online and on the tabletop. Writing this article made me start to wonder if Arena was perhaps a good fit for me to play as well, so I made an account and[...]

They are also home to the Toy Hall of Fame, where the most renowned and popular games and toys from across history are noted for posterity. Magic: the Gathering, a collectible trading card game which started being played in 1993, is now among the nominees for this year's inductees. Source: Wizards of the Coast Wizards of the Coast,[...]

Source: Wizards of the Coast While Throne of Eldraine is chock-full of Arthurian and Grimm tropes alike, between the two it's obvious that unless the references aren't completely lost on you the latter tropes prevail over the former Let's look at what this means for new cards in the set. For one, many of the Grimm-style cards[...]

Source: Wizards of the Coast So, in doing some research on what makes a deck a formidable threat to answer, I had to consider a few factors: Do I make players angry at my plays? Do I politick too much? Do I generate more personal value through my plays than other players? Am I drawing too much? Am I ramping[...]

Magic: The Gathering's 82nd expansion set, Throne of Eldraine, is in its spoiler season, and Wizards of the Coast has been showcasing a plethora of new cards from the set. Source: Wizards of the Coast As is generally customary with the early spoiler season, WotC showed players some of the better cards first Between Oko, Thief of[...]

Hey all! I figured after yesterday's article on The Golden Age of Magic, I'd write up an article about the different ways that people personalize their Magic: the Gathering decks.

What I'm about to say might put things into a much more positive light. Source: Wizards of the Coast The Early Eras So, I started playing Magic: the Gathering in 2001, back when games like Yu-Gi-Oh! were coming out in America, and the Pokemon trading card game was still coherent My friend Danny taught me this game by getting me a[...]

Amazon officially leaked the next Dungeons & Dragons module information we already kinda knew about with the next Rick and Morty adventure.

However, this isn't the only reason they are excited. Source: Wizards of the Coast The long-awaited Brawl format has come to Magic's software version, Magic: the Gathering: Arena This has caused quite a surge in the format's popularity overall, as it adds a new interface with which to play within the format. Source: Wizards of the Coast The format[...]