With an official announcement to be made soon after the Core 2021 prerelease events, Commander will now facilitate "death" triggers.
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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[...]
Today, Wizards of the Coast released a new streaming video over YouTube that officially kicked off previews for Core 2021, the upcoming set for Magic: The Gathering This video was framed as a "variety show" featuring many Magic celebs both in R&D and on the professional player circuit, as well as a fair amount of bloggers[...]
Today, a decision by Wizards of the Coast was made to delay the official debut stream for Magic: The Gathering's upcoming set, Core 2021 The set's unveiling was delayed out of respect for the National Day of Mourning in America However, some sources debuted preview cards officially despite this information.
Key art for Core 2021, the newest[...]
We made our tabletop writer craft a Sliver deck to illustrate what happens when one messes around and resurrects the wrong kind of species.
Wizards of the Coast, after having done away with the manufacturer-suggested retail prices on their Magic: The Gathering product, has shown that their product is one that people will buy despite spikes in unregulated retail prices However, lately, a fair few vocal people in the Magic community on Twitter have spoken out against the experimental prices[...]
Wizards of the Coast, in a rather surprising move, has officially given functional errata to a major new rule in their acclaimed trading card game, Magic: The Gathering This rule change, which affects the mechanics of the Companion mechanic from Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths, comes after an extreme influx of Companion cards used as such in[...]
Today, I'd like to journey a bit deeper into the lesser shifts from traditional D&D that I've devised for the campaign setting of Dastarque.
The people governing Magic's competitive scene have made the decision to cancel all competitive tabletop Magic events for the rest of 2020.
Dungeons & Dragons is about to get more digital as Dreamscape Media has revealed a new series of interactive audiobooks.
Hello there, loyal readers! Today we will be discussing the nature and etiquette of emotes in Magic: The Gathering: Arena, Wizards of the Coast's online interface for Magic: The Gathering play I'd like to begin with a disclaimer that none of these opinions reflect any entity bigger than myself – they aren't the opinions of Bleeding Cool,[...]
Wizards of the Coast's Head Designer for their acclaimed trading card game, Magic: The Gathering, has made a statement regarding the complexity of their newest set, Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths. Mark Rosewater, head of design for Magic's Research and Development team, has openly admitted that Ikoria has been an experiment on determining just how high of a capacity players, both[...]
Today, Wizards of the Coast gave us a Secret Lair drop to reveal for Magic: The Gathering, to massive acclaim There were so many images included in our planned initial reveal that we couldn't actually reveal them all to you So, please allow us to indulge a bit more by giving you the full art[...]
From their secret lair in Seattle, Wizards of the Coast entrusted us with a secret of our own – something we wouldn't be allowed to tell you about until now Are you ready for this? Here we go:
We are happy to announce Secret Lair's newest drop for Magic: The Gathering: "Full Sleeves"!
That's right, folks, it's[...]
Pokémon Trading Card Game collector Leonheart has opened a 1st Edition Charizard from a Base Set pack of the beloved collectible card game.
Hello, loyal readers and fans of Wizards of the Coast's iconic trading card game Magic: The Gathering! Nearly two months ago, we here at Bleeding Cool wrote up a Commander deck tech for Nethroi, Apex of Death Well, now that Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths and Commander 2020 have officially been released worldwide, we decided to take another look at[...]
Dungeons & Dragons is a remarkably complex game when it comes to using one's freedom to imagine, especially when homebrewing.
This morning, Wizards of the Coast provided Dungeons & Dragons fans with an update on their plans for D&D Live 2020 The event will now be called D&D Live 2020: Roll W/ Advantage, and will be working toward raising money for Red Nose Day to help the children across the U.S[...]
Today, from seemingly out of the blue, Wizards of the Coast announced a new Masters-style Magic: The Gathering set – the first in about two years – called Double Masters The new set, geared to release in August of this year, examines the concept of doubling as one theme therein.
The artwork for Doubling Season, a[...]
Wizards of the Coast, creator of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game, has released their notes on Magic: The Gathering: Arena, the game's online interface, for May Their article includes not only notes on reception and bug reports but also serves as an official slew of announcements for new and continuing events such as Brawlers'[...]
Magic: The Gathering's new concept of a Companion creature is an interesting one to consider, especially in Commander.
Today, Wizards of the Coast announced a new promotion for Magic: The Gathering players, designed to encourage them to support their local gaming and hobby venues Dubbed the Love Your Local Game Store program, this promotion offers players incentives for buying Magic products from local stores.
A promotional image from DailyMTG, Magic: The Gathering's news hub, showcasing[...]
Wizards of the Coast, the creator of world-renowned card game Magic: The Gathering, tends to design and develop their Magic cards with very few oversights Most of their sets are relatively tame in a general sense, save for the occasional uptick in power creep here and there However, every once in a blue moon a card[...]
I decided that I wanted to create custom Magic sets – I had designed one set already in full, with the help of a few friends in undergrad, but the result was a bit incoherent compared to a typical set as designed by Wizards of the Coast.
The "black" alignment chart, as envisioned by Loreley Weisel[...]
After what felt like a very long month's wait due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Wizards of the Coast has finally released their newest Magic: The Gathering set in a physical form. Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths can now be found in stores in North America, Latin America, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, either in local gaming[...]
While Wizards of the Coast has delayed the release of Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths and Commander 2020 until May 15th, on May 12th an anomalous preconstructed deck surfaced on a Facebook page, three days ahead of release The deck, for those of you wondering, is Arcane Maelstrom, the red-blue-green (or Temur) deck from the yet-unreleased set.
An array[...]
Dungeons & Dragons is arguably the most difficult game to create content for. With so many Dungeon Masters trying to sculpt their perfect
Furthermore, we have seen those boxes go online for as much as $250 per box, so this is definitely a really good price.
Ikoria, Lair of Behemoths artwork from Wizards of the Coast.
What do you think of this tag-team by eBay and ABUGames? In a world dominated by lockdown and social distancing, is ordering old graded[...]
Now you can be one of the few who get to sit at the table for one of his adventures as Wizards Of The Coast and Make-A-Wish have partnered together for a special contest As well as get a tour of WotC's headquarters in Seattle, have lunch with Joe and the crew, Here's some added[...]
However, this time we are only able to do a top five.
Wizards of the Coast's promotional art for Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths, their newest set.
This is because, despite all of the cycles in the set, there aren't quite enough cards to do a top ten ranking for multicolor, artifacts, or lands! There are exactly zero[...]