A lack of social features and client stability were my biggest gripes with Magic: Arena's 1.0 launch, but it looks like an impending November patch is going to address both of those to some degree. Bound for a November update, Wizards is do...

Magic: The Gathering Arena (Wizards of the Coast's new PC rendition of Magic that just recently launched) is set to debut three events, the first of which is happening right now. "Chapter 1" as it's being called is the Artisan Market, ...

In case you haven't been following along, Magic: Arena standard play has been struggling lately following the boom of a very popular deck centered around the card Field of the Dead. As Wizards itself even stated in their ban post: "Fie...

"Standard" (the use of recent, non-rotated cards) is very contentious in Magic: the Gathering right now (it always is, at some point!). Extreme use of cards like Field of the Dead and Golos (as well as Oko) are making some people angry...

At long last Wizards is finally recognizing the brilliant Commander format for Magic: The Gathering. Hearthstone fans will sort of get the gist: you have one Commander (hero) that dictates the cards you can take, and serves as the linc...

Wizards of the Coast is getting ready to post their updated banned and restricted (B&R) list now that the new Eldraine set is underway, and thanks to some current meta-developments, that date is getting pushed up a bit. Originally ...

Wizards of the Coast is looking to start their 1.0 launch of Magic: Arena off right, and part of that initiative involves a new event that's straight to the point in terms of its nomenclature: "Win Every Card Challenge." Seeped in stan...

The first time I touched a Magic card was 1996, and within moments I was entranced. The idea of building decks (made easier when groups of friends donated a ton of cards to a cube) was something completely foreign to me, like choosing party...

Magic: The Gathering Arena is now officially out of beta after a full year and change, and that means a bunch of free codes have expired or shuffled around. We've tracked down all the codes, but you can also check out this landing page for ...

We're nearing the end of the first Mastery [Season] Pass for Magic: Arena, and the whole run has been a rollercoaster. First up, Wizards did the unthinkable and added an XP cap to the pass, forcing people to play daily if they wanted to max...

The dance of the mastery (season) pass in Magic: Arena has been a long one, and Wizards of the Coast was sort of learning on the fly during it all, stepping on toes in the process. When the pass launched in early July the idea was simple: i...

The next expansion up for Magic: The Gathering is Throne of Eldraine, a take on the Arthurian Legend and Grimm fairy tale motifs. Said set officially arrives on October 4, 2019, with a pre-release ceremony the weekend of Friday, Septem...

We're nearly ready for the official launch of Magic: Arena. It took long enough! The currently-in-beta card game is set to officially launch on September 26, alongside of the Throne of Eldraine set: the fairy-tale-esque new expansion f...

A few steps forward, a few steps back: it seems like Magic: Arena is destined to make monetization mistakes every few months. As announced in the new "state of the beta" blog update, a historic format (read: the ability to use old card...

Although it's been charging for all sorts of microtransactions for months (season passes, card packs, sleeves, and other cosmetics), Magic: The Gathering Arena is still in "beta" form. Rumors have been flying around as to when it would actu...

[UPDATE: Keys should be good until July 19th, now. Keep claiming them! Had some issues with the keys, but the new ones should be good!] We've got a ton of codes for you to redeem a Chandra Planeswalker deck in Magic: The Gathering Arena. Ta...

[Update: Wizards has responded to the backlash and will go back to a weekly XP system.] We've seen "battle passes" before. Billed as "season passes" of a sort (which are themselves more oriented toward a collection of meaty DLCs), battle pa...

Magic: Arena's War of the Spark weekly events are underway, and Wizards of the Coast is celebrating by giving out a few free card style codes. If you haven't been paying attention, Arena is Wizards' PC-based near 1:1 recreation of stan...

Magic: Arena is really taking off, and it just hit its billionth game. To celebrate, Wizards of the Coast is gifting everyone with a free pack: one of many free code efforts in past months. All you have to do is head to the store and e...

Well this is a pretty interesting development to randomly happen on a Monday. Confirmed to Destructoid, Netflix has announced, in conjunction with Hasbro (who owns Wizards of the Coast) and their Allspark Animation studio, that they're team...

Every so often Magic: Arena will patch in a special event: something from classic Magic paper history like pauper or something wackier, exclusive to Arena. Well with several weeks of War of the Spark, the latest expansion, behind us, w...

[Update: The promo is live now. Head to your Twitch Prime landing page and redeem the offer for a unique code. It'll score you the "Boros Battalion" deck, which is comprised almost entirely of cards from both recent Ravnica sets, with one c...

[Image credit] As is customary with Magic: The Gathering as of late, the War of the Spark set's release is going to be staggered now that Arena is in the picture. The Planeswalker-heavy set is actually live today, with pre-release events (m...

Magic: The Gathering has become a global game, most notably in Japan and China, where Wizards of the Coast has been pushing it heavily. To herald in the launch of War of the Spark, the next Magic expansion, Wizards commissioned art pieces f...

Magic: The Gathering's War of the Spark expansion is gearing up for release later this month both in physical tabletop and digital Arena form, and we have an exclusive card reveal today: God-Eternal Bontu (with art by Lius Lasahido). If you...