[Update: "OneBillion" will get you a free War of the Spark pack. Another Planeswalker code just hit: Teyo, the Shieldmage: it's "SHIELDSUP," and you can find the image in the gallery below. You can also net Nahiri with the co...

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 is hosting a new expansion soon called War of the Spark, and there's a pretty flashy new trailer to accompany it. If you don't follow the storyline, basically that big dragon thing is Nicol Bolas, one of the big bads of...

A new Magic: Arena update is in town and almost entirely deals with cosmetics. The gist is that cosmetics have come to the game in spades, not by way of a gradual rollout, in the form of card sleeves (backs), stylized cards, new avatar...

Last year Wizards of the Coast did an amazing job with their Challenger sets: or, $30 starter kits that allow players to pick up Magic: The Gathering instantly and play competitively. The gist is that not only are the decks themselves formi...

With the advent of Magic: Arena, the release of Magic sets isn't as easy to keep up with. Here's a quick rundown.

Magic: Arena is a pretty fantastic rendition of the paper version: so fantastic that it's become my most-played digital card game at the moment. But there was one major issue plaguing the still-in-beta project, "the fifth card problem....

Magic Arena, which is currently in open free beta form, is running a free event from now through January 4. That mode is called "pauper," a brilliant form of Magic that only uses common cards that are generally cheap with the exception...

[Update: You still have roughly half a day to nab these cards before the code expires.] The Game Awards are over and you can check out our full recap here. As you may have read already, Wizards of the Coast are getting serious with Magic: A...

Live at The Game Awards, Wizards of the Coast announced that they're expanding Magic's pro scene with a huge eSports push. Arriving in 2019, Wizards is putting at least $10 million into the program with a prize pool centered around Magic Ar...

Although Magic: The Gathering's Dominaria is a bomb ass limited format I really enjoy the opportunity to play Ixalan/Rivals as often as possible. The overarching theme of Merfolk/Pirates/Vampires/Dinosaurs just speaks to me on a spiritual l...

Magic: Arena has been trucking for some time this year and only in this past month did it enter its open beta phase. Yep, no friend codes needed, you can just jump in and play and experience what is basically a 1:1 analog of paper Magic. Ou...

Ever since the start of Magic: Arena's beta period folks have been clamoring for a way to directly play with your friends. I mean it is Magic after all: a highly social game, and limiting Arena to matchmaking for any period of tim...

Magic: The Gathering's 25th anniversary came with a lot of changes for the game. The release structure for new expansion sets has changed dramatically. The game has crossed over the realm of cardboard to pen and paper with Dungeon & Dra...

Magic: The Gathering is getting ready for a massive shakeup in October. In less than a month standard (read: the most popular competitive mode) is cycling out a whopping five sets (Kaladesh, Aether Revolt, Amonkhet, Hour of Devastation, and...

Onboarding people into Magic: The Gathering is one of the easiest things I've ever done. I always try to tell them that there's caveats depending on the type of mode you play (some are super cheap, some are super...not), but as a gener...

After a long wait, Wizards of the Coast has mostly unveiled the cards that are arriving in its newest Magic: The Gathering set by way of a spoiler weekend.. A lot of classic cards return in Core 2019 in a sort of interim release before the ...

Magic: The Gathering means a lot of different things to different people. For some, it's a highly competitive game where the meta has to be followed and the sideboard is always ready. For others, it's a casual kitchen table game to play whe...

Another digital card game is entering the fray. Wizards of the Coast has unveiled Magic: The Gathering Arena, a free-to-play title in production at the company's in-house Digital Games Studio. Sign-ups are open for a closed beta, and while ...

The first addition to Dungeons & Dragons this year is Tales from the Yawning Portal, a new campaign book that takes ideas and dungeons from the past five decades and brings them to the fifth edition. It's framed as a collection of tales...