When Wizards of the Coast said that the next Magic: The Gathering set, Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths, would center around giant monsters, this isn't what I had in mind. Announced this morning, Wizards has struck a deal with Toho Ltd to use...

The last time we left Artifact, it was in a really weird place. Valve wasn't quite using the term "maintenance mode" or "abandoned," but it was clear that it was no longer a priority after a series of launch woes. Its lead architect (the le...

Everything is kind of weird right now, and some publishers are adjusting due to COVID-19 concerns. While a lot of physical meetups and conventions have been outright canceled (either due to practicing social distancing guidelines or by forc...

A pretty monumental change is coming to Hearthstone, which will result in a substantial meta shakeup: there's a new class coming. It's kind of crazy that it hasn't happened since Hearthstone's 2014 launch, but the Demon Hunter (represented ...

[Update: The patch is now live, and you can read the full breakdown here. The gist is that Historic Anthology 2 is ready to go, as well as direct messaging/away social features, color challenges, a new UI for sleeves, and the low key abilit...

Another round of Magic: The Gathering bans are afoot, but they're not nearly as staggering as the last set of announcements. This time standard (the main form of competitive play) is not impacted: instead, the bans impact brawl, historic, l...

Wizards of the Coast is expanding the Historic format (which uses older, non-standard cards) in Magic: Arena, and they're doing it in a way that involves multiple facets of Magic. For starters, 25 new cards are coming to Arena's Historic mo...

In today's giveaway, we're giving out beta keys to bitchin' card battler Monster Train! I read somewhere a long time ago that Samuel L. Jackson refused to do Snakes on a Plane if they cut his monologue and made the movie PG-13. It led to on...

Magic: Arena is still trucking along at a brisk pace, having moved right into the Theros: Beyond Death set, and scheduled to host Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths in April with Zendikar Rising coming in September. But at some point this year, Aren...

We've got a physical card game in today's contest! Win Trial by Trolley, from the wackos at Cyanide & Happiness and Skybound! I've never been super big on web content outside of what we produce here at Dtoid, but man there are some fant...

Mediatonic and Flaming Fowl have announced that Fable Fortune - the studios' fantasy-themed digital card game - will be closing its servers in March, bringing the game to an end on both the PC and Xbox One platforms after three years of ser...

Between the books, comics, Netflix show, mainline games, and spin-offs, it's a particularly good time to be a fan of The Witcher. If you haven't had your fill yet and you need something new to play on your Nintendo Switch, you should seriou...

As a heavy digital card game player, I've seen many projects rise and fall. Every IP in existence from Fable to Elder Scrolls to DOTA can get a card game these days, and in the face of adversity (read: mostly Hearthstone...

The Magic: The Gathering World Championship XXVI (this game has been around for a while!) is happening in Hawaii from February 14-16 once again this year, and now Wizards of the Coast is adding a nice bit of synergy with Magic: Arena&n...

Magic: The Gathering Arena has some monetization problems: but finally, the season (known as "mastery" in this game) pass isn't one of them. Though the whole concept got off to a very rocky start, the recent Theros expansion managed to...

Magic: Arena, following tradition, is ushering in the new Magic: The Gathering set a little earlier than its paper cousin. Theros Beyond Death, the Greek mythology-themed set, is now live in Arena, with physical pre-release events happening...

The next digital card game on the block is Legends of Runeterra, a deck-building League of Legends spin-off that'll be cross-platform between PC and mobile. It's the kind of title you might be curious to try but not fully commit to – ...

Magic: Arena's fairy-tale-themed Eldraine set has had some ups and downs, especially with the Oko Brawl and eventual full-on standard ban. It's going to get a big shakeup in January once the Theros set hits, which is also the end of the cur...

Today's contest features unique card-battling game Cardpocalypse for Switch, PC, PS4, and Xbox One! This one caught my eye because the monsters are batshit insane -- and you get to create them! Who doesn't love creation? Cards games are coo...

Having played Magic: The Gathering for many years now, I'm always thinking of new decks to brew, but I have a bunch of competitive collections when I need to head into ranked play. Here's a few that I enjoy playing at the moment, which...

Today's contest features premium unlocks for WWII card game KARDS. I fought in the Great War, ya know. I mean, it was in about 800,000 different video games and not real life, but it still counts. While they definitely shot each other in du...

If you've been following my personal Game of the Year picks these past few years, you're probably aware that I'm a big fan of the Lord of the Rings Living Card Game (LCG). Although I do enjoy my Magic: Arena, I've cooled it a bit in th...

Magic: The Gathering Arena has gone through a lot of changes. It's only been a few months since the "1.0" retail release, and Oko has been banned, some technical issues have been smoothed over and a friends list feature is on the horiz...

Gwent is one of the better free-to-play card games in an ever-growing sea of them, but to quote John Darnielle, "good things never last, bad things never die." This coming Monday, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of Gwent will cease ...

[Update: The Twitch deck is now live, and you can acquire it by logging into your Twitch loot section and pasting the code into Arena's storefront. You can find the full list for Magic: Arena's Liliana's Legion deck below. Notable cards inc...