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...

[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'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...

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...

Magic: The Gathering Arena, even in beta form, is ripping through the digital card game market. With newcomers like Artifact fizzling it's poised to really make a splash this year when it fully launches: a goal that's helped by the fac...

Now that most of the hard work is done with Magic: Arena (read: every standard card from the paper version is in and works), the team is moving on to quality of life features as they gear up for the eventual full launch. That includes ...

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...

Magic: The Gathering is still trucking along with its "every several months" set releases, and next up on the agenda is War of the Spark (the kinda Ravnica kinda not set) and Core 2020 (which brings back the Core line after Wizard...

Magic: Arena is charging money for packs at the moment, but it's still technically in beta form. Having played Arena (and paper Magic) weekly since the alpha phase last year, I can safely say that the core is already there but there's ...

Banjo-Kazooie speak is my aesthetic. I mean, the series in general is just my thing: in the same breath you can have a kindhearted bear spout uplifting quotes while his companion bird completely dunks on your hopes and dreams. It's incredib...

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