As I was getting ready for my morning Magic: Arena "few game wind-down" break, I was immediately greeted with a pop-up: bam, four cards have been banned. Popular standard cards, mind! Announced this morning and effective immediately, C...

I totally forgot Magic: Legends exists! While a lot of folks were clamoring for a Magic: The Gathering MMO, we got this instead at The Game Awards last year. It's Magic by way of Diablo, which could be all sorts of great if d...

While the status of the mobile port is still very much a mystery, the Magic: Arena team reminded us this week that it's still being worked on, and will likely arrive before the end of 2020. In the meantime, there's a lot planned for Ar...

It's time for yet another Magic: The Gathering set, which means that it's time for another Magic: Arena set. As the two formats — paper and digital — debut together, we enter yet another busy year with four sets to jug...

When Magic: The Gathering Arena ushers in a new set, generally the powers that be provide a promo code that you can redeem for three packs of said set. The new code is actually already live now (PlayM21), but a few are cycling out...

Magic: The Gathering Arena launched last fall (after a lengthy beta period), and continues to stroll through each set (Core 2021 is coming soon). But it's sadly still on just the PC platform: until this week, that is. Wizards of the Coast h...

Although the last major set of bans for Magic: The Gathering was completely expected (Oko), the situation that has been unfolding in Ikoria has been a lot more complicated. Right now, the meta has been dominated by the use of several c...

Magic: Arena, as always, is in flux. In a sort of give and take, the season (mastery) pass dropped in value for the Ikoria set, but Wizards of the Coast is bringing back the historic (old cards) ranked queue to compensate. According to Wiza...

While Magic: Arena just forged ahead with its Godzilla-filled Ikoria set, there's still plenty of old cards that need some love too. After all, Magic heavily favors standard, but folks have been clamoring for more ways to play the...

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...

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...

[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...

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...

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...

Slowly but surely after that very vague and somewhat misleading Game Awards reveal (in which the MMO elements of this very dungeon-crawler looking game were pumped up), Wizards of the Coast and Perfect World Entertainment are pulling back t...

Well, when I heard that Wizards of the Coast was creating an "MMO" based on the Magic: The Gathering universe, this wasn't what I had in mind. A Magic MMO is a concept that's been ready for the taking for a few decades now, but it...

Dungeons and Dragons is riding a great wave of cultural resurgence thanks in part to its inclusion in the Netflix show Stranger Things as well as general interest in the tabletop role-playing game market also seeing a resurgence. Even I, a ...

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...

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...

So Wizards of the Coast missed their initial goal of getting out friends list functionality in Magic: The Gathering Arena this month, but we did get a heap of performance fixes...and something else. Every old Magic player remembers the...

[Update: The friends list feature is no longer being included in the November update due to "scaling issues." No further timeline has been provided, but all of the other changes, including the much-needed performance update, are still comin...

Booting up Magic: Arena will pull up a brand new banned list, which now includes the extremely contentious Oko, Thief of Crowns planeswalker that was just introduced in the most recent set of cards: Throne of Eldraine. Oko was an extre...