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...

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...

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...

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...

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...