card kingdom partners with TopDecked

Card Kingdom Partners with TopDecked

Tom AndersonCommunity

When Card Kingdom asked me if I’d like to write about the TopDecked app this week, I was mostly excited about putting another Magic tool to the test. As someone who’s spent a lot of time thinking about the game and hoarding huge stacks of cards, I’ve been through a ton of different apps and websites since my first Gatherer …

5 Potential Winners from Forgotten Realms

5 Potential Winners from Forgotten Realms

Scott CullenCommunity

The time for adventuring is nearly upon us! It’s the start of preview season for Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, and it’s already showing to be a hugely engaging set. D&D players are being exposed to the world of Magic, just as Magic players are becoming more immersed in the tabletop RPG community. There has always been …

Magics Love Hate Relationship Stax Cards

Magic’s Love/Hate Relationship with Stax

Tom AndersonCommunity, Design

Just a few weeks ago, the Magic community was excited by the spoilers from Modern Horizons 2, one of the deepest and most powerful sets of all time. We were getting huge blasts of fresh and exciting design space every few hours. There was a planeswalker you can target with Green Sun’s Zenith or Unearth, new pitch spells that you …

Returning to your LGS

Reentering the Battlefield: Returning to Your LGS

Scott CullenCommunity

The world has changed so much in the past 18 months, and a whole new subset of social experiences have helped to shape the pandemic zeitgeist. Between wearing pajamas to work (at the dining room table), experimenting with hair or fashion styles, or even just giving your food delivery app a greater workout, everyone has developed some form of “lockdown …

An Early Look at Adventures in the Forgotten Realms

Tom AndersonCommunity

Thanks to a blockbuster “season overview” from WotC, we’ve finally gotten our first glimpse at Adventures in the Forgotten Realms: the first official crossover set between Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons. The article seems to indicate another top-down set design, emphasizing the flavor and even some of the mechanics of D&D. Adam Styborski writes that:  “Adventures in the Forgotten …

What Strixhaven’s Mystical Archive Means for Budget Magic

Scott CullenCommunity, Products

Wakey wakey, it’s time for Strixhaven! The most prestigious university in the Multiverse is opening its doors for us in the coming weeks, and social media is alight with talk over which College everyone belongs to. It’s having a massive impact on people’s ability to express themselves: some are abandoning the Boros Legion in favor of the more historically appreciative …

Top 10 Splinter Twin Situations

Mason ClarkCommunity

Magic: The Gathering is a game with a storied past. When you go to your local game store (again, eventually), you’re liable to hear people who have been playing the game for a decade or more discussing old decks in hushed voices. Stories of Caw Blade, Hypergenesis, and ANT fill the room.  But there’s one deck that always rises above …