MTG’s Starter Decks provide beginners a snapshot of the past year in cardboard, warts and all
Vampires and werewolves and… cyberninjas, oh my?
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel updates the digital TCG’s Forbidden and Limited list, teases Fusion Festival
Have fun exploring the Shadow Realm, conquistador.
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MTG’s Pride Month Secret Lair celebrates LGBTQIA2S+ players and characters
Half of each sale will be donated to The Trevor Project.
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Employees at MTG retailer Card Kingdom unionise for better pay and company transparency
"Management openly admits that our current system is broken, and yet there are no offers for solutions."
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Magic Arena’s new Explorer format will eventually evolve into Pioneer
Hear that? It’s the sound of pitchforks and torches being lowered.
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Magic: The Gathering increases booster prices, points blame at rising industry costs
All three boosters, plus Commander decks, will increase in price by "around 11%" by September.
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Magic: The Gathering Arena is great for Wizards of the Coast, bad for players
Counting cards, counting dollars.
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Cyanide & Happiness left Kickstarter for Gamefound, but don’t call it a breakup
"It's amazing competitors are finally emerging because Kickstarter is not perfect."
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Magic: The Gathering just returned Pro Tour from the graveyard
The Pioneer format will be highlighted at the first regional championship round.
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It’s Dungeons & Dragons galore in this latest episode of the Dicebreaker podcast
From the newest anthology book to Call of the Netherdeep.
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Magic: The Gathering Arena addresses economy complaints with $50 wildcard bundle
The short, and constant, answer was technology.
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Commander decks for MTG Streets of New Capenna will be in short supply at launch
All five crime family-themed decks have suffered setbacks “due to supply chain issues.”
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Revenge TRPG The Slow Knife is Count of Monte Cristo with a red-string conspiracy board
Prepare those villainous monologues.
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Crime syndicates and skyscrapers dominate first peek at upcoming MTG set Streets of New Capenna
Family comes in three colours.
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Magic: The Gathering admits Arena needs a “true-to-tabletop” format
Players amused and frustrated by Wizards’ inability to type the word ‘pioneer’.
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“Doubling down on collectibility” of MTG helped Hasbro bank over $1 billion revenue in 2021
Magic: The Gathering’s biggest year to date likely means intensification rather than change.
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Mobile users can now join 10 million other Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel players
Duels in the decamillions.
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Summer Pokémon TCG expansion will feature designs from Pokémon Go mobile game
The other digital monsters.
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Feature: Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty avoids cyberpunk-shaped pitfalls and the ghost of its predecessor
The futuristic card set isn’t trouble-free but showcases Wizards' design team operating at its peak.
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Legend Has It uses a deck of cards to transform a bookshelf into a myth-making engine
Rank and bibliophile.
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Magic: the Gathering’s latest standard bans puts time shenanigans in time out
One turn per turn, Wizards says.
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Moxle gathers a little Magic for its card game spin on Wordle
Counterspell? No, count *and* spell.
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Blaseball, the internet’s favourite gonzo sport, announces a competitive card game
Old gods, peanut storms, rogue umpires and ghost players are presumed included.
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MTG Arena's digital-only Alchemy format brews up balances and frustration
The addition of a third major Arena format might introduce more issues than it addresses.
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Magic: The Gathering trades silver borders for acorns in next year’s Unfinity gonzo set
Nuts to border treatments.
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Nearly eight tons of counterfeit Pokémon cards seized in a Shanghai airport
Chinese news claims it is “one of the biggest fake goods hauls in recent years”.
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MTG Crimson Vow’s Arena launch devoured drafts and locked players in match purgatory
Out for blood… or at least premium currency.
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Pokémon TCG Live delayed until 2022 “to provide Trainers with a more polished experience”
Pokémon TCG Live used Delay. It's skipping its turn!
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Magic: The Gathering Innistrad: Crimson Vow card reveal - Wolfkin Outcast // Wedding Crasher
No shoes, no shirt, no invitation? No problem.
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Alone with my dead friends.
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You can’t spell “great party” without aorta.
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It’s time to d-d-d-d-d-mask up.
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Magic: The Gathering announces three January releases for Commander and limited play
The preeminent trading card game hits the ground running in 2022 ahead of four planned core sets.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links adds ARC-V characters and Pendulum Summons to digital card game
Swing and a hit for fans of even more math in their matches.
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Pokémon TCG teases a new cross-platform digital application and mobile support for next year
Cards from Pokémon TCG Online can be transferred over, spelling the end for the old app.
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LudiCreations and designer Artem Safarov end business relationship with the US-based publisher and board game retailer.
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Keyforge’s next set is complete but won’t be released until it comes back from hiatus
A “broken algorithm” forces the card game into an interminable break, but a digital version is on the horizon.
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A Chansey at cardboard riches, for charity!
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Netrunner trademark filing sends players speculating on the cyberpunk card game’s future
Wizards of the Coast files for use of the name for “downloadable electronic games”, among others.
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Local game stores and casual players were the hidden winners of the Magic Showcase 2021
The non-core sets releasing over the next year are some of the best entry points to Magic’s many game modes.
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Second half of the year will see the urban fantasy Streets of New Capenna and Antiquities-inspired The Brothers’ War
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The Russo Brothers leave Magic: the Gathering’s Netflix show over creative differences
Animation veteran Jeff Kline has stepped in with a whole new team.
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Magic: The Gathering delays Arena-focused set Jumpstart: Historic Horizons by two weeks
Jumpstart’s false start pushes digital release to the horizon.
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Magic: The Gathering reveals first cards, mechanics and a planeswalker for Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
Third time’s the hirsute, exsanguinated charm.
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New Magic: The Gathering Arena format is the closest digital players will get to Commander
Historic Brawl queues take advantage of expanded Historic card pools, but still no multiplayer.
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Magic Arena’s Jumpstart: Historic Horizons brings back a fan-favourite format with a digital twist
31 new cards and three new keywords will be exclusive to the online platform.
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Solo card game Spire’s End: Hildegard is “card game comfort food” but looks like a full plate
Draw your own adventure.
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Exploding Kittens: Recipes for Disaster is a one-box greatest hits card game of incendiary felines
Includes a cone of shame for distracted players.
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Konami ends contract with star football player Antoine Griezmann amid allegations of racism
The official Yu-Gi-Oh ambassador was stripped of his title after a video leaked earlier this month.
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The mid-level module sends adventurers into an underground library slated to burn.
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Heckin Hounds is a trick-taking card game where hands are played face-out
Hell’s gone to the dogs.
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Magic: The Gathering’s July Superdrop celebrates icky villains, Mother’s Day and watching cartoons
Plus, guest artists make their mark on popular cards.
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Another gem mint holographic Charizard has been placed on the auction block
Accompanied by two 1st-edition collections of early sets.
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Footballer Antoine Griezmann is now the official ambassador of Yu-Gi-Oh
And apparently a big fan.
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Magic: The Gathering announces a Stranger Things Secret Lair using new design model
Don't play these upside down.
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“Mechanically equivalent” versions will be added to The List.
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Wizards of the Coast delivers a double dose of Drizzt Do’Urden in latest reveals
The famous drow will be featured on MTG cards and in a short story narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Magic: The Gathering dissolves its Pro League to “focus on bottom up growth”
Currently no details or date for replacement structure
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US in-person Magic: The Gathering events to return in time for Modern Horizons 2 release
Local game stores must still follow government safety guidelines.
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Give me cellar rats already!
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The character’s version of representation frustrates AAPI fans.
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Is Strixhaven a good entry point for the Magic: The Gathering newcomers? Well, it’s complicated.
For the cardboard curious.
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Magic: The Gathering’s upcoming Strixhaven set keeps running into problems
Art plagiarism, shipping delays and swapped assets mar the upcoming launch.
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MTG YouTuber Tolarian Community College fundraises over $220,000 for Trans Lifeline
Auction included Double Masters booster boxes, rare cards and more.
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Magic: The Gathering to explore Middle-earth, the 42nd millennium and more in Universes Beyond
Including Warhammer 40,000 Commander decks and The Lord of the Rings set.
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Less Harry Potter than high school.
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The Game: Face to Face drops cooperation for two-player variant
Masks on, face off.
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Subastral, a new card game from the designers of Stellar, is landing this summer
From the publishing studio behind Clank!
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Summoner Wars Second Edition fantasy card game coming “soon”
First major entry in the series since 2014.
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Magic: The Gathering announces Valentine-themed Secret Lair drops and an upcoming ban
Heartbreak for Uro-mantics.
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Pokémon card scalpers sour McDonald’s Happy Meal promotion
Extortion with fries, please.
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Gaston flexes his way into Disney Villainous' standalone expansion Despicable Plots
No one graces a box likes Gaston.
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Uno celebrates its 50th anniversary with new decks and $50,000 world championship
Say Happy Birthday or draw 25.
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Arkham Horror LCG delivers another new parallel investigator and print-and-play scenario
One bloody night, order up!
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Illusionist Uri Geller relents on Kadabra’s two-decade ban from the Pokémon card game
Fans used mass email. It’s super effective!
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Board games ranked by SAGE among top COVID-19 risk factors during holiday gatherings
Seriously, just stay home.
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Quest RPG creators reveal spin-off competitive card game Queens
For the Queen(s)!
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Quest RPG designers are teasing a new card game called Queens
A standalone card game set in the Quest universe.
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Sorcerer expansion Endbringer smashes Kickstarter target, introduces co-op play
New sorcerer packs also on offer.
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Gamewright releases free print and play version of Sneaky Cards for socially distanced stealth
Can you win? Sure-you-can!
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Feature: Schnapsen: the Austrian card game that healed a grieving family
A gaming gift through the generations.
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Magic: The Gathering events worldwide cancelled and/or rescheduled.
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