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Corey Plante

Contributor Since November, 2025
Qualifications MA in Journalism, Emerson College; Dean’s Scholarship and Graduate Student Excellence Award recipient
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Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, TableTop
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About Corey Plante

Corey is an Associate Editor with Polygon that oversees the Tabletop Gaming section with a special emphasis on Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons. A forever Dungeon Master who's built his own homebrew fantasy universe, Corey has also been playing Magic for more than 25 years. He's been writing about various forms of entertainment media for more than 15 years. Seven of those were spent at Inverse where he covered TV, film, and video games, eventually growing into the role of Associate Gaming Editor. Corey also has bylines at Kotaku, IGN, Vulture, Fanbyte, and more. 

What did you play or watch that changed your life?

Corey had always been D&D-curious but was fortunate enough to bond with a group of other nerdy adults while he lived in New York City for about five years. It wistfully became something he wished he'd been doing his whole life. His first character was a Dwarf Cleric named Clarty, a callback to a character he played years prior in the MMORPG EverQuest Online Adventures on the PlayStation 2. From there, he eventually settled into a position as his table's most frequent Dungeon Master, developing a homebrew fantasy universe based on the trilogy of novels he hopes to write one day.

What's your origin story?

Corey grew up with games as a major part of his life. His maternal grandmother had a peculiar obsession with the Zelda franchise. He also had a close older cousin who introduced him to Final Fantasy at a young age. In the late '90s, he became obsessed with Pokémon like most kids his age, except he was the one organizing TCG matches and Game Boy battles in the bushes at recess when both got banned — and he won every time. As Corey matured, so did his tastes, and he became an avid fan of Magic: The Gathering around the turn of the century.

What's a recent obsession?

Having joined Polygon in November 2025 with a primary focus on tabletop gaming, Corey's enthusiasm for Magic: The Gathering has increased exponentially. He spends countless late nights poring over cards he never got rid of — some of them nearly 30 years old — trying to build new Commander decks.

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Mood Swings is an attempt to solve one of Magic’s biggest problems
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Magic: The Gathering lead designer Mark Rosewater's new TCG heads to Secret Lair

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Magic: The Gathering already figured out how Tifa would play in a fighting game
Magic: The Gathering

Tifa, Martial Artist is a very complicated Commander that can be devastating with the right build

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Magic's deadliest Final Fantasy Commander deck just got a major price cut
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Revival Trance just got its steepest discount in quite some time

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This D&D summer camp lets real-life actions shape the story
Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Cabins merges tabletop gameplay with classic summer camp activities

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You only have a few days to watch How to Train Your Dragon and its sequel

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New Marathon update just made its best sponsored kit a weekly freebie
Marathon

Once per week, you too can feel overpowered

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Disney’s new Lorcana set signals a major pivot for the Magic competitor
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Wilds Unknown introduces Toy as a subtype — and leans heavily on typal strategies

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Magic: The Gathering Arena developers seek to unionize at Wizards of the Coast
News

More than 100 developers behind Arena are pushing for protections around layoffs, remote work, and AI

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A Marvel crossover leak hints at Magic’s next mechanic — and a troubling new trend
Magic: The Gathering

Leaked Marvel cards introduce the unexplained Teamwork mechanic while suggesting a larger Avengers

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My Dress-Up Darling looks like horny cosplay fluff — but it’s actually one of anime’s sweetest love stories
Anime

Season 1 of this charming slice-of-life romance lands on Netflix this weekend

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5 years later, Returnal still hasn’t been matched — and maybe never will be
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Returnal only reveals its brilliance once everything clicks

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Toy Story is coming to Lingokids as the kids app levels up its Disney ambitions
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Polygon can exclusively reveal that Toy Story is coming to the kids' platform

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Chainsaw Man movie finally gets a Crunchyroll release date — and it’s shockingly soon
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Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc kicks off Crunchyroll's "Ani-May" celebration

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15 Universes Beyond crossovers we want to see in Magic: The Gathering
Magic: The Gathering

From Dark Souls to KPop Demon Hunters, here's a chaotic assortment of potential crossovers we're dreaming about

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I gutted Strixhaven's Prismari Commander deck to build my Vivi Ornitier masterpiece
Magic: The Gathering

'How do you prove that you exist? Maybe we don't exist...'

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The 10 best chase cards in Magic’s Secrets of Strixhaven (so far)
Magic: The Gathering

A totally objective look at 10 cards I want as soon as possible

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Leaked Magic cards offer a glimpse at Reality Fracture’s twisted mirror universe — and a blue Chandra
Magic: The Gathering

More evidence seems to confirm that color-bent versions of your favorite Planeswalkers are coming

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Mass Effect fans waited 16 years for this Miranda statue
Exclusive

Dark Horse has revealed the designs for two new Mass Effect statues.

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Cyberpunk’s Night City gets a massive new update set decades before 2077
Tabletop Games

Night City 2045 is set at the tail end of the Time of the Red

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Nobody can truly beat Monte Cook’s new megadungeon — and that’s the point
Tabletop Games

Jewel in the Sky is a thoughtful collision of science fiction and fantasy set on an enormous rock floating in the sky

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