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Secrets of Strixhaven just broke a major Magic: The Gathering record

Magic’s latest return to academia is already rewriting the record books

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Mood Swings is an attempt to solve one of Magic’s biggest problems

Magic: The Gathering lead designer Mark Rosewater's new TCG heads to Secret Lair

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Mega Evolution—Pitch Black is the next Pokémon TCG expansion coming this summer

Mega Darkrai, Zeraora, Chandelure, and Excadrill ex are coming

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

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

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The Dungeon Crawler Carl TTRPG won’t be just another D&D reskin

‘We didn’t think any existing systems would work’

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Magic's deadliest Final Fantasy Commander deck just got a major price cut

Revival Trance just got its steepest discount in quite some time

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One of Magic’s most popular commanders is included in this Bloomburrow bundle, discounted at Amazon right now

Become the Bumbleflower

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Card game show officially bans greedy Pokémon scalpers once and for all

A Baltimore-based TCG show has taken a stand against vultures who are only in it to profit from real Pokémon fans

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Disney’s new Lorcana set signals a major pivot for the Magic competitor

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

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

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

Jolina Gisele, the name and proprietor of the world's biggest, most valuable Pokemon card collection.
Her multi-million dollar Pokémon card collection is unprecedented. It's raising eyebrows.

Pokémon card hobbyists have never seen anything like the Jolina Gisèle collection, which spans 60,000 rare cards

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Here's one card to upgrade the Silverquill Influence Magic: The Gathering Precon from Secrets of Strixhaven (and one bonus)

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This Magic: The Gathering deal might be the easiest way to snag a Secrets of Strixhaven Collector Booster

Save 13% on one collector booster from Magic's newest set

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15 Universes Beyond crossovers we want to see in 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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A definitive history of Strixhaven, the 2021 set that turned Magic on its head

Five years later, Polygon talks to the team that created Magic's beloved school for mages.

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I gutted Strixhaven's Prismari Commander deck to build my Vivi Ornitier masterpiece

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

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GameStop is laughing all the way to the bank with its new Pokémon card system

GameStop's Power Packs allow the retailer to squeeze money from customers without ever handing out a real Pokémon card

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

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

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

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