Magic: the Gathering is a fantasy trading card game from Wizards of the Coast that has been in continuous production for over 25 years. You can check out the
official website for more information on the franchise as a whole, including
articles on game design, strategy, and lore. The game is played in a variety of formats, from those that can include nearly every card ever printed, to formats that only use sealed product for deck building, to formats that only use common cards. You can find information about all of the official formats
here, and both a
quick-start guide and the comprehensive rules here. There are also tons of unofficial formats that are supported by communities both online and at your local gaming store.
Arena is the latest digital version of the game, utilizing a free-to-play model and currently only supporting the Standard format and current limited formats, as well as some occasional digital-only formats/oddballs.
You can download the game here. Magic Online is the original digital Magic platform and is still the primary official way to play non-Standard constructed formats online. They also run cube and chaos drafts on MTGO.
You can download the client here.
If you're interested in competitive play, you can find information on
the various levels of paper competitive play here. In addition to Wizards' own high-level tournaments, Star City Games runs
their own national tournament series with large monetary prizes and Invitational, you can find information on their tournaments here. There is also an eSports series based around Arena, you can find
information about that here.
Some other resources:
TCGPlayer.com can help you find the market values of cards before you make a purchase or trade. They also have an iPhone/Android app that allows you to scan cards and find their value/catalog them.
Gatherer is the official card search engine from WotC, featuring up-to-date oracle text, errata, format legality, and important rulings for every card in the game.
Recent and Upcoming News:
- Ravnica Allegiance was released on Jan. 25th, and the next expansion, War of the Spark, releases in paper May 3rd. Paper prerelease for WotS is April 27th-28th, it releases on Arena on the 25th. War for the Spark concludes the ongoing story arc surrounding Nicol Bolas, features "something crazy" that has never been done before.
- Modern Horizons was announced last week, it will be a 254 card expansion that "skips Standard," being legal only in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and other formats that do not use the Standard-format card pool. It'll feature brand new cards and reprints of cards not currently legal in Modern.
- The
2019 Challenger Decks have been announced, and will be available April 12th.
- MagicFest Kyoto is this weekend, March 22nd, featuring a Standard-format Grand Prix.
- The first Mythic Championship concluded February 24th, with Autumn Burnett taking the title of first Mythic Champion, as well as becoming the first non-male Pro Tour/MC winner, first trans + non-binary winner, and first English winner.
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fucking weird
A) Opening them like masterpieces, which would be fine as long as the normal versions are in the set
Buying a box. Which is kinda boring and completely irrelevant to someone like me who never buys boxes, but would triple the supply at least. This seems like the more likely option given the "Box Topper" labeling.
Also the art on some of these is really great. Like, here's the old art for Dark Depths, and here's the new art. Same scene, different angle!
Play Fanduel. One Day Fantasy Leagues use my referral
Be my friend on Magic Online! Dogbone19 is me.
Edit: The set will be priced at $335.76/box MSRP from your LGS, big box retailers will have 3 pack blisters for $34.99. Only full booster boxes come with the Ultimate Box Topper pack.
Karn Liberated was the last unknown box topper promo.
This the last Masters set "for a while."
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Fuck Joe Manchin
Switch - SW-7373-3669-3011
Fuck Joe Manchin
Read: Battlebond, Conspiracy, etc.
i really wish wotc would just reprint everything and destroy the secondary market, at this point
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CFN: Bizazedo (I don't think I suck, add me).
That's it, I'm voting Republican tomorrow because of this attack.
And I live in Arizona.
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CFN: Bizazedo (I don't think I suck, add me).
I wish I cared about any of the supplemental stuff like Battlebond or Conspiracy.
I wish I still knew what it was like to experience fun.
I mean a product with a $335 MSRP was announced today so...
i know and i respect people who are frustrated that price of things go up
but also this is such a nakedly, transparently capitalist game that i struggle to raise my eyebrows at this particular product
like why would they not
Where are you looking at pricing? There are hardly any sold eBay listings since the box toppers were first opened on Friday one sold for $26 and another mint one was BIN'd for $41. MTG Goldfish's tracker doesn't show a sharp decline yet.
Edit: I bought 4 last month for between $36 and $40 for minty ones.
edit:looks like that one was re-listed for 32.99.
Talking to LGS in NZ, it's looking like that's going to translate to roughly ~$600 NZD per box (~1.25 PS4 consoles), and most are not looking at selling single boosters at this time, so I'm guessing uptake from retailers here is going to be limited.
This take burned off my eyebrows
Nope, 20 I guess. The last couple had 15 but I guess they upped it.
hope you enjoy going to the card store and spending three hundred dollars on 4 slices of teferi cardboard
the biggest LCG just died
granted it was licensing, but rip