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MTG Color Combination Name Guide

MTG Color Naming Guide

One of the ways in which Magic: The Gathering (a.k.a. MTG or simply “Magic”) can be a hard game for new players to learn are the specialized names and terms that are frequently used by the playerbase at large. Among…

MTG Deck Archetype Name Guide

MTG Deck Archetype Naming Guide

Magic: The Gathering is known as a complex game that can often be difficult for new players to fully learn. This reputation has been earned not only because of the gameplay itself, but also because of the terms and jargon…

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Spoilers – Day Eight Roundup

Today marked the last day of the regular preview season for Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, the high-tech Japanese-inspired Magic set scheduled for a February 11 launch on MTG Arena. There’s still one rare and a number of commons and uncommons that…

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Spoilers – Day Seven Roundup

We’re approaching the finale of preview season for Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, the futuristic Japanese-inspired set set to launch on Arena February 11 and in paper February 18. Tomorrow will be the final day of previews for the regular set, and…

MTG: Arena Announcements, February 2, 2022

Today is Wednesday, which means Wizards of the Coast has published another of their once-weekly MTG Arena Announcements blog posts. In this continuing series, Wizards gives the community an update on things that are happening on the Arena client. Over…

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Spoilers – Day Six Roundup

Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice art by Randy Vargas

We’re starting to near the end of preview season for Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty – there are just two more days of spoilers to come before we’ve seen the full set. After previews end on Friday, we’ll only have to wait…

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Spoilers – Day Five Roundup

Preview season for the upcoming MTG set Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty marches on, and we’re back again with the full collection of the spoilers that were revealed today, January 31. We’ve got quite a few new rares and a mythic among…

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Spoilers – Day Three Roundup

It’s the third day of the official spoiler season for the upcoming February MTG set Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty. We’ve only got a handful of new cards from today, and tomorrow won’t have too many either as the previews typically slow…

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Debut Stream

This afternoon, January 27, Wizards of the Coast kicked off the preview season for Magic: The Gathering’s next expansion set, Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty. At 9:00 am Pacific, the company went live on both and YouTube with Light It Up: a…

MTG: Arena Announcements, January 26, 2022

Another Wednesday, another MTG Arena Announcements bulletin from Wizards of the Coast. This week, Wizards has revealed the preorder bundles for Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty in anticipation of the beginning of preview season tomorrow, Thursday, January 27. There are a couple…

MaRo’s Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Teaser Has Arrived

It’s shaping up to be quite an exciting week for MTG players: tomorrow, we’ll be getting some kind of significant banlist update and most likely a balancing changes to the Alchemy (and Historic) formats. Then just a few short days…

Top Mythic Decks – January 2022 Season – Week 3

Rotting Regisaur Art by Randy Vargas

With another week in January behind us, it’s time once again for us to review some of the most highly ranked decks we’ve come across in our Top Mythic Decks spotlight. This week, we’ll be continuing to focus on the…

WotC Confirms Ban Announcement Coming Tuesday, 1/25

Alrund's Epiphany Art by Kieran Yanner

On Thursday, Wizards of the Coast announced a surprise banning in the Pauper format through a video on YouTube and a discussion later in the evening on their Weekly MTG stream. Three cards were removed from Pauper (Atog, , and…

MTG: Arena Announcements, January 19, 2022

Welcome to another installment of the MTG Arena Announcements, where we distill all of the important information from Wizards of the Coast’s once-weekly informational blog on upcoming happenings for MTG Arena. It’s a bit of a short post this week,…

MTG: Arena Announcements, January 12, 2022

Arena Open Reward

The MTG Arena Announcements Return Today’s Announcements blog from Wizards of the Coast is the first since the series went on a holiday hiatus back on December 22. There are a couple of highly anticipated topics that are touched on…

MTG Alchemy: Balancing Changes Will Have to Wait for Now

Fearsome Whelp Art by Ilse Gort

Next Sunday, January 9, will mark one month since Wizards of the Coast introduced MTG’s newest format on Arena: Alchemy. The Arena-exclusive format, which contains rebalanced cards from Standard and mechanics that only function in a digital context, has been…

MTG: Arena Announcements, December 22, 2021

MTG Arena

The MTG Arena Announcements go on Holiday Break Following the surprise release of MTG Arena’s newest format, Alchemy, at the beginning of December, Wizards of the Coast has slowed down on the announcement of news, events and features on Arena.…

Introducing the MTG Arena Zone Championship Series

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Readers, Magic players, and members of the MTG Arena Zone community, it is our pleasure to announce that through our new esports organization, DotGG Events, we are launching a new line of digital tournaments: The MTG Arena Zone Championship Series!…

Top Mythic Decks – December 2021 Season – Week 3

Chandra, Dressed to Kill art by Viktor Titov

Welcome back to another installment of MTGA Zone’s Mythic Decks of the Week, where we review all of the decks we’ve collected and been sent over the last seven days and present the decks that made it to the highest…

New Leaks Reveal Art From Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty

Way back in August, Wizards of the Coast announced each of the Premier sets that would be coming to MTG in 2022 during the Magic Showcase 2021. Since then, while we’ve had information about the “joke set” Unfinity and a…

Top Mythic Decks – December 2021 Season – Week 2

Lotus Field Art by John Avon

The holiday season is rapidly approaching, but that hasn’t slowed down the grind on MTG Arena. Over the last week, we’ve seen a ton of decks, particularly from the Historic format, that have been shared with us by players who…