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At long last, you can build, submit and share your deck to your friends via MTG Arena Zone! We’ve launched the beta service of our deck builder, which you can check out right now: We are releasing the feature in…
Innistrad is Magic: The Gathering’s gothic horror-themed setting, and it has been known since it’s debut as one of the most popular Magic planes among players and fans. The next two Standard legal sets to be released, Innistrad: Midnight Hunt…
Yesterday, we reported on the recent announcement that Insight Esports, an event organizer that held dozens of events on MTGMelee over the past year, would be dissolved in response to allegations of non-payment and other misconduct. The situation has been…
In this article: Insight Esports has been a significant host of digital tournaments on MTGMelee, regularly hosting 1ks and 5ks on the platform. Now, the organization is being shut down after lying about corporate sponsorships and running thousands of dollars…
It’s Wednesday again, which means it’s time for us to review another MTG Arena Announcements bulletin from Wizards of the Coast. We’re approaching the scheduled downtime for Arena which will coincide with a significant client update on Tuesday, August 24.…
Hello everyone! A few weeks ago I wrote on my Top 5 Standard 2022 decks to grind ladder with which seemed to resonate with a lot of our readers. If you’re interested in reading that, the link will be below.…
Mark Rosewater, commonly known as MaRo, is the long-standing MTG head designer at Wizards of the Coast, and he regularly posts on his blog where he answers questions submitted by Magic players and fans. On August 16, he responded to…
Once per year, Magic: The Gathering’s head designer Mark Rosewater writes up a reflection of the past year of game design in Magic. The piece is meant to provide an overview of how new card and set designs have gone…
Ever since the rise of the internet, “netdecking” has been a large part of Magic: The Gathering. The practice, which has been controversial among players since its inception, involves finding decklists that have been published by others online and constructing…
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons Hey everyone! It’s time to wrap up the Jumpstart: Historic Horizons review with the multicolored and colorless cards! There’s a lot of spice to go over so let’s dive in! As always, here’s the scale I’ll be…
Every Wednesday, Wizards of the Coast publishes a news bulletin for MTG Arena featuring news and upcoming events related to the client. This week, the Arena Announcements are focused on the upcoming release of the delayed set Jumpstart: Historic Horizons.…
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons Hopefully everyone is doing well! Watching the Challenger Gauntlet has got me especially excited for the release of Jumpstart: Historic Horizons. The Gauntlet metagame was almost entirely Jeskai Control with 10/24 players playing it. A couple Jund…
The Star City Games Tour Online continues, with the latest weekend being the third in the series. Star City Games is one of Magic: The Gathering’s largest and most prestigious tournament hosts, and the SCG Tour Online typically feeds into…
In late July, Wizards of the Coast announced a surprise product that has created a huge buzz the MTG Arena community- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons. The new set brings many of the cards from the straight-to-Modern paper sets Modern Horizons 1…
Over the course of the weekend, Magic Esports hosted the Challenger Gauntlet, a pro-level event where some of the best players from the pro season who aren’t already in the Magic Pro League (MPL) were pitted against each other with…
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons Hello everyone! I’m working with Chris this spoiler season to bring you accurate reviews and cool decklists for Historic. There’s a lot of new and powerful cards entering the format so this is an extremely exciting time…
This Saturday marked the second day of the Challenger Gauntlet, a high-level Magic tournament where players who aren’t a part of this season’s Magic Pro League (MPL) compete for a chance to compete at World Championship XXVII and in next…
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons Hello everyone! I’m working with Chris this spoiler season to bring you accurate reviews and cool decklists for Historic. There’s a lot of new and powerful cards entering the format so this is an extremely exciting time…
The Challenger Gauntlet kicked off this weekend as the first official event in the ’20-’21 Postseason. The three day tournament is an invitation-only event that pits some of the most successful non-MPL players from the regular season against each other…
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons Hello everyone! I’m working with Chris this spoiler season to bring you accurate reviews and cool decklists for Historic. There’s a lot of new and powerful cards entering the format so this is an extremely exciting time…
It feels like only yesterday we were looking through spoilers from Adventures in the Forgotten Realms, the most recent Standard set released for Magic: The Gathering. Today, however, Wizards of the Coast has given us a few early previews for…
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons Hey everyone! Jumpstart: Historic Horizons is just around the corner so it’s time to start thinking about how these new cards will impact the format. 782 cards are in this new expansion so I’m expecting that Historic…
It’s Wednesday, so that means it’s time once again to review the latest MTG Arena announcements bulletin from Wizards of the Coast. This time around, Wizards has provided more details on the August ranked season, which will be split into…
Hello everyone! We are excited to announce that the illustrious Chris Kvartek is officially joining MTG Arena Zone as a content creator! We are more than excited to have such a rare talent in the Magic community to produce wonderful…
It’s time once again for the Weekend Tournament Report, where we take a look at some of the biggest Arena tournaments each week and break down the meta and results. This weekend, most of the action took place at the…
Star City Games is one of Magic: The Gathering’s largest and most prestigious tournament hosts. Last weekend, they kicked off the new season of the SCG Tour Online, a series of competitive tournaments featuring the Standard format. If you missed…
See also: New 2 Kill in Historic Jumpstart: Historic Horizons has been generating quite a buzz in the Magic: Arena community, both because it is bringing a ton of cards from Modern Horizons and Modern Horizons 2 into the Historic…
See also: Infinite Death Triggers in Historic The upcoming direct-to-Arena set Jumpstart: Historic Horizons will be bringing a slew of cards from Modern Horizons and Modern Horizons 2 into the Historic format on August 12, along with 31 cards that…
The first day of the Arena Open tournament is now underway! In this iteration of the tournament, players can reach 7 wins before 3 losses in a best-of-one (BO1) Standard format or 4 wins before 1 loss in best-of-three (BO3)…
Wizards of the Coast has just published a new State of the Game bulletin for MTG arena (the second one this month) and along with release notes for the upcoming Historic Horizons, Wizards has also announced that a 100-card Historic…
This afternoon, Wizards of the Coast published their regular MTG Arena announcements bulletin with some new details about upcoming events. There are three main points of interest for Arena players in this week’s announcement: The Arena Open takes place this…
The SCG Tour Online is back! Star City Games is one of Magic: The Gathering’s largest and most prestigious tournament hosts, and on Tuesday of last week, they announced that their MTG Arena-based tournaments would be returning beginning this weekend…
It’s time once again for the Weekend Tournament Report, where we take a look at some of the biggest Arena tournaments each week and break down the meta and results. This weekend, we have a nice spread of event results…
Earlier this afternoon, July 23, an official Magic: The Gathering Discord bot apparently leaked an article dated July 26 describing the upcoming release of a product that will be exclusive to MTG Arena- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons. Robert Taylor (@fireshoes on…
This morning, Wizards of the Coast announced a major change to the Historic format: the suspension (temporary banning) of . Check out our article on the suspension for the full details. In addition to the Banned and Restricted Announcement, Wizards…
Yesterday, the internet discovered that a ban announcement page had been created, and many suspected that would be the target based on its extremely heavy metagame representation. Today, it has come to pass: Brainstorm is Suspended in Historic. Ever since…
[UPDATE: The Announcement has been made- Brainstorm is Suspended in Historic.] Clever minds in the Magic social media sphere have discovered that banned and restricted announcements from Wizards of the Coast are usually created the day before they go public.…
Star City Games has been known for many years as one of the largest retailers, event hosts, and Magic: The Gathering related content creators around, sponsoring events across many Magic formats both in-person and online. The SCG tournament circuit is…
It’s time once again for the Weekend Tournament Report, where we take a look at some of the biggest Arena tournaments each week and break down the meta and results. This weekend, Insight Esports, one of the largest event organizers…
