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383 players are participating in the Japanese event of the Red Bull Untapped series – a string of tournaments leading into the Red Bull Untapped Finals later this year. After 8 rounds of Swiss play on Saturday, top 64 competitors have…

We are now only a week in to the release of Zendikar Rising and it feels like it’s already been here for much longer! The hype has settled down somewhat, and as usual we have rounded up the both Standard…

Hello everyone! I’m back with a Zendikar Rising Standard Meta Snapshot just in time for the Standard Metagame Challenge event this weekend! Before I get started, I’ll explain how I define each tier as there are many different interpretations to…

Wizards of the Coast has made an announcement where they state that they’re going to update the format early next week. The likely suspect is just an Uro, Titan of ban, which players have been pushing for for months, so…

We are keeping a close eye on the Zendikar Rising Standard metagame as it develops, and this will be our third daily coverage before we delve into individual decks and metagame in more detail. Four-Color Omnath Omnath decks may be…

70 players have registered to play the sixth Hooglandia Open in a brand new Standard season! The tournament consisted of best-of-three Standard rounds under a double elimination structure, hosted by Jeff Hoogland. Check out the highlights and coverage in the…

The second day of Zendikar Rising is well underway, where we saw users unable to play a significant portion of the day after the rocky launch day. Now with the MTG Arena client stabilizing, we have a wealth of resources…

On September 17, Zendikar Rising set has debuted on MTG Arena. It was not the smoothest of sailings in the first few hours of the launch as the game client wasn’t able to withstand the load of so many people…

The latest Zendikar Rising Game update patch (click here for the patch notes) went live almost 12 hours ago, and in one of the most troubled set launches in MTG Arena history, the development team is working hard to fix…

Zendikar Rising arrives to MTG Arena on September 17, and Magic fans are very excited for both the new set and the yearly rotation in Standard that it heralds. As is their custom, Wizards of the Coast once again have…

While Historic probably won’t end up getting as much of a shakeup with Zendikar Rising, there are still many cards that will have applications in current archetypes or contribute to new ones. One thing that is very apparent in this…

Zendikar Rising full spoilers have been out for almost a week now, and while everyone was busy watching the Mythic Invitational, I was brewing decks (okay, I watched the Mythic Invitational as well…)! The new modal double-faced card mechanic adds…

Hellowsa to all of you Gandalf’s and Harry Potters out there! Zendikar Rising is around the corner so it is a good time to talk about potentially strong cards. In this guide, we will try to discuss all the cards…

We are just a few days away from the release of Zendikar Rising, the latest Magic: The Gathering Expansion and players will have a brand new metagame to explore half way through the season. Many will prefer to finish the…

The 2020 Mythic Invitational is in full swing and all 160 Historic decks registered by the competitors are now revealed! You can find all of them below, and also be sure to check out our other resources dedicated to the…

Welcome to MTG Arena Zone’s coverage of the 2020 Mythic Invitational tournament! Here you will find all the information you need including the live stream, VOD, and text coverage of each round as the tournament progresses. Remember to keep refreshing…

122 players have been invited to participate in the fifth week of SCG Tour Online Season Two Championship Qualifiers. Players who participated in the daily challenge events throughout the week were eligible to participate based on the number of points,…

Landfall Landfall is an old mechanic from Magic’s past that has always been related to the plane of Zendikar, and was introduced for the first time in 2009 in the fiftieth MTG expansion, which first introduced that plane. The ability…

The opening week of September kicked off the new Ranked season. Players have started yet another ladder climb to reach the Top 1200 Mythic spot that would allow them to participate in the October 2020 Zendikar Rising Qualifier Weekend. In this article, we…

Our weekly Historic Open is a free to enter tournament that we run in collaboration with the HistoricMTG subreddit community to bring you cash prizes! Check out this week’s highlights and coverage in the VOD, metagame and decklists for you…

Hello, Planeswalkers from across the globe! Today we will take a look at one of the new keywords making a debut in Zendikar Rising: “Party”.

Hello Planeswalkers from across the globe! Zendikar Rising spoiler season is in full swing, and tons of cards are being revealed each day. Old mechanics have been brought back, while new and out of the ordinary designs are being presented.…

This week’s Magic: The Gathering wallpaper featured by Wizards of the Coast is the alternate showcase art of Omnath, Locus of Creation by Bastien Grivet, one of the first Mythic Rares in Zendikar Rising to be spoiled. The new card…

The September 2020 Ranked Season has begun, running from August 31, 12:05 PT (20:05 UTC), ends September 30 at 12:00 PT (19:00 UTC) and we have all the details for you below. Zendikar Rising is the big release happening half…