Magic the Gathering

High Res art for FNM Bloodbraid Elf

Sent in by a fan, the artist Steve Argyle has the high qual­ity res­o­lu­tion of the art for April’s FNM card!

Upper Deck Entertainment Bites the Dust

Word broke yes­ter­day of lay-offs at Upper Deck, and today this was posted by an ex-employee on his Face­book wall:
With the loss of Yu-Gi-Oh! and World of War­craft we knew they were going to be strug­gling, but had hopes that their upcom­ing ‘Mar­vel Super­stars’ but that game cer­tainly seems to be in pur­ga­tory. We will see […]

Cost to Print Cards increasing

Col­lectibles blog, “Cult-Stuff” posted about the print­ing com­pany Car­ta­mundi, which prints Magic the Gath­er­ing as well as a host of other CCGs, hav­ing noti­fied man­u­fac­tur­ers that they would be increas­ing their prices at the end of this month in response to the increased cost of pulp. The Cult-Stuff post links to a BusinessWeek.com arti­cle that […]

New Magic application — ‘Learn to Play’

Today on twit­ter Elaine Chase, the Brand Direc­tor for Magic the Gath­er­ing, released the new page and appli­ca­tion to help play­ers learn to play Magic. The appli­ca­tion to down­load is for Windows only.

Learn to Play

Along with the appli­ca­tion there are six videos that explain the basic ele­ments of the game. The first video is ‘A Planeswalker’s […]

Duels of the Planeswalkers Expansion #2

Back in Feb­ru­ary we announced the news that Wiz­ards had renewed their deal with Stain­less Games, the com­pany behind the Xbox Duels of the Planeswalk­ers game. Today Wiz­ards announced the com­ing sec­ond expan­sion to the wildly pop­u­lar XBLA game. The announce­ment does not include any dates or time­line, only the fol­low­ing hints to what it […]