For those of you waiting for WotC to release an official support product for the very unofficial format of EDH (also called Commander), you can exhale at last.  MTG: Commander has been announced, let there be dancing in the streets!  Of course, like any Magic product, there are bound to be ups and downs - [...]

As is the annual tradition around Thanksgiving, not just with Gathering Magic, it is time to give thanks for what great things life has brought us this past year.  Because just about all the non-Magic related events are either boring, or boring to hear about (except Reinhart’s wedding of course!) we’re keeping this list strictly [...]

Write this down: Gathering Magic loves Wizards of the Coast.  They develop, create, and sell the best game in the world in our humble opinion (even better than Call of Duty: Black Ops).  This doesn’t mean there isn’t a bone to pick from time to time.  When decisions made on the mother-ship get stuck in [...]

Hey folks, it’s your old pal Timmy, Power Gamer here, guest-writing for Leaf today.  So much has happened since I last got a chance to ‘holler at you’.  Zendikar was released along with two follow up blocks (including my all-time favorite set: Rise of the Eldrazi), and the Magic 2011 Core set.  So many drool-worthy [...]

When Scars of Mirrodin was announced, MTG players were expecting quite a few things.  Not the least of these was a new answer to the Control Decks that were sure to dominate the new Standard environment.  While duelists may have had no love for Cascade towards the end, it was understood that Magic is a [...]

Here we are again, treading water through the Dead Zone hoping any tidbit of MTG news to lighten our days.  With none seemingly forthcoming, now is one of those times to Ponder the more minute details of the Magic the Gathering Universe.  For example, why does green so often get assigned decay-type abilities like wither [...]

It has always been a pet peeve of mine, when commentators (like we here at Gathering Magic.com) criticize, then refuse to take responsibility when those critiques prove mistaken.  For example, if we were to declare that WotC would never produce a set of all multi-colored cards, it would be only fitting after the release of [...]

The latest Magic expansion, Scars of Mirrodin, is having a bit of an identity crisis.  Over eighty cards are included outside of the five-color wheel that forms the foundation of the game.  While not necessarily a world-ending problem, this muddling does tend to create confusion within the colors themselves.  For example, does Darksteel Sentinel ally [...]

Two months ago, we knew very little about Scars of Mirrodin beyond two things.  It was a return to the plane of Mirrodin (we properly assumed that from the title), and the Tezzeret and Elspeth were going to appear as Planeswalkers (which obviously turned out to be incorrect).  Everything else was a mystery, one that [...]

Coming back from vacation to find the second half of Scars of Mirrodin had been revealed, was like coming downstairs and finding each of my Christmas presents already opened.  Each card has already been revealed, judged, and put aside by the masses.  That made choosing a Top 5 interesting to say the least.  On one [...]