We are less than two weeks away from the Scars of Mirrodin pre-release, when players will be able to use all these new cards being released daily.  Many of these new spells have abilities and keywords we have not seen in years, or have never seen at all.  Now seems as good a time as [...]

The Scars of Mirrodin spoiler season has been a little unorthodox, at least as far as MTG spoiler seasons go.  The set is released at the end of September, yet there was really not a peep about it until one week ago.  Mechanics, Planeswalkers, and story have all been purely speculation, but the dam has [...]

"That card is broken!"  It has become the totally ubiquitous descriptive term, sort of like proclaiming two people have 'hooked up'.  Which means anything these days from a casual date, to full-on... well, let's just say the term covers all the bases (and I think you know exactly which bases are being referred to here).  [...]

One day after clandestine sources leaked the entire list, Duel Decks: Elspeth vs Tezzeret's contents were released by WotC on the official site.  From the moment of its announcement, the has been the most highly anticipated DD (the FtV: Exiled of Duel Decks) and the card lists don't disappoint.  A solid mix of of utility [...]

In a much ballyhooed (not by GatheringMagic.com, but by many others) and lovely ceremony Friday evening, Reinhart left the ranks of the single planeswalkers, to join forces with those duelists among us who can claim a bride (or groom).  That is, to be more precise, he got married.  In honor of such a perfect union, [...]

In what has become a fairly alarming habit, I've been drifting off during the day, and dreaming of Magic cards.  In fact, you could even say that visions of MTG cards dance in my head.  As before, after awaking with a start, the process of trying to piece together what small fractions of my fantasy [...]

Welcome to the dead zone.  It sounds much worse than it is, being the fairly news-lite period directly between two major Magic: the Gathering sets.  Still, there is not enough going on right now to focus, laser-like on one topic.  So, for that reason, and because it's summer, the perfect time to be lazy, let's [...]

Scars of Mirrodin is almost upon us... Well, not really.  But spoiler season will be starting soon, and before concrete information begins trickling out from the MTG community, we here at Gathering Magic would like to make a few predictions regarding the upcoming set. In this case, the predictions have been broken into three categories. [...]

During his prime, Gary Kasparov, like many other chess champions, would hone his craft by playing many opponents simultaneously.  And he would play these matches as quickly as possible.  The difficulty was that he never knew what to expect from game to game, and from challenger to challenger.  Each reaction could vastly change the game [...]

After attending the Seattle pre-release for Magic 2011 a few things became very apparent.  First, M11 is a solid, if not outstanding core set.  A fairly surprising conclusion reached only after much play testing (albeit only Limited).  Second, there are quite a few cards that graced M10 that we will sorely miss in the coming [...]