Loyal followers of GatheringMagic.com know that this site's founders have always worshiped at the colorpie alter.   The principle that each color should remain a distinct and flavorful shrine to the ideals that are inherent in each slice of the color pie is essential to the success of the game.   So whenever some aspect of [...]

This has been the cleanest spoiler season I've been lucky enough to be a part of thus far!  Most, if not all of the cards in the set were revealed only when Wizards chose to reveal them!  We're only 72 hours away from Scars of Mirrodin Pre-Release events around the world and only now are [...]

Spoiler season can go by so fast sometimes!  Wizards has recently been very good about keeping these spoilers coming day in and day out so often, many of us miss the opportunity to digest the potential impacts of some of these cards.  I know that I've misread a card or two only to go back [...]

Loyal readers of GatheringMagic.com already know about my healthy, if often creepy obsession with Planeswalkers.  If I were going to choose one move that Wizards of the Coast has made in the past five years to better the game of Magic I would surely point to the recent focus on our favorite heroes.  These popular [...]

This weekend marks the official kickoff to Scars of Mirrodin spoiler season.  To celebrate, Wizards threw a couple of parties- one after PAX in Seattle, and another in Amsterdam.  We've been gathering these spoilers for you all weekend and have them up on our main spoiler site.  With these cards in hand, we're starting to [...]

Usually I leave the baseball references to my cohort, Leaf.  But today, I've been allowed to helm our famous 'Three Up Three Down' article series for Magic 2011.  The basic premise, in case you missed previous posts, is not only predicting cards duelists will play but also giving a good idea as to which cards [...]

After a new set has been released we usually go back and take a look at our predictions for that set and see how we did.  With core sets, it is difficult to really predict anything out of the ordinary.  You're going to have five planeswalkers, you're going to see a lot of the same [...]

A long, long time ago, on kitchen tables not so far away, Magic the Gathering players spent hours nursing their home-brewed concoctions.  Full spoiler lists were all but impossible to find and Top 8 decklists just weren't available to the average player.   Through sheer Force of Will, Logical Reasoning and Rhystic Study, these decks were [...]

Blue's dominance over Magic the Gathering's metagame tends to ebb and flow like the tides of Tolaria.  Wizards has struggled to keep blue a flavorful, fun and relevant color whilst preventing a total cerulean lockdown of Standard.  This is difficult, if not impossible, to adhere to with the never-ending releases of new cards.  There is [...]

It’s that time again!  The newest core set has been completely spoiled and millions of Magic the Gathering players are rushing to their favorite spoiler page for the goods.  Each time a new product is released, Leaf and I both put out a “Top 5″ list for that set highlighting some of the cards we [...]