Tagged Magic: The Gathering

When you think of board games, one of two things might come to mind: a traditional family game night or an elaborate game that takes nearly as long to learn as it does to play. In my own family, there are some strong feelings about board games (and card games as well). My partner will argue that luck-based…

Mark Rosewater, head designer of Magic: The Gathering, has often described Magic as not just one game, but many different games that share a common rule set. What he means by this is that there are as many different styles of play as there are players. From pro grinders fine-tuning their decks to go up against…

Brian Lewis, better known as the Professor of Tolarian Community College, has made a career of reviewing card-gaming accessories, primarily deck boxes, card sleeves, and collection binders. Whereas with card sleeves the expectations are universal—that they are durable and will protect players’…

Cubes, in the collectible card gaming lexicon, are a way for players to simulate the experience of drafting a CCG expansion set. By assembling the cards that make up the set of your choosing, or just building your own “set” from the massive library of existing cards, you can draft those cards again and…

I’ve written a lot here in the past about the story line of Magic: The Gathering. More than the game itself, in fact. It’s a rich setting with nearly limitless potential due to the infinite worlds that comprise its Multiverse, but some of the recent choices that Wizards of the Coast has made…