Magic the Gathering

Commander Focus: Tymaret, The Murder King

Zombies are a classic fantasy creature. Shambling, undead corpses brought to life by a Necromancer to be smelly and gross and ruin your whole village for fun (fun for the Necromancer, the zombies feel nothing). Wizards has printed a...

ebay Aquires TCGPlayer: The Goonhammer Hot Take

Yesterday eCommerce giant eBay announced it had entered into an agreement to buy rival ecommerce platform TCGPlayer, which specializes in collectible card game products. The deal is expected to close in Q1 2023, and for a total deal value...

Goonhammer Reaction Roundtable: The Wizards Presents 2022 Livestream

On Thursday Wizards of the Coast rolled out its 2022 livestream, showcasing its upcoming Dominaria United set for Magic: the Gathering and previewing a ton of other new products, including a new edition of Dungeons and Dragons and new...

Commander Focus: Firesong and Sunspeaker, a Healing Flame

There was a weird throwaway comment from the rules committee about them just not liking Boros. I don't know why a group that supposedly strives for impartiality and to be a group that fairly enacts rules to promote a...

Commander Focus: Chatterfang, a Chatter of Squirrels

I think most people know that a group of crows is called a murder, fewer are aware of the standard naming convention for a group of squirrels. And while traditionally a group of squirrels is called a drey (hence...

Battle for Baldur’s Gate: Preconstructed Deck New Card Roundup

Magic's most recent expansion had us travel to Baldur's Gate on a grand adventure, and in addition to the set itself, we got the usual suite of companion preconstructed decks. We've covered the the decks individually, but this week...

Unstable Mutation: Mind Flayarrrs

This was actually a fairly hard to write article for a strange reason - Mind Flayarrrs is a pretty good deck out of the box. Normally the game plan of the precons are just plain bad. It's some variant...

Unstable Mutation: Draconic Dissent

In our Unstable Mutation series we look at the prerelease decks of various sets, talk about their contents, and talk about how to improve them taking them from an off-the-shelf disaster into something that's worth bringing to the table...

Unstable Mutation: Party Time

In our Unstable Mutation series we look at the prerelease decks of various sets, talk about their contents, and talk about how to improve them taking them from an off-the-shelf disaster into something that's worth bringing to the table...

Unstable Mutation: Exit from Exile

Wizards has apparently backed off their strategy of horrible tri-color pre-cons full of ETB tapped lands, monstrous mana bases, horrible over-costed mana rocks, and ridiculous 5+ cost sorceries. The preconstructed decks for Baldur's Gate are all fairly decent, tighter,...