Bringing a Hobby to Life With Wizards’ M:tG Holiday Gift Box
GeekDad Rory brings his favorite hobby to his step-son this holiday season.
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Tag: Magic the Gathering
Magic: The Gathering's Theros Set Releases Tomorrow!
Magic: The Gathering‘s Theros is the latest expansion for the venerable CCG, and features 249 new cards hot on the heels of the M14 Core Release. The setting of Theros is incredibly cool from a world-building perspective, and the new special rules are fantastic and show great promise for interesting games.
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Magic 2014—Duels of the Planeswalkers
The new Magic 2014—Duels of the Planeswalkers game has been released!
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TableTop Finally Plays a Deck-Building Game with the Totally Awesome Smash Up
Wil and friends take on “the shufflebuilding game of total awesomeness”, Smash Up, in this episode of Geek& Sundry’s TableTop. Ninjas, robots, wizards, pirates, and more do battle in this hilarious episode of the tabletop game show.
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Exclusive: Magic: The Gathering Spoiler Card for the Upcoming Dragon Maze
GeekDad reveals an exclusive card for the upcoming Magic: The Gathering set “Dragon’s Maze”.
Continue ReadingMagic: The Gathering Spoiler Card for Return to Ravnica
This October, it will be time to Return to Ravnica. Ravnica is a world covered entirely by city and ruled over by ten powerful Guilds. On October 5th, this revered Magic: the Gathering set will kick off an exciting new …
Continue ReadingNew Collectible Card Game From the Creators of Ascension Hits Kickstarter
Richard Garfield, the creator of the first and still best-selling collectible card game, Magic: The Gathering, has a new online CCG coming out called SolForge. It’s being published by Gary Games, the company of top Magic player Justin Gary, which …
Continue ReadingGeekDad’s Exclusive Magic: The Gathering M13 Spoilers
The M13 Core Set is Wizard of the Coast’s compilation of the best cards, classics that have entered into the Magic canon. With every set we release an exclusive spoiler, but this time we have two! Well, sorta. Click through …
Continue ReadingA Newbie’s Experience With Magic: The Gathering
I am relatively new to Magic: The Gathering. I remember hearing about it, years ago when it was new. But it seemed that only kids played it. No one I knew was into it. I was 20 by the time it came out in 1993, busy going to college, so it passed me by. I always loved board games, but I couldn’t afford collectible card games which required money to keep buying cards to improve your deck
Continue ReadingLast Chance to Support Serpent’s Tongue – Become Power on Kickstarter!
Part collectible card game, part role playing game, Serpent’s Tongue is a Kickstarter campaign in its final few days. It blew past its threshold very quickly, and has added many extra rewards and special things for those that support it. …
Continue ReadingToo Much Geekery, Too Soon?
This morning, my son Leif stumbled bleary-eyed from his bedroom and the first thing he said was, “Dadda, if I had one more forest manna I would’ve totally smoked you last night.” He turned six last week. And I wonder, …
Continue ReadingGeekDad’s Exclusive Avacyn Restored Spoiler Card
Our latest Magic: The Gathering spoiler card is for Avacyn Restored, the final set of the Innistrad block, which features a dark land overrun by vampires, zombies, and werewolves.
Continue ReadingGeekDad’s Exclusive Magic: The Gathering “Dark Ascension” Preview Card
I’m awfully excited about the Dark Ascension card we’ve been given to preview. It’s powerful and sinister, a game-changer that can put the fear of destruction in your opponent toward the end of the game — the monster is actually …
Continue ReadingBig Bang Theory: Mystic Warlords of Ka’a on Facebook — Awesome DVD Giveaway!
If you watch The Big Bang Theory regularly, and even if you only tune in now and then, you may recall the first episode in which Wil Wheaton appeared playing an “evil” version of himself. The plot in that episode …
Continue ReadingAuthor Matt Forbeck to Write 12 Novels in 2012
If you thought writing an entire novel in a single month was crazy, you should check out what author, game designer, and fellow GeekDad contributor Matt Forbeck plans to tackle next year. For his 12 for ’12 project, Forbeck is …
Continue ReadingGrow Your Own Colony of Gubs With This Family Strategy Card Game
Gamewright has done it again, creating another family game that’s easy to learn, easy to share, and easy on the wallet: Gubs. The artwork is cute and whimsical, the concept is fun and engaging, and it is even packaged in …
Continue ReadingInnistrad Brings Magic: The Gathering to the Lands of Horror
After several sets featuring rather arcane cosmologies, MtG publisher Wizards of the Coast is visiting Innistrad, a plane filled with werewolves, vampires and other classic horror elements. Horrifying creatures have always existed on Innistrad. The humans of this world have …
Continue ReadingGeekDad’s Magic: The Gathering 2012 Core Set Preview
Whenever Wizards of the Coast puts out a new set of Magic: The Gathering cards, we get a card of our very own to show off. This time it’s for the 2012 Core Set, in which they update the the …
Continue ReadingEvent Deck is an Easy Entry to Magic: The Gathering
One of the challenges with Magic: The Gathering is that building a deck can intimidate a newbie more than, perhaps, their level of interest can handle. And understandably so: not everyone has the same levels of time, energy and interest. …
Continue ReadingExclusive Magic the Gathering Spoiler Card:Mirrodin Besieged
Once again GeekDad has been given a new Magic: The Gathering card to spoil, this time for their latest set, Mirrodin Besieged. Previous releases have been dramatic game-changers, cards that spell doom for your opponent if you draw it — …
Continue ReadingThe Best Magic is in Japan
The best players of Magic: The Gathering that is… The 2010 Magic: The Gathering World Championships is the culmination of the Magic year. Players from more than 50 countries will come together in Chiba, Japan December 9-12, to square off …
Continue ReadingGeekDad’s Exclusive Magic: The Gathering “Scars of Mirrodin” Spoiler
Scars of Mirrodin is Magic: The Gathering’s new block and boy, does it look cool: a metal world with five suns, one for each color of mana. Mirrodin is home to races familiar to the Multiverse like humans and elves, …
Continue ReadingMagic: The Gathering Goes Twitter This Weekend
Are you ready to celebrate the Summer of Multiplayer with a whole new twist on Magic? Wizards of the Coast is excited to announce a new way to experience Magic – TweetMTG! On July 31-August 1, log in for a …
Continue ReadingArchenemy puts a twist on Magic: The Gathering
Throughout its 17-year history, Magic: The Gathering has maintained a consistent “duel” mentality where each player pretty much is out to win everything for him or herself and everyone has an equal footing. However, with Archenemy, there is one bad …
Continue ReadingMagic: The Gathering Launch Parties to Benefit Child’s Play Charity
Wizards of the Coast recently announced a pledge to donate up to $22,000 to Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play organization in honor of the Magic 2011 launch. The Child’s Play organization, which provides game materials to children in hospitals, is made …
Continue ReadingMagic The Gathering 2011 Core Set Exclusive Spoilers!
Once again we present our exclusive spoilers for the latest Magic: The Gathering set. This time, for the 2011 Core Set that gathers together the best and most classic monsters and spells from the game’s various lines. The Magic: The …
Continue ReadingDuels of the Planeswalkers Heats up on Xbox LIVE Arcade
Wizards of the Coast recently announced that the second expansion for Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers will be available May 12, 2010 on Xbox LIVE Arcade. With the new expansion, Magic: The Gathering and video game fans …
Continue ReadingGeekDad’s Exclusive Rise of the Eldrazi Spoiler
Once again, Wizards of the Coast has seen fit to bestow upon us an exclusive Magic: The Gathering spoiler card! This time it’s for their latest expansion set, Rise of the Eldrazi. For thousands of years, Zendikar has had a …
Continue ReadingWrite About Magic: The Gathering, Win a Trip to San Juan
Wizards of the Coast is running a contest: tell them an entertaining but true story about Magic and the best two stories win a trip to the MtG Pro Tour in San Juan, Puerto Rico. What is the most fun …
Continue ReadingWizards of the Coast Brings International Magic Festival to San Diego
WHAT: Wizards of the Coast is returning to San Diego for the first Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour of the 2010 season. This premier event takes place February 19 – 21 at the San Diego Convention Center and will feature …
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