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Unearthed Arcana 2021: Mages of Strixhaven Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 14:45:18 +0000

Last weekend, Amazon leaked the titles of the next two D&D hardbacks: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight and Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos. Monday, WotC announced those books, and on Tuesday, we got a new Unearthed Arcana with five new subclasses from Strixhaven. In case you’re unfamiliar, Strixhaven is a Magic: the Gathering block, making this the third official M:tG crossover into D&D. Its story, insofar as I understand it, is “Tom Brown’s School Days but for spellcasters,” which is […]

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Mythic Odysseys of Theros Breakdown, Part One

Brandes Stoddard — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 13:00:47 +0000

Okay, yes, I could have written this way back when its text dropped on D&D Beyond, but as it turns out, my brain just does not want to work through the DDB text for breakdowns. DDB is great – I like it for literally everything but this. Anyway, it’s a MOoT point now. …nailed it. Part One | Part Two Welcome to Theros As usual, I’m going pretty quick through the setting material. I’ve seen some great commentary on how Theros’s […]

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UA: Races of Ravnica Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 17:29:50 +0000

Like a lot of people, my money was on this month’s UA being the Artificer, but I guess that’s coming in September. Instead, we get four new races from the upcoming Ravnica setting. I’m excited about Ravnica overall, for virtue of being a new-to-D&D setting, though I’m less invested in new races than I could be. I come to Ravnica with very little prior knowledge. Loxodon I don’t know about you, but an elephant-headed player race is a wonderful thing […]

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Plane Shift: Ixalan Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:35:12 +0000

Last week, just as January’s Unearthed Arcana dropped, we also got a new Plane Shift from James Wyatt titled Plane Shift: Ixalan. Now, I come in knowing precisely nothing about Ixalan, beyond guessing that I might get something Mesoamerican. The opening text talks about some dungeon-crawling action, so that’s promising. As usual, though, I’m not really here to critique the setting design, but to talk about how the mechanics support and inform the intended story. The setting looks like a […]

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Plane Shift: Kaladesh Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:52:21 +0000

It turns out that new Plane Shifts aren’t necessarily released in connection with Unearthed Arcana. News to me… but here we are! I’ve been out of touch with M:tG long enough that I’m coming into this without knowing one word about the plane of Kaladesh, but James Wyatt seems to know that might be common among the readers of this document, and he’s prepared for it.

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Plane Shift: Innistrad Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 04:01:39 +0000

There’s no new Unearthed Arcana yet this month, and maybe we’re not getting one – but we have something at least as good, and that’s James Wyatt’s new adaptation of a Magic: the Gathering plane to D&D 5e. This was announced, um, Monday I think, and released yesterday. If you’re not familiar with Innistrad, it’s a plane of Gothic horror, and it got priority over other planes because Curse of Strahd is the most recent release from the D&D side […]

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Magic: First Steps into Competitive Play

Ben Latham — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:15:11 +0000

Today, I’m writing something special, outside of the purview of my usual work in the Eye of the Beholder. Today, I’m talking about how to pick up Magic: The Gathering, and begin to play it more actively. As a bit of background, I’m a competitive MTG (Short for Magic: The Gathering) player. I’ve played at quite a few very large events, including GP Vegas, which I wrote a tournament report for. Now, I decided to talk a little about how […]

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Magic: The Gathering Modern Masters Weekend

Michael Long — Fri, 15 May 2015 13:56:52 +0000

Make Magic History! That’s what tens of thousands of Magic: The Gathering players and fans will be doing at the end of this month when the biggest Magic Premier Play event ever comes to three continents across the globe. Taking place May 28-31, Modern Masters Weekend will be a visual and competition-filled spectacle, simultaneously taking place in Las Vegas, Chiba, Japan and Utrecht, Netherlands over the course of one weekend. This unprecedented worldwide event is expected to draw 20,000+ players […]

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Magic: The Gathering announces Magic Origins

Michael Long — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 20:52:34 +0000

New Set to Release on July 17 Marks Pivotal Moment in Magic’s History and Lore February 9, 2015 – RENTON, WA – Wizards of the Coast announced today Magic Origins, a new Magic: The Gathering set releasing this July. This pivotal new set reveals the origin stories of five of Magic‘s most beloved Planeswalker characters. In the Magic: The Gathering Multiverse, some mages are born with a rare gift, simply known as “the spark.” When such mages face a great […]

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