Hasbro’s no stranger to giving credit where credit’s due when a video game helps save its ass financially, having already made plenty of to-do about how the blockbuster success of Baldur’s Gate 3 a few years ago provided a surge of interest in D&D. Now it’s thanking a video game of a different sort: the Final Fantasy saga, […]
Check Out the First ‘Magic’ Card for Avatar: The Last Airbender’
Magic: The Gathering has been doing crossover packs with various IP, and later this year, Avatar: The Last Airbender is joining those ranks. During this weekend’s MagicCon, Wizards of the Coast showed off its first card from the set dropping in late November. Naturally, that card is a Legendary featuring Aang manipulating water, fire, earth, and air while […]
The Best ‘Final Fantasy’ References in Its Huge ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Crossover
Today one of the biggest sets in Magic: The Gathering‘s recent history makes its grand arrival at last: Final Fantasy, the first of Magic‘s at-times-controversial “Universes Beyond” crossovers with other franchises to be given the full standard-legal treatment. It’s a marriage of two of gaming’s most beloved fantasy realms, and with absolute legions of fans of both Magic and Final […]
Magic: The Gathering Has a Final Fantasy XV Cup Noodle Card
Last week, Wizards of the Coast unveiled a sizable portion of its Final Fantasy cards coming to Magic: The Gathering in June. Now, the publisher’s revealing some more of what’s in store, and Final Fantasy XV fans will get a good laugh out of that game’s representation in this set. One of the Artifact cards players can get is “Instant […]
Final Fantasy X’s Laughing Scene Is Now a Magic: The Gathering Card
This past weekend Wizards of the Coast really lifted the lid on its upcoming Final Fantasy crossover set for Magic: The Gathering, but the oodles of cards revealed there were apparently not enough. Today the Magic team revealed even more cards to players, and they’re filled with incredible nods to Final Fantasy history… including an absolute gem from Final Fantasy X. […]
Magic: The Gathering’s Final Fantasy Set Looks Like a Match Made in Seventh Heaven
Magic: The Gathering‘s crossover era has been a divisive one for longtime players. Although there’s still plenty of original expansions to the venerable card game, the rise of “Universes Beyond,” Wizards’ umbrella for what has become a swath of licensed crossovers with everything from SpongeBob SquarePants to Lord of the Rings, has become increasingly prominent—and for […]
Hasbro Wants Tariff-Exempt Toys as Magic: The Gathering Cards Keep Selling
It’s been nearly a full month after the Trump administration’s tariffs went into effect (then semi-reversed), and several companies have been impacted. For the most part, Hasbro isn’t one of them. In the company’s recent investor call, CEO Chris Cocks said it was “well positioned” within the current global trade situation. Its games business is […]
Magic: The Gathering Is Unbanning Cards In a New Experiment
Over decades of competitive play, many a Magic card has either fallen out of valid use or been outright banned from official play altogether. But as Wizards of the Coast seeks to overhaul some formats of the games’ approach to potentially powerful cards, in one format it’s trying a new one entirely: unbanning cards on a […]
Magic: The Gathering’s New Expansion Wants You to Behold Some Dragons
Magic: The Gathering loves dragons. It loves them as major players in its lore, it loves them on lavish card art, it occasionally loves them in dungeons, when dallying about with its fellow Wizards of the Coast property. But as the venerable trading card game enters its next original expansion—on the precipice on its next, […]
Magic: The Gathering’s SpongeBob Cards Include the Perfect Meme
SpongeBob SquarePants has been around for over 25 years and—like any long-running pop-culture stalwart—has spawned associations that go way beyond the much-loved Nickelodeon animated series. Especially for people who grew up watching the show, SpongeBob has provided a seemingly endless source of meme material. And Magic: The Gathering, which has SpongeBob coming up on its […]