One box, twenty-four packs, and a price tag that only makes sense if you have a table full of friends to split it with. Photo by Pavel Danilyuk, via Pexels. According to ICv2, preorders for Mystery Booster: Commander Edition open October 19 through Festival-in-a-Box: Atlanta 2026, a Secret Lair drop, at $249.99. ICv2 also notes…
I’ll start with the nice part, because it’s true. Getting into Magic: The Gathering was one of the easiest things I’ve done in any hobby, and I’ve tried a lot of them. Woodworking, aquariums, books, computers and software. I go from one to the next. Magic is the one that kept pulling me back, and…
I love Magic: The Gathering. I’m saying that first because the rest of this might sound like I don’t. Magic was my first trading card game, played in a small town with a group of guys who seemed to have every card in the game memorized. Every mechanic, every counter. I loved Commander. I loved…
Here’s a strange bit of corporate timing: while Wizards of the Coast keeps operating without a president — a vacancy that’s stretched on long enough that we’ve covered it already — the Secret Lair team just quietly rolled out the biggest checkout fix in the storefront’s history. On September 28th, preorders opened for Commander Deck:…
If you were hoping to get into Magic: The Gathering’s upcoming Star Trek crossover on the cheap, Wizards of the Coast has some bad news for you. If you were instead hoping to drop $55 on a single die with a tiny painted starship suspended in resin, good news: that part of the crossover is…