Remember those heady days just after Magic: The Gathering came out, when all of a sudden any TTRPG related publisher decided to push out their own trading card game? Well, so does Atlas Games it seems, who have been sitting on unopened “On the Edge” boxes for the last 30 years and are still selling […]| Stuffed Crocodile
Speaking from experience, buying and selling rare Pokémon cards on the internet can be a bit of a nightmare. Outside of the cards pricey enough to be officially graded and sealed inside a fancy case by the likes of PSA, looking for less top-dollar cards (look, I’m not Post Malone) comes with the constant risk of stumping up the cash for something that either doesn’t arrive at all, arrives in a condition different to what you were expecting or turns out to be a complete fake. I’m theref...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, Tabletop Creators Summit London 2024 has been cancelled. If you were registered to attend the summit, you will have been issued a pass for MCM Comic Con for Friday, May 24th. These passes remain valid should you still wish to attend MCM Comic Con itself. They can be collected from the Industry Desk at the West Entrance of the ExCeL. We apologise for any inconvenience caused as a result of the short notice. Read more| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Magic: The Gathering cards that use the sticker or Attraction mechanic from the 2022 Unfinity set have been banned in the Legacy, Vintage and Pauper formats. Publisher Wizards of the Coast outlined their reasoning in the most recent Banned and Restricted List update, citing a failed experiment on the part of partially legal sets. The ban centres primarily on the use of “_____ Goblin” (which players colloquially call Mind Goblin for, uh… reasons) in Vintage and Legacy, necessitating all ...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
GameStop plans to purchase single Pokémon Trading Card Game cards from individuals, as long as they’re graded by Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), extending the video game and pop culture retail chain’s trade-in model into another secondary market. According to Polygon, GameStop will soon accept single cards graded PSA 8 or higher on the popular collectible grading company’s 10-point rubric. After speaking to several locations in different states, Polygon reported that stores wi...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Magic: The Gathering’s Universes Beyond crossovers have been a far bigger success than anyone was really expecting. For players, they’re a fun chance to play the game we love with a nice mix of TV shows, movies and video games represented. For the card game’s maker Wizards of the Coast, it’s been money constantly, and has helped prop up some of the other Hasbro-owned companies that haven’t been doing so well. Even though there are some legitimate criticisms of Universes Beyond - suc...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
A new Disney Lorcana enchanted rare Cinderella card will enable players to sing songs that cost up to nine ink to play, for free. Set to be released as part of the upcoming fourth set for trading card game Disney Lorcana, Ursula’s Return, Cinderella, Melody Weaver is an enchanted rare card: making it one of the rarest cards featured in the newest set. The card, which Dicebreaker can exclusively reveal, will feature artwork of the iconic Disney princess by artist noc4urne, with the character...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Fans who have been clamoring for an English release of the Japanese-exclusive manga "Destroy All Humans. They Can't Be Regenerated. A Magic: The Gathering Manga", rejoice. Viz Media just announced that an official translation will reach Western shores in Fall 2024 and will come with an exclusive card in the first volume. First released in Kadokawa’s Monthly Shonen Ace magazine as a single issue in mid-2018, the manga picked up a serialized run in November of the same year and found a ferven...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Welcome back, Black Lotus. Magic: The Gathering’s single most famous card has returned to the top of the expensive cardboard pile thanks to a private auction where someone paid a soul-squeezing $3 million for a copy considered to be in perfect condition. The news comes from CGC Cards, a grading company that examined the Black Lotus in a crossover submission from Adam Cai of valuables sourcing outfit Pristine Collectibles. Cai’s seven-figure transaction with an online collector who goes by...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Did you know that Magic: The Gathering maintains a digital client where you can play online (two of them, actually)? Sure, Magic Arena is a known entity within the hobby, but publisher Wizards of the Coast barely promotes its existence to anyone slinging cardboard in the real world. That will change in May thanks to a promotion that rewards Arena goodies when you show up to drafts at your local hobby shop. Outlined in a recent post to MTG’s mothership website, the popular trading card game ...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Magic: The Gathering’s month-late April Fool’s joke has landed with a dull thud thanks to the poisonous combination of Comic Sans font and the Mocking Spongebob meme’s jeering capitalisation style. Five alternate art card reprints in a new Secret Lair will sport the text and font combination on name, rules and flavour text, resulting in a hard-to-read and hard-to-swallow experience. The sAnS mERcy Secret Lair was revealed on Magic: The Gathering’s YouTube page on May 1st. It includes ...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
We are fast approaching another big Magic: The Gathering set after leaving behind the yeehaw deserts of Thunder Junction, which invariably means the return of spoiler season. But this time, enterprising leakers beat Wizards of the Coast to the punch by releasing heaps of images from the upcoming Modern Horizon 3 set online, so much so that the publisher responded with their own, better quality spoilers. Leaks are a fact of life when dealing with a trading card game on MTG’s size and popular...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Yu-Gi-Oh! is one of the world’s biggest trading card games, but did you know it held Guinness World Records for tournament participation size? Chalk one more medal (or trophy? What does Guinness hand out?) for publisher Konami, who managed to break their previous record and set another at Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series Japan TOKYO 2024. Held at the Tokyo Big Sight (aka the Tokyo International Exhibition Center) on April 28th and 29th, the event marked the first time in the YCSJ’s ten-year ...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Hatsune Miku and Magic: The Gathering are teaming up to release four separate Secret Lair series featuring the world-renowned digital pop star with the trading card game’s art. The first of these include six alternately illustrated cards from different artists, each depicting Miku in a slightly different fashion. The four Secret Lair drops, which reprint existing MTG cards in limited quantities, will correspond to the four seasons starting with spring. Appropriately, the Hatsune Miku: Sakur...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
A new Disney Lorcana mechanic called Sing Together will allow players to work together to play powerful songs in the trading card game’s upcoming Ursula’s Return expansion. Sing Together, revealed by TheGamer, functions very similarly to the singing mechanic that has been present in Lorcana since its launch, but with one crucial twist - a player’s teammates can exhaust their own characters to help pay for the steep cost on these six massive cards. In an expansion with a bunch of The Lit...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Dipping into other worlds beyond Magic: The Gathering’s core multiverse has paid dividends for the trading card game, according to Hasbro’s CEO Chris Cocks. During a recent investor call, Cocks praised MTG’s continued financial muscle and tied it, in part, to the early success of the recent Fallout Commander crossover. “I would say Fallout has been a great set,” Cocks told investors. “I’m a little bit of a fanboy, so I’ll try not to preen a little bit too much - I’ve been pl...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Earth’s mightiest heroes travelled through time and space to stop Thanos in Avengers: Endgame, but they couldn’t actually save the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Just as the Mad Titan predicted, its rapid expansion turned out to be unsustainable. After years of big spending on TV shows and films yielded only shrinking audiences and mediocre reviews, the franchise effectively collapsed under its own weight. Now Marvel Studios is scrapping and delaying projects as it puzzles out the best way to...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
Magic: The Gathering’s corporate parent sang its praises to investors during a recent quarterly earnings call, once again heaping accolades on the trading card game’s strong performance as Hasbro attempts to pull out of its year-long nosedive. CEO Chris Cocks assured investors that MTG’s future remains strong, but the same couldn’t be said for Magic Arena’s digital app. Outlaws of Thunder Junction has only been on shelves for about a week, but the company is already seeing what Cock...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed
The next set for Disney Lorcana will introduce cards that enable players to use the Shift keyword without paying the ink cost. Disney Lorcana is a trading card game published by Ravensburger that has players building and using decks featuring cards based on characters, songs and references from throughout the studio’s animated history. Each player will have to build or use a pre-built deck of 60 cards against one or more opponents, with the goal of being the first to gather 20 lore. Playing...| Dicebreaker Latest Articles Feed