{"id":824789,"date":"2025-12-10T01:34:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/magic-the-gathering-universes-beyond-gaming-perfection"},"modified":"2025-12-10T01:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:34:42","slug":"magic-the-gatherings-universes-beyond-tie-ins-are-synergistic-gaming-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/magic-the-gatherings-universes-beyond-tie-ins-are-synergistic-gaming-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic The Gathering\u2019s \u2018Universes Beyond\u2019 tie-ins are synergistic gaming perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To me, Wizards of the Coast<\/strong> is the company that made the Pokemon Trading Card Game<\/a>. That probably speaks to my age as well as to my level of exposure to the company: it was in fact only responsible for the first few waves of Western Pokemon<\/a> releases, before Pokemon spun up its own internal operation. That just so happened to be when the TCG had taken over my school playground. But, the point is, of everything WOTC has done, I typically still associate them with a brand they haven’t worked with for decades.<\/p>\n

Or to put it another way: I’ve never really been a Magic: The Gathering<\/a> person.<\/p>\n

This has never really tracked. It’s weird<\/em>, in fact. I was into the Pokemon TCG<\/a>, and regular readers of VG247 will know I am a disgraceful RPG mechanics nerd of the highest order. Magic is the sort of thing I should be into – but I’ve just never quite gotten around<\/em> to it. I needed some sort of push to get me into it – and Wizards has really found exactly the right way.<\/p>\n

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To me, Wizards of the Coast is the company that made the Pokemon Trading Card Game. That probably speaks to my age as well as to my level of exposure to the company: it was in fact only responsible for the first few waves of Western Pokemon releases, before Pokemon spun up its own internal operation. That just so happened to be when the TCG had taken over my school playground. But, the point is, of everything WOTC has done, I typically still associate them with a brand they haven’t worked with for decades. Or to put it another way: I’ve never really been a Magic: The Gathering person. This has never really tracked. It’s weird, in fact. I was into the Pokemon TCG, and…<\/p>\n

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