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In what is sure to become a regular feature on Robot Viking, here’s our first scented candle review.

Yes, it’s true, your interaction with Robot Viking needn’t end at the comment threads. We’re on Twitter too!

Wizards has been running some pretty cool contests lately, and this latest one looks like a lot of fun. It rewards creativity and Magic knowledge without requiring intricate knowledge of complicated rules. Just build a couple of decks and you might win a foil set of Mirrodin Besieged.

The Avenger class in 4E has some interesting abilities that aren’t mirrored in the stat blocks of any creatures found in the Monster Manual. These Avenging Painbringers are Paragon-level skirmishers sure to be more of a thorn in the PCs’ sides than your typical minions.

In the 80s, scare-mongering films and religious groups assumed that anyone who played a role-playing game would eventually become unable to spot the line between their fantasies and their reality. The millions of perfectly stable and happy RPGers around the world know that to be a bunch of bunk. But what if that line never [...]

If you play constructed Magic, new set releases are both exciting and terrifying. You’re excited when a card is unveiled that makes the deck you’ve been using a hundred times better. You’re terrified because…

With Mirrodin Besieged prerelease events just over a week away, it’s spoiler season. Unfortunately, due to a slight miscommunication, I’m about 24 hours late on my spoiler this time around, so the Sangromancer isn’t quite an exclusive surprise. Still, you’re all dying to hear what I have to say about yet another sweet black rare, [...]

In a fantasy RPG world you are often only as good as your magic items, and getting some magic defenses is often a PC’s first order of business. Rite Publishing’s #30 Rings of Defense broadens the options for characters of every level who are looking for their own One True Ring, or at least One [...]

After a hiatus of several months, Magic news aggregator TheStarkingtonPost.com is back with frequent daily updates. This is not your typical Magic site, though, and it’s worth a look even if you’re not a hardcore Pro Tour player.

Jim Ward, a game designer and author with TSR who is responsible for some of our most beloved 80s RPG games and adventures is having a rough time paying off some serious medical bills. A little help from the gaming community would go a long way toward easing the burden.

Magic is usually thought of as a fantasy game filled with wizards and elves and swords. Science-fiction has always been a part of the strange world of Magic, though, from the earliest artifacts to the upcoming expansion Mirrodin Besieged.

The title Strategists & Tacticians seems to cover an awful lot of ground, so you’d think it would be fairly easy to fit the contents under that broad umbrella. While this Pathfinder sourcebook from 4 Winds offers a lot of interesting ideas, it isn’t quite as focused as it could have been.

I’m working on my roughly biennial rereading of the Lord of the Rings — this is my fourth or fifth time through them, but having just finished Fellowship, something’s started to bother me that I hadn’t noticed before. It isn’t really a problem with Tolkien himself, or his storytelling. No, what’s really been bugging me [...]

Since October, when Shards of Alara and M10 rotated out of Standard, I’ve no longer had a functional deck to play. I’ve been watching for something that seemed reasonably competitive but wouldn’t obliterate my bank account. I’ve settled on the accurately named “Elves” deck, which can smash opponents for ludicrous amounts of damage as early [...]