Gifts for fantasy fans: magic, dragons and more

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them. That is part of the inscription Sauron...

Every gaming group knows the moment: the Dungeon Master silently places a huge miniature on the table, and suddenly nobody says a word. With Tiamat...

Apart from Hogwarts, there's no safer place for your treasures, Hagrid tells young Harry before the two of them rattle down in a cart into the dept...

When a scream suddenly falls from the sky over Minas Tirith, even seasoned soldiers of Gondor lower their spears. The Nazgûl have traded their hors...

Once you have heard Gollum arguing with himself in the half dark, you won't forget it in a hurry. On one side Sméagol, once a harmless river dwelle...

“We hates him! No, he's our friend!” Few scenes in Middle-earth are as eerie and as sad at the same time as Gollum arguing with himself. Sméagol, o...

On Platform 9¾ you can spot Hogwarts students from a mile away, at the latest by their necks. Red and gold or green and silver: nothing makes the h...

„Lok'tar Ogar!“ Wer diesen Ruf kennt, hat in Azeroth schon mal Rot getragen. Der Schlachtruf der Orcs heißt so viel wie „Sieg oder Tod“ und ist sei...

„Lok'tar Ogar!“ Wer diesen Ruf kennt, hat in World of Warcraft schon die Seiten gewählt. Im Online-Rollenspiel von Blizzard kämpfen seit 2004 Allia...

Neun Gefährten brachen in Bruchtal auf, um den Einen Ring nach Mordor zu tragen. Fünf von ihnen haben es bis an deinen Weihnachtsbaum geschafft, un...

Commander, also known as EDH, is for many the most social format in Magic: The Gathering: 100 cards, one legendary commander and a table full of fr...

In Aetherdrift, the 2025 Magic set, spells aren't cast to rule but to win: drivers from different worlds compete in an insane race across the Multi...

Anyone who has ever fished a valuable card off a kitchen table that was covered in jam a moment ago knows: a trading card game deserves a better st...

Long before Aang learned to master all four elements, Avatar Kuruk of the Water Tribe watched over the balance of the world and hunted dangerous sp...

Every planeswalker has an unmistakable face: Liliana with her glowing violet gaze, Jace under his blue hood, Tezzeret with his shock of white hair....

Every collector knows the moment when a favourite card slips out of the pile, glides under the table and turns up again with a crease. Only one thi...

If you play Commander, you know the problem: a hundred-card deck doesn't fit in a normal deck box, and as soon as the second deck, the dice and the...

In Avatar: The Last Airbender, benders each master one of the four elements, and only the Avatar can control all four. Magic players know the princ...

Trading cards don't just tell their stories through rules text, they tell them above all through their art. In Magic, every expansion gets a world ...

Tournament night with your local gaming group: your deck is in one trouser pocket, your dice are rattling in the other, and your life counter has v...

Sixty cards, fifteen in the sideboard, plus a handful of dice and counters: that is all a classic tournament deck needs. A huge box for a hundred c...

On Ravnica, the city plane of Magic: The Gathering, ten guilds hold sway, each with its own colour pair and its own leader: the law-keepers of the ...

Every collector knows the shoebox under the bed: somewhere in there lies the one card everyone is asking about right now, and of course it's right ...

At the Strixhaven academy of magic, you don't simply pick your classes, you end up in one of five colleges. Silverquill swears by the power of word...

Friday night at the game store, Friday Night Magic is on, and between rounds the trading begins. Turn up with a heavy binder under your arm and you...

Every new Magic set is a little adventure: rip open the boosters, sort them, and sooner or later the question lands on the table of where all those...

The rattlesnake this box is named after moves sideways across the desert sand, and its namesake opens exactly the same way: to the side instead of ...

A Commander night at a friend's place is logistically a small house move: everyone brings at least one deck of 100 cards, plus a playmat, dice for ...

Magic: The Gathering reinvents itself several times a year. Every set takes players to a different world, sometimes to a race across the Multiverse...

Magic thrives on its worlds. With Edge of Eternities, the game moved into the vastness of space, to the edge of a star system full of secrets, wher...

In Magic you can put no more than four copies of any card in your deck. The community calls those four a playset, and anyone who builds decks serio...

In the wizarding world a Chocolate Frog is never just chocolate: every pack contains a collectible card featuring a famous witch or wizard, and the...

Some heroes don't need words. Link barely says a single sentence in the entire Zelda series, and yet everyone who has ever held a controller knows ...

Christmas at Hogwarts means Hagrid hauling enormous fir trees into the Great Hall, candles floating beneath the enchanted ceiling, and anyone stayi...

Beneath the Hogwarts crest sits a Latin motto that hardly anyone bothers to translate: Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus, never tickle a sleeping ...

At Hogwarts, an old talking hat decides where you belong. It sits on your head, mutters a little about courage, hard work, cleverness or ambition a...