WizKids and Wizards Announce New Magic: the Gathering Deal

<p>Today&comma; WizKids and Wizards of the Coast announced a new licensing deal for an assortment of products based on <em>Magic&colon; the Gathering<&sol;em>&comma; the biggest trading card game in the world&period; WizKids are known for their miniatures&comma; both painted and unpainted&comma; and the deal will be for a line of miniatures and for a new board game based on <em>Magic<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;131747" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-131747" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-large wp-image-131747" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;11&sol;14094041&sol;wallpaper-583187-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-131747" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Magic&colon; the Gathering&comma; Wizards of the Coast<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The first products that will be coming out of this deal will be a line of pre-painted&comma; and finely sculpted miniatures based on token creatures in <em>Magic&colon; the Gathering<&sol;em>&period; There are cards in <em>Magic<&sol;em> that can create creatures like vampires or dragons&comma; and players usually represent them with cards or other items like physical tokens&period; Now&comma; players will have the option of buying the minis that WizKids will be making and use them to help bring their games to life&comma; more or less&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The second product being produced will be a board game based on <em>Magic<&sol;em>&period; According to the press release&comma; &&num;8220&semi;<em>the board game will pull from the original trading card lore&period; Players will play as Planeswalkers&comma; exploring the landscape of Dominaria as they establish connections to their mana sources&comma; gathering power before their opponents do and building their hand of spell cards&period;<&sol;em>&&num;8221&semi; This is interesting as there has been a <em>Magic&colon; the Gathering<&sol;em> set of board games released by Wizards parent company Hasbro over the past few years&comma; so it will be interesting to see what WizKids brings to the table&comma; so to speak&period; This also coincides with next years 25th anniversary celebration of <em>Magic&colon; the Gathering<&sol;em>&comma; so expect some interesting blasts from the past included in the board game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>WizKids has been on a roll as of late&comma; with <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;games-workshop-announces-deal-wizkids&sol;">their recent deal with Games Workshop<&sol;a>&comma; new <em>Warhammer 40k<&sol;em> games and now the increased partnership with Wizards of the Coast&period; WizKids already creates a number of <em>Dungeons &amp&semi; Dragons<&sol;em> minis for Wizards&comma; so the move towards <em>Magic<&sol;em> minis isn&&num;8217&semi;t completely out of the blue&comma; but will be welcome news for fans of the game&period; Will you be adding the minis to your tabletop <em>Magic&colon; the Gathering<&sol;em> experience&quest; Let us know in the comments below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;wizkids&period;com&sol;2017&sol;11&sol;14&sol;wizkids-expands-licensing-partnership-with-wizards-of-the-coast&sol;">WizKids Press Release<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;