MagicCon: Las Vegas
Students, scholars, and planeswalkers: The time has come to gather once again in Las Vegas! Experience a weekend brimming with spellbinding panels on the Mana Stage, shop wondrous wares from across the Multiverse, and ready your quills for autographs from legendary special guests and artists. Whether you’re a seasoned student of Magic or new to these halls, there is learning, fun, and discovery for everyone.
Dates
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Location
Las Vegas, USA
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MagicCon: Las Vegas Spotlight
From Shakespeare to “this is insane,” Magic: The Gathering reined in flavor text chaos
Don’t expect the paragraphs of flavor text from old Magic: The Gathering cards to come back any time soon
Jules Chin Greene
MTG's Magic Pro Tour was created to offset the fact that playing Magic was "too expensive" for kids
At MagicCon Las Vegas 2026, Skaff Elias recalled seeing kids in 1994 on the verge of tears because they couldn’t afford Magic: The Gathering cards
Jules Chin Greene
Think there are too many Magic: The Gathering releases? The '90s staff say it was worse then, with some sets designed in "about a week"
In the early days of Magic: The Gathering, the development team would design a set in as little as a week’s time
Jules Chin Greene
In the '90s when the Magic: the Gathering designers had problems with the rules, even they called the official MTG customer service hotline
As it turns out, the customer service department of Magic: The Gathering has all the answers
Jules Chin Greene
MagicCon: Las Vegas Feed
From Shakespeare to “this is insane,” Magic: The Gathering reined in flavor text chaos
Don’t expect the paragraphs of flavor text from old Magic: The Gathering cards to come back any time soon
Jules Chin Greene
MTG's Magic Pro Tour was created to offset the fact that playing Magic was "too expensive" for kids
At MagicCon Las Vegas 2026, Skaff Elias recalled seeing kids in 1994 on the verge of tears because they couldn’t afford Magic: The Gathering cards
Jules Chin Greene
Think there are too many Magic: The Gathering releases? The '90s staff say it was worse then, with some sets designed in "about a week"
In the early days of Magic: The Gathering, the development team would design a set in as little as a week’s time
Jules Chin Greene
In the '90s when the Magic: the Gathering designers had problems with the rules, even they called the official MTG customer service hotline
As it turns out, the customer service department of Magic: The Gathering has all the answers
Jules Chin Greene
Magic: The Gathering's Standard format was created to get around a frustrating rule from the game's creator
The creator of Magic: The Gathering, Richard Garfield, imposed strict rules on what could and could not happen in the game
Jules Chin Greene
The Magic: The Gathering makers are worried players might get weird if human-type cards can be saddled (but be weird!)
We get it, you want to make a dragon angel as your steed in Magic: The Gathering, but don’t count on it happening
Jules Chin Greene
Magic: The Gathering has wanted to do a Marvel-style 'What If?' set for years, and it took a "crazy idea" to make it work inside Wizards of the Coast.
With the upcoming Reality Fracture set, Magic: The Gathering needed to find a way to make alternate versions of characters and spells make sense to newer players
Jules Chin Greene
MCU Vision actor Paul Bettany surprises everyone to unveil Marvel x MTG set, including The Mind Stone (and don't forget the 'The'!)
There is already a Magic: The Gathering card simply called “Mind Stone”
Jules Chin Greene
For the Hobbit set, Magic: The Gathering had to break an unofficial internal rule because Smaug is so iconic
The headliner card from Magic: The Gathering x The Hobbit is not a cheery hero, but the villainous Smaug
Jules Chin Greene
Hey Post Malone (and everyone else), there's a new One Ring in the second MTG x Lord of the Rings set... and it's precious
The My Precious card from Magic: The Gathering x The Hobbit enshrines Gollum’s obsession with the One Ring
Jules Chin Greene
Mark your calendars: The 2026 MagicCon dates are here
Next year in 2026, there will be three MagicCon events around the world
Jules Chin Greene
After comic con tickets, here is all the supplies you need for a quintessential comic convention survival kit
Here it is - the ReedPop insider's con survival guide. Accumulated and documented over years of con travel by numerous people here at ReedPop, this isn't the basics - this is the #protip of all pro tips on making your con travels easier.
Chris Arrant
