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Inside the Unprecedented Growth of Hasbro’s Magic: The Gathering and Trading Card Game’s High-Stakes Pro Competition Jennifer Maas
For this week’s episode of “Strictly Business,” Variety was on the ground at MagicCon 2026 in Las Vegas, a convention centered not around slight of hand tricks, but Hasbro’s hit trading card game Magic: The Gathering. The three-day event featured 25,000 attendees engaging in multiple activities, everything from a headliner panel featuring the MCU’s Paul […]
9 May 2026 at 12:00

Inside the Unprecedented Growth of Hasbro’s Magic: The Gathering and Trading Card Game’s High-Stakes Pro Competition

9 May 2026 at 12:00

For this week’s episode of “Strictly Business,” Variety was on the ground at MagicCon 2026 in Las Vegas, a convention centered not around slight of hand tricks, but Hasbro’s hit trading card game Magic: The Gathering. The three-day event featured 25,000 attendees engaging in multiple activities, everything from a headliner panel featuring the MCU’s Paul […]