Amazon Has Some Great Deals On Magic: The Gathering Commander Decks Right Now

There’s nothing better than a Magic: The Gathering Commander night with friends, and Wizards of the Coast keeps releasing plenty of preconstructed decks so you can jump right in with friends or start to build around a choice card.

They’re pretty regularly discounted, too, which is always appreciated, but right now Amazon has some fantastic deals on Lorwyn Eclipsed’s duo of decks and a huge bundle of Tarkir Dragonstorm decks, too. Here’s why they’re worth a look.

Save Big On MTG Precons At Amazon Right Now

Kicking off with the latest set, Lorwyn Eclipsed, there are two decks available for the set.

Blight Curse is helmed by Auntie Ool, Cursewretch (or The Reaper, King No More), and leans into the -1/-1 counters archetype that we really don’t see too much of in precons. It’s a fantastic deck—possibly one of the best in recent memory—and has a few bucks knocked off the price to bring it to $45.49.

It’s joined by Dance of the Elements, which has an even better price. The five-color Elementals deck is all about making copies of big creatures and is helmed by Ashling, the Limitless (or Mass of Mysteries). It’s currently just $37.99, a 24% discount on a great precon.

Better yet, we recently pointed out that you can buy a bundle that includes two of each deck for around $80 off, and that’s still true. That means you and a friend can spend $60 each and each get both decks!

Onto Tarkir: Dragonstorm, then, and while the 2025 was somewhat overshadowed by Universes Beyond: Final Fantasy dropping right after, it remains a great set.

Its Commander decks had a wide range of reprint values, but they’re all fun to use. I own three of them myself and have had a blast playing with Sultai Arisen. Can’t pick? Good news – Amazon has a discount on a bundle of all five (that’s right, five) decks.

The bundle would cost $224.95, but is now $195, bringing each deck down to $39. While some are going for around that number, Temur Roar was particularly popular at launch and shot up in value. In fact, it’s still $60 on its own.

That deck is particularly good because it essentially drops a ton of Dragons on the board for big damage, but the others are fun, too.

Jeskai Striker is all about playing rapid spells, while Sultai Arisen has a graveyard recursion theme that helps keep opponents guessing.

Mardu Surge is focused on tokens and sacrifice, while Abzan Armor is a ‘toughness matters’ deck that turns colossal defenders into terrifying attackers.

You really can’t go wrong with any of them, and if you’re new to the format, Tarkir’s decks are relatively easy to pilot, too.

For more on Magic’s Commander format, check out why the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ precon, Turtle Power, looks to be so fun to play, and one crazy combo from the set already.

Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer in tech, gaming and fitness seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and many more. He’s a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife’s dismay.

Community: Pokémon Turns 30 Soon – Send Us Your Pocket Monster Memories

I choose YOU.

27th February marks the anniversary of Pokémon Red and Green in Japan, but this year’s event is an extra special one: the Pokémon series is turning 30 years old.

Yes, that little RPG about catching cute and not-so-cute monsters and doing battle with your pals has been going for three entire decades. In that time, it’s evolved from mere gaming phenomenon that rejuvenated interest in Nintendo’s Game Boy seven years after it launched to the world’s biggest media property.

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Crimson Desert: Here’s What Comes in Each Edition

Crimson Desert is an open-world action-adventure game that’s set to release on PS5, Xbox, and PC on March 19. Developed by Pearl Abyss, the company behind Black Desert Online, it looks seriously ambitious in all the best ways. It’s available for preorder now (see it at Amazon) in two editions and includes a preorder bonus, the contents of which are detailed below. Let’s take a look.

Crimson Desert Standard Edition

Physical Copy – $69.99

Steelbook Edition – $69.99

Digital Copy – $69.99

The standard edition comes with the game itself, plus the preorder bonus you can find detailed below (it’s a shield). The only current deals available for the game are for the PC (Steam) version, which you can at some third-party storefronts listed above.

Crimson Desert Deluxe Edition (Physical)

Physical Copy – $89.99

Physical copies of the deluxe edition of Crimson Desert come with the game, the preorder bonus, as well as the following items:

Physical Items

  • Deluxe Edition Box
  • Deluxe Edition Limited Edition Steelbook
  • Letter from the Developer
  • Greymane Brooch Pin
  • 3 Character Photo Cards
  • 3 Patches
  • Map of Pywel

Digital Items

  • Kairos Plate Set: Kairos Plate Helm, Kairos Plate Gloves, Kairos Plate Boots, Kairos Cloak, Kairos Plate Armor
  • Balgran Shield
  • Exclaire Horse Set: Exclaire Champron, Exclaire Barding, Exclaire Saddle, Exclaire Stirrups

Crimson Desert Deluxe Edition (Digital)

Digital Copy – $79.99

The digital deluxe edition of the game costs $10 less than the physical version, but it lacks the physical goodies. Here are the digital items it includes:

  • Kairos Plate Set: Kairos Plate Helm, Kairos Plate Gloves, Kairos Plate Boots, Kairos Cloak, Kairos Plate Armor
  • Balgran Shield
  • Exclaire Horse Set: Exclaire Champron, Exclaire Barding, Exclaire Saddle, Exclaire Stirrups

Crimson Desert Preorder Bonus

Preorder the game on any platform and in any edition, and you’ll receive the following digital item:

  • Khaled Shield

Preorder the PS5 version, and you’ll get the following digital items:

  • Grotevant Plate Set: Grotevan Plate Helm, Grotevan Plate Armor, along with Grotevan cloak, gloves, and boots

What Is Crimson Desert?

Crimson Desert is a medieval fantasy-themed game set in the land of Pywel, where you play as Kliff, captain of the Greymanes, as the ruthless Black Bear army executes a brutal attack that leaves the Greymane forces scattered. Your job is to explore the world to reunite with your comrades and rebuild what’s been lost. As you do so, you’ll forge new alliances and discover even more dangerous threats looming over the land.

The journey takes you through all sorts of environments, from plains to deserts to mountains. You can ride mounts ranging from horses to wolves and dragons. You even have a Zelda-style glider that lets you leap from mountain peaks and soar over the land.

Although there’s some debate on social media about whether Crimson Desert is an RPG, developer Pearl Abyss doesn’t label it as such. It calls Crimson Desert “an open-world action-adventure game.” That’s because it doesn’t have character leveling or experience points. You do expand your capabilities, but you do so by finding items in the open world, like in an action-adventure game like Zelda or a Metroid.

Based on the trailers, it does look like a hodgepodge of popular game elements. It has an extensive combat system, an explorable open world, puzzles, giant monsters to fight, and more. Here’s hoping the game is not too good to be true.

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Save Big On Lorwyn Eclipsed MTG Play Boosters At Amazon

Magic: The Gathering is on the verge of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set next month, but don’t forget Lorwyn Eclipsed, a fantastic set that deserves plenty of love.

Now, the current set’s Play Booster Box has been discounted again, reaching ever-so-slightly lower than the deal we spotted a few weeks ago. Amazon is currently offering a 22% discount on the box, bringing it to $128.94. That’s close to its lowest-ever price of $125.

Lorwyn Eclipsed Play Boosters Are Close To Their Best-Ever Price

That’s a sizeable price cut on the $164.70 list price. It means the $5.49 price of each pack drops to around $4.30.

As for the set itself, Lorwyn Eclipsed is fantastic, bringing back fan-favorite creature types and a classic location that puts the Magic back in Magic, as strange as that may sound to outsiders.

As the first Universes Within set of 2026, it’s packed with amazing chase cards – although you’ll no doubt have better luck finding them with the eye-wateringly expensive Collector Boosters.

Still, from Kithkin to Giants, there’s a whimsicality to the set not seen since maybe Bloomburrow, and after Avatar and Spider-Man sets, we’re glad to be back on familiar ground. It doesn’t hurt that the two new preconstructed Commander Decks, Blight Curse and Dance of the Elements, are fantastically well-constructed, too.

As someone that’s been playing Magic for around three or four years, it’s probably one of my favorite sets in a little while.

For more on Magic’s upcoming set based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, check out a card that pairs nicely with Warhammer 40K Necrons, and our early thoughts on the Commander precon.

Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer in tech, gaming and fitness seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and many more. He’s a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife’s dismay.

Amazon’s Lightning Deals on Popular Ravensburger Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults Are Going Fast

Amazon is once again having a sale on Ravensburger puzzles, which means right now is a great time to pick up your next 1000 or 2000-piece project. These sales only come around every few months or so and I always try to take advantage of them to stock up on new puzzles for me or my parents. Ravensburger is one of the best puzzle brands, but you’ll rarely find them on sale at your local toy store unless you’re buying used.

All of the puzzles currently on sale are discounted via Amazon’s Lightning Deal system. There isn’t any sort of timer on the discount, but there is a limited amount of stock available for each puzzle. Once that limit is reached, the discount will disappear and that puzzle will jump back up to whatever it was priced at before. So if you see something you like, don’t hesitate to pick it up before the deal is gone!

Ravensburger Puzzle Sale at Amazon Today

All of the Ravensburger puzzles on sale right now are at least 30% off, with some options discounted by almost 50% right now. That means the more expensive jigsaw puzzles are getting the biggest overall price cuts in the sale. If you’ve got the table space and attention span for a 2000+ piece puzzle, those are the ones I’d recommend grabbing first. There’s even a nice Lord of the Rings puzzle discounted here that I’d recommend to all you Tolkien fans out there.

There are also quite a few 1000 piece puzzles discounted here, which is generally the piece count I’d recommend for adults. It’s still challenging, but a lot more doable in a casual setting. The bigger puzzles, like that 4000-piece Fairy puzzle I’ve featured here are better for folks who have immense amounts of time and patience to dedicate to a single puzzle project. You’ll also likely need a fairly substantial puzzle table for such an undertaking.

Is Ravensburger the best puzzle brand?

Plenty of different brands make puzzles, but Ravensburger is widely considered one of the very best jigsaw puzzle brands out there since it released its first puzzle back in 1964. This is in part due to the quality of each puzzle. The patented “Softclick” technology allows for you to hear an audible click each time you place a piece in the right place. Ravensburger also uses high-quality materials for each puzzle ensuring the pieces won’t be bent or broken when you open the box.

The company also has partnerships with both Disney and Warner Bros. that allows it to make some of the best franchise-specific puzzles around. Star Wars, Frozen, Lord of the Rings, DC comics, and more jigsaw puzzles like those will often come from Ravensburger.

You may also recognize Ravensburger as one of the more popular board game brands out there. They recently got into the trading card game as the official creator and publisher of the Disney Lorcana TCG.

Jacob Kienlen is a Senior Audience Development Strategist and Writer for IGN. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, he has considered the Northwest his home for his entire life. With a bachelor’s degree in communication and over 8 years of professional writing experience, his expertise is spread across a variety of different pop culture topics — from TV series to indie games, books, and puzzles.

I may indeed offer my soul to The Killing Stone, an Arctic mansion mystery card-battler from the makers of The Blackout Club

I’ve been shying away from The Killing Stone because it’s a deckbuilding card battler, and we do get a lot of emails about those. The game launches into Steam early access today, so it’s time to have a proper gander. Ho now! This is a deckbuilding card battler… set in a mansion somewhere in the Arctic during the 17th century… created by Question Games, developers of ‘unfinished game’ game The Magic Circle and weird suburbia sim The Blackout Club. Yes, the same Question who were founded by people who worked on Bioshock, Thief and Dishonored.

What’s more, The Killing Stone reminds me of Inscryption, in that it appears to be divided between a hellish table-top game and hellish goings-on in the world around that table-top game. To be specific, you’re playing that table-top game against a series of demons, with the souls of the cursed Svangård family hanging in the balance.

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This Switch 2 Grip Might Be The Ultimate Way To Play GameCube Games In Handheld

Get a grip.

Nintendo launched its dedicated GameCube NSO pad alongside the Switch 2 last year, undoubtedly providing the best experience for docked play. However, much like the N64 pad before it, the controller doesn’t do much to help with handheld play, where the Joy-Con 2 button layouts simply can’t capture the feel of the original hardware.

Enter abxylute’s N9C, a Switch 2 grip that launched on Kickstarter today and was almost immediately fully funded, which looks as close as we’ll ever get to a GameCube pad built for handheld play.

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Available for Xbox Insiders on PC: Postgame Recaps

Available for Xbox Insiders on PC: Postgame Recaps

Starting today, Xbox Insiders in the PC Gaming Preview can try postgame recaps in the Xbox PC app on Windows. After you finish a play session, you may see a quick recap that highlights moments from that session—like captures you took, achievements you unlocked, and relevant in‑game events—plus an option to share feedback so we can keep improving the experience. 

Postgame recaps are designed to show up only when they’re useful—not after every game. You’re most likely to see a recap when you take a capture through Game Bar or unlock an achievement. On your first time playing a game (and occasionally after that), you may also see a short check‑in and recommendations for other games you might enjoy. 

You’re in control of what you see. You can turn individual recap types on or off in Settings > App > Postgame recaps to tailor the experience to your preferences. 

To support postgame recaps, the Xbox app may run in the system tray while you play so it can show the recap after you exit your game. We’ve optimized this to minimize memory and performance impact. If you opt out of all postgame recap types, the Xbox PC app will no longer start in the system tray when you launch a game. 

We’d love your feedback—tell us what you found helpful, what felt unnecessary, and what you’d like to see after future gaming sessions. 

How to Get Xbox Insider Support and Share Your Feedback

We want to thank all the Xbox Insiders for the feedback you share with us. If you’re an Xbox Insider looking for support, please join our community on the Xbox Insider subreddit, where official Xbox staff, moderators, and fellow Xbox Insiders are there to help. We recommend adding to threads with the same topic before posting a brand new one. This helps us support you the best we can! We’re grateful to our Insider community for the helpful feedback you provide, it continues to shape the future of Xbox.

For more information on the Xbox Insider Program, follow us on Twitter at @XboxInsider and keep an eye on this blog for all the latest news.

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Mouse: P.I. for Hire: Meet the Movers and Shakers of Mouseburg – IGN First

Mouse: P.I. for Hire is one of the most visually striking games we’ve seen in quite some time. We played Mouse last year – and we’ll be doing so again as part of this month’s exclusive IGN First coverage – but the thing is, it’s going to need more than just a unique art style in order to leave a lasting impression on the first-person shooter genre. And so today we’re digging into the people, the city, and the story underneath that rubber hose-animated black-and-white veneer.

By now you might know that the player character is played by the talented Troy Baker. That character is Jack Pepper, a war hero-turned-cop-turned-private investigator. You’ll be assigned three different cases over the course of the single-player campaign (Mouse has no multiplayer mode), sniffing out clues and talking to perps and pedestrians alike (not to mention doing a lot of shooting at gang members and corrupt cops) to try and solve each one as you roll around in the rotting underbelly of the city of Mouseburg.

In the image gallery above, you’ll see gifs of five characters:

  • Jack Pepper: our aforementioned hero. He enlisted in the war in his teenage years, serving in the same unit with Cornelius Stilton (see below). They owe each other their lives, along with a third member of their unit, Steve Bandel. Jack joined the police force after the war ended, but struck out on his own as a P.I. after getting fed up with the corruption of too many of his fellow cops. Jack has one major vice: gambling.
  • Tammy Tumbler: Born during the war, Tammy lost her mother at a young age and never learned the identity of her father. When her stepfather got busted by the police officer Jack Pepper when she was 13, she went into the foster care system and immediately sought to escape, angry at Jack and the world. She’s street-smart and resourceful, and has worked for Jack as needed for a long time. She trusts Jack as well as one other person: Wanda Fuller (see below).
  • John Brown: John can frequently be found hanging outside the bar behind Jack’s office. He’s a shrew (the literal animal kind) from Shrewthicket, a once-thriving town that was destroyed, leavivng John to haunt the surrounding swamps, becoming a cheeselegger (think: bootlegger but for cheese), a hired farming hand and blue cheese dealer. When the stove got too hot, he made his way to Mouseburg and opened a shrew-sized bar called Little & Big. He’s full of old stories and isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty.
  • Wanda Fuller: Wanda is a journalist for the Mouseburg Herald who came from similar working-class means as Jack. She uses him as a source on occasion, particularly when he was with the police. They’re not exactly friends, but they share an uneasy trust. She’s a cynic, but she genuinely wants to help people.
  • Cornellius Stilton: Finally we have Cornellius, an upper-class resident of Mouseburg who was a commander in the war. After the war, he went into politics, and he’s got a plan he’s been slowly executing. He’s a people pleaser, but to what end? As such, Jack can’t fully trust him.

These are a handful of the key players you’ll meet in Mouse. If you’re interested in learning more, check out our deep-dive on the crazy arsenal at Jack’s disposal. And if you’re eager to play, circle March 19 on your calendar, as that’s when Mouse: P.I. for Hire will be released on PC, PlayStation platforms, Xbox platforms, and Nintendo Switch platforms.

Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s executive editor of previews and host of both IGN’s weekly Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, as well as our semi-retired interview show, IGN Unfiltered. He’s a North Jersey guy, so it’s “Taylor ham,” not “pork roll.” Debate it with him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan.

Sorry, Woodstock’s off; or, how I gave everyone dysentery in Transport Fever 3

Ironically, considering the rampant dysentery moving through my campground in brown, sputtering waves, the problem I’m facing in Transport Fever 3 is a blockage. The trucks I’ve loaded with antibiotics are stuck in a traffic jam that stretches all the way to the pharmacy in the next city over. If I’m to save the inaugural Woodstock festival, I must find a way to get traffic flowing again before the timer runs out.

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