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Corey Plante

Contributor Since November, 2025
Qualifications MA in Journalism, Emerson College; Dean’s Scholarship and Graduate Student Excellence Award recipient
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Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, TableTop
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About Corey Plante

Corey is an Associate Editor with Polygon that oversees the Tabletop Gaming section with a special emphasis on Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons. A forever Dungeon Master who's built his own homebrew fantasy universe, Corey has also been playing Magic for more than 25 years. He's been writing about various forms of entertainment media for more than 15 years. Seven of those were spent at Inverse where he covered TV, film, and video games, eventually growing into the role of Associate Gaming Editor. Corey also has bylines at Kotaku, IGN, Vulture, Fanbyte, and more. 

What's your origin story?

Corey grew up with games as a major part of his life. His maternal grandmother had a peculiar obsession with the Zelda franchise. He also had a close older cousin who introduced him to Final Fantasy at a young age. In the late '90s, he became obsessed with Pokémon like most kids his age, except he was the one organizing TCG matches and Game Boy battles in the bushes at recess when both got banned — and he won every time. As Corey matured, so did his tastes, and he became an avid fan of Magic: The Gathering around the turn of the century.

What's a recent obsession?

Having joined Polygon in November 2025 with a primary focus on tabletop gaming, Corey's enthusiasm for Magic: The Gathering has increased exponentially. He spends countless late nights poring over cards he never got rid of — some of them nearly 30 years old — trying to build new Commander decks.

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Consider the [Format Coconut] — consider its cards

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The biggest D&D news and announcements from Gen Con 2026
Gen Con

Wizards of the Coast has firmly established Gen Con as a major annual event for Dungeons & Dragons announcements

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The most anticipated sequel of the year skipped theaters to become a streaming smash hit
What to Watch

This sequel gives its major hero the closure the original series never could

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Alt Cunningham, Mother of Daemons is one of the very best Yellow cards we've seen so far

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A killer shark is only the second-biggest threat in Prime Video's bloody new thriller
Reviews

A codependent friendship gives this claustrophobic shark thriller some surprising emotional bite

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Children of Blood and Bone trailer brings an Avatar: The Last Airbender fan dream to life
Trailers

Zutara shippers rejoice, because a new magical enemies-to-lovers story is on its way

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15 years ago, 4 letters changed Magic forever — and one new ability backfired
Interview

Magic 2012’s designers reveal how “dies” streamlined the game and why hexproof eventually gave way to ward

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House of the Dragon leaves one character's fate hanging by a thread
Explainer

This one character cheated death before — can they do it again?

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Crunchyroll's supernatural new sleeper hit is Chainsaw Man for cat people — with ninjas
What to Watch

The modern supernatural shonen that started it all finally gets an anime adaptation

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World of Warcraft is seemingly returning to D&D after 20 years
Dungeons & Dragons

A real-life Leeroy Jenkins moment has happened

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Marvel's best time-travel story is making a comeback on streaming
What to Watch

It's never been more relevant

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Humor

Let the blue people fight the bald boy

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Netflix’s biggest movie of 2026 proves Alan Ritchson is unstoppable
What to Watch

This sci-fi action movie is Netflix's most-watched movie of the year.

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Magic’s Marvel set broke a huge record — but Final Fantasy is still No. 1
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Marvel Super Heroes has come close, but can it dethrone Final Fantasy as the biggest set ever?

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Magic’s new sword from The Hobbit transforms any typal army into a mountain of treasure
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Made by elves and wielded by a dwarf, this iconic sword might work best put in the hands of a SOLDIER

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House of the Dragon’s violent new mystery is part of a much bigger plot
Analysis

Who is targeting members of the city watch?

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What happens to Odysseus after The Odyssey?
Explainer

The journeys of Odysseus don't end when he finally reaches Ithaca

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Magic: the Gathering is going back to Kamigawa — but there's a huge twist
Magic: The Gathering

It's looking like Godzilla versus Gundam in Magic's plane inspired by Japanese myth and culture

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Netflix just added the most important blockbuster movie series of the 2010s
What to Watch

All five movies — so far — are now on Netflix.

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Here's your first look at a new battlefield coming to the League of Legends TCG
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Polygon can exclusively reveal a new battlefield card coming to Riftbound: Vendetta

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