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The wait is over. Crosswords are finally here.

If you've been following EDHREC social media accounts at Facebook, Instagram or Bluesky, you've seen the teasers.

The past two weeks have featured increasingly more difficult snippets of Crosswords, but as of today (Friday, Nov. 14), it's not about snippets. It's time for the real thing.

To commemorate the launch of the official EDHREC Crossword, we're starting with a mammoth 15x15 puzzle featuring more than 80 clues. You'll need your entire breadth of Magic knowledge in order to complete the puzzle, as everything's in play - artist names, flavor text, official set codes, slang, and jargon. And, as you'd expect from EDHREC, plenty of legendary creature trivia.

A new Crossword will launch every Friday, each hand-crafted by clue-writing goblins commissioned by EDHREC (it's me, I'm the goblins). Be sure to log into your account in order to track your Crossword stats, such as your time to finish. There'll be more stats to be tracked as things roll along, as well as themed puzzles and other fun iterations.

It's been a long road to get here. The idea to create EDHREC Crosswords dates back multiple years at this point, with discussions occurring around the time of Spellify's development and launch in early 2024.

These puzzles wouldn't exist without the efforts of the EDHREC dev team, particularly Andy Grimm Cassidy. Andy's been working tirelessly for weeks building a bespoke crossword tool for our use, tinkering and ironing out bugs all the way up until, well, right now. Everything from the grid itself to the little helper tools like letter and word verifying - that's Andy.

Everything about the EDHREC Crosswords that functions well is a direct result of Andy's work. And if anything's a little wonky, just let us know and we'll smooth out any rough edges in the coming weeks.

And speaking of the future, we've got a lot more planned on the Games front. Once the Crosswords have settled into a regular cadence beside Spellify, we'll be looking to continue our momentum. What that'll look like is still to be determined, but we're machinating.

At the end of the day, EDHREC Crosswords have been and will continue to be a labor of love. It's one of those things that we've always wanted to see in the Magic: The Gathering community, so we made it happen. That's really the long and the short of it. And we hope it's something you wanted to see, too.

As always, we want to know what you think. We'd love your feedback on the whole gamut - how's the difficulty? Playability? Fun factor? Comment here, or reach out via social media to share your thoughts. And in the meantime...happy crosswordin'!