Magic Online Announcements, April 21, 2020
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Magic Online Super Qualifiers
As part of our initiatives to give you more ways to play at home, we wanted to provide options for you to play at the highest levels for competitive stakes. Therefore, in light of the changes to the tabletop Players Tour Qualifiers announced earlier, we're adding a new series of qualifiers to Magic Online to provide additional ways for players to compete and qualify for upcoming Players Tour events: Magic Online Super Qualifiers. These online events will run alongside existing Magic Online Qualifiers and will continue to invite players to Players Tour Series 2 events.
And in order to make the Super Qualifiers as exciting as possible, we've added more prizes! Players who earn 65th place through 128th place will receive 100 Play Points. These prizes are in addition to those previously announced. And, because we intend this to be a quality of the Super Qualifier events as a whole, we're retroactively adding these to events that have already concluded! Players who earned these prizes will have them granted before the end of this week.
Get event info here, read more about MTGO Super Qualifiers here, or check out the schedule below:
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DATE |
TIME (PDT) |
FORMAT |
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020 |
6:00 a.m. |
Pioneer |
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020 |
1:00 p.m. |
IKO Sealed |
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Thursday, April 23, 2020 |
7:00 a.m. |
Legacy |
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Friday, April 24, 2020 |
7:00 a.m. |
IKO Sealed |
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Friday, April 24, 2020 |
1:00 p.m. |
Pioneer |
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Saturday, April 25, 2020 |
12:00 a.m. |
Modern |
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Sunday, April 26, 2020 |
12:00 a.m. |
IKO Sealed |
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Monday, April 27, 2020 |
7:00 a.m. |
Modern |
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020 |
3:00 a.m. |
IKO Sealed |
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020 |
11:00 a.m. |
IKO Sealed |
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020 |
6:00 a.m. |
Pioneer |
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020 |
1:00 p.m. |
IKO Sealed |
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Thursday, April 30, 2020 |
7:00 a.m. |
Legacy |
NOTE: All players are eligible to enter, including those already qualified for PT Series 2. If an already-qualified player finishes in the Top 2 of a Super Qualifier, that PT invite will not pass down.
Vintage Cube Until April 29
Vintage Cube is back for another week starting tomorrow and running until April 29. The forerunner of all other cubes, Vintage Cube is always good times. We'll have a small update to this cube since the last time we ran it, which was
You can check out the latest cube list changes below or click here for the full list.
White
Blue
Red
Green
Multicolor
Showcase Qualifier Weekend
Players who earned entry into the Showcase Qualifier will be squaring off for an invitation to the Champions Showcase. The entry fee for Showcase Qualifiers is a format token that matches the format of the Showcase. As with QPs, after the season's Showcase Qualifiers are finished, all unused Format Tokens will be removed from players' accounts. Each Showcase Qualifier is a scheduled Swiss-style event with a Top 8 playoff. The winner of each Showcase Qualifier earns a spot in the final Showcase event and a chance to earn their share of $70,000 and a tabletop Players Tour Finals invitation.
Showcase Qualifiers are scheduled as follows (please note the Legacy Showcase Qualifier originally scheduled for April 19 has moved to April 26, 9 a.m. PT):
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DATE |
TIME |
EVENT |
FORMAT |
INVITATION |
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Saturday, April 25, 2020 |
6:00 a.m. |
Standard Showcase Qualifier |
Standard |
Season 1 Showcase, PT 2020 Series 2 |
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Sunday, April 26, 2020 |
6:00 a.m. |
Pioneer Showcase Qualifier |
Pioneer |
Season 1 Showcase, PT 2020 Series 2 |
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Sunday, April 26, 2020 |
9:00 a.m. |
Legacy Showcase Qualifier |
Legacy |
Season 1 Showcase, PT 2020 Series 2 |
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Saturday, May 2, 2020 |
8:00 a.m. |
Modern Showcase Qualifier |
Modern |
Season 1 Showcase, PT 2020 Series 2 |
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Sunday, May 3, 2020 |
10:00 a.m. |
Pauper Showcase Qualifier |
Pauper |
Season 1 Showcase, PT 2020 Series 2 |
Learn more about Showcase Qualifier events here.
Magic Online Format Challenges Every Weekend
Format Challenges are the first step toward qualifying for Premier Play through your favorite Magic formats. To learn more about Premier Play qualification, click here.
Magic Online's Format Challenges now run once on Saturdays and once on Sundays for each Constructed format! On weekends featuring Showcase Challenge events, the Format Challenge that starts at either 6 a.m., 8 a.m., or 10 a.m. Pacific time is pre-empted by the Showcase Challenge—Format Challenges scheduled at other times remain in place. NOTE: The Pauper Challenge is never pre-empted.
Pacific Time (-7 from UTC)
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TIME (PT) |
SATURDAY |
SUNDAY |
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12:00 a.m. |
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2:00 a.m. |
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4:00 a.m. |
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6:00 a.m. |
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8:00 a.m. |
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10:00 a.m. |
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2:00 p.m. |
Check out this page for further event details.
Next Downtime May 27
The next downtime will be May 27, beginning at 9 a.m. and continuing until noon. All times listed are Pacific time (UTC-7).
Build Notes
- Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy and Bloom Tender now work correctly together
- Leyline of the Void and Rest in Peace effects no longer prevents Gyruda, Doom of Depths from selecting a creature
- Commander legality and companion legality now interact correctly
- Tokens that have a clone effect now correctly allow them to copy creatures
- Yorion, Sky Nomad now correctly displays its legality in deck building scenes
- Lurrus of the Dream-Den correctly limits the CMC of X permanents in graveyards
- Lavabrink Venturer can now be targeted correctly by permanents that have CMCs that are not restricted
- Kogla, the Titan Ape no longer forces players to target their own artifacts and enchantments
- Players now have separate Exiled (Can be played) zones