Magic Online Weekly Announcements, September 24, 2024

Posted on Sep 24, 2024

THE LEAD

Duskmourn: House of Horror On-Sale Today!

From Rooms to multiple cool card treatments, this impending set does anything but manifest dread ... learn all about Duskmourn: House of Horror (set code DSK) in this article. Within that you’ll find out about all the scariness in store on MTGO starting today at 10 a.m. PT (17:00 UTC):

• DSK Premium Boosters – get your bling on for just $5.99 USD each
  • Ryan Spain shows off our newest suite of Premium effects in this article!
• Commander Decks – both the ones from this set and several from Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate
• Duel Commander’s ascent to full format with Challenges and Leagues
• Alternate Play (#horrorcube), including the return of Commander Draft Leagues
• Plus the usual bits and bobs: MOPR, Avatars, Treasure Chest info, etc

Magic: The Gathering® - Fallout® Comes to MTGO October 16!

Fallout® Fans: Your patience will soon be rewarded. The iconic video game series showcasing a post-nuclear alternate reality gets its due when Magic: The Gathering® – Fallout® debuts on Magic Online following downtime on Wednesday, October 16!

Watch this space on Tuesday, October 8 for full details.

Fallout® and its trademarks used with permission from Bethesda Softworks.

VINTAGE CUBE LIVE

Final Seat at Magic Con Up for Grabs This Saturday!

One of the biggest events in Magic Online history wraps up this week. Win your way to Las Vegas to draft Vintage Cube – LIVE at MagicCon: Las Vegas, thanks to our friends at Ultimate Guard – and take everything you draft home with you!

To get to Vegas, you must run a gauntlet of three different tournaments undefeated:

Step 1 – The Feeder League

Feeder Leagues are complete – thanks to the over 6,000 of you that took part!

Step 2 – The 64-Player Drafts

For those still with an Entry Token to battle through two straight single-elimination Cube Drafts. Six match wins in a single event advances you to the last step.

Week 8’s 64-Player Drafts were posted yesterday.

Friendly Reminders:

• Scheduled Events that are full will continue to be displayed in the client until their start time! This means that if someone drops from the event, that change will reflect right away instead of requiring you to restart MTGO.
• If a 64-Player Draft (or any other Scheduled Event) hasn’t reached its minimum number of players at the start time, the event will wait up to 15 minutes to get to the right number of players. There’s no reason to drop out after the start time – you'll be refunded if it fails to fire!
• If a regularly-scheduled 64 doesn’t fire for some reason, the replacement will be scheduled for 3 hours later and will be posted for entries as soon as possible following the cancellation.

Any unused Entry Tokens will be exchanged for 120 Play Points each sometime next week.

Step 3 – The Vegas Qualifier

The eight winners of a single Week’s 64-Player Drafts meet in one final showdown. The one player who’s left standing at the end punches their ticket to Las Vegas, while the other participants receive digital set prizes and an exclusive avatar.

Week 8’s Vegas Qualifier will be held on Saturday, September 28 at 9:30 a.m. PT (16:30 UTC).

You can get full details on the entire series on this page, including the Official Rules. The link to the announcement article is found here.

MTGO BROADCASTS 

Congratulations Arya Karamchandani, 2-Time MTGO Masters Champion!

For the second season running, Studio X’s own Arya Karamchandani swept every match she played en route to winning MTGO Masters. That’s a 14-0 record against some of the best players Magic has to offer – what an achievement!

In the championship round, Arya ran Dimir Murktide past Modern master Mason Clark, who was trying to take Goryo’s Vengeance to the title, in a close three-game title tilt.

The semifinals were similarly action-packed: Arya took out Arne Huschenbeth, while Mason snuck past Alexander Hayne.

Tons of thanks to our 16 players, our hosts Anuraag Das and Will Hall, technical producer Jordan Baker, and co-streamers D00mwake and YungDingo for putting together a fabulous season of gameplay and commentary!

Catch all of this season’s games on our YouTube channel, and learn more about the series at mtgo.com/masters.

PREMIER PLAY

Pioneer Super Qualifier This Sunday 

Your next chance to earn an invite to 2025’s first Regional Championship comes this weekend!

The Pioneer Super Qualifier begins this Sunday, September 29 at 7 a.m. PT (14:00 UTC). How has the metagame shifted since the current Regional Championship round began?

It takes 40 Event Tickets, 400 Play Points, or 40 Season 3 Qualifier Points to enter a Super Qualifier. The Top 4 finishers in this tournament grab a seat in the January-March RC round, and prizes pay out to the Top 128! 

Click the MTGO Premier Play link at the top of the Blog for more information.

ALTERNATE PLAY

Alternate Play Schedule

Here’s a look at the schedule of events coming up between now and Magic: The Gathering Foundations. Each description mentions if the Draft is Phantom – cards won’t be added to players’ collections in Phantom events. All transitions take place at 10:00 a.m. PT (17:00 UTC until Nov. 3, 18:00 UTC after) unless otherwise noted.

• September 24-October 9 – Duskmourn Limited is center stage for these two weeks.
• October 9-23 – Just in time for our newest horror set, Frank Lepore returns with his Horror Cube, incorporating Duskmourn and other creepy crawlies from across Magic’s history into the previously Innistrad-themed set. (Phantom)
• October 23-30 – We're considering our options for this short period that includes MagicCon ...
• October 30-November 12 – The Vintage Cube LIVE Prize Cube makes its appearance digitally – see if you can do any better than the eight from Vegas. (Phantom)

When Is Vintage Cube League Back?

A regular feature of the Blog, this item points out when the next scheduled run of our most popular event will take place:

• October 28 to November 12 – Vintage Cube LIVE’s Prize Cube will be in MTGO

EVENT UPDATES

Updates to Preliminary Event Schedule Kick In Today

Pioneer players have been showing up and showing out since the last B&R announcement a couple weeks ago, plus it’s the current RC format. Also, Standard’s rotation has led to renewed interest.

Therefore, we are adding additional Preliminaries to the weekly schedule starting today in both formats. You can check out the updated Prelim and Challenge schedule on this page.

Unfortunately, because Pauper is not currently in the MOCS rotation and Prelims have barely fired at all over the last couple months, we have taken Pauper Prelims off the schedule. They will return the next time Pauper is a MOCS format, and there are no changes to Pauper Challenge times.

AROUND THE WEB

MTGO University – MTGO Fundamentals How-To Series Live

We’ve introduced a brand-new landing spot for everything related to getting your new-to-MTGO friends up to speed on playing our game – MTGO University! Whether you’re new to a specific format, new to Magic Online, or are just curious about what this version of MTG is all about, check out MTGO University.

New to MTGO University – the MTGO Fundamentals playlist: short-form videos showing off a bunch of tips and tricks. Check it out on YouTube today!

2FA Required to Trade on MTGO

MTGO accounts that wish to engage in trade are now required to enable Two-Factor Authentication. You can read all about the reasoning for this change in this article and get instructions for enabling 2FA here.

WEEKLY UPDATES 

Redemption Corner

We’ve updated our Redemption page with new quantity percentages.

Bloomburrow redemption sets (both regular and foil-for-regular) are now on sale. As a reminder, we announced changes to the Redemption Program starting with Bloomburrow – read all about it in this article.

Duskmourn: House of Horror redemption tokens go on sale Wednesday, October 16.

Outlaws of Thunder Junction is nearing the end of its run in the Store – be sure to redeem that set soon.

Magic Online Format Challenges Every Weekend

Format Challenges are the first step toward qualifying for Premier Play through your favorite Magic formats and provide excellent prizes for those looking to test their mettle in their favorite formats. Learn more about Premier Play qualification to get started today.

Magic Online's Format Challenges run as shown on the schedule on this page.

TODAY’S PATCH NOTES – September 24, 2024 

Duel Scene

• Planeswalkers and Battles will correctly lose their remaining counters when damage exceeds the amount of counters on them.
• The Delirium count will correctly appear when the graveyard zone is undocked.
• Aether Hub will correctly produce colorless mana if its controller has no energy counters.
• Ruby Medallion and Trinisphere will play nicely together when splicing is involved.
• Emrakul, the Promised End correctly won't allow its controller to see the opponent's sideboard while controlling that player's turn.

Collection

• A Duel Commander deck will correctly allow cards with a companion ability to be included in the main deck.

NEXT SCHEDULED DOWNTIME – October 16, 9 a.m.-Noon PT

After tomorrow, the next scheduled maintenance is set for Wednesday, October 16 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon PT (16:00-19:00 UTC).