Magic Online Weekly Announcements, June 3, 2025

Posted on Jun 03, 2025

THE LEAD

Read All About It: Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™ Set Article

Two of the world’s titans of the gaming industry are teaming up for a fantastical play experience! Magic: The Gathering®–FINAL FANTASY™ (set code FIN) debuts on Magic Online on Tuesday, June 10 at 10 a.m. Pacific time (17:00 UTC)!

Be sure to check out our article on MTGO.com now for full info on this expansion, including products, events, and Booster Fun.

Read All About It: MTGO Event Structures for FIN

With a price point of $4.99 for each Magic: The Gathering® - FINAL FANTASY™ Play Booster pack, we have created a new set of entry options and prize structures. They will look familiar to fans of Modern Horizons 3 last year as FIN is basically mimicking MH3. For full details, visit this article.

Downtime Tomorrow – 9 a.m. to Noon PT

Magic Online will be down for scheduled maintenance tomorrow, June 4, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon PT (16:00-19:00 UTC). Be sure to follow our social media links above for info on when we will return as well as any adjusted start times for pre-empted Scheduled Events.

Favorite Draft Formats Polls on Discord – One Week Starting Today

When you think back to your favorite times drafting with friends or playing competitive Limited, which sets stand out as favorites? Whether it’s old standbys (#riseoftheeldraziforlife) or new classics, we want to know to help shape future event offerings.

Visit or join the Polls channel on the MTGO Discord to vote for your favorites among 60 different choices spanning nearly 30 years of Magic! The polls will be open for one week starting today. We look forward to the community’s input on this great topic.

MTGO SPELLGROUNDS – NOW WEEKLY

Great news – our Spellgrounds project is underway! Try out a slice of the current Legacy metagame – all with sideboards geared specifically for this group – all for free!

As a special extra, check out deck primer videos from MTGO Creator and Legacy guru Joe Dyer now available on the MTGO YouTube page.You’ll encounter a Super-Jump style draft – 3 of the 6 decks are presented randomly for you to select one.

There are 2 pieces to this new initiative:

• The Spellground event normally runs Monday to Wednesday and is FREE – pick a deck and play up to 3 matches without the pressure of prizes on the line.
  • For this week, due to downtime we are testing giving this one extra day until Thursday.
• If you want to step up the competition a little, try the weekday Gauntlet event that runs Monday to Friday – it’s the same event but playing for small prizes.
  • Entry Options: 2 Event Tickets or 20 Play Points or 1 Gauntlet Token
  • Prizes
    • 3 Wins – 30 Play Points
    • 2 Wins – 20 Play Points
  • June 2 – Legacy

Decklists will be posted on this the Friday before the events. The current Legacy Spellgrounds lists are found here.

We hope you find this is a no- or low-risk way to expand your horizons in Magic Online!

MTGO BROADCASTS

MTGO Early Access Creator Streams This Thursday & Friday

Many members of MTGO’s Creator Program will be trying out the new set this week! Check with your favorite MTGO Creator for times and events.

MeatMTG Wednesdays & YungDingo Fridays

Magic Online is pleased to bring you weekly streams from some of our top creators. We’ve teamed up with YungDingo and MeatMTG to show off MTGO at a regular time each week.

MeatMTG is streaming Wednesdays at 5:30 PM PT (00:30 Thursday UTC), while YungDingo takes the reins Friday nights at 6 pm PT (01:00 Saturday UTC) – both at twitch.tv/magiconline.

There will be giveaways galore, including Play Point codes and their own unique in-game avatars!

Visit their streams to earn and collect starting Wednesday and Friday this week

Oblivion Sorrow’s MTGO University How-To Series Tuesdays & Thursdays

We have launched an exciting new How-To series featuring one of our favorite content creators, OblivionSorrow from The Grim Tutors! Join her as she embarks on a journey through Magic: The Gathering Online, guiding both new and returning players through the ins and outs of the game. From streams to YouTube videos, shorts, and more—there’s something for everyone.

Look for streams on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3 p.m. PT (6 p.m. ET) with YouTube postings of the episodes soon afterward. Be sure to tune in to the stream starting this week to get OblivionSorrow’s exclusive in-game avatar!

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AROUND THE WEB

MTGO University – The New Semester Starts Now!

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.

Our streaming buddy OblivionSorrow has a brand-new class walking through MTGO Settings - check out the new video now!

And don't forget, our original MTGO Fundamentals playlist is still around: short-form videos showing off a bunch of tips and tricks. Check it out on YouTube today!

Come Find Us At MagicCon Las Vegas Booth 

We will be at Magic Con Las Vegas with our friends Pinfinity, sharing a booth and special items. Check out next week's blog for more details! 

PREMIER PLAY

It's Showcase Challenge Weekend

A new MOCS season is underway, so it’s time to qualify the first players for the next round of Showcase Qualifiers in August. 

It takes 40 Season 2 Qualifier Points to enter a Showcase Challenge. The Top 8 finishers in each event earn a Championship Entry Token for the event’s format plus earn Leaderboard Points toward an At-Large berth in the next Showcase!

For more information on these events, click the Premier Play Information link at the top of the Blog.

MOCS Season 1 Showcase Avatar Grant During Tomorrow’s Downtime

We have finally produced this year’s group of Showcase avatars! For players who participated in Showcase Qualifiers in Season 1, you’ll see the appropriate avatars on your account as soon as we return from downtime tomorrow.

Here they are:

• Modern – Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
• Standard – Zur, Eternal Schemer
• Legacy – Atraxa, Grand Unifier
• Vintage – Psychic Frog
• Pauper - Clockwork Percussionist (for upcoming Season 2)
• Pioneer – Heartfire Hero (for upcoming Season 3)

Pauper Premier Play Schedule Update

Due to conflicts with tabletop events, we have re-arranged our schedule of Pauper Premier play next month:

• Saturday, July 5 will now feature a Modern RC Super Qualifier
• Saturday, July 12 will have the Pauper Showcase Challenge
• And on Sunday, July 13, it’ll be the Pauper RC Super Qualifier

For more information on these events, click the Premier Play Information link at the top of the Blog.

ALTERNATE PLAY

Wilds of Eldraine Progressive Sealed Starts After Downtime Tomorrow

Our new Progressive Sealed format returns with Wilds of Eldraine in the spotlight. This league starts tomorrow following downtime and lasts only until FIN’s debut next Tuesday.

Entry Options are 6 Event Tickets or 60 Play Points. Open 6 WOE packs, build your deck, then play two single-game matches. Win or lose, after game 2, open another pack to improve your pool.

After a second set of two games, there are three more chances to add an extra booster prior to the next two-game stage. Each stage’s upgrade option is 1 Event Ticket, 1 Wilds of Eldraine Booster, or 10 Play Points. With a maximum of 10 boosters in your Sealed pool, the deck’s power level will get incrementally better.

Prizes are the same as when we ran this with Khans of Tarkir a few weeks ago:

And just like KTK, this League is Keeper – cards you open will be added to your Collection!

MTGO Commander Cube Ends at Downtime

If you still have a match remaining in your Commander Cube league, be sure to complete it before tomorrow’s downtime. We hope everyone enjoyed this change of pace for Cube and we look forward to bringing it back later this year.

Alternate Play Schedule

Here’s a look at the schedule of events coming up between now and Edge of Eternities. 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) unless otherwise noted.

• Until June 4 – Commander Cube (Phantom)
• June 4-10 – Progressive Sealed returns featuring Wilds of Eldraine. (Keeper)
• June 10-23 – Magic: The Gathering–FINAL FANTASY Limited takes center stage for these two weeks.
  • The Best-of-One League returns and runs until June 25.
• June 24-July 2 – We’re celebrating MTGO’s 23^rd Birthday with a twist on Battle of the Planes that we’ll reveal later this month. (Phantom)
• July 2-23 – A three-week run of the one and only Magic Online Vintage Cube – need we say more? (Phantom)
• July 23-29 – We close out FIN season with Supreme Draft – the high-power, draft-two-and-toss-em format. (Phantom)

When Do Vintage Cube Leagues Return?

• July 2-23 – Summer Refresh

EVENT UPDATES

Spellgrounds – Upcoming Schedule

Here’s the list of upcoming Spellgrounds events:

• June 9 - Pauper
• June 16 - Vintage
• June 23 – Duel Commander
• June 30 – None (Vintage Cube Preview League)

Super Jump Restarts as a Free League at Downtime

We have found that win traders continue to use the Super Jump League, causing poor experiences for other players. With the closing of the current League at tomorrow’s downtime, Super Jump will convert into a fully free-to-play experience. New accounts will continue to receive one Super Jump token and accounts that upgrade will continue to receive a second Super Jump token. There will no longer be prizes awarded in that League.

We are planning to implement a partial deck refresh during our July downtime and we’ll re-evaluate the League at that time.

COMMANDER CORNER

Commander Backlog Pickups

We have picked up a handful more cards off of the Commander Backlog with tomorrow’s release. All of these cards will be available via the TC-Only slot of the Treasure Chest starting next Tuesday (* indicates reprint in FIN Commander decks):

For those keeping track of our progress, we have planned an upcoming development period to attack more major card bugs as well as completing some number of decks from the Backlog – stay tuned for details when we get to the next set!

WEEKLY UPDATES

Redemption Corner

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

Aetherdrift regular redemptions remain on sale in the MTGO Store and Tarkir: Dragonstorm redemptions are now available as well!

As a reminder, we announced changes to the Redemption Program starting with Bloomburrow – read all about it in this article.

TOMORROW’S PATCH NOTES – June 4, 2025

Quality-of-Life Improvements

• The Home Scene Carousel will be clickable to go straight to an event or page mentioned in the graphic.
• If a player leaves a multiplayer game during mulligans, there will no longer be a game reset.

Card Fixes

• Enduring Innocence & friends will not be exiled by Containment Priest when returning as an enchantment.
• Necromantic Selection will correctly add to the reanimated creature’s colors and types.
• Psychogenic Probe and Psychic Surgery will no longer trigger twice when the opponent shuffles.
• Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector will correctly not trigger if it’s exiled face-down.
• Six's static ability will correctly be unable to cast the instant/sorcery side of Adventure permanents in the graveyard.
• Tormod, the Desecrator will no longer cause the game to reset when a card is manifested/cloaked.
• Stormchaser’s Talent and other Class cards will not have crimped text for its Level 1 ability.
• The Wise Mothman will correctly trigger only once for each set of cards milled.

NEXT SCHEDULED DOWNTIME – July 23, 9 a.m. to Noon PT

After tomorrow, the next scheduled maintenance is Wednesday, July 23 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon PT (16:00-19:00 UTC). This is to support the release of Edge of Eternities.