Magic Online Weekly Announcements, June 16, 2026

Posted on Jun 16, 2026

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Read All About It - Magic: The Gathering® | Marvel Super Heroes Set Article

The arrival of some of the greatest comic book super heroes of all time to Magic Online is nearly here! Check out this article to learn about the debut of Magic: The Gathering® | Marvel Super Heroes, on sale at 10 a.m. PT next Tuesday, June 23:

• Our largest-ever Premium Booster containing 12 cards
• The four Commander decks, each featuring 30 brand-new cards
• The Borderless Bold Logo cards get an exclusive Premium visual effect
• More Booster Fun, avatars, Treasure Chests, and more ...

Magic: The Gathering® | Marvel’s Spider-Man Live After Downtime!

After today’s scheduled maintenance, we’ll have another new-to-Magic Online expansion available. Check out this article to learn about the special event and product offerings featuring Magic: The Gathering® | Marvel's Spider-Man, including:

• Competitive Sealed League – one week only
• 7-Card Premium Boosters, and a Bundle of them that comes with a product-exclusive Spider-Man avatar
• Details on how this set interacts with Through the Omenpaths

One Week Only – Invasion Block Draft!

One of the all-time most beloved draft formats is back on Magic Online – and for the first time in a long time, you’ll keep what you draft!

Invasion, Planeshift, and Apocalypse will star in the Invasion Block Draft League beginning immediately after today’s downtime. Entry options for this special event are 15 Event Tickets or 150 Play Points. You can also enter with one of each booster and 3 Event Tickets.

Prizes are as follows:

• 3-0 – 150 Play Points, 1 Invasion booster, 1 Planeshift booster, 1 Apocalypse booster, and 2 MOCS Season 2 QPs
• 2-1 – 150 Play Points

Scheduled Maintenance Today, 9 a.m. to Noon PT

Magic Online will be offline for scheduled maintenance today from 9 a.m. to 12 noon PT (16:00-19:00 UTC). Be sure to follow our social channels for updates. 

• The Premodern Challenge will be rescheduled for 30 minutes after downtime ends
• The Standard Challenge will begin 1 hour after downtime
• The Modern Challenge will be pushed back 1 hour to a 2 p.m. start time

Five-Minute Modern in Contraption

The newest experimental format on Magic Online, Five-Minute Modern, continues this week in Contraption! You can find the League and open-play rooms under Constructed -> Specialty.

Check out our article for full details. The rules are simple:

• Best-of-One, 5-minute timers for each player
• Modern format with a few extra bans
• No access to sideboards

The League has 6 single-game rounds for either 6 Event Tickets or 60 Play Points, and prizes start after the third win in a course. Enjoy!

PREMIER PLAY

Vintage RC Qualifier Sunday

More seats for the next round tabletop Regional Championships are at stake this weekend! We’ll have a Vintage RC Qualifier that kicks off this Sunday, June 21 at 7 a.m. PT (14:00 UTC)!

It takes 40 Season 2 Qualifier Points to join this event. The Top 2 finishers earn seats at the RC and prizes go down to 64^thplace.

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

EVENT UPDATES 

Pack Wars – Scars of Mirrodin Block

Pack Wars – the Magic Online space for Mini-Master – rolls on. Our meandering adventure across the multiverse continues with a return trip to New Phyrexia!

The idea is simple – crack a pack, add 2 of each basic land, and play a game. In the Keeper League, you then crack another pack, edit your deck, play a game ... and keep going until you have opened 4 packs and played 4 games! The ordering of packs in this league is NPH, MBS, SOM, and then another NPH.

This Keeper League is easy – 4 packs + 4 games (plus prizes if you do well) for just 4 Event Tickets or 40 Play Points!

CEDH Queue Debuts at Downtime

We are converting the CEDH paid event from a League to a Queue starting with today’s downtime. It’s easier to tell how many players are awaiting a match in a queue. This was our goal all along for this play experience, and now we have the tech in place to execute it.

There are no changes to entry options (4 Event Tickets, 40 Play Points) or prize (100 Play Points & 1 Treasure Chest for the winner).

Alternate Play Schedule

Here’s a look at the schedule of events coming up. 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 unless otherwise noted.

• June 16-23 – We'll close out SOS season and lead up to Magic Online’s 24^th birthday by bringing back the original favorite draft format: Invasion Block Draft! (Keeper – yes, really!)

When Do Vintage Cube Leagues Return?

• July 1-28 – MSH Update

WEEKLY UPDATES

Read All About It - Secrets of Strixhaven Set Available Now

Our return to the campus of Strixhaven is here! Check out all of the details on the release of Secrets of Strixhaven, now available in the Magic Online Store:

• Premium Booster for $6.99 USD
• 5 Commander Decks, one for each college – each just $29.99 USD
• Plus info on events, Treasure Chest, Player Rewards, Booster Fun and more! ...

Redemption Corner

We apologize for the issues with redemption processing that closed off sales a couple weeks ago. After diligent work by our team, we have reset the store shelves with the correct quantities of Secrets of Strixhaven. Supplies remain low – you can find details on the redemption program here.

Reminder: Be sure to check the MTGO Store prior to trading for product to complete your sets. If a product's icon doesn't appear in the Store, then it's out of stock

PATCH NOTES – Tuesday, June 16

Card Fixes

• Several cards’ interaction with Split and Fuse cards (Kheru Spellsnatcher, Mizzix’s Mastery, Eye of the Storm) will be correct.
• Archivist of Gondor will function correctly.
• Gemcutter Buccaneer will function as expected.
• Casting Zirda, the Dawnwaker will no longer reset the game.

Duel Scene

• If a player concedes on their own turn in a multiplayer game, the turn will correctly not immediately end. Any “until end of turn” effects they resolved will end as expected.
• Adding more than 256 mana to your mana pool at once will work as expected.

Event Details

• Opponent match-win and game-win tiebreakers will have a floor of .33333 instead of .33, preventing players from being displayed in an incorrect order in the game client.
  • NOTE: .33333 is the figure MTGO’s back-end servers have always used to award prizes. We are choosing to maintain consistency and will update our reference documents to reflect this tweak.

NEXT SCHEDULED DOWNTIME – August 5, 9 a.m.-Noon

After today, the next scheduled maintenance is Wednesday, August 5 from 9 a.m. to noon PT (16:00-19:00 UTC). This is to support the release of Magic: The Gathering® | The Hobbit™.