Magic Online Weekly Announcements, June 24, 2025

Posted on Jun 24, 2025

THE LEAD – Happy 23^rd Birthday MTGO!!

Battle of the Mechanics Anniversary Event Starts Today

Magic Online celebrates its 23^rd birthday today! This year we are providing a twist on Battle of the Planes, our Sealed Deck battle royale event. It’s Battle of the Mechanics!

Instead of five different planes, it’s five different Limited mechanical themes among which to choose: Artifacts, Domain, Enchantments, Hybrid, and Proliferate/Poison.

Each sealed pool will contain 9 Phantom boosters, so the themes should shine through and the power level is higher than normal. Here’s the breakdown of sets being opened in each theme:

• Artifacts – 3 Mirrodin, 2 Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, 2 The Brothers’ War, 2 The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
• Domain – 2 Invasion, 2 Planeshift, 2 Conflux, 3 Dominaria United
• Enchantments – 2 Theros, 3 Theros Beyond Death, 2 Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, 2 Duskmourn: House of Horror
• Hybrid – 2 Shadowmoor, 2 Eventide, 3 Throne of Eldraine, 2 Modern Horizons 3
• Proliferate/Poison - 3 Scars of Mirrodin, 2 New Phyrexia, 2 War of the Spark, 2 Phyrexia: All Will Be One

Entry to this League is 10 Event Tickets or 100 Play Points. Prizes are awarded as follows:

• 3-0 – 150 Play Points and 2 Season 2 QPs
• 2-1 – 100 Play Points
• 1-2 – 50 Play Points

VINTAGE CUBE LEAGUE

League Returns Next Week – Article This Friday

It’s almost time for another round of Vintage Cube. This iteration features some new overarching themes involving old favorites as well as the debut of cards from Magic: The Gathering®–FINAL FANTASY™. Creative Director Ryan Spain and Cube Curator Chris Wolf will present the updated card list and archetypes in an article here on MTGO.com this Friday, June 27.

As usual, the Always-On Vintage Cube queue will keep its current configuration until the League begins next Wednesday at 10 a.m. PT (17:00 UTC). You can always find the most recent Vintage Cube card lists on this page.

Preview League Returns Next Monday and Tuesday

For two days next week, you’ll be able to play single-game matches of the new Cube for free!

Try out some wacky strategies and learn how to find your draft lane – all in preparation for the real League starting next Wednesday.

The Free Vintage Cube Preview League kicks off next Monday, June 30 at 8 a.m. PT (15:00 UTC) and runs until Wednesday, July 2 at 5 a.m. PT (12:00 UTC).

In order to enter the League, you’ll need to get yourself Draft Points. How do you acquire those? Enter the code 2025JUNE into the box in the MTGO Store as shown below.

You can only redeem the code once on your account, but you will receive 2 Draft Points. Spend one of them to enter the draft queue, then play up to three single games with your Phantom draft deck. Then repeat this process once.

We’ll clear out any leftover Draft Points once the League ends. Enjoy the Preview!

MTGO BROADCASTS

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 Monday nights at 6 pm PT (01:00 Tuesday 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

AROUND THE WEB

MTGO University 

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 the MTGO University playlists on YouTube.

MTGO x Pinfinity at Magic Con Las Vegas

Thank you to everyone who stopped by and got the exclusive Edgar Markov Token. 

PREMIER PLAY

It's Showcase Challenge Weekend

MOCS Season 2 rolls on, so it’s time to qualify more 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.

ALTERNATE PLAY

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.

• June 24-July 2 – We’re celebrating MTGO’s 23^rd Birthday with Battle of the Mechanics. (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

Set a Reminder – MTGO Pioneer Championship Week July 14-19

Building off the success of Modern Madness a few months ago, we are debuting Championship Week series for our rotating MOCS formats. The first one of these series will take place next month when Pioneer is the format of choice. We’ll provide more details next month.

EVENT UPDATES

Spellgrounds – Upcoming Schedule

Here’s the list of upcoming Spellgrounds events:

• June 30 – None (Vintage Cube Preview League)
• July 7 – Pioneer
• July 14 – Modern

WEEKLY UPDATES

Read All About It: Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™ Available Now

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) is now available on Magic Online!

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 LTR two years ago as FIN is basically mimicking that set. For full details, visit this article.

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 

TOMORROW’S PATCH NOTES – June 25, 2025

Card Fixes

• Using undo (Ctrl+Z) to cancel a sacrifice for Emerge & Offering now correctly reverses the cost discount.
• Sacrificing Chainsaw for a payment then using undo will no longer prevent its rev counter ability from triggering.
• Fixed an issue that prevented multiplayer games from progressing when a creature is goaded and its controller unable to pay for Propaganda style effects.

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

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.