Magic Online Weekly Announcements, September 9, 2025

Posted on Sep 09, 2025

THE LEAD 

Magic Online All-Access Is Back!

One of our most popular promotions – All-Access – has returned! It’s been almost a year since we last offered it, so let’s bring new folks up to speed on how it works:

The Mythic Event Token is now on sale. As usual it costs $25 USD for access to almost all of the cards on MTGO between time of purchase and 8 a.m. on Tuesday, September 23 – up to two weeks in all!

To use All-Access, simply purchase the Mythic Event Token in the Store, then build or import any legal deck in your chosen format. You will likely show negative quantities of cards in the Collection as you drag cards down – this is expected. You can try all Constructed formats with All-Access!

Once your deck is built the way you want it, enter an Open Play game or paid event (entry options still required). No cards will be added to your collection, but you'll be able to play even if you don't have all the cards in your collection.

• Calling all Commander Players – Build your paper decks in MTGO and take them for a spin in our Commander lobby, or if you’re feeling experimental, try our Freeform Commander with your buddies!
  • Additionally, we’re bringing back the Competitive Commander league for these two weeks for players who want to battle for prizes – details later in this article.
• Hey Grinders – Whether you’re practicing for the upcoming Modern Pro Tour or aiming to compete in our upcoming MOCS Showcase Challenges (see Premier Events section below), All-Access is your perfect tool to gain an edge.
• Everybody Else – It's the perfect time to try out our game and play with cards that may be beyond your reach in tabletop (#blacklotusiscalling).

As with previous All-Access periods, certain Premier Events will have an extra entry option of 2 Mythic Event Tokens. This represents a $15 savings compared to the combined cost of All-Access and a single Super Qualifier entry. Your account shouldn’t need more than two total Tokens during the All-Access period. When you spend the Tokens this way, the access remains on your account until the expiry time.

The two events offering the extra entry option are:

• Vintage Championship Week Finals – Saturday, September 20
• Vintage Super Qualifier – Sunday, September 21

We'll remove all Mythic Event Tokens from accounts and turn off All-Access at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, September 23.

Note: If you’re still competing in a Constructed League when All-Access ends, you’ll be allowed to complete that match (not the entire course).

Just like previous All-Access periods, certain cards (Secret Lair versions, TRANSFORMERS, WARHAMMER 40,000, Battlebond, and old-frame Power Nine) are unavailable. Additionally, card variants sold in Bundles (Oil Lands, Retro Shocklands, etc.) are unavailable. Finally, All-Access doesn’t apply to Limited events.

Vintage Championship Week Next Week

Our latest Format Championship event takes place next week – time to earn glory using the oldest card pool available – it's Vintage Championship Week!

Complete one of the following feats starting at 8 a.m. next Monday, September 15 in order to earn a Vintage Point:

• Complete a 5-0 Vintage League course
• Finish 4-0 or 3-1 in a Vintage Preliminary – here’s the schedule of those (all times PT, for UTC add 7 hours):
  • Monday, September 15 – 6 a.m., 12 noon, and 5 p.m.
  • Tuesday, September 16 – 6 a.m and 12 noon
  • Wednesday, September 17 – 1 a.m., 30 minutes after downtime ends (~12:30 p.m.), and 6 p.m.
  • Thursday, September 18 – 3 a.m. and 6 p.m.
  • Friday, September 19 – 3 a.m., 11 a.m., and 8 p.m.
• Top 8 a Vintage Challenge 32 event – the schedule for those is:
  • Thursday, September 18 – 8 a.m.
  • Friday, September 19 – 3 p.m.

That Vintage Point is good for free entry into the Vintage Championship Week Finals on Saturday, September 20 at 7:00 a.m. PT. Unlike other Finals events of this type, you are able to directly enter the finals with the entry options of 40 Event Tickets or 400 Play Points or 2 Mythic Event Tokens!

Prizes for the Finals will be the same as a Super Qualifier, but without invitations or Leaderboard Points. In addition, the Top 32 finishers and those with the same record as 32^nd place will receive an event-exclusive version of the Vintage Showcase avatar – Psychic Frog!

As usual, you can only enter one of your accounts in the Finals event, and excess Vintage Points will be cleared from accounts next week.

Through the Omenpaths Set Article Next Week

The next set is approaching – we'll tell you all about what we’re doing for Through the Omenpaths in our set article next Tuesday, September 16. You can view the entire Card Image Gallery here.

OM1 Beta Begins Tomorrow – Sign Up Today!

Want to help us squish bugs and test card functionality while getting a first look at the newest set? MTGO’s Closed Beta Program is just the place!

Our normal Cardset betas involve playing a selection of complicated cards against a curated set of wordy and weird cards from MTGO’s history. A Sealed Deck League will be available and Commander games are encouraged. The goal is to ensure we release a quality product, so we appreciate all the help we can get – sign up today!

To apply for the program, submit a ticket at help.mtgo.com - choose Apply to Beta Program as the subject, fill out the form and agree to Terms. If you're admitted to the Program, you will be invited to join us for the OM1 Beta round starting tomorrow, September 10.

VINTAGE CUBE

Current Vintage Cube League - 1 Week Left

It’s 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 Edge of Eternities. Creative Director Ryan Spain and Cube Curator Chris Wolf present the updated card list and archetypes in this article – be sure to give it a read before you start playing.

You can always find the most recent Vintage Cube card lists on this page.

This iteration of the League ends on Wednesday, September 17 at downtime.

Vintage Cube Bundle On Sale Now!

Our Vintage Cube Holiday Bundle returns - the best deal in Cube!

For $27 USD, you get the following:

• 3 Vintage Cube Draft Tokens – each Token is an entry option into a League course until downtime on September 17 – a savings of $1 per draft!
• A Chrome Companion avatar - exclusive to this Bundle offering.

The Draft Bundle itself is not tradeable nor are its contents. The Tokens expire when the Cube League ends on September 17, so be sure to use them all up (we’ll remove them at that time and they are non-refundable)!

MTGO BROADCASTS

MTGO Creator GameShowDown 

This Saturday, Sept 13th at 1pm PT(20:00 UTC), eight creators enter, but only one will claim glory! It's the return of the Creator GameShowDown!

An epic clash of wits, creativity, and nonstop Magic fun hosted by Admirable - don’t miss the broadcast on twitch.tv/mtgo!

We’ll be revealing our contestants all week leading up to the show - who will your favorite be? Want to be part of the action? Fill out our survey for a chance to win prizes—but hurry, it closes tomorrow! 👉 Here

Catch YungDingo Streaming on Fridays

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

YungDingo takes the reins Friday nights at 6 pm PT (01:00 Tuesday UTC) streaming at twitch.tv/magiconline.

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

Visit YungDingo's stream and collect each Friday

PREMIER PLAY

Congratulations MOCS Season 2 Qualified Players

The dust has settled and we now know who our eight competitors will be for the next MOCS Showcase in October. Congratulations to the following players!

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 December. 

It takes 40 Season 3 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!

Be sure to review the MTGO Calendar as this season’s Showcase Challenges do not follow the normal cadence.

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

EVENT UPDATES

MTGO Spellgrounds – Vintage This Week, Legacy Next Week

Great news – our Spellgrounds project continues! Try out a slice of the current Vintage metagame between Monday and Wednesday – all with sideboards geared specifically for this group – all for free!

You’ll encounter a Super-Jump style draft – 3 of the 6 decks are presented randomly for you to select one. Then play up to 3 matches without the pressure of prizes on the line.

Vintage Spellgrounds decklists can be found here. Watch our Discord for links to the Legacy decklist page on Moxfield when it’s posted later this week.

Here’s the upcoming schedule:

• September 15 – Legacy
• September 22 – None (OM1 Release Week)
• September 29 – None (Vintage Cube Preview)

We hope you find this is a no- or low-risk way to expand your horizons in Magic Online and it’s a great way to learn new formats!

Duel Commander Trials Up to 24 Players Starting Tomorrow

Now over a year into being a supported format on Magic Online, Duel Commander has found a niche in our community. We’ve been running Trials for this format since the start of the year and they’ve had an uncanny fire rate. Part of the reason for that may be that the prize structure was too generous – often some number of players with losing records would still snag 10 Qualifier Points.

So starting tomorrow, we are simply raising the minimum number of players for Duel Commander Trials from 16 to 24. There are no changes to entry options or the prize structure – QPs will still pay down to 12^th place.

We will be closely tracking attendance in these events and look to promote any time slots up to the 32-player level should they gain a steadily larger audience.

ALTERNATE PLAY

Pack Wars! Kaldheim Begins Tomorrow

Attention Limited fans: We've taken a long-time favorite of Magic at big conventions and brought it into Magic Online. There are some who call it Mini-Master, but on MTGO it’s Pack Wars! This format is up and running and our next set in the crosshairs is the snowy realm of Kaldheim!

There are two different flavors of Pack Wars events – both of which are Best-of-One formats: a Keeper Swiss League, and a 2-Player Phantom Queue.

Duskmourn’s events wrap tomorrow, then Kaldheim runs until Wednesday, September 24.

Get all the details in the Edge of Eternities set article!

Alternate Play Schedule
Here’s a look at the schedule of events coming up between now and Through the Omenpaths. 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 September 17 – These are the weeks where the Vintage Cube League returns! (Phantom)
• September 17-23 – Shred those packs and build the best you can in Tarkir: Dragonstorm Supreme Draft. (Phantom)

When Do Vintage Cube Leagues Return?

• Now-September 17 – Edge of Eternities Refresh
• October 1-21 – Update to support MOCS

WEEKLY UPDATES

Read All About It – Edge of Eternities on MTGO

Magic’s first space opera is in flight – Edge of Eternities! Check out this page for information on what we have going on with this set:

• Awesome premium effects, including Galaxy Foil and Viewport Frames with animation
• A handful of Quality-of-Life Improvements
• Premium Boosters return for $6.99 USD each
• Draft Bundles are back for a three-week run – including an exclusive avatar
• The debut of Pack Wars events

Note: EOE Limited events will use the traditional entry options and prize structures shown on the MTGO Limited events page and the Premier Play pages

Redemption Corner

Edge of Eternities redemption tokens are now on sale! Check out our Redemption page for full program rules and inventory levels. As a reminder, the game itself is the most current place to determine if there is stock remaining for Redemption Tokens.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm regular redemptions remain on sale in the MTGO Store, though foil-for-regular have sold out.

Aetherdrift redemptions have now sold out.

AROUND THE WEB

Minimum & Recommended Specifications Update

We’ve added a lot to Magic Online over the years, so we saw the need to update our minimum and recommended specifications. These are also viewable under the big Download Now button in the middle of the home page at MTGO.com

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.

NEXT SCHEDULED DOWNTIME – September 17, 9 a.m.-Noon

The next scheduled maintenance is Wednesday, September 17 from 9 a.m. to noon PT (16:00-19:00 UTC). This is to support the release of Through the Omenpaths.