Magic Online Weekly Announcements, October 14, 2025

Posted on Oct 14, 2025

THE LEAD 

Congratulations to Season 2 MOCS Champion Guglielmo (Zompatanfo) Lupi

The 2025 Magic Online Championship Series Season 2 brought eight of the platform’s top players together for a weekend of high-stakes Cube drafting, Modern mastery, and a shot at $50,000 and two invitations to the 2026 Magic World Championship.

The competition began with Vintage Cube, where Thomas “McWinSauce” White’s Jeskai Control deck out-maneuvered Guglielmo “Zompatanfo” Lupi’s Izzet Aggro build to claim the first victory of the weekend to earn his World Invite. Tom’s tight sequencing and value plays carried him through the Cube rounds as one of the top seeds heading into Modern, but their story wasn’t over yet.

When the format shifted to Modern, both players came prepared with powerful archetypes that couldn’t have been more different: Guglielmo piloting Broodscale Bloodchief, and Tom bringing Izzet Affinity. Their finals rematch delivered fireworks a clash between raw power and blistering speed.

This time, Guglielmo turned the tables. His ramp strategy overpowered Tom’s artifact assault, closing out a thrilling series and earning the title of MOCS Season 2 Champion, securing the title and his Worlds invitation.

Through the Omenpaths Events

• Through the Omenpaths Sealed League remains available until October 29
• Through the Omenpaths 8-Player, Pick-1 League format will continue to be available until October 22. It features typical entry options (including 3 OM1 Boosters + 2 Event Tickets), but the prize structure differs from usual:

3-0 – 120 Play Points, 5 OM1 boosters, and 2 Season 3 QPs
2-1 – 3 OM1 boosters
1-2 – 1 OM1 booster

October 15-21: Limited Preliminary, Trial, and Challenge Formats will use Duskmourn: House of Horror. Formats for future weeks can be found below.

ALL THINGS CUBE

CubeCon 2025 – October 16-19

Magic Online is proud to partner with CubeCon, the world’s largest gathering of competitive Cube players. This year’s event will be held Thursday-Sunday, October 16-19 in Madison, Wisconsin. For ticket information as well as which Cubes will be played, visit cubecon.org.

For the third year in a row, MTGO will be providing digital prizes to players who finish in the Top 128 of the CubeCon Main Event, as well additional goodies for all CubeCon attendees! The Top 8 will draft a real-life version of MTGO’s Vintage Cube (not for keeps, though).

Vintage Cube League Continues

In one of the quicker turnarounds we’ve ever had, the Vintage Cube will be back again to support this weekend’s MOCS Showcase (see item above).

Check out the updated Cube commentary and changelist in this article. You can always find the most recent Vintage Cube card lists on this page.

Last Week! Vintage Cube Bundle

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 October 22 – a savings of $1 per draft!
• A Goben, Gene-Splice Savant 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 October 22, so be sure to use them all up (we’ll remove them at that time and they are non-refundable)!

PREMIER PLAY

Modern & Standard RC Super Qualifiers This Weekend

MTGO is hosting a Modern RC Super Qualifier this Saturday at 1 a.m. PT (14:00 UTC) and a Standard RC Super Qualifier this Sunday at 7 a.m. PT (14:00 UTC).

Battle for seats at next year’s first round of tabletop Regional Championships! The Top 4 finishers are invited to the RC round of 2026 in January-February, and prizes pay down to the Top 128.

It takes 40 Event Tickets, 400 Play Points or 40 Season 3 Qualifier Points to enter a Super Qualifier.

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

EVENT UPDATES

Limited Scheduled Event Rotation

We continue our rotation back through recent sets to feature in Limited Preliminary and Challenge events. Starting tomorrow, Duskmourn: House of Horror will take its turn at the wheel for one week.

Pack Wars! Throne of Eldraine Final Week

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! Wilds of Eldraine runs until Wednesday, October 22, then another set will take over!

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.

Wilds of Eldraine runs until Wednesday, October 22, then another set will take over!

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 Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender. 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.

• Now Until October 22 – These are the weeks where the Vintage Cube League returns to support the next MOCS Showcase broadcast this Sunday, October 12! (Phantom)
• October 22-November 18 – Season of the Cube!
• October 22-29: Chris Wolf’s Supremely Vintage Cube (a special card list optimized for the pick-2-and-discard format)
• October 29-November 5: Frank Lepore returns for year three of his Halloween Horror Cube
• November 5-12: The best that MTGO Creators have to offer will be featured in Creator Cube
• November 12-18: The favorite Cube from the format’s largest convention gets time in the limelight in CubeCon Cube

Limited Preliminary, Trial, and Challenge Formats During OM1 Season

• October 15-21 – Duskmourn: House of Horror
• October 22-28 – Bloomburrow
• October 29-November 4 – Modern Horizons 3
  • Pricing TBD due to higher booster price
• November 5-11 – Outlaws of Thunder Junction
• November 12-18 – Murders at Karlov Manor

When Do Vintage Cube Leagues Return?

• October 1-21 – Update to support MOCS
• November 26-December 3 – The No Holds Barred variant returns
• December 17-January 20 – Holidays

The CubeCon community will also get to vote on a Cube to be featured in MTGO for a week in November – more details on that in future weeks.

MTGO BROADCASTS

MTGO Creator GameShowDown 

This Saturday, October 18th 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 MyHandsAreBlank - don’t miss the broadcast on twitch.tv/mtgo!

Players: Kurohituski, Rebell, Shivam, Kalikaiz, SaltandPauper, ChadMagic Wally, Volrathxp, TheMaverickGirl 

Created by MyHandsAreBlank

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 Saturday 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

WEEKLY UPDATES

Through the Omenpaths Available Now

The next set is here – click this link to read everything there is to know about Through the Omenpaths. Highlights include:

• Premium Land Bundles: Three full colors of bling stand out inside each 74-card, all-premium boxed set!
  • Every three-color combo has its own bundle containing:
    • 10 of each in-color land type: liquid-gold rimmed Unsanctioned basic lands
    • 10 of each in-color land type: foil Unstable full-art basics
    • Plus foil Pathways, Retro Shocks, Retro Fetches, and more!
  • A whole mess of special events coming up in the next couple months!

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.

Also, Through the Omenpaths is not a redeemable set.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm regular redemptions remain on sale in the MTGO Store (only 10% of stock remains), though foil-for-regular have sold out.

AROUND THE WEB

MTGO University Is Now MTGO TV!

We are making some small changes to our University channel. Don't worry, it isn't going away, we are just adding more to it.

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 TV! 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.

In addition, we will be featuring other content from our creators here, including new shows and previous Creator Showdowns. 

NEXT SCHEDULED DOWNTIME – November 12, 9 a.m.-Noon

The next scheduled maintenance is Wednesday, November 12 from 9 a.m. to noon PT (16:00-19:00 UTC). This is to support the release of Magic: The Gathering | Avatar: The Last Airbender.